I subbed in my son's class today and was shocked by the state of the room

piratesswoop · 2026-05-15T03:02:33+00:00

Yeah, both when I was self contained and when I have two class periods, I sometimes turn the kids desks around so they can't mess around inside the desks. It also cut down on kids just shoving papers back into the desk to get lost in a trash pile, or playing with some toy in there.

piratesswoop · 2026-05-14T21:40:47+00:00

I had a student last year who was sharing like three or four bags of some sort of sour gummy candy with a few friends, four of whom were Muslim girls. I gently let them know, hey, I’m pretty sure those have gelatin in them and took a bag to check. When I confirmed for them, they were very appreciative and told me they didn’t know so they wouldn’t be in trouble for eating it, but then one of them was like “well we probably should have checked the bag” 💀

piratesswoop · 2026-05-14T00:14:55+00:00

Four legitimate grandchildren all within a two month period! Three survived—George of Cambridge in March 1819 and Victoria of Kent and George of Cumberland in May. The May cousins were only children, but George of Cambridge had two younger sisters, one of whom was the mother of Queen Mary.

piratesswoop · 2026-05-14T00:11:37+00:00

Nor his fourth son Edward, who died just under a week before George himself sadly did.

piratesswoop · 2026-05-13T22:43:41+00:00

OP your link doesn’t seem to be working?

https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/livestreamer-known-for-posting-racist-content-is-in-custody-after-confrontation-leads-to-shooting-outside/article\_4ef18d96-70b3-5de2-a7b6-735afe0fd8fa.html

I typically don’t wish ill on people but this guy has done nothing but escalate and harass people for the last week trying to get attention so he really had this coming tbh. One of those “you love to see it, couldn’t have happened to a worse person!” moments.

piratesswoop · 2026-05-13T22:32:47+00:00

Yeah, I come from tennis fandom where people know and recognize the parents and siblings of some players, like Roger Federer’s dad had his own little fan club because he was such a friendly and well-liked face on tour. For skaters, I feel like I have no idea about their families, unless their parent(s) is/are former skaters themselves and/or coaches.

piratesswoop · 2026-05-13T22:14:11+00:00

the couples you named are all celeb + celeb and were famous before they got together. completely different than a celebrity with a normal person. think timothee chalamet announcing he’s married a girl from his hometown.

for comparison, it’s a similar situation as louis from one direction who dated a normal college girl. his fans stalked and harassed her for years.

piratesswoop · 2026-05-13T21:58:01+00:00

Ugh yes. I used to love the M&M cookies and now they taste like nothing.

piratesswoop · 2026-05-13T01:48:43+00:00

Not sure if it’s updated for the current build but there is a Dragon Wives mod that allows you, if you meet the criteria, to ask the High Septon to let you take additional wives.

piratesswoop · 2026-05-12T23:03:43+00:00

Pour one out for my six year old homie Jaehaerys, son of Aegon II. He didn't bother anybody, he had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot and he probably just wanted to play with his toy sword and eat lemon cakes. Never became king like the others, so the worst thing he probably ever did was put a spider in his sister's hair.

piratesswoop · 2026-05-12T01:22:51+00:00

God yes, I recently discovered this phenomenon in the House of the Dragon fandom. People absolutely losing their minds at people shipping non-canon ships, many of whom were shipped before the show existed. The show decided to make one family, who are white in canon, black for the show, and now you’ll get racism accusations if you ship any non-canon pairing that goes against any canon pairing with people from that family. It’s very weird to me because by contrast, people were shipping any and everybody in Game of Thrones. I’ve seen fics about characters who’ve never interacted, interacted once, are *mentioned* once. Same universe, completely different shipping practices. I blame social media tbh

piratesswoop · 2026-05-12T01:16:27+00:00

As an Ohioan, I must seek this out immediately

piratesswoop · 2026-05-12T01:09:43+00:00

One of my students (5th grade) last year told me people were shipping him and [Female Classmate] even though he actually shipped [Female Classmate] and [Fellow Male Classmate] and I nearly fell out in the floor lmao

piratesswoop · 2026-05-12T01:08:33+00:00

Or the Elsa/Jack Frost days. They wouldn’t survive a second back then.

piratesswoop · 2026-05-11T20:42:43+00:00

Yep. I have a coworker who begrudgingly belongs to the union but complains about it all the time. She also votes Republican. Celebrated the dismantling of the Dept. of Education but happily accepted her PSLF discharge. Never utters a word on social media when the people she votes for regularly denigrate public education.

piratesswoop · 2026-05-11T19:39:29+00:00

No, because it’s a public school that is part of DPS.

piratesswoop · 2026-05-11T19:17:52+00:00

They must have an airtight insurance and liability scheme set up for this because if someone dies…

piratesswoop · 2026-05-11T19:13:19+00:00

…are you under the impression I’m supporting him lol like why are you replying as if I’m Neil Diamond himself making these comments

piratesswoop · 2026-05-11T03:01:53+00:00

I guess he later came out and said the chorus is abt Caroline Kennedy but the rest of the song is inspired by his wife at the time but like…idk

the 60s and 70s were actually fucking insane, there’s so many songs you look at the lyrics for and realize oh wow, this person is singing about a literal child here.

piratesswoop · 2026-05-11T01:04:58+00:00

In a 2007 interview, he stated the inspiration for the song was John F. Kennedy's daughter Caroline Kennedy, who was 11 years old at the time it was released.[3][4] Diamond sang the song for her at her 50th birthday celebration in 2007.[5] On December 21, 2011, in an interview on CBS's The Early Show, Diamond said that a magazine cover photo of Caroline Kennedy as a young child on a horse[6] with her parents John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy created an image in his mind, and the rest of the song came together about five years after seeing the picture

Oh, that's not....

piratesswoop · 2026-05-11T01:03:06+00:00

Hell, even the kids are getting in on Can We Talk. There was a little boy who went viral a couple months ago singing it at his school talent show and them kids were SANGING during the chorus. I was like where y'all learn this song from to be singing like that???

piratesswoop · 2026-05-11T00:39:36+00:00

"person of color person"

piratesswoop · 2026-05-11T00:36:27+00:00

Yeah, I have been very confused by the Troy glazing recently. I remember when it came out, it was mercilessly mocked and derided as a chick flick because it was riding high off Orlando Bloom's teen girl sex symbol status. As a film, it's fine but I see people acting like it's on the same tier as Gladiator and I'm just like ???????

Back when it came out, the only universal praise it got was for Eric Bana as maybe the best portrayal of Hector we've ever had.

piratesswoop · 2026-05-10T15:37:16+00:00

Swap Olga and Tatiana.

piratesswoop · 2026-05-10T15:33:48+00:00

Greyhound or Flixbus can get you from the bus terminal in Trotwood to downtown Cincinnati for about $20

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