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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.

Happy Whalesplosion Day to all who celebrate. Today we remember all mad, bad, and just plain wtf ideas.

How you can support the fired journalists instead of subscribing to Teen Vogue:

Yep, this. I love the lid on my staub. And even though it does a beautiful braise, it’s no slouch at crusty sourdough, either. The heavy lid is huge for that.

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.

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Absolutely wild choice for the whole city of San Antonio to read simultaneously.

I’m only about 20% of the way through and trying to decide if I’m gonna nope out or not with all the creepy stalker flirty murdering happening so far.

I will try to report back.

My library had a no-holds weekend for Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver, so I checked it out and… I’m uh, pretty taken aback.

I genuinely don’t know if I like this book or not. I was not expecting a serial killer romcom with multiple serial killers. Somehow it’s gross and creepy and a little fun?

It’s heartbreaking. I was crying reading the article.

I hope you are preparing those teachers to have the courage of lions to stand up to the “reforms” being pushed on us. Requiring us to use and teach our students to use GenAI in the face of all of its harms was the last straw for me.

another title at the library by the very same writer. houstonchronicle.com She sneaks in a little fun and wonder whenever she can - but she doesn't know why she should have to sneak at all. "I feel like a spy," she said. "I snuck in a poem, you know. I sang a song today." It's been her choice, she says, to stay at a district under conditions that feel less like teaching and more like compliance. She loves the kids, loves the community. But she's made up her mind. She won't be back next year. Two other long-time teachers quoted in this column said the same thing. We're not losing teachers because they don't like change — as Mike Miles often claims. We're losing them because they don't like change that hurts kids. A curriculum that denies actual books to children cannot be healthy, no matter what the test scores purport to say. Rose just wanted to read a riveting novel about a brave little mouse. Her teacher shouldn't have to risk her job to make that happen Miles' singular focus on standardized testing

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Why are good teachers leaving teaching?

We became teachers because we love kids, and we care deeply about their ability to learn and grow.

We can’t be complicit in a system that wields us a weapons to harm our most vulnerable students.

We won’t help them hurt kids. We will find another way.

Going to the salon this morning and deciding that washing the democrats out of my hair isn’t sufficient. I’m bleaching and cutting this party out of my hair

25-125 DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL. The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.

Event poster reading: ENGLISH & CREATIVE WRITING RESEARCH SEMINAR Dr Robyn Ollett, 'From Severance to Reparation: Re-reading Contemporary Double Life Narratives' Dr Rob Hawkes, '"I’ve got an unfortunate talent for figues": Queering Literary and Monetary Genres in The Talented Mr Ripley' WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2025 3.30-4.30pm GMT Online via MS Teams TO REQUEST AN INVITATION LINK PLEASE EMAIL: J.FORD@TEES.AC.UK Teesside University The poster also features publicity images for the Netflix series Ripley and the AppleTV+ series Severance

On Weds 26 November from 3.30-4.30pm GMT @robynollett.bsky.social and I will be sharing some of our latest research via MS Teams as part of @teessideuni.bsky.social’s English & Creative Writing Research Seminar series. Why not join us online?

When you find the concept of empathy and curiosity so threatening that you entertain the likelihood that a beloved children’s educator and entertainer is funded by a terrorist org.

Were they this scared of Mr. Rogers, Levar Burton, and Steve from Blue’s Clues?

Screenshot of a post from Ms Rachel’s Instagram Real Question from The NY Times As you know, a group has suggested, albeit without evidence, that you are accepting money in order to further Hamas's agenda. Is that true? This accusation is not only absurd, it's patently false.

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas

I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵

Join your local chapter of DSA, or whatever works for you, but for sure hold these elected officials accountable. They don’t get a polite smile at church or an excuse-me/thanks wave in traffic. They can talk to our backs. They abandoned civilized society and should be abandoned by civilized society.

Hey, Senate Democrats, a vote to end the shutdown was a vote in support of this.

You could have let the GOP own this, alone, but I guess you wanted to make sure your voters understood that this is your vision for America, too.

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

If they betray working class America, working class America turns its back on them. Good luck getting someone to help you at Lowe’s. Good luck getting your hair done. Good luck getting your roof fixed. Hope you do your own nails, gardening, cooking, cleaning, childcare, because we are done with you.

It’s not enough to primary them. They must feel shame every day. They have to know that they won’t be forgiven by the people they betrayed. They should be afraid to eat food prepared by our hands for the rest of their lives. All their mail lost. No help finding shoes or suits at the store.

literally you're the only one up for reelection, how in the world do you think this is gonna go @ossoff.senate.gov

i s2g @ossoff.senate.gov i am gonna call 15 times tomorrow!!!!! if you vote for this!!!! and ruin all our lives!!!! what is the political upside for you??? do you think georgians will appreciate you killing their healthcare??????? you can't blame the gop for this if you cave!!! this is an albatross!