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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TheConversationUS@newsie.social ("The Conversation U.S.") wrote:

2/3 of 4th graders still read below grade level. Phonics helps, but it’s not enough—kids need balanced literacy.

Some tips:

📚 Send home good books
🗞 All reading counts (Signs, cereal boxes—it's all literacy)
🎉 Make it fun
📖 Choose a good series
🎯 Try 30-min weekly tutoring

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jan@toot.io ("Jan") wrote:

Mastodon has taken the strategic decision not to accept venture capital investments for growth, but rather restructure to a European non-profit organisation. 👏

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ufwupdates@union.place ("UFW") wrote:

URGENT: Federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farm workers from Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms on Fri am. They had a list of names, including UFW worker leaders who have been organizing to unionize their workplace. Those workers were detained. Count on me to help! http://ufw.org/nyraid5225 #WeFeedYou

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ufwupdates@union.place ("UFW") wrote:

BUFFALO, NY: We are mobilizing to protest the arrest and detention of a group of UFW farm worker leaders we believe are being held at the Batavia ICE detention center.

We believe targeting known union supporters in the name of immigration “enforcement” is an outrage. These workers must be released.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ufwupdates@union.place ("UFW") wrote:

URGENT: This morning in Western NY, federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farm workers from Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms. They had a list of names, including UFW worker leaders who have been organizing to unionize their workplace. Those workers were detained.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
racebannon@woof.group ("Race Bannon") wrote:

San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ Kinksters:

I'm hosting a LGBTQ leather/kink career mixer at SF Eagle on Wed, May 7th, 7pm-9pm.

All LGBTQ kinksters are welcome.

A strong community is partially founded on everyone being optimally employed. Let's help each other.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2228690227570591

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

I’m a bit late to this, but if you haven’t already, I highly recommend you watch #Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers’ response to Trump regime officials threatening to arrest him. https://youtu.be/BIjggk-9mO0?si=Uve1BzARm4xDOlgY

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

Should voting be compulsory?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory%5Fvoting

#EvanPoll #poll

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca ("Broadwaybabyto") wrote:

Vitamin A won't cure measles. A 'healthy diet' won't stop you from getting measles. "Wellness" doesn't make you immune to disease and disability.

The people who push these ideas are eugenicists. They are conditioning you to believe disability and chronic illness is our fault.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

These kibbutzniks used to believe in peace with Palestinians. Their views now echo Israel’s rightward shift
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/03/middleeast/these-kibbutzniks-used-to-believe-in-peace-with-palestinians-their-views-now-echo-israels-rightward-shift?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World News @world-news-CNN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

A Justice Department attorney has sent an email to our lawyer, David Seide, informing him that USAGM expects VOA staff to begin a “phased return” to work and programming to resume next week.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@davesomebody You seem to be under the mistaken impression that I had something to do with this article beyond sharing it here. I do not work for the Wall Street Journal, and I am not one of the authors of the article.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
micahflee@infosec.exchange ("Micah Lee") wrote:

I wrote up a detailed analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app that senior Trump fascists use to organize their war crimes https://micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-signal-app-mike-waltz-uses-to-text-with-trump-officials/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

oh lord, the situation with Signal & the Trumpsters is worst than I had thought

https://micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-signal-app-mike-waltz-uses-to-text-with-trump-officials/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
RikerGoogling@mas.to ("Riker Googling") wrote:

do tide pods feel pain when you eat them

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
xkcd@mastodon.xyz ("XKCD Bot") wrote:

Unstoppable force-carrying particles can't interact with immovable matter by definition.
https://xkcd.com/3084/

Boosted by jwz:
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

A THREADED RANT

that PERSONAL JESUS ad is everything that is wrong with American #evangelism aka #christofascism.

it uses the smash hit from Depeche Mode’s album VIOLATOR; and if you know anything about the band, you know KINK and most specifically SADOMASOCHISM were their bread and butter.

sure enough, refreshed my memory about this song and it was inspired by Priscilla Presley’s “Elvis & Me”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%5FJesus

…🧵

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Never mind me, I've been nose deep in papers & spreadsheets. The end is in sight, though!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/02/1-3-done/

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Everything about this story either simply sucks, is terrifying, or both.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Background: Newark has about 600 round trips per day (arrival/departure pairs), so United's cancelations represent about 6% of the total traffic. United is the main tenant at EWR, and it's a major hub for them. It's by far the busiest of the NYC metro area's 3 main airports, handling over half the flights into the city.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

United has canceled 35 round trips out of EWR starting this weekend after FAA fails to agree to limit traffic to what the airport can handle and air traffic controllers left their posts amid radar problems.

Uh, yikes.

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/united-airlines-cancels-newark-flights-after-faa-staff-walks-out-e794b071?st=R7441a&

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

I just told a room full of newsroom execs and investigative journalists, hopefully coherently, to always start with human problems, do not add AI to their workflows uncritically, and to build and use technology according to their values, with a duty of care for their communities. Privileged to do so and grateful for the opportunity.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR-Digiron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Phase One XT camera (vertically shifted -12mm).

White-Gravenor Hall, completed in 1933, is Georgetown trying its best to look like Princeton, which tries its best to look like Cambridge. Built to house science labs, it's currently a general academic building with classrooms and administrative offices.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

White-Gravenor Hall (Main Entranceway) Georgetown, Washington, DC, 2025.

All the pixels, none of the students or classes, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54481192198

#photography

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
existentialcomics ("Existential Comics") wrote:

Capitalism didn't give us the internet.

Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ana@starlite.rodeo ("ana of the dawn") wrote:

imagine one day you are wandering in the woods and you pass through a strange shimmering barrier. on the other side in a clearing you find on the mossy ground a strange looking cassette. the tape itself seems to shimmer with a strange iridescent glow, and on it is written ‘lofi beats to…’ but the last part is smudged and unreadable

next to it you see an old cassette tape player, powered through no visible means. though something tells you this may not be a good idea, you pop the tape in and press play…

https://anatanana.bandcamp.com/album/tanagrams

#bandcampFriday #anatanana #lofiBeats #techno #drone #psychedelic #music #musicProduction

jwz wrote:

Shut Up, Beavis.
https://jwz.org/b/ykm6

Boosted by jwz:
Some_Emo_Chick ("Frankie ✅") wrote:

#shitpost #meme #funny #tech #technology #chrome #google

Boosted by jwz:
ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ("Spring Jo :neobun: :v_enby: 🍃") wrote:

:neobot_nom_blob: :neobot_woozy:

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Boosted by jwz:
jk ("josef") wrote:

the architecture of the fediverse is optimized to increase engagement by having people's replies to your post just not show up for others, which encourages them to also reply saying exactly the same thing that all the other people have been saying in their replies