Brand New Antique (aka Qbody)

40s, Canadian. Peaked by listening to a TIM talk about co-ed gym and breastfeeding his baby.
Not a cat person. Rabbits.

Last Notes

2026-04-26 00:41:55 UTC

If you give a friend a jigsaw puzzle after you've done it, can she resell it after she's done it?

2026-04-23 23:49:53 UTC

Another report from the education trenches:
Young male teacher goes by Mx. because gasp! he has long hair.
I watched an eleven-year-old boy get up in the middle of math class and start doing 'The Seal' on the classroom floor. Wondered why so many pre-teen boys are refusing to function.

2026-03-06 23:41:19 UTC

Behaviour in schools is so bad I can't see myself doing this 20 more years.

2026-01-25 23:32:49 UTC

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it's not the wobbly bits I'm objecting to. It's like he's saying that aging is like being raped?

2026-01-25 17:36:59 UTC

David Shrigley is an artist who does crude drawings with captions. Usually I find them funny but yesterday he posted a picture of a clock with arms and legs and dangly male genitalia. Caption: Time will fuck you eventually.
Really made my stomach churn. Do you think it crosses a line?

2025-11-28 05:14:42 UTC

Where we're at:
I'm sent to help with a class of grade 4s doing math. Their regular teacher is pulling random names and asking those kids to name the 4 operations in math (add, subtract, multiply, division). Some are confident, some struggle. Teacher decides to ask every single kid. Even though they all heard the answers over and over again, about one third of the class did not have the working memory to list the four operations.
(My sense is that they did know the four operations and would recognize them in a math question. The problem was organizing the information into a list - most students said three and then named one a second time because they had already forgotten what they'd said.)

2025-10-19 13:29:02 UTC

Good morning, all you black-hearted terfs.
I am unrepentent in my belief that sex is immutable* and apostrophes don't belong in plural nouns**.
*in mammals
**except in special cases.
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2024-12-22 17:31:53 UTC

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I researched why there aren't many female geniuses. It's something about how men can be really successful passing on genes or not at all, while women generally have a more consistent number of surviving offspring each. Somehow that means that women have less of a spread in intelligence, we're all around average, while men are more to the extremes of really high and really low.

2024-12-22 17:26:48 UTC

Just saw an Instagram reel that of course I've lost the link to.
We hear the voice of a Russian (?) male PE teacher barking out orders to march: left! right! left! right!
On screen, a group of boys around 8 years old march in place. They can't keep time; they flop around.
The camera pans to the back of the line and we see the girls. Spines straight, knees high, crisp steps in perfect unison.
Last week, Youtube tried to show me a video about how 'boys are falling behind in education oh noes'.
I'm a teacher working with kids under twelve.
The boys are not 'falling' behind.
They are behind from the get-go.
Girls outperform in every area except physical strength and taking up space in discussions, which is sometimes seen as 'leadership'.

2024-12-04 02:09:18 UTC

Male or female?
Either way, insufferable.
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2024-10-04 01:14:01 UTC

Just got Netflix. Any good period pieces? I tried Persuasion but it was like Bridget Jones in empire dresses.

2024-08-18 18:58:12 UTC

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I stay away from anyone with that haircut-beard combo.