Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

I cut off a piece of wood whenever I get a little board.

From @onthisday

Today in 1960, 63 years ago: Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.

#OnThisDay
#BlackHistoryMonth

Twitter has been sued in Germany for holocaust denial.

This is not a small thing.

In Germany, holocaust denial is a crime!

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/25/elon-musk-twitter-antisemitic-hate-speech-lawsuit-germany/

I used to live in Texas. I would get so mad at dudes I knew that downplayed the confederate flag, until I realized that their textbooks literally lied about the reasons for the civil war!

Showing them the articles of secession blew their mind. Some stopped rocking the flag. 👍🏿

Imagine how much less racist the US would feel if 10% of all confederate flags just disappeared. Disappeared!

Notability for iPad adds new ‘Pencil’ feature for a ‘lifelike handwriting experience’ https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/01/notability-ipad-pencil-feature-update/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I wrote a new blog post on what I expected from a #PhD program, and the role of #neoliberal policies in these expectancies not being met.
@edutooters @academicchatter
https://academicborderlands.substack.com/p/phd-collectivity-neoliberalism

#Theists:
Pretend means to “speak and act so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not.”

A god’s existence has not been shown to be the case *in fact*.

To claim a god exists is to pretend to know something you don’t know.

#atheist vs #faith

One of my favorite things to do is modeling and recreating broken plastic wheelchair parts that cost a shitload of money but I can model and 3D print for super cheap. Rick is a teacher here at Lane Tech that works with wheelchair dependent students and he comes to me with the broken parts. Manufacturers charge way more than the families can afford.

Hey friends. Please read this open letter that I signed onto. It's a collective statement by college and university faculty from across the US who teach African American Studies in defense of the Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course that was blocked/censored in Florida.

#academicfreedom #litstudies #africanamericanstudies #blackstudies #advancedplacement @litstudies

https://medium.com/@afamprofshighered/open-letter-in-defense-of-ap-african-american-studies-e61768fb8f9c

An open letter from 200+ African American Studies professors regarding Florida’s rejection of the AP pilot course. https://medium.com/@afamprofshighered/open-letter-in-defense-of-ap-african-american-studies-e61768fb8f9c

Ella Irwin also explicitly directed Twitter to ban journalists like me. The fact that she has used her access to people's private messages should be a wake-up call to everyone on Twitter, especially journalists; how can you protect sources in a place like that?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/15/twitter-journalists-suspended-musk/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-27/elon-musk-s-twitter-trust-safety-head-ella-irwin-breaks-rules-for-him

Three of the five House Republicans that will serve on the committee voted against certifying the 2020 election. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ethics-committee-election-deniers-kevin-mccarthy-jan-6-1234671754/

Many of the conservatives who are pushing hardest for book bans in public schools homeschool their kids or send them to private schools.

They still push for this because destruction of public schools as an engine of egalitarianism, democracy and social mobility serves their larger ideological goals of having an unequal society with "good people" like them at the top, served and exploited by exploited and ignorant poor underneath.

My sympathies to parents and teachers of school-aged kids in Florida. You deserve better.

#parenting

@alexwild

Sick of #twitter ?

Just go to the Playstore, search for Twitter. Don't reinstall it, but rate it with one star. Then select the three dots in the top right, with 'Flag As Inappropriate'. The next screen asks why you think it is inappropriate. Mark it as 'Contains Hate Speech', and submit.

Google does take these reports seriously. It's worth the effort.