Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Happy #NationalGirlsAndWomenInSportsDay 2023!

Girls and women continue to excel and break new ground in coaching, managing and playing sports.

PLAY LIKE A GIRL!

#NGWSD #AYearForArt #BuyArtNotCandy #Sports

other sports/mascot designs too!

@vicgrinberg ah, I see. My work email turns itself off (no notifications/app badges/unread accounts) at a certain time, so that gives me some peace.

I would never have slack, teams, etc. on my personal phone — that would be horrendous!

Metal detectorist unearths Tudor gold pendant linked to Henry VIII in Warwickshire
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/31/metal-detectorist-tudor-gold-pendant-henry-viii-katherine-of-aragon-warwickshire?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Putting this out there to all of science Mastodon I can reach with hashtags: What is the most interesting book in your field in recent years that is appropriate for the scientifically literate lay reader? I usually prefer works written by scientists to those by science journalists/writers (no offense) and am interested in any and every field. ty

#Astrodon #astronomy #physics #geology #biology #neuroscience #genetics #engineering #complexity #chemistry #science #psychology #environment #Climate

The College Board obviously supports white supremacy since it stripped won the AP African American Studies curriculum.

House cleaners and other domestic workers have long been excluded from California's health and safety protections.

Now, the state has issued new voluntary industry guidelines for people who employ domestic workers, to prevent injuries and illness. Worker advocates say it’s a critical first step. @kqed #california #labor
https://www.kqed.org/news/11939848/a-legacy-of-slavery-for-domestic-workers-californias-new-safety-guidelines-are-long-overdue-say-advocates

Thinking of everyone striking today & others preparing to do the same. It isn’t an easy thing to do but this sorry state of affairs must be called out. The strikes are collective effort for the greater good - sound, well-funded public services are essential to us all
#Solidarity
RT @tomhcalver: Our low wage growth for teachers and nurses makes us something of an international outlier.

Nurses' pay has grown in nearly every other @OECD country since 2010; not Brit…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1620852386507132930

#OTD in 1960, four Black university students sat down at a lunch counter in a segregated F. W. Woolworth Company store and refused to leave until they were served. They were denied service, but they came back every day for weeks with more and more people, eventually forcing desegregation in the service industry and leading to the formation of the SNCC.

Today’s art is by Naquee White: https://www.embracingourdifferences.org/gallery/2019-gallery/the-greensboro-sit-in/1836/?class0=race&class0_0=10

#history #BlackHistoryMonth #SNCC #BlackHistory #art #desegregation #ToWeRi #Feb1

When I look at Nostr (and Damus, by extension), I feel like they've learned all the *wrong* lessons about decentralization.

What makes decentralization work isn't the tech in and of itself.

It's the community that uses it.

And quite frankly, I don't like Nostr's community.

When I was a kid, we'd secretly pass around a copy of 'Scruples.' 'But we had a library stocked with books on history.

My fear is that in ten years, kids will be secretly passing around 'I Am Rosa Parks' because there are no libraries in schools, and education has turned into white nationalist indoctrination.

I cannot stress this enough. Turn your attention to school board elections. Focus on local politics. That's what the GOP did, and look at where we are. We CAN reverse this.

@zleap
Given that #fascism is the melding of govt with big business, we predict that without people effectively resisting the corporate state, indeed yes, a lot of the ugly themes mentioned above will be revived. An #atomised population are easier to control. Division and hate are like roads that allows the fascism to travel.

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@tychosoft
@historleans

DeSantis is essentially modeling for his donors and supporters his plans to destroy public education in the United States and replace it with something more easily leveraged by private interests and propagandists. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/governor-desantis-higher-education-chris-rufo.html

Not only should we put every damned banned book back into every school library in America, we should put CIVICS classes back into every American classroom. We need to teach our young citizens PRIDE in our democracy instead of the cynicism conservatism has preached.

@zleap Back when I worked in the City, the dress code was a single sentence: "Dress for your day". People were trusted to exercise their own judgment, and they did. Not sure there's any kind of slippery slope or Daily Mail-style "whatever next?" argument here. Generally, if you trust people to be sensible, they are.

if a CEO doesn’t show up for 3 months, it’s called a sabbatical and business operates completely normally without issue. if the janitorial staff doesn’t show up for 3 months, the business can no longer function. so who should be getting paid more?

do they normally put a radioactive source on a truck without any box or anything, like, what

Ancient statue of Hercules emerges from Rome sewer repairs
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/27/ancient-statue-of-hercules-emerges-from-rome-sewerage-repairs?utm_source=DamnInteresting

@Jaden2 I was born in 1957 in Texas. While I don’t remember segregated schools, I do remember the “white side” and “other” side of the small city cemetery. I never understood it, even as a small child. I was religious, and believed the souls had gone to heaven, so what was the big deal with dead bodies being next to each other. I was older when I realized that it was the visitors, the living, that whites didn’t want to be near. All these years, and I still want to cry.

@twitterreject @thejenniwren @JenX We need the community to stand up. We need people to run for the school board, we need people to vote, we need people to show up at every school board meeting, we need people to speak out publicly. We won’t reverse these efforts remaining silent.