Melissa Goldman

@magistraaurea.bsky.social

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Latin teacher and LGBTQ+ advocate (she/they).

Pretty much running off of spite at this point.

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

Me, after driving for 12 hours: Let's open up Bluesky for some amusement. *Timeline filled with Supreme Court news* Me (backs away in horror)

I was in Ruidoso a couple weeks ago for a conference, and we were all watching the Blue 2 Fire. Heavily forested and lots of winding roads. Hope they can hold this new fire!

altitude of 7,000 feet and population of 8,000 all them ordered to immediately evacuate due to dangerous and fast spreading 5,500+ acre 0% contaimed wildfire this is Ruidoso New Mexico about 60 miles to the west of where im at lots of stuff to burn this is apocalypse-level disaster very very bad

I finished packing up my classroom a week ago. I did not start the last school year expecting it to be my last here, but a series of nagging dissatisfactions and changes in my personal life led to a point where it was almost inevitable.

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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

I am starting to wonder about the Venn diagram of @charliejane.bsky.social's watchlists and mine (or my wife's, to be more accurate--she picks the shows and I trust her judgement).

I'm begging everyone who has Peacock to watch We Are Lady Parts season 2. It's so good and I need more of this show. Or if you don't have Peacock, pony up for just one month so you can watch this incredible show. Please.

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Me: Rainbow Capitalism is problematic. Too many companies take our money without any real action. Also me: (bigots do bigotry) Time to buy more rainbows!

Thought maybe a former student was making my smoothie, but wasn't sure, due to mask and different hair. Down the road, I noticed this:

I'm out. Saw one with a holographic wrap this week! It was... a choice.

everyone is the world is playing CYBERSTRUCK, the fun new mandatory game in which you are eliminated when you see your first cybertruck in the wild rules are similar to whamageddon, but with no end date: • the cybertruck must be real, in the wild • as soon as you notice the cybertruck, you are out

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Josh Hawley: i'm going to punch 100 kittens in the throat AOC: what the hell, we shouldn't be punching *any* kittens (Manchin and Romney co-sponsor the Punch 50 Kittens in the Throat Act of 2024) op-ed columnist: finally, reasonable compromise

Right, this is a good illustrator of the way Beltway narratives tend to conflate “the middle” with “moderation”

Me: Rainbow Capitalism is problematic. Too many companies take our money without any real action. Also me: (bigots do bigotry) Time to buy more rainbows!

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You know what, point to all the superhero writers who have their villains lay out the plan in detail out loud. You were right. They do indeed do that. It turns out the thing you got wrong is the part where the good guys stop them. You didn't write unrealistic villains, you wrote unrealistic heroes.

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I guess my primary comment about this is that it feels that the pandemic ushered in an era in which faculty are supposed to extend endless compassion to students (fine!) but neither the students nor the conditions of academia extend compassion to us. And that is really, really hard.

All the "solutions" proposed in this involve more unpaid work from faculty to manage our own feelings about being overstretched. I don't want a training, a coffee group, or a paid external speaker about about compassion fatigue. I want higher pay, admin support, & actual vacation time.

In the past few weeks, three former students I taught in MIDDLE school joined the staff. This adds to the two who have been working with me for more than a year now. I guess I have been here a while.

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I wrote about Taylor Lorenz, ambulance chasing in the face of trans trauma, and why articles about dead trans kids should probably actually be about those dead trans kids. It's a lot to say but I might as well fucking say it all: jude-doyle.ghost.io/i-dont-care-...

I Don’t Care About Your Brandjude-doyle.ghost.io Nex Benedict, Taylor Lorenz, and why trans trauma is not your goldmine.

Wife and I watched the whole thing this past weekend and are so glad to see we don't have to wait long for season 2.

"You'd never know that we're living in a golden age of TV comedy right now." In my latest newsletter, I write about Extraordinary, the funniest TV show you're probably not watching. (Because unfunny "comedies" are getting all the attention.) buttondown.email/charliejane/...

The Funniest TV Show You're (Probably) Not Watchingbuttondown.email One of the frustrating things about loving television is the extent to which a small number of shows seem to suck up all of the attention — and if you love...

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A fundamental honour & privilege of parenthood is getting to watch your children become themselves, which feels multiplied a thousandfold when you parent trans kids. I grieve that Nex & their parents didn’t get to continue that journey together

It’s obscene that these parents have to bury their child but it sounds like Nex knew they were loved in a way a lot of parents regret not communicating

Eurus does not like having his nap disturbed.

I am also lawful evil per this alignment chart and have no intention of changing.

Well. Don’t tell anyone (especially @joliheroics.bsky.social!) but I am lawful evil.

This is so important and not mentioned enough. The president does not (or, at least, should not) make decisions in a vacuum. The people around them make a difference.

Biden may be elderly and have a failing memory, but he has a fantastic team. Trump may be elderly and have a failing mind, but he has...can I openly use such terminology without getting the Adult Content tag?

Sometimes working with students makes me feel young and reminds me of my passions. And sometimes they talk about Reagan as just a figure in the history textbook and I feel every single one of my years.

Bluesky's open. Quote one picture of your cat to promote your cat.

Bluesky’s open. Quote one picture of your cat to promote your cat. (I have two cats. Hence two pictures.)

14yo has loved being scared for as long as I can remember. But "Coraline" is the only movie to date that he asked us to stop because it was too much. (He was much younger then and has since seen it multiple times.)

Have been seeing the 15th anniversary posts about "Coraline" and couldn't remember how soon after it came out I saw it. This answered my question. And I am still unnerved by button eyes. @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com

Somehow had not realized before that Hilda is voiced by Bella Ramsey. Another reason to love them!

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I got 99 problems and mediocre white men are, frankly, the vast majority of them.

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Obsessed with Emily Wilson saying that for most of the Iliad, Achilles' job was beach

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one of the not very profound epiphanies I’ve had recently is: we’re still in 2020. still in mass illness, still in racial injustice, still in disciplinary conflict. we may feel exhausted because we are asked to pretend that these things are not true, that we are “back to normal”

Print I bought over break that I hope will serve as the reminder I need to keep going.

On the 6th day before Christmas, my admin got for me... Active Shooter Training.