Language Learning Matters

Hell to the yeah. 🔥

Milo standing on the ground, while a boy of similar height hovers above him

"Isn't it beautiful?" gasped Milo.

"Oh, I don't know," answered a strange voice. "It's all in the way you look at things."

"I beg your pardon?" said Milo, for he didn't see who had spoken.

"I said it's all in how you look at things," repeated the voice.

geese in flight
trying to handle
all of it

#DailyHaikuPrompt #HaikuFeels #haiku #senryu #poetry #Micropoetry

This is true. Plus it’s tasty, so that helps reduce stress, I’d imagine.

I love that people are still doing normal stuff & also yum!

Inspired by my Korean class this morning, I prepared Tteokbokki for my friend who's arriving tonight and some French 빵 (actually, savoury cake) for another friend's birthday tomorrow 👩‍🍳👩‍🍳

Draft of a woodcarved creature. for now you can see the start of a mumified body emerge from the wood. It is very early in the process

This is the start of a new work in progress thread.

It will not be a creature of mine this time, but one from @slimyswampghost.bsky.social bestiary 😁

I'm so excited about this project !

move slow and repair things

Listen to the quiet voice

But ours is no longer a professional degree. I forget my place. Apologies.

Students came to me with good theoretical knowledge, including working through hypotheticals. AI contributes nothing that wasn’t already there.

Those same students were thrown a bit when real cases with real people didn’t unfold as easily as hypotheticals. AI contributes nothing here.

As someone who’s trained interns & clinical fellows, I don’t care what you put out there to “mirror real professional work” —nothing mirrors real professional work as well as real professional work (with support).

Especially in professions involving work with people.

I work in state government and the exec team says this incessantly.

We have to be using AI because it’s inevitable. We have to use it or we’ll fall behind.

Fall behind what? We’re state government. We could be using pencil and paper and still exist.

I remember writing a grant for a student of mine to get access to medical services during school closures that the parents didn’t know were available. It was approved. Would AI do that?

Part of LLMs, etc. being unleashed on everything feels like a way to engage in more gatekeeping put like that. 🤔

I’m old enough to remember working online during school closures when many people insisted they didn’t have the expertise to do what a teacher does.

Fast forward to now, when apparently it’s not that complicated & anyone can do it with the assistance of edtech that isn’t required to be accurate.

Sudoku 1’48”

Wordle in 3.

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Tussipiirros, tyylitelty maisema, sama kirjanmerkkinä valkoisena mustalle pohjalle, kuvassa myös tekovälineet

Kirjanmerkki

There is such an easy route that Uni's are failing to take. Lead with culture change. Stop spamming us about the new software and partnerships. Stop the endless workshops in the teaching and learning centers. Start talking about what learning is and when these products help or hurt this process.

“Perhaps you might allow Rhyme and Reason to return,” said Milo softly.

“How nice that would be,” said Azaz, straightening up and adjusting his crown. “Even if they were a bother at times, things always went so well when they were here.”

Daylight Savings is actually totally anodyne. The reason it's so objectionable is because twice a year we get reminded that our social form would rather mess with our sleep than shift work hours so that we could have both the sleep and sunlight after working hours.

Everyone please appreciate the museum of the Irish Language that my definitely-not-autistic dad is setting up: ansugan.ie

I am quite suspicious of the popularity of post-data multiverse analysis. If we can have all those specifications identified, why not run corresponding simulations ahead of data collection to pressure-test the experimental design & analytical procedures so we can perform the most informative study?

I remember someone once saying “i draw for free, but i get paid to invoice” and man, so true.

Graphic design poster by Jakub Zasada.

Graphic design poster by Jakub Zasada.

Graphic design poster by Jakub Zasada.

Graphic design poster by Jakub Zasada.

"“A poster is a bit like a song”: Jakub Zasada’s geometric works are a thing of beauty" www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jak...

A painting of Voltaire

Happy #WorldBookDay2026. The French writer and philosopher Voltaire once said 'Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.' 📚

He also drank up to 50 cups of coffee a day, often mixed with chocolate.

I think we're onboard with this.

The Wreck this morning.

WORD FACT

“Autological words” exhibit the properties they define:

“Short” is short
“Polysyllabic” is polysyllabic
“Noun” is a noun
“Unhyphenated” is unhyphenated
“Readable” is readable.

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One of mine was a bigamist, possibly a trigamist (it was never clear whether he & his first wife divorced). My father has a half sister about the same age. Back then, you did the honorable thing if you got a girl (or two) pregnant …

Journalist; HVAC repair for the military; farmer; I don’t know but I asked my mother once & she said probably a conman.

(Four grandpas)