Courtney Wilburn

Women at NASA, starting with one of my favorite #WomenInSTEM photos
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[Happy 86th birthday to solar eclipse photographer and composer Wendy Carlos, known for "Switched-On Bach," A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE SHINING, TRON, and “Peter and the Wolf” with Weird Al Yankovic. Listen to “Switched-On Bach” below.]

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If you don't already agree that there's a moral panic over transgender care, just read the New York Times' articles on hormone therapy for cis people and compare them to their hit pieces on the hormone therapy for trans people.

Look if you're trans, you have to live. Do whatever you need to do to make it.

happy 50th to a queen

Folks, the reporting is that Trump is making PERSONAL CALLS to Mace, MTG and others about the discharge petition. Would you be doing this if you had nothing to hide? Let's please all be serious here.

I was just ranting about this the other day in a group chat. the part that really gets me down is that with AI summaries it's only going to get worse.

ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"

bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first

my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

Nov. 13, 1957 | Texas Officials Threaten and Jail NAACP Officers for Not Disclosing Members Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

Authoritarian governments are not new to this country. If you want to know what comes next should resistance fail, look to the history of Black resistance in the South.
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.

This got me wondering if the Hindi/Sanskrit -pur is the same root (Jaipur, Raipur, Kanpur etc.)

And it is! -pur is fort/stronghold, and thought to be derived from the same PIE root as -buri and -bury.

a poorly drawn uni the cat shaped like a square

uni is a tuxedo cat with bright yellow eyes, and a white chest that contrasts with its black fur, and he’s looking like a square in the picture

be there or be square!

me:

Everything is possible at zombocom

this stuff matters in itself, of course, but also the TERF-Industrial complex won't ever stop. Each "win" is just the new base camp for the next battle.

Just thinking again how Democrats asked people to accept short-term suffering in order to give space to prevent long-term, worse suffering and then said, "Thanks for suffering in the short-term. You'll get to suffer long-term too so that our Thanksgiving plans don't get disrupted."

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

too relatable. it's never going to stop, is it? sigh. 🥴

Do I ever get a teensy weensy tired of people talking to me like I am a wee stupid infant?

Yeah, a little. I admit. Online and off. It can get to be a bit much.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

NYT Graphic showing where flight cancellations are having the biggest impact.

40 days for what? Why cave now? Why these particular Dem Senators? *Looks at map of cities most impacted by flight cancellations.* Ah...

Schumer (NY) 🛫

Booker (NJ) 🛫

King (ME)

Hassan (NH)

Durbin (IL) 🛫

Ossoff (GA) 🛫

Shaheen (NH)

Gillibrand (NY) 🛫

Masto (NV)

Warner (VA) 🛫

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Prince loved to remind people that he wrote this song while looking in the mirror:

You're so good, baby there ain't nobody better
So you should never, ever go by the letter
You're so cool, everything you do is success
Make the rules — then break them all 'cause you are the best

Private planes/jets use Air Traffic Control, just like commercial. Here's yesterday's stats for commercial flights:

Delays: 7,518
Cancellations: 1,566

WHY is the Trump administration delaying and canceling flights with 100s of passengers, but NOT private jets with less than 10?

Few people care about this, I know. It's just another way that Black people are USED to grow the prison industrial complex by claiming that we do mainly want more cops. No nuance ever. Just more cops.

The bombing has ended, but its deep scars and devastating destruction still weigh heavily on our hearts. We still need your support; we still need your help. We are still reeling from the shock, but all our hope rests on you, my heroes. Please share my story.