Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

@erinnacland @academicchatter @edutooters @edutooter

This is not unlike the current situation in #K12. In my district we still have multiple open positions half way through the school year. And we are the rule, not the exception. This is my 30th year and I’ve never seen anything like it. Reasons given include COVID burnout, increased workload with no commensurate increase in compensation, and low wages when compared to other fields with similarly educated employees.

Missing Girl in Toronto, Ontario - Deanna Brown, 15 - #Toronto #Ontario #missingperson #missingpeoplecanada #missingincanada

She is described as 5'7", 110 lbs., with black hair, brown eyes, nose piercings, a birthmark on her neck, and possible green contact lenses....

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What will it take for the United States to successfully transition to a pluralistic democracy?

#racism #equality #equity #democracy #politics

#Caturday
woman with cat. 1920s
photographer unidentified

via https://www.vintag.es/2014/11/16-adorable-vintage-portraits-of-people.html

#VintagePhotography

Sometimes you get a #sunset that just keeps giving. Tonight’s ended up being one of the most colourful sunsets I’ve ever seen.

This is the Salish Sea in Victoria, looking toward Port Angeles, Washington.

#photography #nature #colour #ocean #pacific #pnw #bc

Happy #caturday ! Smitty is very #spoiled and very loved!
#photography #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Cat

Try to wrap your brain around the Republican candidate, is a twice impeached, convicted felon, ex- President. He is facing rape charges and the trial has begun. Headlines are about purple lesbian M&M's and Biden coming for your gas stoves. The world is watching.

A few years ago i took this photo.
The Snowshoe Hare had some grass in i'ts mouth.
It made him /her look like Dracula.

It is larger here: https://jan-luit.pixels.com/featured/dracula-jan-luit.html

#AYearForArt #ArtMatters #Art #PhotographyIsArt #Photography #FediGiftShop #BuyArtNotCandy #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Natuur #NatureBeauty #Naturelovers #Animals #fotografie #mastoart #Dracula #Funny #Cute

Feyd Harkitten enjoying his blanket time on the couch in front of the fire. Snoring up a storm 🐈‍⬛🤣 #MyLifePerth #BlackCats #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #BlackCat #Caturday

I’m helping with the laundry #CatBoxSunday #CatBasketSunday #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #MastodonMigration #CatsRUs #ItsACatsLife #Cats #TwitterMigration

Starting 2023, four universities are pausing or ending their Elsevier subscription due to exorbitant pricing.

Elsevier's subscription was costing them ~10% of their Libraries' entire budget.

"Elsevier’s prices have increased each year and have outpaced inflation"...this is despite Elsevier having the highest profit margins of virtually any other industry or publisher.

via https://www.dailyemerald.com/news/pressing-pause-on-elsevier-subscription/article_93c07dec-9120-11ed-8ce9-abbca97ab954.html
Figure via @MatteoCarandini
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #Science @academicchatter

Elon stans will claim he's a genius because he became the richest man on earth, but then when he loses the most money in history, he's still a genius and it's all other people's fault. Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.

A) I have serious issues with the framing of large numbers of people at needlessly high risk of dying or being terribly harmed by covid as all just stupid malicious idiots. I think this is an enormous, devastating failure of public health and safety. They’re people, and they’re dying of plague.

B) If we’re gonna go with the assumption that they’re too stupid and that’s the problem, then we should probably stop leaving safety measures up to any kind of decision by majority preference instead of insisting as far as we can possibly push it on framing it as the life or death morality issue that it is. That’s a bit like deciding on zombie apocalypse safety measures by a show of hands with you and the zombies. Nothing about that is likely to turn out well.

C) They are still people, and if we’re better than them because we understand the importance of the collective responsibility a society has for all of its members, as well as the greater folly of placing too much emphasis on individualism, then we have to see that this many people being in a position to make such disastrous personal decisions is something far more than individual stupidity, and we collectively have a responsibility to their welfare even if we justifiably do not like them too much right now. And we’re doing a lackluster job. They’re in danger. And we’re in danger because of how much danger they’re in. This isn’t okay.

D) It’s exhausting to be pitted against family and friends, all of that flattened into us versus them in such a dehumanizing way that a zombie metaphor even makes sense, knowing that there is no guarantee that people at needlessly high risk may not all survive this estrangement. And it is infuriating that they are not being particularly serious about taking even simple measures to lower the possibility that they become a tragic statistic, the vector of someone else’s death, or possibly both.

E) Plague fucking sucks, you guys

Reminder to follow at least 200 people in order to see interesting content. Nothing is pushed at you so you are the master of your domain here. #mastodontip #Mastodon

Classy way to exit the space, Google.

https://chromeunboxed.com/stadia-says-farewell-with-a-beautiful-parting-gift-for-its-players/

Went wandering in Monivea Woods today and came across an old ice house

#woods #walking #Galway #IceHouse

Our older lady.

#cats #caturday