I would like a moratorium on journalists claiming a mass shooter was "apolitical" because their only affect can be summarized as "troll." That is not apolitical. It's a particular reactionary politic. Like, have reporters at Rolling Stone not been to the internet? Here's some sources! Ironic Nazis are Still Nazis. newrepublic.com/article/139004…

Something I would like to see actual institutional responses to is how much people are rewarded for just playing chicken with institutional policies that seem immovable? I hear this discussed in context of teaching: On average, first-generation students, women, and students from underrepresented groups are less likely to ask for extensions or negotiate their grades.

Good morning from the archive. How about some 1997 "gamer first aid"? How many magazine ads from the 1990s does it take to actually crush my spirit? I think I am approaching saturation. But what about the content, you say? It doesn't help.

I was at something recently that talked a lot about like, girls not having spatial skills and how this hurts them at math. So, like, I'm not going to dig into that. Let's just take it as true. The same person argued that girls could learn spatial skills by doing ... spatial tasks. They then listed lots of very conventionally STEM-y play and learning activities (building models, playing with blocks, woodshop type activities, etc.).