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This is a super-outstanding rant by a middle-school English teacher about the frustrations she is facing in her profession. I don't know how to transfer Facebook videos to TYWKIWDBI, so I'll just embed this screencap and add the link here and hope that readers of my blog will venture over to Facebook to listen to her for 2 minutes . Addendum : Her school has apparently forced her to take down her…
Obviously not a check-out-a-book card, these are public service cards made available at our local community library in a suburb of Madison, Wisconsin. If you would like to obtain some of these, contact the Immigrant Legal Resource Center . The cards are available in 59 languages.
“To the people of the United States of America: you realize that you are being seen by the rest of the world as no better than Russia, no better than China? You’ve threatened Canada, threatened Greenland, invaded Venezuela, and starved Cuba. You’ve caused untold pain around the world. The Strait of Hormuz and the blocking of oil supplies has brought countries to their knees. Now your president is…
This is what AI can generate when not supervised by an intelligent human. Explanation via FoxNewsVegas : LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB/Gray News) - A student agenda distributed at Farnsley Middle School contains a map of the United States with misspelled state names, a distorted periodic table and unreadable phases of the moon, prompting questions from parents about whether artificial intelligence was…
Yesterday evening I was looking for some distraction from doomscrolling the internet. While wandering around I found the above movie on Amazon Prime (free with ads). The sparse Wikipedia entry described it as a Scottish documentary portrait of an elderly man who has lived for 40 years "off the grid" in a log cabin in the Highlands. The film has received multiple audience awards at festivals and…
From the collections of the Victoria and Albert : [A panel from] The Oxburgh Hangings. Hanging with applied panels of embroidery, formerly at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk. Inscriptions: A ZYDRACH ' 'ZYGAENA' hammer headed shark from C Gesner Icones Animalium Aquatilium Zurich 1560 p 150 Mary Queen of Scots' troubled reign in Scotland ended in 1568 when the Scottish Lords forced her to flee across the…
I'll post one more bird photo, because I don't want to end the blogging day with a photo of J.D. Vance at the top of the blog column. This image was one of the winners in the British Wildlife Photography Awards for 2026 , from a gallery in The Atlantic . Nemesis . Winner, Animal Behavior. Parker: “Because the sparrowhawk had never gone to ground before on previous visits to the garden, and not…
Photograph: Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto/Shutterstoc k. Via The Guardian . I will forever be in awe of how some birds can construct these nests without hands.
Excerpts from the London Review of Books : Almost no politician writes his own books, and few people actually read them. J.D. Vance is different. Trump’s vice president was a writer before he was a politician, and brought a writer’s vices with him: a titanic but fragile ego, limitless self-interest and thirst for adulation, an unsleeping vigilance for any slight . Hillbilly Elegy , Vance’s first…
