Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

1. This man moved from New York to Florida a few months ago

Now he wants to ban 3600 BOOKS from the school libraries

And he's already made significant progress

Follow along if interested

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Here's my favourite photo from the #Artemis1 mission photo album. The detail is gorgeous, and the angles of the light really shows the relief on the surface. Looking forward to much more!

See the full-res version here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/52549239085/in/album-72177720303788800/

#Orion #artemis #space #spaceflight #moon

Say it with me: To control inflation, we must take aim at corporate profits, not working people.

Tell me - Where were these kids radicalized?🤔

White Kansas HS Students Threaten to Hang Black Players, Taunt w/ Blackface Babydoll & Attempt to Raid Black Player’s Locker Room After Game

But yeah, lets ban teaching about America's history of racism—which by the way is exactly what MAGA Republicans in Kansas are trying to do.

https://t.co/VPxCozUM0Q

To: POTUS

Railroads were exempted from Obama's 2016 executive order requiring federal contractors to give their employees 7 paid sick days. (Railroads have been federal contractors since the mid-19th century.)

So you could de-exempt them by executive order.

Maybe Monday?

I swear the causal “nice white people” racism on here with the “decorum” and “civilized” tone policing is something else.

I am excited to hear that as of today the user member count int he #UFoI has just hit a record high of ~400,000 user members! That gets us to about 5% fediverse coverage!

#UFI @ufoi

Germicidal UV: a tradeoff between disinfection and indoor smog

A Substack (blog) post with a first estimate of the magnitude of the tradeoff.

TLDR: still uncertain, but GUV smog is likely to be a significant concern, needs to be carefully evaluated.

https://jljcolorado.substack.com/p/germicidal-uv-a-tradeoff-between

Kyrsten Sinema single-handedly stopped Democrats from ending a tax break for hedge-fund managers and private equity executives.

Meanwhile, she received ~$1 million in donations from Wall Street.

Don’t be fooled: Sinema isn't “independent.” She's beholden to her donors.

Dear Mastadon hivemind:

The http://www.BiodiversityStripes.info website is highlighting biodiversity loss, globally and regionally using a similar concept to the climate stripes.

We are looking for other sources of biodiversity data which can be turned into stripes to highlight this critical issue.

Any leads for long & coherent time series welcome!

#BiodiversityStripes #COP15

I'm constantly surprised at the number of people who are looking for lists of people to follow. There's no shortage of fascinating breadcrumb trails here.
Pick a toot that resonates with you and open it up. See who commented, or retooted it. Look at those people's profiles. Follow them.
Look at their older toots and follow the people whose comments on those toots pique your interest.
I've been here a month & have a global circle, not one of whom I knew before coming here. #IFollowTheCrumbs

This article makes me ask, "Whose culture are we transmitting? And, should we be? Maybe, it's time to decide (again) what #culture to pass on...a kindler, gentler one, for sure.
Article:

Education as civilization-building - by François Chollet https://fchollet.substack.com/p/education-as-civilization-building

#education is the process through which the body of knowledge and culture that we have been accumulating for thousands of years passes from our generation to the next one.

It is the steel making up an uninterrupted chain of cultural transmission, accretion, and renewal, stretching back to the emergence of language — back when humans first became truly human. The default state of our culture, our technology, our science, our stories, is not eternal progress — it is fast decay.

Without proper education, the next generation forgets, and soon enough, cultures fall into decadence. What took thousands of years to discover may be forgotten in a few generations. #edutooter @edutooters #teaching #learning #language

OTD in 1865, the United States adopted the 13th amendment & nearly abolished slavery. Yes, nearly. The 13th Amendment left open slavery and indentured servitude as punishment for a crime. They don’t teach us this in school, but America never fully abolished slavery. That’s truly horrifying.

Congress must abolish unpaid prison labor & truly abolish slavery and indentured servitude in America. We must uphold justice as the supreme standard in all manners. That is how we form a more perfect Union.

“The bucket is almost empty. We’re heading toward a point of no return.”

From our magazine, an update on the dire state of one of our most vital waterways, and what it means for the future of both #Texas and #Mexico: https://www.texasobserver.org/rio-grande-water-drifting-toward-disaster/

(📸 Words & Photos by Dylan Baddour of Inside #Climate News)
#ClimateChange #Water #News

Vine climbs to the sky
"Behold my works, mine alone!"
The trellis applauds

#haiku #poetry

Murdoch's lobbyists are pushing to attach the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act to must-pass spending and defense bills, hoping to jam this hugely flawed bill through Congress without proper scrutiny.

Here's why you should be concerned: https://freepress.net/blog/jcpa-myths-and-realities-bad-journalism-bill #JCPA

Sell a man a fish, and he pays you for a day. Sell a man a subscription to a proprietary fishing system, and he pays you for the rest of your life.