Michael Merrifield

@astromikemerri.bsky.social

today's 🪶 #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Black&Red, so here’s a red kite with moulting black wing tips, which I saw recently over the Erewash Nature Reserve.

WIST Quotations

@wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

> Look here, tyranny was discovered very early in human history, and identified very early as inimical to political life. Still, it has never in any way prevented any tyrant from becoming a tyrant. It did not prevent Nero, and it did not prevent Caligula. And the […]

Shivvers in Fear 🙀

@shivvy.blacksky.app

TIL from @postoctobrist.bsky.social

To inveigle: to trick or persuade someone using flattery, cleverness or charm

“I inveigled my wife to let me make kimchi in the house”

@spqromantic.bsky.social

‘O! heat of wine salubrious, you send away every icy influence: nor envy's chill, nor hate's, nor shame's, nor calumny's comes near to me:
give ye me to drink.’-cavafy

Brett Vogelsinger

@thevogelman.bsky.social

Transparency and teacher think-aloud can make a big difference in the age of AI. We need to help our students to be discerning and judicious.

Join me for this conversation with Dave and Cody on Authentic Educators podcast.

#edusky #teaching #writing

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/authentic-educators/id1815115555

@garyrlundberg.bsky.social

Don't buy from Amazon! Prime, or not. Just don't. Buy direct from the retailer. Even if Amazon is linked in your web search.

Trump toady billionaires. Plus, they exploit retailers.

f you're considering shopping on Amazon on "Amazon Prime" days …

Please reconsider.
robertreich.substack.com/p/if..

Richard M. Nixon

@dicknixon.bsky.social

It interests me that Dolan is a named and garrulous source for the new biography of the Pope, and everything he has to say is complimentary.

@ldenbina.bsky.social

Concerning Roger Marshall: before you castigate him for suing clients for medical debt, with some being jailed, consider that but for NY Stilwell Act prohibiting debt incarceration, Donald Trump would have been jailed long ago and still be sitting in prison.

Mick Hennessy

@mickado.bsky.social

I'm watching the apprentice with Sebastian Stan as trump and he just said "I was being facetious"

The idea that Trump could ever use that word correctly, has pulled me right out.

But is this a Mandela effect or was the man always incapable of coherent speech?

Laura

@theactivestick.bsky.social

Relegate the Boston Bruins