Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.
For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.
We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.
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Menschen, die im SGB2 sind (#Bürgergeld) und ein #Ehrenamt machen werden systematisch von #Jobcenter n angeschrieben: Es wird versucht ihnen die #Ehrenamtspauschale anrechnen. Das ist gesetzeswidrig! Hilfe bekommt ihr bei @sanktionsfrei.bsky.social oder @sozi-simon.bsky.social
a soft looking and somewhat worn felt swan with a big beak and trailing feathers
thinking about this 1500 year old plush swan made of reindeer wool
Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙
"He had evidently made up his mind to attack Poland whatever happened, and although he now says he put forward reasonable proposals which were rejected by the Poles, that is not a true statement."
If you're not going to call Hitler a fucking liar, you're not looking reality in the fa- oh, wait. 🤔
Those interested in the ‘Kindertransport’ might want to read up on the rescue of around 15k German-speaking Jewish women to the UK on domestic service visas; and around 4k German-speaking Jewish men to Kitchener camp in Sandwich in Kent. All 3 group rescues funded & organised by the same aid agency.
The pro-life party.
STILL VERY MUCH IN NEED!!! Please consider fostering this baby and get her out of the shelter and into a home with some much needed love!
open.substack.com/pub/cttr/p/2...
Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Three rows of books with decorative bindings, titles indistinguishable, on library shelves.
Friends, the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender is now accepting announcements for book-length works published in the 2nd half of 2025 & early 2026 for the next installment of the SSEMWG New Book Digest.
Deadline: April 30th
Submissions & questions: email jgoethals@ua.edu.
I'm also trying to imagine what the equivalent of "You need to let us steal all of your copyrighted material and use up all the water to do this" re: cellphones and I'm coming up empty-handed.
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
In China, people were more likely to choose plant-based meat when they thought others approved of it. That is how meat keeps its grip too. Not because it is necessary, but because culture keeps presenting the use of animals as ordinary.
this is one of the most interesting things I've read about AI. Ben Affleck just sold his AI startup to Netflix for $600m. it's based on his analysis - as someone who's worked in movies for decades - of what AI is *actually useful for*. which is eg: adjusting film lighting.
archive.ph/OLsfn
GenAI has no place in education. GenAI is, in fact, the antithesis of education.
Not to mention, access to these technologies come with potential for addiction, psychological harm, and pure deskilling of the next generation.
The only reason to put them in schools is to make money for AI companies.
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
A telling translation mistake: "Wissenschaft" = academia. "Science" = Naturwissenschaft. Debates about AI in education often neglect the humanities. Critical reading and text production are the skills we teach. AI can't replace that (yet). Maybe AI is great in medicine, never in literary studies.
📍Loci: Ghostly Magic at Broadwell in Oxfordshire www.digest.andymarsh...
That photo of you in Lincoln Cathedral is soooo evocative!
How can I disapprove so much of the medieval church and yet be so moved by this image of a man in this stunning building?!?
I've actually been to Lincoln Cathedral and heard Evensong there. Wonderful.
Andy, your photos make me want to travel to these places, or to snuggle up with a good historical novel so I can live in their world in my mind.
If I ever were to return to the church, it would be for the music and the architecture you capture. Not the right reasons, so it probably won't happen! 🤔
Silhouette of a photographer Andy Marshall standing before a stained glass window, bathed in golden light. Sunbeams stream through coloured glass, symbolising illumination, reflection, and connection with the present
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Ban this shit from your life.
Seriously. Boycott. And keep away from your kids.
Oh nothing, just a peer reviewed paper my colleagues found...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
"1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min."
Even AI knows what's wrong here, but @elsevierconnect.bsky.social doesn't.
Social media post in the form of a campaign poster: Iran Embassy in Thailand @lranlnThailand Are you ready folks? TRUMP 20.28 per gallon
Always there for it when Iran is trolling Trump
like a cat plays with a mouse.
FTR, ‘high welfare’ is always a scam, as the animals lives are violently taken from them against their will. If you honestly care about animals’ well being, veganism is the only ethically consistent position.
#AbolitionOrBust #LiveVegan
‘HIGH-WELFARE’ WAGYU BEEF 🥩
100+ cows & calves died of thirst 😞
‘2nd lot of deaths involved animals that had received FLY REPELLENT TREATMENT’
If even the highest priced animal products aren’t regulated, what do you think is happening to the animals in farms desperately trying to minimize costs?
