Rebekah 🍉
@grrrl.bsky.social
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teacher + doctoral candidate + mama to a teen & cat • reader of good books • watcher of bad TV • brokenhearted ex-pat • recovering loudly • she/her/y’all used to be @grrrlmeetsworld over on the bad place words here: https://grrrlmeets.substack.com/
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Everything may be terrible, but I bet you can find one good thing for today.
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Educators!
Here's one idea to disrupt the narrative and recognize contribution over attribution.

Try telling the stories of discovery in a different order

eg. instead of starting with Watson and Crick, start with Franklin

#HigherEd #AdaLovelace #WomenInSTEM 🧪
screenshot of my slides, where the slide about Franklin is before the slide about watson and crick
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I agreed to be a reference for a former student who's getting work for a big oil corp up north. I was sent the online reference form yesterday, and this AM I've ALREADY gotten another reminder email/nag from the corp to fill it out.

Hold yer horses there, big oil. It's technically a holiday here.
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i love science & i love that brassica is clearly some variety of eldritch entity that manifests as a bitter plant, native to the liminal plateaus on the thresholds of reality.

as humans, we are for some reason compelled to trick each other into devouring it.
“Brassica oleracea creating new common names to get 1 month free trials” and it’s a picture of brussel sprouts, cabbage, kale, collared greens, kholrobbi, broccoli, cauliflower, etc
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prisonculture.bsky.social
they are not "trying" to exert influence, they ARE influencing elections already.
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One of the best “hangovers” of my recovery from alcohol abuse is the friendships that have stuck around from my time in the program. I’ve got a friend in Oregon, plus a couple of sisters who live off in Australia — a world away, but just as close to me as my own sis. What a gift it is to get better.
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next up on the administration's agenda: the revival of indulgences
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Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."
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this genius is the rep for my GA hometown
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Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)
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I see the problem now, too much development
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The whole Katie Porter news stories are so sadly predictable
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I’m an atheist and even I’m tempted to pray. Such an icon and gift to the world.
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listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly
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"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing
grrrl.bsky.social
that supposed bailout that's coming won't help, and more farmers are going to suffer -- and I know that the suicide rate is already high enough as it is.

This is shameful governing.
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this is a must-see interview -- this US farmer lays out the stakes in such a compelling way: youtu.be/FcuiJSKonqE?...

All I could hear are my Ag students, & it breaks my heart to think of the pain that these farmers and their families are going through -- for a job that is already hard & thankless.
Soybean farmer on Trump's tariff war: 'I mean, where do they want me to market this stuff?'
YouTube video by CNN
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In the Canadian province where I live, we call hoodies “bunny hugs”
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I really hate bullies.
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Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”
Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law
“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”
www.teenvogue.com
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11:30pm. Finally time for me to take care of myself, woo 🎉
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the institution broke my heart again today, but it didn't break me.