Have you made a phone call to your FL state senator TODAY to oppose SB 1296?
If not: take 2 minutes time to 📞 your representative. Republican and Democrat senators are working together to defeat this bill & need to hear loud & clear: stand with public employees. No on 1296!
Update: Found out a block list I suscribed to had it so removed all Blocklists I was in except Blacksky's moderation list.
Being permabanned over a blocklist I subscribed too? Would've sucked. But got that fixed. Speculating here but I really can't remember blocking lol :/
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Just got this email and didn’t even know I had @moderation.bsky.app blocked but now I don’t lol. But I guess permanent suspension is happening if people block? Yikes.
Looks legit too? Just started my day and wasn’t anticipating this
It would be nice if @support.bsky.team made it a lot clearer to folks that blocking the moderation account is a TOS violation
(But also this is a VERY weird setup.)
🚨UFF supporters & Floridians who support state public unions:
BAD NEWS. Public union-busting SB 1296 just passed final committee on a 10-8 vote.
Dial the pressure UP on a bill that will decertify our unions. Join Tuesday’s power hour @5:30 EST & scroll below.
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1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that under a new deal with Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, trans scouts will be forcibly outed and segregated from peers of their gender.
The policy is the latest cruel capitulation.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
She’s been released 🙏🏽
These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.
Feeling better about the large uncertainty in some of our ecological forecasts I guess 🤷
Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.
Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.
"Planning to run a workshop under air raids and blackouts required us to think of many things not covered by The Carpentries Handbook."
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🚨 A bill drafted by Freedom Works designed to force union decertification is rapidly advancing. To learn more about SB 1296 and STOP this union-busting bill, click the link below.
Members, watch for urgent legislative alerts sent to your UFF email.
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Florida folks - it's crucial that we stop the latest attack on teachers unions in the state (SB 1296). Please contact the Senate Fiscal Policy Committee today by 4 pm at secure.ngpvan.com/8Rb6HrtN-UCj...
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Are there any R users working for the Australian federal dept of health? I’d love to hear from you!
New gig, new people to meet :)
Hahahahha. Today's hero, live from Washington Heights.
Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.
He finally died.
I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...
In podcast interview, #Florida AG James "Oopsie!" Uthmeier defends getting paid $100K as adjunct UF law professor (on top of his state salary), blames high cost of living & expense of providing for his three kids, claims he's not paid ENOUGH floridapolitics.com/archives/781...
BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Pure, unbridled joy!
Max from Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are.
Maxing.
What I find perpetually shocking (while also unsurprising) is that they seem to have directly engaged with precisely zero faculty over what their current material and practice actually looks like. “Just post journal articles as something other than PDFs!” is such a “let them eat cake” moment
They just don’t get it - they’re trying to replace the part of our job we like the *most*.
If they could make an AI tool to vibe-complete travel, reimbursement, and annual reporting paperwork they would make a fucking FORTUNE
it kills me to be told over and over that AI will solve all my problems
except for the admin burden, definitely not that,
What I should have been doing this afternoon: my work
What I did: make a crappy copy of this painting with Skittles Gummies
A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 across NSF. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.
NSF Update
Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.
Now by Directorate...
1/11
*bangs the screen*
A humidifier on the sink in front of a bathroom mirror. The combination of small "on" and "full" lights above a wide curved vent make a pleasant smiling face and on the back of the humidifier, which can be seen in the mirror, another wide curved air vent and the two screws holding it together above it make a horrified face.
Me whenever I have to communicate with other human beings #anxiety
