Bernadette Smith

POLIO IS CONQUERED newspaper headline

Sigh.

16.11.2024 04:23 — 👍 20942    🔁 2801    💬 541    📌 276

Opinion | I’m 16. On Nov. 5 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft. On the day after the election, it seemed boys and girls woke to a new reality.

Some important Student Voice:
“We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman.… Where the body I haven’t fully grown into may no longer be under my control.
The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday.”

16.11.2024 19:59 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Technology preview: Sealed sender for Signal In addition to the end-to-end encryption that protects every Signal message, the Signal service is designed to minimize the data that is retained about Signal users. By design, it does not store a rec...

Have you looked into Signal? I don’t know a whole lot about it, but I understand it’s pretty secure.

signal.org/blog/sealed-...

14.11.2024 12:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Most Texas school board candidates who support book bans lost their elections A majority of pro-book ban school board candidates lost in Texas, but education advocates are worried about other election results.

Most of the Texas school board candidates who supported book bans LOST!

14.11.2024 12:49 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I went to look at my journals from after the 2016 election only to find that I apparently didn’t write in them for three months after it happened. I just went blank for a bit, I guess. Makes me want to journal a lot now. I don’t want to forget this time. I’m not blank. I’m here.

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