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Trudat :)

@mbh2024.bsky.social :)

I had one of these dangerous objects in my backpack for years as a K-8 student, but with even more dangerous related paraphernalia: a crochet rainbow recorder case that I made myself. During a class at my school, even!

The horror ...

#elementaryed #STEAM #artseducation #musiceducation #musiced

I had one in my backpack for years as a K-8 student, but with even more dangerous related paraphernalia: a crochet rainbow recorder case that I made myself. During a class at my school!

The horror ...

Nursing IS a Professional Degree Add your name to the petition for nursing to be included in the definition of 'professional degree' programs.

Petition from the American Nurses Association

Nursing IS a Professional Degree

We're asking the Department of Education to include nursing in its proposed 'professional degree' program definition.

PLEASE SHARE THIS PETITION

ana.quorum.us/campaign/pro...

A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,

The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

🔥 KOH: “What we’re seeing is what the founding fathers feared the most — the collapse of our checks & balances. The Supreme court is supposed to be a co-equal branch, It's basically a mouthpiece for Trump. Members of congress are resigning rather than stand up to him.”

Sick f#$ks ... interesting that they'd go out of their way to make sure of this while so much else is left unattended to

Rob with the Riverhounds’ championship cup at today’s downtown Pittsburgh rally

#pgh #pittsburgh #soccer #pghriverhounds #pghsports #menssoccer

Rob P. poses with Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey before the start of a Riverhounds rally in Downtown.

Mayor Ed Gainey also showed up. GO HOUNDS! @gaineyformayor.com

OK, it was a Subaru AND a BMW, apparently!

A fan poses with Amo, the Riverhounds mascot, in downtown Pittsburgh.

A Pittsburgh motorcycle cop tickets a motorist for driving illegally in a bus-online lane, downtown Pittsburgh

Some heartwarming moments as downtown Pittsburgh prepares for the @riverhoundssc.bsky.social soccer championship rally:

My husband Rob got a selfie with Amo, the awesome 'Hounds mascot ... and then saw the cops busting a BWM being driven illegally in a bus-only lane.

Some days are made of win. :)

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face Term was up against a shortlist including blind box, ate (and left no crumbs) and Roman Empire

Word of the Year, 2025:

“A.I. Slop."

" ... to be precise, the clear victor of the Internet category. Handily the barb can be packed into fusions, such as slopaganda, slop music and corpslop, to name three."

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

No question. As I said, we’ve got enough problems. I don’t know how my generation got to this point …

I'm sorry to hear it. It's starting to be an unworkable platform. I deactivated my account after the 2025 inauguration's front-row tech bros turned my stomach ... but haven't deleted it yet.

Galloway was born at the end of 1964, which makes him one of the youngest possible Boomers. Please don't attribute him to GenX ... we Xers already have enough problems. ;)

Looks like when he's well into sundowning mode, no amount of reminders will help.

Mad respect, TN-7!

I just kicked in a few bucks to @aftynbehn.bsky.social's campaign and I hope you'll do the same. Electing a former social worker is probably the shortest distance between wherever the hell we are now ... and actual representation for all.

Just chipped in a few bucks from Pittsburgh, PA. I don't often give to out-of-state campaigns, but ... c'mon, this is a no-brainer. Rooting for you -- and for all of us!

Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Parks's Historic Protest I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California ...

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: There will be "millions more HIV infections globally by 2030 because of cuts, just at the moment new drugs should have ... put the end of the pandemic in reach ... Trump cancelled 3/4 of the world’s funding for #HIV at a stroke."

World #AIDS Day 2025

bit.ly/48H04OJ

Sure, and while we're going back to the 1950s, let's bring back a 90+% income tax on the wealthiest Americans.

Yes, I think the climate risk details lasted only a few years on Zillow. Buyers can still click through and see the information, but it will no longer be an integral part of listings.

Now more than ever: caveat emptor 🫤

Camp Mystic appealed to remove buildings from FEMA's 100-year flood map, records show Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the y...

Further, federal flood maps might lean towards the opposite extreme of being too lax. The possibility of directly lobbying those involved in the mapping process is surprising, to say the least ...

www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

The Standard for Climate Risk Financial Modeling We exist to make the connection between climate and financial risk at scale for financial institutions, companies and governments.

Some say that the #FirstStreet data embedded in many real estate listings is overly stringent, leading to false positives regarding climate risks. But the org's job is forecasting, not retrospective reporting -- and risks are growing over time, not holding steady.

firststreet.org

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

Five Stages of Grief, #Climate Edition, current status:

1. Denial

"In many states, sellers aren't required to disclose info (re: recent flooding or vulnerability) to wildfires ... #FEMA's #flood maps have been criticized for being out of date."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

#realestate #risks

"The Trump admin froze foreign aid early in the year, derailing many public health programs dedicated to fighting H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS ... cuts by the US + other countries could result in 10 million additional H.I.V. infections, including 1 million among children."

#HIV #WorldAIDSDay

I must take issue with this statement. No way is "wet shit" a hyphenate.

They Banned Woke And Suzy Still Can’t Read Far-right school board officials are finding out the hard way that the political pendulum has swung

The cultural/political backlash to anti-woke nonsense led to a November 4 wipeout for MAGA school board officials running for re-election.

Hopefully a lesson was learned. I guess we'll see.

badfaithtimes.com/they-banned-...