Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social
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Ph.D. in Instructional Design. Career educator. Cancer Survivor. Collector of Interesting People. Tech lover. Big blue dot in south Alabama. Air Force Brat. Former ALSDF officer. Please do an “about” if you want a follow.
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Joined Nov 2022
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Amid rumors he was being forced out as Twitter CEO (for the 2nd time), Dorsey reached out to Musk, & together they planned his takeover, which Dorsey backed to the tune of $1 billion in shares. Jack said he planned this exit starting in 2020, which is also when he started publicly making friends with Musk.
He is one of the biggest owners of Twitter.
As Dave Troy noted in Oct 2022: They're collaborators, not competitors.
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Tune in as Jill and I deliver remarks at the National Education Association Annual Meeting. https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1vOGwMygAQbxB
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‼️🇮🇹Italy Freezes Russian Oligarchs' Assets Worth $2.5 Billion (more) http://www.rferl.org/a/32489011.html #Ukraine #Italy #NATO #Press #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
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Know before you vote. Republicans divided over 15-week abortion ban ahead of 2024. But the division is only whether to tell you the truth before you vote. They will do it if you vote Republican! https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4076616-republicans-divided-over-15-week-abortion-ban-ahead-of-2024/
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Happy Independence Day to everyone wishing to build a better America than the one we have, or any we've ever had.
Happy Independence Day to the true patriots: not those who say the US can do no wrong, but those who know the wrong it has done - and does - and seek to right it.
Happy Independence Day to those whose concern for others' life and liberty is universal, even to people denied it by the law.
Happy Fourth of July, in other words, to every person whose relationship to the people of the United States - and this emphatically includes its many minorities and marginalized groups - is non-adversarial, irrespective of how they may feel about its institutions.
But to the enemies of this diverse population, I instead say nothing. Many are perhaps even more wont to celebrate this holiday than I am, but it is not theirs, and never has been - America is not her government, nor the suffering caused in her name, but every one of us who live here.
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The #SCOTUS conservatives used a case literally based on a homophobe’s fantasies to blow a huge hole in our antidiscrimination laws and revive the spirit of Plessy v. Ferguson. #LawFedi https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/supreme-court-303-creative-decision-mystal/
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16 Super #GoogleEDU Updates from ISTE23 - https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2023/07/16-super-google-updates-from-iste23.html
📗 Read Along
❓ AI YouTube Q's
👋 Class Visit
📊 Analytics
📄 Class Templates
❌ No Late Work
🧑🤝🧑 Tile Pairing
⚙️ App Hub
and more!
10-min interview & update details
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He was like „funny that“ and I said „well actually…“ and told him the reason: that we lost 90% of the generation that would be 50+ by now to the aids pandemic and many of the surviving 10% never came out.
You should have seen his face.
He just gave a soft „oh“ and there was SO MUCH compassion in his face.
So I fully expect a septuagenarian ally among my very queer bass group in the next weeks. 🥰
Also: today I saw this post on Instagram and that is what I‘m talking about:
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Those of you new to the Fediverse looking for weather bots to follow for your local area, there's a doc for that!
Here's a doc with links to each location: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11-Iwp7bjeujR7GhQMswl4y415woMNgzk/view
These bots were set up by @ai6yr and @lckrohjr who have put in tons of work!
You can also get started following individuals such as myself or @BakerRL75 / @Copacetic_vibe / @weathermatrix / @ingalls / and for climate @ZLabe
Among many others!
#TwitterDown #TwitterMigration #News #Weather #WX #Introduction
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And it has begun; lawsuit brought to challenge legacy admissions at Harvard.
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I will say again-
If you ever wondered how Germany went full Nazi, you are witnessing it globally in real time.
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If you have a roof, warmth, food, drink, nobody shooting at you, nobody hating you for what you can’t control …. take that, and be grateful for it. Seriously.
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my gods, I took a look at Twitter and saw a tweet from a weather service account in an area that was hit with severe storms yesterday. The weather service account explained that Melon Husk's savvy business decision had caused the account to lose the ability to read tweets sent to it or replying to it about severe weather.
A melon husk reply guy suggested that the account should stop doing weather advisement tweets in Spanish.
Because you know, in his mind, Spanish speaking people don't count.
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Pete Buttigieg completely calls out Ron DeSantis about his hateful rhetoric and schools him at the same time!
Show of hands if Pete Could be President one day! 💙✋
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I'm now seeking grad students and post-docs:
https://fossacademic.tech/2023/07/02/GradStudentsPostDocs.html
I'm interested in working with folks who want to study #AlternativeSocialMedia, including the #fediverse, from a critical perspective.
York U (in Canada) has some generous funding now, thanks to a major grant the university received (I'm affiliated with the grant).
Please do reach out if you have questions! Boosts appreciated.
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Clarence Thomas.
You just voted to gut affirmative action and student loan forgiveness.
Let’s take a look how you got into Yale, shall we?
During your 58-page concurring opinion, you wrote that the foundational policies of affirmative action "fly in the face of our colorblind Constitution and our Nation's equality ideal.”
But Justice Thomas, we did a little digging and it turns out that Yale university followed an affirmative action policy at the time you attended its law school.
There’s more.
In 1991 a New York Times article about you reported that Yale University officials confirmed you were admitted to its law school "under an explicit affirmative action plan with the goal of having blacks and other minority members make up about 10 percent of the entering class."
It appears clear from the testimony of Yale officials that your admission to the Yale School of Law was made at the time of affirmative action policies and was almost certainly influenced by it.
We should also mention that
you secretly accepted $150,000 in tuition payments from rightwing billionaire Harlan Crowe, but you just voted to strike down loan forgiveness for students who need it.
There is something absolutely tragic about the fact that the benefits of
affirmative action helped create a Justice Thomas who will now deny many young African American talented individuals the same opportunity.
Justice Thomas, if you’re so against affirmative action, I suggest you resign from the Bench.
You know what would be a welcome addition to the fediverse? In addition to the Reply, Boost, and Favorite buttons, how ‘bout a question mark for those toots that you reread four times and still don’t understand what they were trying to say.
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For new people (or returnees) settling in here, this is a piece of advice I haven't seen mentioned yet. Go to Settings and choose "Advanced Web Interface." That means Mastodon will pretty much look like Tweetdeck on your desktop. Much easier to manage lists and replies, and easier to follow people from that set up.
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image of confederate flag and mention of monuments
#Jacksonville is at it again. The Save Southern Heritage group is asking our new #mayor #DonnaDeegan to preserve confederate monuments and displays.
These constant reminders of #hate and #racism need to be taken down and stay down! We’re not going to celebrate traitors.
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Ph.D. in Instructional Design. Career educator. Cancer Survivor. Collector of Interesting People. Tech lover. Big blue dot in south Alabama. Air Force Brat. Former ALSDF officer. Please do an “about” if you want a follow.
Do not PM me to say hello.
Current background picture are sunflowers.
Foreground: Image Playground created image of me.
Joined Nov 2022
