I like basil, quahogs, horseshoe crabs, and teaching high school critters. Oh, and swear words. he/him/his (photos taken by me unless otherwise noted....) https://www.science-teacher.net/
during the lockdown in nyc, the sirens were incessant throughout the night. there were refrigerator trucks stacked with corpses. a field hospital was set up in central park.
Aaron RuparRFK Jr: Trump wanted to end lockdowns. In Fauci's diary, he talks about how the president was calling him trying to get him to reopen the country BASH: The lockdowns were down by governors K: They cited Fauci B: Govs were hearing from hospitals that their ICUs were overrun K: That's not true
“Dublin is cosplaying as #Dublin” “Dublin planning authorities have enabled the growth of a city centre hub that performs Irishness for a living & can't house the Irish who'd do the performing.” Devastatingly accurate telling of the dismantling of the town we loved so well. #spéirghorm #IrishPol
Bob Johnston"A city doesn't get hollowed out by too many visitors. It hollows out when too little of the city remains underneath them, when the thing they queued to see has been quietly sold off around them while they queued." Great piece on #Dublin by Conor McGuire in Western People.
I haven't seen it anywhere today, so I guess ill bring it up. It was 10 years ago today that Baltimore police murdered 23yr old Korryn Gaines and also shot her young son, who survived. Names like Korryn Gaines are why the #SayHerName movement began, as Black women's names are often forgotten
To help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the
We're in the 6th month of a 4-week war that we won in 2 days over a weapons program that was obliterated last year.
You should know if you're unfamiliar with Arabic that there's a reason people in Gaza may have variant spellings of their name. Their actual name is in the Arabic alphabet by different phonetic codes. When they transliterate to Latin script, they can choose any number of ways to spell their name.
The Rahm Emanuel redemption tour, which ignores a long and detailed history of anti-Black policies in his time as mayor of Chicago, is a good example of how the more overt white supremacy of Elon Musk and his cohort of conservatives is normalized
The only thing I would have done differently than Fauci this morning is I would have had a bag of lettuce on the table in front of me while testifying.
Every so often I teach someone how to spin yarn on a spindle. And I always tell them that the first yarn you make will not be good yarn, and it's not meant to be, because right now you are not making wool into yarn, you're making yourself into a spinner.
