CN: Murder
Today is the Disability Day of Mourning, where we hold vigils for disabled people killed by their caregivers. George Hodgins—whose murder inspired Zoe Gross to hold the first DDOM—went to my son's school. My feelings remain raw 14 years later. -SR
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Dark blue gradient background. There are two illustrated white candles. Text reads: Today, March 1st, is Disability Day of Mourning. Today our community remembers disabled people lost to filicide. Join ASAN for our virtual vigil tonight on our YouTube channel. The ASAN logo is at the bottom.
🕯️Today is Disability Day of Mourning, when our community remembers disabled people lost to filicide. Join us tonight 6pm ET for ASAN’s virtual vigil: youtu.be/HeF3LrHTuBM
#DDoM2026
Justice sure took a long while…
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ALSO - if you missed out on your childhood measles vaccine and haven't had measles, you can get *free* MMR vaccination from your GP! (whether as an older child, teenager or adult).
I got my MMR about 10 years ago!
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To explain the ridiculousness of this, holding up a sign at a protest saying that you are pleased with today's HC judgment, could give rise to a 'reasonable suspicion' that you support a proscribed organisation.
Government decision to proscribe Palestine action was unlawful, high court judges rule.
Huge victory for those opposing genocide. Huge wake up call for the Labour government.
Via @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social . I wonder if Harlequin/Mills & Boon/Carina are failing, what with this about the historical line shutting, and people observing that Harlequin were totally unable to make the most of the success of Heated Rivalry.
Omg??? Awful news
One of the things we know about play is that it requires a lack of self-observation/judgement. So you are basically ensuring a child will never get any of the cognitive or mental health benefits of play.
Macaulay Culkin on Instagram. 😢
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I'm not sure if Margaret Atwood is available to work for Elon @ $40/hr.
Catherine O’Hara and John Candy, circa 1978
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And for Thornton's 'curious account' of how Charles I visited her uncle's house he day before he was sentenced to death see @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social's blog post: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2... /2 #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜
30 Jan. 1648 #OTD Charles I was beheaded. Thornton wrote: 'cruelly murdered by the hands of blasphemous rebels…Let his admirable book speak his Eternal Glory and praise, the best of kings…that ever this Earth had' (Bk 1). For more on this book see Trill's post: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
April is watching a documentary about the excavation of Tutankhamen's tomb and we've somehow got onto discussing my long-held wish to visit Highclere Castle. I'm telling her about Downton Abbey like it's family history.
Good grief. Do people who don't go to uni not benefit from doctors, librarians, researchers, lawyers, architects, artists, writers, archivists, historians, designers, programmers, etc etc etc...? What is this weird unjoined up world she imagines?
Hey smartwatch users, please take heed of this warning about your data: “...the current administration's spread of misinformation around autism erasure will harm people who are autistic instead of helping them.” @ejwillingham.bsky.social in the latest TPGA newsletter:
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every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
It's weird to see engineering leaders leading thousands of people acting like their hands are tied by the conclusions of like, one survey at Microsoft with a hundred people in it. YOU HAVE YOUR OWN SAMPLE POOL
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When I was a teenager, my grandmother took us to a natural trail that was supposedly home to armadillos. After a few minutes without seeing any, I said "here armadillo, armadillo, armadillo" with the same tone of voice you'd use to call a cat. Then we heard a rustling and an armadillo walked by.
We are looking at a close up of a walnut chair showing a cherub who looks like he has worked a very long paper round (he looks to be in his 70s or 80s). He is looking directly at us in what we can only describe as a pilates pose - one knee down and the other stretched outwards.
Why hello there. 😙
A little armored one / turtle rabbit in the wild
The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”
When I think about measles I think about the number 1,000. Thats the number that epidemiologists use to explain harm from measles in children. With 1,000 cases, about 200 children will require hospitalization, 50 will develop pneumonia, and one to three will die.
South Carolina is at 789.
Ethan Browne took his own life, having been wrongly told he'd failed his degree
The QAA found that Glasgow University's assessment regulations posed a "systemic risk"
Rest in peace Ethan Brown
@forthe100.bsky.social
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It you’re looking for a way to contact your MP, this is a nifty tool:
www.writetothem.com
#UKHE #WriteToThem
