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Charlotte Area: This is the link for the Carolina Migrant Network
carolinamigrantnetwork.org

Now is a good time to keep their information handy. Donating to them, if you can, is another good thing you could do.

We need your help! But let me explain why:

Are you sending your film somewhere to develop, or are you developing it yourself? I love the look of film photography but can't bring myself to pay to develop the bad photos lol

I'm so happy someone is buying their lust lens. I'm still visiting my lens friend (200 f/2 prime) in my cart (probably forever), so I need everyone else to live the dream so I can live vicariously.

Two years after the catastrophic release of Cities Skylines II, publisher Paradox and developers Colossal Order have split:

aftermath.site/paradox-publis...

Dictionary day is finally here! The first new print M-W in more than 20 years

Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise.

I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.

🚨🚨In fact... according to the @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social, the 'public commitments' Larry Summers's stepping away from do...

NOT INCLUDE HIS TEACHING.

Dude wants to keep his ready access to young people he has power over. @harvard.edu this Title IX violator needs to be off your faculty!

Texas Turns Its Sprawling State Police Force Into Immigration Agents for Trump The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached DPS, raising fears of widespread racial profiling.

New from @francescadnunz.bsky.social: Texas Department of Public Safety and ICE signed a pair of agreements that will authorize state police within DPS’s Criminal Investigations and Highway Patrol divisions to effectively operate as ICE agents, on a statewide basis.

Reports of DHS helicopter + federal presence at Maple Run Apartments in Hidden Valley.

FYI if you’re in Charlotte and you see suspected federal law enforcement threatening our community call it in immediately to the Carolina Migrant Network hotline (704) 740-7737

As Boromir teaches:

North Carolinians are getting our whistles ready too.

Imagine how cruel you would have to be to even consider the idea of confiscating wedding rings, a last gift from a now-dead parent, a locket with a child's photo in, a bracelet passed down a family for a hundred years, grandad's watch. Imagine.

I’ve seen this one!

"Summers has continued to teach at Harvard since, interrupted by brief stints in Washington, and currently holds Harvard’s highest faculty distinction as a University Professor. This semester, he is teaching two large undergraduate courses and one graduate class."

The only person likely to present an alternative view is me, his kid, a girl with an English degree and the ability to read widely.

He isn’t going to view my expertise as credible compared to all of the greyhaired men in lab coats and ties with fancy titles that just told him the opposite.

You’d better believe that after an hour of listening to serious-sounding “experts” explain how dangerous and harmful fluoridated water is (and how we used to be unaware, but the science has improved), my dad is going to be much more likely to vote to ban fluoridation.

This stuff is unbelievably harmful because it doesn’t have the flashy, obviously biased, offensive style of a Fox News, Newsmax, or OAN program. It slips right in with the morning profiles on a local trumpet player or whatever.

But it stacks the deck with real-sounding “facts” that sway opinions.

The disinformation machine is insidious. My dad is watching a routine news program.

It was Full Measure with Sheryl Atkinson, produced by right-wing broadcaster Sinclair, and it was an extremely lengthy one-sided hit piece on fluoridation couched in a bland style that feels as authoritative as PBS.

From the fountainpens community on Reddit: I’m Ray, founder of Ferris Wheel Press. Here to listen and answer your questions. Explore this post and more from the fountainpens community

It's Saturday night and there's nothing on TV, but we have fountain pen drama unfolding. It's embarrassing that this company is Canadian. 🤦‍♀️🖋️
www.reddit.com/r/fountainpe...

Today I bought some Harry & David pears & an amaryllis at Trader Joe’s for my mom, only to get home and discover that today she had also stopped at Trader Joe’s and bought Harry & David pears & an amaryllis for me.

I just finished Tourist Weekend, which I’ve decided was too lurid for my taste, and picked up Legends and Lattes this evening. It’s quite an adjustment from the book I finished this morning! I’m hoping our orc protagonist will develop a serious and urgent problem very soon so I can root for her.

Oh, I really enjoyed reading Project Hail Mary, compared to The Martian, which I found tedious and dull. I hope you get a lovely escapist weekend out of it!

MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

A key site for #histsci, so historians as well as geologists may want to donate to help create the trail and make it more accessible and better interpreted. The James Hutton tercentenary is next year!

No Starbucks 'til workers get more bucks

(and whatever else it is they are striking for)

FASCINATING

Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] eyyy itsa me elon
King: criminy
Musk: you know, joyce carol oates, she says i no read
Musk: but thata not true
Musk: as evidenced by dissa new ad campaign i just start onna twitter to convince everyone that i read

Book 4: Dragonbreath. Join young dragon Danny and his nerdy iguana friend Wendell in the first of a very fun series of kids books especially designed for reluctant readers. In book 1 they journey to the wild Sargasso Sea to help Danny not fail his science report on the ocean

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.

So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.