Beth Denton 🌈🧠

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LGBT+ 3rd generation teacher @CRMS Hobbies include cooking and baking, reading, writing, papercrafting, crocheting, and LARP. Living with adhd & depression. All opinions are my own. She/they.
@cvwillegen @actuallyautistic Another medical scenario where NT culture collapses under the weight of its recursive nest of expected deceptions is those ubiquitous 1-to-10 smiley-face pain scales. Most NTs will start frowning at “discomfort (2)” (not "intense (6)") and many autistics will smile and mask until “intense” (and then go flat-faced again at "excruciating (9)"), so the smiles don't match the numbers or the experiences. I guess we’re all supposed to realize it’s just a metaphor and everyone's just meant to guess the correct level... except in that case, what’s the point of the pictures at all? 😠

68% of the world's population has difficulty with lactose but dairy-free is not an option on this form about food for an event. 22% are vegetarian, 30% avoid gluten, and only 2% are vegan. All of those are options on the form. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'll just take the vegan option, I guess.

**According to a quick google search IDK this is a social media post not a research paper.

Congressional staffers are demanding the Senate let them unionize https://therealnews.com/congressional-staffers-are-demanding-the-senate-let-them-unionize
Congressional staffers are demanding the Senate let them unionize

"The institution of Congress should not be above the very laws it creates,” the Congressional Workers Union wrote in a letter to various Senators.

The Real News Network
Today at GSA we'll talk about book banning.

Why is my productivity shot today? Oh because I forgot to go pick up my vyvanse refill.

Yay.

Suns out, cookbooks out?

Also I am really annoyed at myself for filling up the bookcase I bought for my cookbook collection so damn quickly. But also not, because cookbooks are awesome and the thrill of the chase is fun.

What were you doing while the fabric of society unraveled? Me: cooking and cleaning and teaching mostly.

Ursula K. Le Guin: "If it is the future you seek, then I tell you that you must come to it with empty hands… You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."

From The Dispossessed (1974)

This is a great post about the latest nonsense from the Right when it comes to controlling the education of public school students. @edutooters
https://www.eclectablog.com/2022/08/lets-talk-about-parental-rights.html
Let’s talk about “parental rights”… | Eclectablog

Cultural conservatives are trying to make the 2022 midterm elections about education in general, and the (phantom) issue of “parental rights” specifically. As someone who has been involved in education at various levels for the past 40+ years, I’ve not seen any evidence of a widespread lack of parents’ abilities to guide and influence their

Eclectablog

I wish more of my favorite game creators were here instead of the bird site.

My GSA students played Winsome Heartwood last night and it was interesting. I'd love to use more journaling games as writing lessons.