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Published: March 11, 2025 16:12

Herinnert zich iemand de fascisme bestrijdende eend Alfred J Kwak? Donkere, mooie serie https://youtu.be/zXNETrbtnpI?si=NgH_UCi9pW0fm4VL

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Published: March 11, 2025 14:28

"their (ultra wealthy) tax privileges apparently outweighs all other economic considerations—even if it means endorsing policies that harm their businesses and investments. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 11, 2025 01:41

See a tree, post a tree [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 10, 2025 15:27

Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen into the timeline. (Please use alt text 🙂) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 9, 2025 23:29

Niemoller voted for the Nazis several times inc in 1933. He was antsemitic (he thought the jews killed Christ). Still, he did not like that Christian converts w a Jewish background fell under the new discriminatory laws. Overall, that led to his arrest…

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Published: March 9, 2025 18:55

A wonderful review of Artistry of Magic by @ecbatan.bsky.social http://rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/03/review-artistry-of-magic-by-helen-de.html

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Published: March 9, 2025 16:49

My son said "I don't understand why people are so afraid to get an autistic kid. Autistic kids are awesome." Can confirm. I love the deep dive in special interests, honesty, concern for justice, and empathy. Autistic minds enrich our world. [contains…

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Published: March 9, 2025 16:33

Would you like to have a few hours of immersion in an alternative world, away from all the horrors? Would you like to read an exciting romantasy story? You can now buy a DRM-free copy for whatever price you deem right (suggested: $2.70) on Kofi. …

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Published: March 9, 2025 14:51

Zhuangzi butterfly 🦋 dream in pencils

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Published: March 9, 2025 03:39

Reading 1001 nights w son, Ali Baba and the 40 thieves. Has a complex, messy publication history with Antoine Galland's translation from a Syrian 14th c ms in 1704. The translation process hugely successful though is hard to find in rare books. Had a huge…

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Published: March 9, 2025 03:22

This doesn't look good. Critical thinking is self reported? Hmmm.... [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 9, 2025 02:13

We were worried when our son was out over two weeks w the flu (he did get the vax). We didn't want to send him back ill. When he came back, turned out his partner for a book project had been away just as long. It's been devastating this year and kids keep…

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Published: March 8, 2025 18:56

Further to these great points: there are exclusive women support groups for academic moms, women of color and women in academia. There is no academic dad group to my knowledge. A male friend was disappointed the mom group didnt accept him given he was the…

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Published: March 8, 2025 18:01

Watched some manosphere content. It doesn't feel empowering--be an alpha, and be forever vigilant that women will drop you and trade up, esp you're out of their league. Don't understand the appeal [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 8, 2025 17:06

My sister @ladc42.bsky.social won a prestigious ambassadorship in Brussels for women and girls in science. In this interview she discusses the barrier women face in STEM today, drawing on her experience as a climate and AI researcher …

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Published: March 8, 2025 02:05

In our qualitative study with natural scientists, they gave their speculative topics, e.g., on other life in the universe. Cezaro, who researches exoplanets (and other astrophysicists we interviewed) think life in the universe must be abundant. Read more:…

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Published: March 8, 2025 01:54

Note: one of the main findings of our study with natural scientists is that they actually do know the humanities and they read them regularly and it inspires their work. See this paper!…

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Published: March 8, 2025 01:50

For my permanent residency in 2022, they did blood tests to check all tithers for polio, MMR etc since I don't have paperwork anymore though I did receive those vaxes except chickenpox (not available in Belgium). I also had low immunity to measles and got…

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Published: March 8, 2025 01:47

Why Trump is doing this, bottom line, there is no congressional support big enough to do things like eliminate the department of education. He doesn't have the votes. https://youtu.be/Xb6F6kIqlxw?si=Jk8ZntV3vVcDePii

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Published: March 8, 2025 01:41

Idk to me Skype and Teams feel like very different products.

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Published: March 7, 2025 17:57

Is it me or is this collection hard to search (to get relevant results) -- https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/en/html/accueil-en

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Published: March 7, 2025 15:27

Our qualitative study with natural scientists on ultimate reality has been published. We look at the influence of religious background and disciplinary field, as well as inspiration from humanities. Care for the planet an enduring concern. Read it open…

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Published: March 7, 2025 00:03

A fitting tribute [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 6, 2025 22:09

"How did we go from “Make America Great Again” to “Everyone needs to become a backyard chicken farmer”? Did Mao Zedong rise from the dead and take over the U.S.A. while I wasn’t looking?... America won the Cold War, then we looked at the country that lost…

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Published: March 6, 2025 17:24

Lovely review of my novella! "The Artistry of Love is a short, efficient book. ...De Cruz succeeds in packing a lot of insight, a lot of character work, and a lot of heart into such a small package. To love something is to know it intimately; to love…

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Published: March 6, 2025 15:31

Check out this thread of Ghanaian movie posters, but especially this one blew my mind: [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 6, 2025 04:28

Around 35 pct of US Nobel laureates are first gen immigrants. The US has thrived on attracting talent. Their advances in medicine, physics etc created wonderful dividends for the country. Golden visas for the super wealthy will not be as useful to the…

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Published: March 6, 2025 01:20

Conservatives will often fund St Jude's hospital which has 75 beds and only treats certain cancers (and a reserve pot of 3 yes) but don't seem to mind federal cancer research which saves millions is being gutted. [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: March 6, 2025 01:17

I grew up with a rich tradition of oral fairy tale storytelling. I know a lot of fairy tales. I noticed my American students aren't raised w that, and many of them seem to think Cinderella and Snow White were invented by Disney. Is this the case for…

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Published: March 5, 2025 16:45

Hey Gottfried…yes, I’m talking to you, Mr Leibniz. I was wondering: doesn’t putting an antivaxxer in charge of HHS constitute evidence we live in the *worst* of all possible worlds?