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I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?

Nim Chimpsky.

Fucking monkey pun.

And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But

BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.

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When people who are in no way experts on education give me their “expert opinion” on education.

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What. The. Fuck. America. That's it. Next holiday is back to Europe. Or maybe Asia, IDK.

During the 15-hour Senate filibuster on gun control, there were 38 shootings that killed 12 people and injured 36 more across America. 

That roughly translates to one shooting per every 23 minutes.

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I read a thing that says sticky taping toes 3 and 4 together help. I'm yet to try it because I wear non crazy shoes to work.

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The kettle is hot

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I’M LAUGHING SO HARD

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What a world it would be if everyone was fluent in sign language!

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I clicked on to my own tumblr page and I had forgotten. I knew my profile pic was of Face Biscuits I made in Dublin so they distance between me and my family didn't feel so large. But I had forgotten the cover pic was of my backyard in Broken Hill. This was my first view that was... Just. Mine. And one day that view was of fog and it felt like everything was yet to render and my future seemed close yet unknowable. Then I made a post about how Broken Hill looked like Silent Hill because who talks about futures? Looking back at it now, I couldn't have guessed that I'd be offered a permanent job in less than a year. That I'd spend this year fighting for my colleagues when principals don't know if they can create positions for them because our funding agreements have been abandoned by the current government. Seeing that fog snaps the current view in to focus. Two visions. Clear as day. One where education prospers and the other with Australia continuing to slide down the international league tables while politicians blame me and my hard-working colleagues who put up with no running water and less and less resources. How am I to teach the future genwration to innovate when I can't give them experiences to help them grow and question what they see? Looks like that future is getting foggy again.

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Bigots are afraid of calculus too now.