I'll admit it, the first round in #MarchMammalMadness #2025MMM has already posted. But you have my word as a responsible tooter that I didn't look at the wild card results before coming up with my bracket.

If you've saw my starting bracket last year, you'll see similarities this year: I don't play to win. I give heavy bonuses to marmots (check out my user pic!), squirrels (close relatives of marmots), and cats.

If you're intrigued by the bracket but don't know what I'm talking about, read more at libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM…

International schools in France all look pretty expensive. Are there more affordable options I’m not seeing?

#france #Education

Okay, #Verdi streikt und wie erwartbar schreiben vorgebliche Journalisten große Hasskommentare, warum diese #Streiks unangemessen seien. Der Zug oder der Flug zu irgendeinem Bullshit-Termin ist halt auch wichtiger als faire #Arbeitsbedingungen und #Löhne... 🤐

Was mich an der Sache wirklich aufregt: Streiks sind ein zutiefst demokratischer Prozess: Es gibt Urabstimmungen und die Leute müssen mitmachen. Was diese #Journalisten wirklich in Frage stellen ist #Demokratie.

#Gewerkschaften

Our partners at the HBCU Radio Preservation Project have been hard at work exploring and connecting with HBCU radio stations across the country through archival recordings, oral histories, and visits to historic campuses.

Now, listeners have a chance to hear firsthand how these stations serve as vital communication hubs, launching pads for Black voices, and catalysts for social change.

Listen to the trailer for "Broadcasting History: The HBCU Radio Legacy": wyso.org/podcast/broadcasting-…

Broadcasting History: The HBCU Radio Legacy

Follow the HBCU Radio Preservation Project as we rediscover the magic of Black college radio. Through archival recordings, oral histories, and visits to historic campuses, we explore how HBCU radio stations serve as vital communication hubs, launchin…

^WYSO

Fascinating visualization of a black hole surrounded by an accretion disk, illustrating how light is warped by its intense gravitational fields.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)

#space #science #nasa #alt4me

A Florida judge illustrates the foolishness of 'soclal media moral panics' by demonstrating that D&D did not, in fact, make him a Satanist

techdirt.com/2025/03/11/judge-…

#news #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #florida #moralpanic

Judge Uses D&D’s Failure To Make Him Worship Satan To School Florida On Social Media Moral Panics

When Florida’s lawyers tried to defend the state’s social media age restriction law by claiming it’s “well known” that platforms harm children, they probably werenR…

^Techdirt

How the Trump administration's Education Department cuts are playing out
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325854/how-the-trump-administrations-education-department-cuts-are-playing-out?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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I know it's been said many many times before, but every single bit of trans healthcare was originally created for and still predominantly used for gender affirmation of cis people. And cis people have much higher dissatisfaction and regret rates for those healthcare procedures.

HRT? Cis people treating menopause or low testosterone or improving fertility or prostate cancer or anything else that fucks with the endocrine system.

Puberty blockers? Cis kids with precocious puberty

Mastectomy, orchiectomy, hysterectomy, cis people.

Even vaginoplasty or phalloplasty or metoidioplasty were invented as urology reconstructive surgeries to correct injuries, birth defects, or other medical conditions impacting cis people's genitals.

Banning the same exact necessary healthcare procedures for one population and not for another, despite having even better outcomes by basically any metric you can show is textbook discrimination.

I bought a seed starter kit a few years ago that consisted of 1020 seed trays and a set of 2.5 inch seed pots, along with an insert that holds the pots upright. Unfortunately, the insert adds another inch or so of height, which cuts into the space available under the grow lights.

I didn't buy any more inserts because of this, but I have problems with pots falling over or not getting bottom-watered because they are leaning and not making contact with the tray.

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#3dPrinting #gardening

5 years of doing this "MechE" thing and they still haven't given me the giant robot??

sure I'm a girl now, but that wasn't the part I was excited about..

Good. Lets replace search with "AI" then! Totally logical if you ask me. Even more worth it when you know they're exponentially overtaking the airline industry in their carbon footprint.

Study: cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared…

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Saw a toot that basically said: "To try to defend Occupant Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship: corrupt pieces of garbage at his completely corrupt DOJ have claimed that Native Americans aren’t birthright citizens. A normal person explains why this defense misconstrues the Constitution and legal precedent."

I don't need a lawyer to tell me that any of this is absolute bullshit, but thanks.

How to lose $148B in less than 2 months.

A corrupt attempt to juice a friend’s stock -beneath the office of the presidency -embarrassing spectacle for Musk. Trump declared: the WH would label any acts of violence against Tesla dealerships as dom terrorism—re ongoing countrywide protests against Tesla, due to #DOGE. Protesters have defaced or damaged Tesla vehicles... #Tesla stock price⬇️fallen sharply;
New #SpaceX Starship exploded 2X this year.

No🎻s for #musk

#USPol
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Elon Musk Looks Desperate

How to lose $148 billion in less than two months

^{Charlie Warzel (The Atlantic)}

If this works Musk is going to be sooooooo maaaaad

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2025-03-10 22:29:59

EU - THX for stepping up for 🇺🇦

BREAKING: French satellite company Eutelsat is replacing Starlink and plans to send approximately 40,000 communication terminals to Ukraine. Their stock has rocketed 390% in the last 3 days as #Tesla $Starlink #SpaceX and #X continue their freefall. 😂😂👏🏼👏🏼

"Revenge Junkie"

Trump has embarked on a revenge-a-thon -removed sec protection from past aides who pissed him off—incl fmr SOS Pompeo & JCS CHM Milley—exposing them to serious danger -angry at the NAR for its role in the stolen docs case *MAL home: raided -indicted, Trump booted out the l'ship of NAR -moved to revoke the sec clearance of a prv DC ATTY CEN of his 1st impeach.

He tried to freeze out media outlets that draw his ire -called Zelensky a dictator...

#USPol link.motherjones.com/public/38…

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This fucking evil orange bastard.

“So far, it’s a tossup which of the Trump Administration’s wrecking balls will prove most destructive: the one that accelerates global warming, the one that abandons our allies, the one that torches the economy, or the one that compromises public health. Yet all of these are distractions from the President’s long-standing pet project: decimating free and fair elections.” - Sue Halpern
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Trump Is Still Trying to Undermine Elections — The New Yorker

Now that Trump has installed election deniers throughout his Administration, he has been busy dismantling the guardrails protecting voting and voters.

^apple.news

Revisiting Club Quarantine, the dance party that DJ D-Nice brought to our homes
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5321370/revisiting-club-quarantine-the-dance-party-that-dj-d-nice-brought-to-our-homes?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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