Daphna

@dapati

I like serial commas, fireflies, bold patterns, cities, advice columns, long walks, museums, menus, learning about a lot of things and teaching about some. Always thinking about my next meal. She/her.

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Daphna@dapati· Jun 1

Still is! It costs a small fortune, but the pediatrician encouraged us to get it to help keep our son regular, and we are obsessed.

Daphna@dapati· May 24

🚨DC folks, keep a lookout for this sweet missing dog!

Brandi and Brandon Valentine are looking for their white Samoyed, Kuma, pictured on the flyer. Info:

Sad day in the Valentine household!! Our sweet boy Kuma is missing. Last seen Hillcrest Heights community center park. Please share and boost so we can bring him home! If anyone sees him please message me or call/ text 4438028312

Daphna@dapati· May 8

Screenshot of what this looks like!

Screenshot of a Blackboard submission page for a workbook with 2 steps. Step one: go a a workbook and complete the Day 1 assignment. Step two, the check-in: once you've uploaded your workbook, post a reply here to let us know you're ready for feedback, There's a reflective prompt asking people to talk about new ideas they got as a result of this exercise and to let the instructor know where they want to get focused feedback.

Daphna@dapati· Apr 22

Screenshot of $38.18 donation to the Charity Bowl for Michigan. The dedication message is: This is as much in honor of Ace Anbender's continuous banging of the drum about how much Jordan Acker and other members of the U-M administration suck as it is of Acker's specific defeat in the vote for the Democratic nomination for Regent. Go Blue!

Daphna@dapati· Apr 3

What I saw when I glanced over at my two-year-old. A kid in jeans holding a big pink teddy bear around the neck. You can’t see her face because her head, neck, and shoulders are covered by a dinosaur fleece blanket. The vibe is Michael Myers-esque.

Daphna@dapati· Dec 18

Happy Metro Rewind day to all who celebrate! I'm proud to once again be in the top .5%! @wmata.com

Screenshot of my 2025 Metro Rewind: 628 total trips, which puts me in the top .5% of all riders! 27 stations visited, 2, 704 miles traveled, 832 kb of carbon cut. My top station was Federal Triangle, top bus route was the 33, and archetype is the Culturista.

Daphna@dapati· Aug 12

I screenshot this as well! (Reposting with alt-text)

McMillan Cottom: Perhaps one of the biggest threats that A.I. poses to education isn't that it's going to make educators useless, but that it is going to make educators so much more necessary than we are willing to invest in.

A.I. actually makes it more important that we have everything from librarians to counselors to teachers to professors to researchers who can put this rapidly changing information environment into context and can develop the capacity in students to make sense of things.

Daphna@dapati· Jun 14

Oh, this is amazing. Not the same kind of piece at all, but I had a similar reaction to Elizabeth Catlett's sculptures and portraits of mothers and babies, currently on view at the National Gallery. The way it was clear someone had lovingly observed pregnant people and parents.

A small terracotta sculpture of a woman holding a baby. She's seated, and the infant rests in the folds of her skirt. Her head is bent down kissing its forehead, and her arms are wrapped around him. It looks soft even though it's clay. It's lovely.

Daphna@dapati· Mar 10

This is so fucked-up. (Reposting Patty Murray's summary below, with alt text.)

• DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA LOCAL FUNDING: Limits D.C. to its FY24 levels for local funding-_which would have dramatic impacts on city functions. Congress has predictably allowed D.C. to spend its locally-passed funding year after year. In fact, in both the enacted September and December continuing resolutions, Congress included a longstanding provision allowing D.C. to spend at its determined levels. This CR, however, would cut D.C.'s funding and impact Home Rule mid-way through the fiscal year when D.C. is already spending at its ostensibly Congressionally approved FY25 levels. This means a nearly $945 million cut for the District, impacting teachers, firefighters, and law enforcement. The Metro Police Department alone would see a $75.6 million cut and teachers could be fired in the middle of the school year.

Daphna@dapati· Jan 5

Love a good sage green. We similarly kept some orange we weren’t expecting to.

A orange shelf nook and accent wall whose color we can’t fully decide how to feel about, bisected by a staircase.

Daphna@dapati· Jan 3

So much to unpack in this wonderful paragraph from @becksup.bsky.social, which really gets at a lot about why college students are struggling, and why their teachers are struggling to teach them. www.chronicle.com/article/some...