Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

To UK academics (students and staff).

⚠ If you're offered work marking in the next months, please say no!

It's likely an attempt to break our marking and assessment boycott, our most effective industrial action to avoid threatened pay cuts.

Please boost if you have UK followers.

#ucu #ucurising #academicchatter

"Sure, let Amazon/Google/Microsoft/Facebook join the fedi, what harm could it do?" has big "How do you do, fellow kids?" energy.

Today we're celebrating the #BiodiversityDay! 🌲🐿️🦋

To highlight this day, we invite you to check some of our success stories that have helped counter biodiversity loss & the degradation of ecosystems

Check it out ➡️ https://europa.eu/!NpJJr8

#LIFE4Nature #LIFEProgramme #COP15

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/LIFEprogramme/status/1660594700703727617

We are delighted to announce the winners of the SharkFest'23 Women in Tech Scholarship!

Maurina Hernandez, Heather Goines, Jazsmin Douglas, and Karina Drozdowska will all be at SharkFest this year attending the pre and main conference classes.

https://sharkfest.wireshark.org

Stripping abortion rights away nationally, imposing their beliefs on every American--that is their true goal. And the GOP won’t stop until it's achieved.

The fact is, the Republican Party has been hijacked by a White Christian nationalist movement that wants to impose its own “morality” on the entire country, not merely red states: https://bit.ly/3WmTdlX

US taxpayers: Call on the IRS to provide libre tax-filing software! Read the FSF's latest article, and learn how you can participate: https://u.fsf.org/3zd

Josie (6 years old), Bertha (6 years old) and Sophie (10 years old) worked regularly at the Maggioni Canning Company. Work began at 4 AM and the three would make from $9 to $15 a week. Sophie would do six pots of oyster a day and her mother who also worked with her said "She don't go to school. Works all the time."

Through such photos, Lewis Hine documented the harsh working conditions borne by thousands of children, who were sent to work soon after they could walk, and were paid based on how many buckets of oysters they shucked daily.

He covered around 50,000 miles a year, photographing children from Chicago to Florida working in coal mines and factories.

These photos helped to raise an outcry against child labor and made the American public become widely aware of the scope of the problem. This resulted in the establishment of organizations such as the National Child Labor Committee, in 1904, which led the fight against child labor.

Fossil fuel firms owe $209bn a year for climate damage
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2023/05/19/study-fossil-fuel-firms-owe-209bn-a-year-for-climate-damage/
A multi-billion dollar reparations scheme has been proposed for fossil fuel companies to atone for the damage caused by their greenhouse gas emissions

Natural Product Antibiotic Discovered 80 Years Ago Kills Drug Resistant Bacteria in Mice

The results of research led by scientists at Harvard Medical School suggest that a natural product antibiotic first isolated back in the 1940s may be effective against potentially lethal, multidrug resistant (MDR) gram-negative bacterial infections.
#AntibioticResistance #antibiotics
https://www.genengnews.com/topics/translational-medicine/infectious-diseases/natural-product-antibiotic-discovered-80-years-ago-kills-drug-resistant-bacteria-in-mice/

Schools are not like businesses: If business doesn’t like what their suppliers provide, they have options. Schools have no choice but to teach the children who live in the area.

What does the anti-trans movement look like in practice?

Two girls in Misssissippi missed their high school graduations due to a rigidly enforced dress code. One, a trans girl, was told two weeks ahead of time she needed to wear pants.

The second, a gender-nonconforming girl, was pulled out of line and told to take her pants off and walk in her underwear.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/trans-girl-singled-out-for-humiliation-ahead-of-hs-graduation

These #ClimateProtest folks are causing havoc by blocking cars with their slow marches.

#Climate #JustStopOil #ClimateChange

It’s like this: my sib Tidy just called and told me that a significant portion of the population of Austin is up in arms because Dell Children’s Hospital just shut down its entire adolescent medicine dept over fallout from this anti-gender-affirming care crap.

The only MD in the city doing trans youth medicine also happens to be, by all accounts, the best MD in the city for cis girls with other complex stuff. Both of my cis nieces with weird issues are among her patients. This poor doc just said “fuck it” and quit, she couldn’t take the relentless bashing. My nieces and countless other Austin girls are now without the medical care they need and deserve. And for what? The governor’s MAGA street cred?

My point is this: even if your kids aren’t trans, this anti-trans bullshit can and will still fuck them up.

Protecting trans kids protects ALL kids.

#ProtectTransKids

There is no such thing as ethical Big Tech.

#BigTech #ethics #SmallTech

The reaction of this worker being away from her colony was very different from the drones. The drones just stood around smelling the air and didn't run or panic. She very clearly did not like being in a new place and she practically opened the tank herself to go back inside.

I think this is brilliant! 👏👏

#Milestones #afternoonupdate Today in History: May 21, Amelia Earhart crosses Atlantic https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/05/21/today-in-history-may-21-amelia-earhart-crosses-atlantic/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Here's a petition I'd urge you all to sign!

Code paid by the people should be available to the people!

We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well.

https://publiccode.eu/en/

Facebook to be fined £648m for being Facebook.

In other news, Facebook gets to keep being Facebook.

https://www.inkl.com/a/kbBxXbHjBoj

#dataProtection #GDPR #surveillanceCapitalism #thisIsFine