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New to the idea of adding Alt Text to images? This is the best thread I’ve seen explaining what and why. The basic idea is to write a brief description of any image you post. For people who can’t see the image well and need a text-based option.

A little artsy ASMR: removing the resist from an ink painting

There are fewer than a dozen trans people in professional sports. But there are 62 million straight men visiting a “How To Rape” website. Guess which group conservatives are worried about.😢

one of the single most important bursts of legislative activity in the nation's history happened because the governing party did not hesitate to remove their opponents from congress itself when they had the opportunity. 🤷🏿‍♂️

A large pie with a lightly browned meringue

A slice of the lemon meringue pie (the rest in the background).

Lemon meringue pie #ChemistsWhoCook

Trying to match IB programmes?

Jim McGovern continues to go off:

"This farm bill is a disaster. It's awful. It's terrible. It's beyond words. It's a giveaway to Big Ag and chemical companies. There's actually liability protection in this bill for people who make pesticides. Like, who thinks like that?!"

Keep cooking, Jim!

🔥

North Carolina admits noncitizens on its rolls aren’t a widespread problem — as it gives voter data to DHS The board further acknowledged that many cases involving noncitizens ending up on voter rolls stem from confusion or misunderstanding, not intentional wrongdoing.

A day after the state election board greenlit sharing voter data with DHS, North Carolina election officials said they don’t have evidence that noncitizens on the rolls is a widespread problem.

The board also acknowledged that many of such cases stem from confusion, not intentional wrongdoing.

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Equal On Paper As with "massive resistance" to Brown v. Board, Republicans today argue for a legal landscape where rights exist on paper but cannot be enforced.

“At the beginning of April, the conservative-dominated North Carolina Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin of equitable education funding in the state.” www.liberalcurrents.com/equal-on-pap...

thank you bell hooks

Saturday the 25th through Saturday May 2nd, all books bought for us from our wishlist or partner bookstores will be matched in a cash donation. This is one of the best times of the year to buy books for us!
Check out our wishlist here; bookshop.org/wishlists/60...

Exclusive: ICE Glasses Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence inside the U.S.

🚨 ICE Glasses are coming - specialized smart glasses designed by and for the Department of Homeland Security, documents reveal:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Some progressives & Democrats need to stop justifying refusing to vote or 3rd party voting by saying Biden "didn't do anything."

He did a whole damn lot. Facts matter. And so does a young liberal SCOTUS justice who will protect civil rights for decades.

www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fa...

blue black and white ink painting with oval shapes

blue black and white ink painting with neuron shapes

Some new ink paintings with a brighter blue: pyramidal neurons and mitosis in drosophila #sciart artologica.etsy.com

You guys. A goose is nesting under the Spoon Bridge and Cherry. This is our Romulus and Remus moment. We already became ungovernable. Now we become myth. #Minneapolis.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Easy solution: Ban these gluttonous resource hogs.

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment

“Forget you were ever Polly. Think young male, that was the thing. Fart loudly and with self-satisfaction at a job well done, walk like a puppet that’d had a couple of random strings cut, never hug anyone, and, if you meet a friend, punch them.”

I am again asking people to pay attention to what has happened to our National Science Foundation and by extension thousands of researchers across the country.

The devastation is ongoing and worthy of continued outcry to officials and journalists. 🧪

Learning that there are options beyond scorched, earth, and total agreement is a process I am still working through. And sometimes it is hard, and it is necessary.

Please help us spread the word.

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

Early voting starts today!

Image of Dina Williams, a beautiful Black woman wearing a blue patterned shirt and holding a marker. Text reads Rethinking Disability and Mathematics Audiobook now available, Read by Rachel Lambert, Available on Amazon, Audible, Kobo, Nook and many other platforms.

I finally finished making an audiobook for Rethinking Disability and Mathematics. Only two years late! Hurrah! I also made some resources to go with it, like Math Homework (a printout with all the math problems in the book to use before you listen or read) ♾️
mathematizing4all.com/rethinking-d...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

"The Access Pass may be issued to U.S. citizens or residents of any age that have been medically determined to have a permanent disability (does not have to be a 100% disability) that severely limits one or more major life activities."

www.nps.gov/subjects/acc...

Geordi La Forge meme. The "Hold On A Minute" Geordi image is next to text reading: "A personalized license plate that references something from harry potter" The "This is the right way to do it" Geordi image is next to text reading: "A personalized license plate that references something from discworld"

Trump avoided punishments for his post-2020 abuses, but many of his lawyers did not For the attorneys who helped fuel the president’s efforts to remain in office, the consequences have been severe. Take John Eastman, for example.

And they remain mystified as to why it's so hard for them to find real lawyers who will work for him...

Eastman: disbarred

Giuliani: disbarred

Chesebro: disbarred

Clark: facing possible disbarment

Ellis: law license suspended

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...