DMC
@dmc1007.bsky.social
Happy to be here. English teacher, spouse, cat mom. Likes: morning yoga, long baths, making risotto, having opinions about TV. Dislikes: being late, drivers who don't wait their turn to merge on the interstate, "the reason is because."
"When I gently fall asleep, fall asleep to wake in heaven, Dearest sister, do not weep"
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Rosewood Casket (2015 Remaster)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic
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August 25, 2026 at 8:59 PM
"When I gently fall asleep, fall asleep to wake in heaven, Dearest sister, do not weep"
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Wrapping up 25 years in public education today, the last 20 at the same school. Excited about my new teaching adventure in the fall, but feeling all the feelings saying goodbye today.
June 18, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Wrapping up 25 years in public education today, the last 20 at the same school. Excited about my new teaching adventure in the fall, but feeling all the feelings saying goodbye today.
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“Serious intellectual work and moral reasoning cannot be gamified,” the history professor Molly Worthen writes.
Opinion | You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education
Technology must return to its proper place in the classroom — as a supplemental tool rather than the source and summit of education.
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April 19, 2026 at 7:31 AM
“Serious intellectual work and moral reasoning cannot be gamified,” the history professor Molly Worthen writes.
Sunbathing Kitten in Repose: A Triptych
March 23, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Sunbathing Kitten in Repose: A Triptych
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What I find interesting about this line is that it’s an admission in order for this to happen, they need you to lose your ordinary intelligence that you already have.
This is why they want to get into schools. They want kids to lose basic capacity so that they have to rent it forever.
This is why they want to get into schools. They want kids to lose basic capacity so that they have to rent it forever.
March 13, 2026 at 11:34 AM
What I find interesting about this line is that it’s an admission in order for this to happen, they need you to lose your ordinary intelligence that you already have.
This is why they want to get into schools. They want kids to lose basic capacity so that they have to rent it forever.
This is why they want to get into schools. They want kids to lose basic capacity so that they have to rent it forever.
"I want students...to read about marginalization—about the forms cruelty can take and the choices an individual can make in the face of attempts to keep them down. Beyond any other principle, I try to assign books that are worth...discussing and writing about for a sustained period of time."
February 1, 2026 at 8:21 PM
"I want students...to read about marginalization—about the forms cruelty can take and the choices an individual can make in the face of attempts to keep them down. Beyond any other principle, I try to assign books that are worth...discussing and writing about for a sustained period of time."
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A greeting card for my Bluesky friends
January 17, 2026 at 10:53 PM
A greeting card for my Bluesky friends
Dr. Mel is all of us, pretty much every day of 2026.
![Dr. Mel King of HBO Max's "The Pitt," lying dazed on the hospital floor after being knocked down by a patient trying to get away from police. The closed captioning reads "That was a doozy. [chuckles weakly]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fwkox74xmbwfir7eukf7sj7m/bafkreiazjg44rvek3in7jxqk4rq264ft5ovxmhq6j3ehu7wemdrwj65d6a)
January 18, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Dr. Mel is all of us, pretty much every day of 2026.
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…it should break your heart to kill.
January 8, 2026 at 4:02 AM
…it should break your heart to kill.
Well, that's not encouraging.
January 1, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Well, that's not encouraging.
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I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
The last 20 min of this talk with Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater—about how hard, and how necessary, it is to read in today’s world, & the impact of tech & AI & all the things, made me feel both anxious & optimistic (“Everything’s terrible, everything’s great.”).
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The Top Five Ethan Hawke Movies and a Double Shot of Richard Linklater, With Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater!
Podcast Episode · The Big Picture · 11/17/2025 · 1h 49m
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November 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The last 20 min of this talk with Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater—about how hard, and how necessary, it is to read in today’s world, & the impact of tech & AI & all the things, made me feel both anxious & optimistic (“Everything’s terrible, everything’s great.”).
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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As an English teacher in public education witnessing the eager adoption of AI, watching Pluribus's grouchy, grief-stricken Carol Sturka resist the hive is almost too painful to bear, yet somehow simultaneously affirming. Help us, Vince Gilligan, you're our only hope!
November 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
As an English teacher in public education witnessing the eager adoption of AI, watching Pluribus's grouchy, grief-stricken Carol Sturka resist the hive is almost too painful to bear, yet somehow simultaneously affirming. Help us, Vince Gilligan, you're our only hope!
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I couldn’t agree more with the conclusions in this piece and am always paper-first in my classroom, but one issue I don’t see mentioned is that many districts (including mine) use the availability of tech as an excuse to ration paper
Finally seeing the backlash to overdependence on tech in schools reach legacy media.
It’s giving me hope that we can dampen AI mania.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
It’s giving me hope that we can dampen AI mania.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
Opinion | The Screen That Ate Your Child’s Education
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November 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I couldn’t agree more with the conclusions in this piece and am always paper-first in my classroom, but one issue I don’t see mentioned is that many districts (including mine) use the availability of tech as an excuse to ration paper
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I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…
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November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
In the last 5 weeks, despite my needle anxiety, I’ve gotten a TDAP booster, flu shot, Covid shot, AND my first Shingles shot. Planning some celebratory ice cream and thinking the Yankees should reward me by taking the division. From the Jays this weekend!
September 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
In the last 5 weeks, despite my needle anxiety, I’ve gotten a TDAP booster, flu shot, Covid shot, AND my first Shingles shot. Planning some celebratory ice cream and thinking the Yankees should reward me by taking the division. From the Jays this weekend!
RIP to Robert Redford, whose achingly beautiful A River Runs Through It is my all-time favorite film. “I am haunted by waters.”
September 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
RIP to Robert Redford, whose achingly beautiful A River Runs Through It is my all-time favorite film. “I am haunted by waters.”
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This is Haha. He had to socialize multiple times today. Gonna need a couple days to recover. 14/10 (IG: thegoldenhaha)
August 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This is Haha. He had to socialize multiple times today. Gonna need a couple days to recover. 14/10 (IG: thegoldenhaha)
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Week 4
Figuring out what to focus on now & what to focus on next in science and higher ed
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February 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Saw this in Liz Neeley's Making Sense Of It All newsletter, and putting it here as a good reminder to myself
February 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Saw this in Liz Neeley's Making Sense Of It All newsletter, and putting it here as a good reminder to myself
There is no tired quite like a teacher on the Friday of winter break tired. I have been MORE tired, but never tired like this.
December 20, 2024 at 10:47 PM
There is no tired quite like a teacher on the Friday of winter break tired. I have been MORE tired, but never tired like this.
Beautiful sunset on my walk last night.
December 5, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Beautiful sunset on my walk last night.