Math Professor, Kayaker, 🛶🧙🏻‍♀️🐘🌻

@realredfella Things are going to get real interesting from here on out to November for the senate. The whole Roger Marshall thing replacing RFK jr rumor(may not happen), Mitch, Graham, Platner, omg 😱

@rhondakayb I don't at all mean to cheer someone's loss of life, and I appreciated Graham's willingness to stand up to Putin (abt the only thing), but they do say the lord works in mysterious ways.

Good luck getting the SAVE Act passed now, f*ckers. That's it. That's the Lady G tweet. 😄😇

@JimCantore DOGE cut them so many weather service offices like Topeka are no longer launching, thank Trump and Musk

Why don't we have ballons here today? Anybody.

@MetaThor4 @TheLucyShow1 No one is teaching numerical calculations this way, FOIL is reserved for algebraic variables, not numbers.

@TheLucyShow1 The right one? And in America. Who is teaching the left one? Common core probably…

Which method were you taught? 🤔

@ambrose_pike @rushicrypto There is a book I read in high school in the 70's, I was maybe 16 called On the Beach (1957) about how no one survived a nuclear war and it left me feeling so empty. I never felt something like that could actually happen until now.

I watched The Day After when it aired on November 20, 1983. I was 10. I lived through the Cold War, the first Gulf War, 9/11, 2008, and every war in between. I have never been this pessimistic. We have never had a leader this disconnected from reality, this corrupt, and this controlled. Every previous crisis had adults somewhere in the room. This one doesn't.

People who are older than I: Does it really feel like end times or is this just a temporary dip? Because it really feels like end times.

@RobertJMolnar The screaming into the microphone is driving me nuts

what the fuck does he keep turning and looking at

@JaneAustenLIVES I would be lying if I said I wasn’t watching, probably more than once, but will it replace 1995 version? Doubtful.

Are you ready for the newest adaptation of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice”? What are your thoughts Austenites? 🌺

@TrooperBenKs When kids read and hear the ugly things coming from the president, things they would get in trouble for if repeated, then we have all failed them.

I do not think we are watching kids fall apart… I think we are watching adults fall apart, and kids are paying the price. You see it in schools, at ballgames, in restaurants, and on the roads. You see it in the way a child looks at an adult like the adult is the problem for saying no. Parents are not parenting these days. Not enough. Not consistently. Not in the way kids need. If we keep pretending everything is fine, we are going to raise a generation that never learned boundaries, never learned respect, and never learned how to handle life when it says no. I see three kinds of parents right now. • Parents who are self focused This is the hardest group for society because nothing gets corrected. Everything becomes an excuse. Everything becomes somebody else’s fault. They are not always bad people. Many are simply repeating what they lived. Their kids grow up without guard rails, without direction, without correction, without discipline, without the steady love that says, I care enough to stop you. • Parents who are surviving These parents love their kids and want to do it right, but they are getting crushed by rent, groceries, car payments, medical bills, overtime, and a world where a livable wage feels out of reach. So they work, and they work, and they work. While they are doing everything for their children, they barely get to see their children. Kids still need what they have always needed: presence, consistency, boundaries, correction, love, and attention. • Parents many of us aspire to be like Attentive, loving, present, willing to say no, and not afraid to lead. What often gets missed is that many of these adults did not grow up with that kind of parenting. Some came from self focused homes… Some came from homes that were just surviving… What changed their path was influence? Somewhere along the way, someone stepped in and noticed them. A neighbor, a grandparent, a teacher, a coach, a mentor, or a friend’s parent. Someone outside the family circle gave them what they were not getting at home. Kids need to hear the word no. Not constantly, but enough to learn boundaries, respect, patience, and self control. No is not mean… No is protection… If we are honest, some kids are BEGGING for a no because they want an adult to be the adult. It shows up in the way you speak to the kid who gets ignored, encourage the teenager who is hanging on by a thread, step in when a child is being raised by the internet, and model respect even when nobody else is. Sometimes the future of a child changes because an adult decided to say no… Be safe, Trooper Ben #HelpMore

@umichvoter I would certainly hope so 🤷🏼‍♀️

Mejia probably raised good money in the last 24 hours right?

🚨BREAKING🚨 Kansas lacks the votes to call a special session to redraw their Congressional maps.

@RachelBitecofer I agree, if true pain isn’t felt, if the consequences of voting red aren’t fully realized, then there will be no lessons learned. Sometimes you have to touch the stove and get burned 🤷🏼‍♀️

I think Dems should end the shutdown the day after the snap benefits end and then let America see what they voted for in terms of their healthcare under Republican rule.

@twelveyearsband @seether Love Her off the Disclaimer II album, hauntingly beautiful. Rise Above a close second but the acoustic not the studio version.

Which @seether song is your favourite? #Seether

@BillyBaldwin @sandibachom Dow Futures are down -1359.0 in early trading so yeah, black Monday

Black Monday???

@twicetheMF Ok, this is an interesting observation. I’m throwing in Seether, formed 2002, previously Sauron Gas formed 1999. Fall Out Boy and Seether are huge favorites of mine. ❤️

I have a thought today. And before folks respond I want y'all to go look at the numbers. Is Fall Out Boy the most successful American rock band founded after the year 2000? I'm really thinking hard to name one more successful and I got nothing

@snezanalawrence Calculus by Michael Spivak

It's a world book day today!! What is your favourite mathematics book, past or present?

@RepDavids I know you’re doing the best you can for #KS03 we are with you

Elon Musk’s reported interference in a competitively awarded FAA contract is deeply concerning and raises serious questions about conflicts of interest. Aviation safety — not private gain — must be the priority in our air traffic control system. The administration must ensure federal contracts are awarded fairly and transparently, not at the whim of a billionaire with political ties to those in power.

@cassidenaep As long as MAGA are “hurting” the libs or making them complain about something, they are happy, never realizing they hurt themselves too. And in many cases far worse(killing Medicaid for mostly red states).

Can you imagine being totally cool gutting the National Weather Service and representing OKLAHOMA where the sky tries to kill us daily? They’re okay with us being less safe and people will die as a result. NWS is one thing we do well!

@DrEricDing @akemor Only use the principal root (positive root) for the check. No way a radical comes out to equal a negative number so x>=-1

@akemor ChatGPT has been wrong many times. And the last screen is not valid cuz it assumes results must be =>-1

Trying to solve this equation. Is X = “all real numbers”? Stuck.

anyways

@Dan4Kan We’re lucky to have you, no matter what seat. Here’s to wishing you a successful spring session 💙

My new desk for the session. Desk 30. I’m closer so if I have to throw tomatoes my arm doesn’t get as tired. I was partial to last terms’s desk #69, but this will have to do. #ksleg