Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

The Safe Connections Act has been signed into law, making it easier for survivors of domestic violence to separate their phone line from a family plan while keeping their own phone number.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/victory-safe-connections-act-now-law

Railroads were exempted from Obama's 2016 executive order requiring federal contractors to give their employees 7 paid sick days. (Railroads have been federal contractors since the mid-19th century.)

Today would be a great day for POTUS to de-exempt them by executive order.

Mark your calendars and RSVP, Diane Ravitch and I will be talking #SchoolVouchers, culture wars, the year that was in #education privatization and the year ahead on January 11:

https://networkforpubliceducation.org/diane-and-josh/

Somebody's about to go through some things...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/a-plot-to-overturn-an-american-election
#J6 #sedition

Do you ever wish the color of your spreadsheet rows would change color to match the content? If yes, you may enjoy learning about conditional formatting. Conditional formatting is a wonderful feature in Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel. Let’s explore how to use custom formulas that can change the color of cells and rows of data based on the data in a cell. https://blog.tcea.org/google-sheets-conditional-formatting-custom-formulas/

@edutooter

As promised, an overview of the finances of Mastodon.world:
https://blog.mastodon.world/financial-overview-november-2022

Control Alt Achieve LIVE - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GfTUc79onkJLC6f3xkiXWWi-9nwZlEq_x77QrP8-jvU/edit

📆 Join me tonight Dec 12th at 7pm EST
🔗 EdTech links of the week
▶️ Live streams on YouTube, Facebook & LinkedIn
✅ All details in link above

#ControlAltAchieve #edtech #GoogleEDU #edutooter @edutooters

The UC strike is not just an effort to raise thousands of academic workers out of near poverty. It’s a movement whose success requires a reversal of the austerity that has subverted public higher education across America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-most-important-strike-in-the

Are you an educator that needs to satisfy annual GT requirement in #Texas? TCEA’s new online, self-paced course, “Understanding and Teaching Gifted Learners” can do that.

This course meets the Texas State Plan for the Education of Gifted/Talented Students six (6) hours of annual professional development (19 TAC §89.2(3) and TAC §233.1). Based on local district approval, you can use this course to satisfy this requirement.

Learn more at https://tcea.org/learn/courses/understanding-teaching-gifted-learners/ #GiftedTalented #Education #edchat #USA #edtech #EduTooter @edutooter @edutooters

Breaking: Special counsel Jack Smith has sent a grand jury subpoena to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, @washingtonpost reports https://wapo.st/3FmYKkn

Doesn't matter how badass you are, sometimes you just need your pooh bear..

Howdy #edutooter @edutooters folks. I’d like to invite you to FOLLOW @edutooter a new group.

Please boost this for K-16 #educator #edtech #K12librarian #librarian #GoogleEdu #MicrosoftEDU #edchat #teaching #learning #principal #SchoolLeader and others who fall into that.

This group via Chirp Social offers some controls that can help us avoid issues/problems going forward as more folks come online.

More than 300 individuals on a leaked membership list of the far-right militia group the Oath Keepers described themselves as current or former employees of the Department of Homeland Security. https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2022/12/hundreds-of-oath-keepers-have-worked-for-dhs-leaked-list-shows

Pigeon footprints look like airplanes circling the frozen water bowl #snow

👏Real President of fearless Nation
"I will be President until our victory, and afterwards I don't know. I want to go to beach and have beer – Zelenskyy"
#StandWithUkraine #UkraineWillWin https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/12/12/7380419/ via @ukrpravda_news@twitter.com

Waitress: “You want butter, cheese sauce, bacon, extra sour cream, scallions and steamed broccoli on your baked potato?”

Diner: “Now that’s a loaded question.”

How do you make a thread on Mastodon?

Pretty much the same way as on Twitter, with one difference. You compose the first post, publish it, then reply to it, then reply to it again, and so on. But there's one difference. If the first post is Public, you can make all the others Unlisted. This way, people can follow the thread by clicking on the first post, but their timeline isn't clogged up with all of the other posts.

[A short thread]

#FediTip #help

US: Between 2015 and 2020, at least 610 preschoolers and toddlers ages 5 and under managed to find a gun and unintentionally shoot themself or someone else, often a sibling or a friend visiting for a playdate.
https://everytownresearch.org/report/notanaccident/#Key%20Findings

Trump just confessed that he turned down a deal to get Paul Whelan out of Russia and then immediately said if he were president, he would have gotten Whelan out.

This is of course contradicted by his own words and by the fact that he was president and failed to do so.