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Any advice on dealing with climate despair? 'cause it looks like we're all kinda doomed. I found some articles with headlines about not giving up, but they all end with vague insistences that governments and corporations need to change course and we all know they're not going to.

RT @pinkhairedcyn@twitter.com
When you have to write a letter of rec and then you remember you previously wrote a letter of rec for something different for the same student

RT @qikipedia@twitter.com
In 1890, Congress was initially going to accept Wyoming as a new state only if it revoked its women’s voting rights, which they’d had since 1869. Wyoming answered with a telegram saying: ‘We will remain out of the Union one hundred years rather than come in without the women’.

RT @estherschindler@twitter.com
Japanese artist Monde created "wooden bookshelf inserts that are like miniature dioramas of narrow alleyways you might find in the streets of Tokyo." twistedsifter.com/2018/11/wood

RT @SenJeffMerkley@twitter.com
There are over 14,000 children locked up in @realDonaldTrump@twitter.com’s detention centers, including over 2,000 in his children’s gulag in the desert at Tornillo. We cannot forget them.

"Overcoming student resistance" means approximately opposite things in an active learning classroom vs a horrible Dickensian classroom.

Received this paper from a student in our Team-Based Learning class. The resistance is real. Such an exhausting semester with TBL & not sure the students of are any happier than usual (but grades & learning *are* better). @TBLearning @MiamiCTE htt…
twitter.com/BooneAmphibLab/sta

RT @brenankeller@twitter.com
A QA engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 99999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a ueicbksjdhd.

First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar bursts into flames, killing everyone.

RT @ZachWeiner@twitter.com
Theorem
smbc-comics.com/comic/theorem (click for bonus panel/hovertext)

(PS: Thanks to my twitter followers for finding errors, thus helping me create this flawless argument)

RT @poutinesmoothie@twitter.com
From my vast experience in watching cartoons, that car is very tired.

RT @sadanduseless@twitter.com
Comedian Creates Hilarious Fake Christmas Toy Gifts And Places Them In Stores sadanduseless.com/xmas-prank-t

RT @AlexForTheWinn@twitter.com
Never forget that we, as a species, made our glorious debut onto the galactic stage by sending unsolicited nudes, a mix tape, and directions back to our place.

RT @nathanharenice@twitter.com
Wow... Gmail's auto reply has gotten really good

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