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If my kids have to do gun shooting drills & practice where to hide in case a shooter comes into their school with an assault rifle to shoot them, your white kids can handle learning about what your ancestors & their ancestors did to black people in our country til 60 years ago.

Good morning, Fediverse! We'll be getting fresh content up on our website this afternoon! Thank you so much to everyone—so many folks are sharing about our fundraiser and giving so generously, we are all incredibly moved. 🤠

Please keep sharing our fundraiser, which will either cover magazine expenses or go directly to severence for laid off TXO staff. gofundme.com/f/laid-off-texas-

A lot of people are asking about long term plans for the publication. ... (🧵 1/?)

#SaveTXO #journalism #nonprofit

Clay Mineral Crystal Structure Tied to Composition

This diagram illustrates how the dimensions of clay minerals' crystal structure are affected by which ions are present in the composition of the mineral. Different clay minerals were identified this way at two sites, 'Yellowknife Bay' and 'Murray Buttes'

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Instrument: Chemistry & Mineralogy (CheMin)
Mission: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Tags: Mars
More: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cata
#astrodon

The @fsf stands as a beacon of hope in a world of technological tyranny. Let's forge a future where software serves humanity and freedom reigns supreme. Join the FSF in this glorious quest: fsf.org/

Here’s the other thing. If someone vehemently disagrees with their server blocking journa.host, they can always migrate to another server—or start their own.

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1990s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for

2020s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway

The Colorado Plateau Dark Sky Cooperative is about to fire up a new "Quarterly Connections" webinar series beginning 5th April. Lots of interesting materials for those even outside the CP region.

Details and registration info are on: extension.usu.edu/iort/cp-dark

Here's the thing. Do I understand why someone wants to transition? No.

Do I need to understand the need to transition to treat people who do want to do that as, you know, people? Also no.

Trans people are not a threat to my well-being and livelihood. Their methodology might differ from mine regarding how I achieve happiness and contentment, but I understand that need because they are *people.* Those of us that are not hateful, bitch ass bigots just want to be happy and care for our loved ones.

The rhetoric around trans people being a
threat is a white supremacist lie that aims to make people conform to a particular ideology as violently as possible.

The threat is white supremacy itself, trying to take away people's agency for the sake of a myopic global view that wants to implement stratification as the 'natural order.'

The same rhetoric being deployed against trans people has been used against every group white people deem undesirable; Indigenous, Black folks, Jews, the Irish, etc.

The conversation is about something other than making sense, and it's about brutally dominating people, whether it makes sense or not.

So nah, I'm not going to engage with any piece of shit about how 'trans people are the problem.'

Because they are not. The hate against them is.

We don't talk enough about the absurdity of rich countries emitting lots of CO₂ and then asking poor countries to offset those emissions.

At the bench doing chemistry. Go back to the computer to check something and the computer is weirdly off and maybe in the process of restarting (the bench is next to my desk, no power flickers that I noticed). It's now sending a signal to my HDMI monitor and not to my VGA monitor (normally it defaults to the VGA for some mysterious reason). No idea why.
Don't you just love technology?

I am grading my students' exams and I'm trying my best hard to stay kind but OH MY GOSH some of these students have so clearly not heard a single word I've said all semester that it is really hard...

The outrage over security from TikTok might be taken a bit more seriously if we didn't just watch Facebook admit to enabling Rohingya genocide, help to manipulate the 2016 election, cause massive PTSD to its own employees, and face zero meaningful accountability whatsoever.

[15] #Astronomy in #Ukraine

UTR-2 is the main component of the URAN - the system of radio telescopes across Ukraine and used for long-baseline interferometry and solving the fundamental problems of #space radiophysics in the 8-40 MHz range📡

UTR-2 - near Chuguiv
URAN-1 - near Zmiiv
URAN-2 - near Poltava
URAN-3 - near Shatsk
URAN-4 - part of the Mayaki observation station near Odesa

It is one giant antenna spread over a thousand kilometers which significantly improves the angular resolution💫

If you care about the welfare of America’s children, you’re not banning books, criminalizing drag queens, outlawing the teaching of history, and whitewashing violent insurrectionists who’ve attacked the U.S. Capitol to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

If you care about the welfare of America’s children, you’re voting to keep them educated, healthy, and in homes. And, for the keeping them healthy part, you’re voting for legislators who’ll pass meaningful gun safety laws.
#GunSafetyLaws

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