blbc

@blbc@universeodon.com

I’m HOH, use ASL and English, and love reading, and gardening. I live in the U.S. and I study French, Spanish and Russian for fun. I’m in my first year of teaching Special Education. I watch birds. Female, she, her. #ASL #DeafHOH #education #naturephotography Avatar: owl on roof. Background: Jerusalem artichoke blossoms: medium yellow blossoms with orange centers.

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drahardja, (edited ) to random
@drahardja@sfba.social avatar

Today I learned that “sundown towns” with their daily siren blasts that remind non-white people to leave town STILL EXIST.

This Nevada town stopped their daily sirens only LAST YEAR, and only because Nevada had passed a law that prohibits their use. Their Town Board Chairman even entertained both-siding the issue during a session. How many more of these towns still exist that carry on this explicitly racist practice?

https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2023/10/09/minden-sun-down-siren-to-remain-silenced/71083858007/

Unpaywalled link: https://archive.ph/TYXkU

blbc,

@drahardja There are still a few towns that practice the racial harassment without the sirens; I’ve heard of a few in southern Illinois. This is part of why I say that I really do live in the South, even if it’s Illinois. If you’re white, you don’t know it.

RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all I guess I should start getting my questions from Quora!

blbc,

@RickiTarr Ok, I deleted this 3 times already, but I actually had a 6 month old baby say their first word. The kid was speaking in perfectly clear, polite, respectful and full sentences by the time of their first birthday. This was NOT a “demon baby,” just “linguistically advanced.” And yes, everyone the kid spoke to outside our family reacted with shock.

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

What are your true opinions and thoughts on marriage?

Just for fun, this is a photo from my wedding day (ignore the reflection of my phone lol) I was all of 21.

blbc,

@RickiTarr I don’t think I could ever have the courage to have an intimate relationship outside marriage. It’s been a safe space for me. Marriage has been hard. I picked a good one though and we both put a lot of work into it. I can’t imagine raising our kids without each other.

RickiTarr, to random
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What is your favorite breakfast? What is the actual breakfast you usually eat?

blbc,

@RickiTarr My favorite is over easy eggs, toast with strawberry jam and sausage; my regular breakfast is oatmeal with a half cup canned fruit and a couple tablespoons of chocolate chips, sometimes with a sprinkle of mixed nuts.

Toastie, to journalism
@Toastie@journa.host avatar

The fall issue of The Investigative Reporters and Editors Journal is all about affairs !

Catch me on page eight with some tips on reporting in Native communities (for starters: listen patiently to elders! 😉)

DL a free PDF here or you can by a fancy print copy if ur fancy:

https://www.ire.org/product/ire-journal-q3-2023/

Screenshot of a magazine article called 'Engaging, elevating Indigenous voices' with a picture of a lamprey.
Screenshot of the rest of the article, with a map and a picture of a Native fisherman.

blbc,

@Toastie The story about talking with Lew for hours and hours reminded me of talking with Grandpa…wow, I miss him. Yes, time is a cultural construct.

RickiTarr, to random
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What is your first experience with the Internet? How old were you? What did you look at?

blbc,

@RickiTarr I must have been in 8th or 9th grade and my math teacher wanted us to see this cool site where we could graph linear and exponential equations in the mid-1990’s, so we went to the computer lab and logged on. After that I saw more and more of it, even working with a team of students to set up a high school website—pre-Columbine, so we even had a school map.

KFuentesGeorge, to Palestine

I don't mean to be all political, but I do not think killing over 3,000 children, including premature babies, is the best way to show that you condemn terrorist violence.

https://jezebel.com/as-gaza-s-hospitals-run-out-of-fuel-incubated-preterm-1850962663

blbc,

@KFuentesGeorge The issue that bothers me the most about this war is the preventable deaths of innocent people in Gaza that will happen if hospitals don’t receive fuel (and other essential supplies). My kids have all had lifesaving treatment during their childhood, ranging from appendectomy, through heart catheterization to treatment for a rare kidney disease. It tears me up that kids in Gaza with these same conditions could die.

RickiTarr, to random
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What is the spookiest or creepiest story that's supposed to be for children and why?

blbc,

@RickiTarr Little Red Riding Hood. The original version was about rape as well as murder.

jeffowski, to random
@jeffowski@mastodon.world avatar
blbc,

@jeffowski I don’t rake leaves. In June I have more fireflies than any of my neighbors. Win-win!

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

HOLIDAY CELEBRATE question!

What is your favorite holiday and why?

Don't come to tell us you hate all holidays. I know they can be tough, but what you probably don't like is toxic people attached to them. Either way yucking someone's yum is not nice, so don't.

blbc,

@RickiTarr Thanksgiving! I was born on Thanksgiving. But really I love the food and the opportunity to just sit and listen to my family talking. Also the weather is awesome and I can watch football.

breadandcircuses, to environment

Oil companies are lying to us. But they're not the only ones.

Governments which provide bogus "carbon credits" to polluters are also lying to us, and so is the financial industry that markets these phony investments.

A popular method for reducing carbon emissions may be little more than “hot air,” a new study has found.

In past years, financial markets have done increasingly brisk business in “voluntary carbon offsets,” projects that ostensibly capture greenhouse gas emissions — or prevent them from being released into the atmosphere.

One of the leading forms of offsets — used by many leading corporations — is “forest carbon offsets.” Under such programs, companies subsidize forests which absorb the equivalent of the companies’ carbon emissions as they grow — at least in theory.

The study published Thursday in Science offers strong evidence that the theory doesn’t live up to the practice.

Carbon offsets are a scam, a fraud, nothing more than a dishonest and criminal excuse for the fossil fuel industry to carry on with Business As Usual.

FULL STORY -- https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4169871-a-leading-corporate-strategy-for-battling-climate-change-is-hot-air-study-finds/

blbc,

@breadandcircuses I thought those “carbon offsets” were scams from the beginning!

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar

Respect people who wear glasses.

They paid money to see you.

blbc,

@dgar Respect people with hearing aids; they pay money to hear you.

mostaurelius, to news
@mostaurelius@mas.to avatar

‘I’m not wanted’: Florida universities hit by brain drain as academics flee

Ron DeSantis’s slew of laws attacking teaching of race and gender issues sees state’s colleges struggle to fill faculty posts

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/30/florida-universities-colleges-faculty-leaving-desantis

blbc,

@mostaurelius I saw this coming a million miles away. Tenure protects professors. is necessarily controversial. Tenure also protects students; a professor can pull out all the stops to advocate for a student if they don’t have to worry about losing their job. Now, let’s see those faculty turnover rates from TX.

mariyadelano, (edited ) to fediverse
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io avatar

Alright. Gonna write a piece on the impact of #neurodivergent users on our culture in the #Fediverse

So let’s start with a poll. Boost please!

Are you neurodivergent?

(Self-diagnosis is valid, I know how freaking hard it can be to get the official one!)

@actuallyautistic #ADHD #AuDHD #Autism #ASD #neurodiversity

SECOND POLL WITH MORE TYPES OF NEURODIVERGENCE: https://hachyderm.io/@mariyadelano/110753113559931102

blbc,

@mariyadelano @actuallyautistic I have stated neurotypical, but I have a history of TBI and some residual balance issues. (I was young enough that brain plasticity took over.)

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

This graph is making the rounds again on other social media sites. It begs the question "Why do men pay off their student loans, but women can't/won't?"

It's not Black history month, but you already know the answer!

Black women are forced to borrow more for their education. Then Black women are paid less when they graduate, even for the same degree.

A disproportionate amount of the $1.7 Trillion of loan debt (not a typo. Trillion. With a "T.") is held by Black women that did everything right)

blbc,

@mekkaokereke Another problem that’s tangled up with the student loan repayment is that women are more likely to get degrees in “soft science” or “social work.” I got a Psychology degree (BA), and so had a pay range in the $20K range until I went back for a teacher’s license—all of this after my kids were in school. This is far worse for POC—I’m part White & disabled.

NewsDesk, to news
@NewsDesk@flipboard.social avatar

Over 80 million Americans are under air quality alerts as smoke from Canadian wildfires drifts to the U.S.

CNN reports "Canada is seeing its worst fire season on record with hundreds of wildfires raging across the country."

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/27/us/canada-wildfire-smoke-great-lakes/index.html

blbc,

@NewsDesk Yesterday Chicago, today it’s far enough south to catch my area. I’ll be watering my garden in a mask…

Radical_EgoCom, to random

Just sick

blbc,

@Radical_EgoCom This problem is shared with the U.S. This is wrong.

Private
blbc,

@dipolecat @actuallyautistic Listening.

ZingerLearns, to edutooters

@edutooters
I think a major failing of and tension in teacher preparation programs in the US is that we expect and demand that aspiring teachers meet the need of individual students, especially those with disabilities and whose first language isn't English. Yet we as a teacher preparation community push these same students out disproportionately.
For example, about 16-17% of students in schools have a documented disability, but fewer than 5% of teachers have a documented disability.

blbc,

@ZingerLearns @edutooters Interesting—I am one of the 5%. I have noticed a significant attitude difference between myself when addressing my students with disabilities (a SPED teacher), and that of my classmates. I expect my students to have good lives and to support independence and self-advocacy; my classmates expect “inspiration.”

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