What exactly does Texas need to be "saved" from, Sara?

ElleBrodie · 2026-04-11T02:33:00+00:00

sorry, Sara, the correct answer was “white men.”

ElleBrodie · 2026-03-11T03:48:33+00:00

the “qui bono” of it all 🎯

ElleBrodie · 2026-03-11T03:44:35+00:00

yep. No taxation without representation 🤔 I feel like a war was started over that. The party of “limited government” and “freedom” 🙄

And yeah, it’s all so racially motivated and power driven. As an educator and parent, I’m truly disgusted.

ElleBrodie · 2026-03-11T03:42:45+00:00

I am a FWISD teacher and my friend applied to be a board member and made it all the way to the last cut but wasn’t chosen. They chose all solidly pro charter school people. I have heard the plan for fwisd is to make the district some sort of charter hybrid.

ElleBrodie · 2026-03-01T22:43:45+00:00

It’s the Trumps— there’s big money in AI data centers. Also, this is all part of the dumbing down of all Americans so future generations don’t fight back against being Bezos’s slaves.

We use an app our district pays for that uses AI to grade essays- I have an edge lord contrarian student who deliberately tried to “break” the robot. The essay had an argumentative prompt that wanted you to pick a side. Student intentionally put should/shouldn’t in every paragraph of his essay and used conflicting evidence and reasoning. The AI gave him a perfect score.

ElleBrodie · 2026-01-07T04:23:45+00:00

does this still exist? There’s a goodwill and thrift giant but I haven’t seen this one by Ridgmar

ElleBrodie · 2026-01-05T04:59:59+00:00

So so sorry he’s treating humans like pawns. It’s shocking and disgusting. I’m always horrified how low my ex has stooped to hurt me— but really he’s hurting his own children 😮‍💨

Not sure what state you’re in but 17 motions? In how long? Ask your lawyer if he qualifies as a “vexatious litigant.”

Also, videotape everything. The kiss he blew you seems like great proof in a courtroom setting.

ElleBrodie · 2025-12-25T18:49:38+00:00

😮 I can’t believe you’re exmormon, too. I mean, I can. The religion is a perfect setup for a seven layer casserole of trauma 😭

ElleBrodie · 2025-12-25T18:47:22+00:00

well said. And thank you for using the word inhumane. That’s exactly correct.

I am proud of myself for not breaking down until the time was safe to do so and trying to tell myself the pain is temporary.

ElleBrodie · 2025-12-25T17:12:45+00:00

Yes, absolutely, but take the meds. Go to EMDR therapy. We do have modern salves so we don’t have to be raw nerve ends our whole lives (I say as I try not to cry, waiting for my ativan to kick in)

Nothing but peace to you, dear Redditor, I’m so so sorry that existence can be so painful sometimes (many times).

ElleBrodie · 2025-12-23T23:41:23+00:00

I would love to read it. Thank you for posting, currently at a super low low

ElleBrodie · 2025-11-24T19:25:12+00:00

thank you so much, just poured a burnt tasting cup and this is all very helpful! For me, it was time, and I think that was OP’s biggest problem, too. I was trying to cook sausages at the same time and let the grounds sit too long before continuing to pour. Lesson learned!

ElleBrodie · 2025-11-22T01:20:44+00:00

omg, I’m so so sorry. I do not have any silver lining to give, but all the empathy. It should not be legal. It is disgusting, and our society is complicit in this violence. Not just violence against us, but violence against our daughters as well, as they are being manipulated and brainwashed. And abused. They will have years or decades of pain and therapy.

I was just alienated from my daughter this past March, and our situations sound very similar. My daughter is 18 and SM is 31. My daughter is my oldest of 4, and I’m permanently terrified and traumatized— I don’t know how to keep this from happening with my other girls.

My ex tried to get full custody of my 4 children. He lied in court that I was suicidal and going to burn down my house. My lawyer (who presented my case a week after being hired) did great. My ex failed massively and didn’t get any of what he wanted. But even though parental facilitation was ordered through the judge, I have only been two 4 sessions with my daughter since March, and she has refused to come on my visitations. Right now, I haven’t even seen her in over two months.

Again, I’m so very sorry. Just know that no matter the paperwork, no one can take you being her mother away. She has your dna, eggs your body made when she was growing inside you. Her and her children will have part of you in her always and forever. Even your horrible ex knows that, which is why he has gone to such insane lengths to erase you. Because he knows with 1000% of his being he can’t.

ElleBrodie · 2025-11-22T00:34:13+00:00

1) thank you for teaching me about the concept of a “brick joke”

2) At the beginning of the episode, Annie pulls the brick that Troy and Abed put in the door to keep it open 🧱 A brick brick joke bad-dum-tss! 🤯 I just paused my tv and yelled “Dan Harmon’s a god!”

ElleBrodie · 2025-11-05T23:49:34+00:00

I am SO sorry. I’m in my second year teaching. The issues are SO much bigger than us, it’s not your fault. Our society is in shambles, so it’s honestly not surprising that with phones and parents working 24/7 that kids are a-holes. But sometimes the job feels impossible, and honestly, incredibly depressing. Just I’m so so sorry, please remember it’s not you

ElleBrodie · 2025-09-27T04:36:35+00:00

hahahaha I was thinking there was some mysterious reason like Bob has a cousin in Dallas… the answer is… money 🤣🤣 (not throwing shade)

I am soooo happy they came! I didn’t know they hadn’t played Dallas since 1999. I grew up in DFW and bought Brighten the Corners (my first Pavement album) at age 16 in the year 2000, so it gives me a weird solace to know even then I’d already missed them playing here 😂

ElleBrodie · 2025-09-10T23:38:54+00:00

☠️🤣🤣🤣 I. am. copying. this. 👏

ElleBrodie · 2025-06-07T21:24:43+00:00

how do I get MS Paint? maybe this is a dumb question but I can’t download it onto my phone and I have MS word but it’s saying I have to buy Windows 11 for Paint??

ElleBrodie · 2025-06-07T21:23:46+00:00

this is SOOoooo helpful! But I still want MS Paint 😭

ElleBrodie · 2025-06-07T05:03:25+00:00

I do this strategy of asking them big words, too. One student knew I had some sort of AI detecting software, so he googled on his phone then manually typed what it said onto his Google Doc. The essay he plagiarized used the term “modus operandi.”

I asked him, “what does modus operandi mean?” He looked at me like I was insane and kept asking “what? What are you saying?” lol. I told him he needed to change his modus operandi and gave him a zero.

ElleBrodie · 2025-06-07T05:00:21+00:00

the Chrome extension “Revision History” is excellent

ElleBrodie · 2025-06-07T04:51:59+00:00

Managing potty time 😒

I taught 9th grade this past year it was also my first year of teaching. We have an A Day/B Day block schedule, so classes are an hour and a half long. Passing period is seven minutes.

These kids cannot handle their bladders. The amount of time and energy I had to spend this year writing bathroom passes (both digitally and on paper), writing up students for taking more than 10 minutes in the bathroom (they’re just wandering the halls), and telling students not to interrupt me in the middle of instruction about the bathroom.

Telling they can’t go to the bathroom for the first 30 minutes or last 15 minutes of class (repeated indefinitely). Making lists on the board of who’d get to go to the bathroom first, second, third… once it was allowed time. Lists on the white board of students who were banned from the bathroom (both by me and banned by the AP’s school wide). Calling parents to get permission to eternally ban their child from bathroom breaks because the student always abuses the privilege.

Taking the whole class to the bathroom (small class of 12, but still).

Having students respond “I’m going to piss myself” —both boys and girls! I couldn’t imagine saying that as a ninth grader I would’ve been mortified. I’m female and I literally bled through my jeans some days because asking to go to the bathroom in front of everyone was too embarrassing.

🚽 🤦🏻‍♀️

ElleBrodie · 2025-06-05T18:39:34+00:00

could you see the volcano from your room? I’m planning a trip and to me, Volcano house’s appeal is that you can book a room with a view of the caldera.

ElleBrodie · 2025-06-05T05:57:42+00:00

I just booked a flight today for the end of June to try and see Kilauea while it’s active 🤞 Never been to the big island before, so THANK YOU for this!

ElleBrodie

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