when you win a small concession you just get to keep yelling btw. one time a local official said to me "you people are never happy" and like: correct! it is not our job to be happy with compromise! it's our job to be annoying forever actually
i feel vaguely like a proud mob matriarch. my boy coulda said rick riordan and he didn't. that's LOYALTY. that's FAMILY
the fourth graders were discussing their favorite authors 🥹 and my son 🥹 said *I* was his favorite 🥹 and his friends were like "bro have you even read her books?" and he said "nah but my hands are tied here" 🥹
bosses everywhere shocked that collective bargaining involves..... bargaining......?
PROTECT OUR KIDS. DON'T POLICE THEM. NO POLICE IN CVILLE CITY SCHOOLS Stand with parents, educators, students, and neighbors at the next CCS School Board meeting to tell them we don't want School Resource Officers (SROS). We don't want our kids sent into the school-to-prison or school-to-deportation pipelines. We want the Board to talk to their community and find a solution that keeps ALL our kids safe. JOIN US ON THURSDAY MARCH 5 6:00PM @ CHS To speak at the School Board meeting, or email the board @ schoolboard@charlottesvilleschools.org Have questions? Or ideas? Connect with us! Email organizingforccs@gmail.com to join a growing group of parents & community members who want equitable public schools.
hey i know the charlottesville school district wants us to shut up about their terrible, expensive plan to put cops back in our schools but what if, instead: we didn't
would explain a lot tbh
oh my god nicola griffith's SPEAR is THE modern arthuriana for me!!
dangling these results in front of the dems like a tennis ball in front of a dog. cmon buddy, you like to win right?? isn't it your favorite??
losing a primary by FIFTY points because you backed ICE should tell everyone where the zeitgeist is right now
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like, is there some kind of war that's so uniquely ineffective and hideous that it drags entire regions into endless conflict?? but which must be continued, on and on, in a doomed effort to justify the death toll and achieve illusory, colonial, profitable "peace"??
"forever" wow that's so catchy. you should name a type of war after that
but do i have more information? links? citations?? please. as if i have i ever done a single thing in my life that didn't have a bibliography tinyurl.com/nosrosforcvi...
PROTECT OUR KIDS. DON'T POLICE THEM. NO POLICE IN CVILLE CITY SCHOOLS Stand with parents, educators, students, and neighbors at the next CCS School Board meeting to tell them we don't want School Resource Officers (SROS). We don't want our kids sent into the school-to-prison or school-to-deportation pipelines. We want the Board to talk to their community and find a solution that keeps ALL our kids safe. JOIN US ON THURSDAY MARCH 5 6:00PM @ CHS To speak at the School Board meeting, or email the board @ schoolboard@charlottesvilleschools.org Have questions? Or ideas? Connect with us! Email organizingforccs@gmail.com to join a growing group of parents & community members who want equitable public schools.
hey i know the charlottesville school district wants us to shut up about their terrible, expensive plan to put cops back in our schools but what if, instead: we didn't
my 9yo did an actual, genuine WOOOOO when han solo showed back up to the fight in A New Hope, and it was like rediscovering the magic of christmas for me personally 😂
see i was literally pointing out how weird and bad the extra cgi scenes were and my kids were like ??? literally who cares??? it healed me 😂
"phantom menace is politically inscrutable and poorly written--" yes but did you notice the moment when a laser sword, which seemed only to have one blade, was revealed to have two?? thus doubling the amount of bzzoooo on screen??
so it turns out if you watch star wars with a seven and nine year old, all your star wars takes will fall away. you will find peace, as the pure artistic intent guiding the entire franchise is revealed to you (laser sword go bzzzoooooo)
If you’re looking to get more involved with supporting the city schools via advocacy, reach out to @alixeharrow.bsky.social!
the blackberry cheesecake one has fixed my life before and it will do it again 🙏
honestly idk why she would attack me in this fashion. i don't have a problem; i could stop anytime i want! simply look at all these alternative punctuation marks i know and am comfortable using.
a microsoft word comment that begins, ominously, deservedly, "Now, let's talk about em dashes..."
my copyeditor holding my hand and looking me in the eyes like she's staging an intervention:
relatedly if you're in cville and would like to connect with some parents/teachers that want better, more equitable schools-- DM me!
if you're real sad one thing that helps is if it's 60 degrees and you get to do a lil community organizing at the park and your kids drag you across the street for paletas afterwards 💕
every time i go look up a school board agenda i genuinely wonder if the site has somehow gotten worse over the last month
determining whether war crimes exist by checking each government's current poll numbers. sure. what could go wrong
Turns out the claims of the downtown business group weren’t true.
i don't want to "good ol days" the bush era but they did used to have to lie more effortfully, for longer, as part of a more legible narrative
insane to watch a single administration speedrun every sin in american history, skipping all the cutscenes that make them tolerable to the public
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
