Barbara Fantechi
@barbarafantechi.bsky.social
Mathematician, cis woman, bi, het married, parent of adults. Loud in the physical and metaphorical sense.
https://marginalnotesmaths.blogspot.com/
https://marginalnotesmaths.blogspot.com/
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Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying
by Noor Hindi
by Noor Hindi
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying
by Noor Hindi
by Noor Hindi
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This is about the moderation putting an Escher behind adult content warning because there are stylized human breasts suggested in the drawing
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is about the moderation putting an Escher behind adult content warning because there are stylized human breasts suggested in the drawing
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not Wh*te people and random trolls proving the necessity of reading Alice Wong's work on race and disability in response to a memoriam post on her work on race and disability.
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
not Wh*te people and random trolls proving the necessity of reading Alice Wong's work on race and disability in response to a memoriam post on her work on race and disability.
Follow and support @jkbjournalist.bsky.social !
This is important context from Julie K. Brown.
With alt text.
With alt text.
November 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Follow and support @jkbjournalist.bsky.social !
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The real quote is good enough, no need to fake it up with an anachronism like narcissistic.
www.amestrib.com/story/opinio...
www.amestrib.com/story/opinio...
Letter: The correct Mencken quote
Long before the advent of fake news, there was a thriving “fake quotes” industry that invented quotations, always attributed to great persons, to lend authority to the author’s opinion. Jefferson and…
www.amestrib.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The real quote is good enough, no need to fake it up with an anachronism like narcissistic.
www.amestrib.com/story/opinio...
www.amestrib.com/story/opinio...
Years ago as a group of parents gambled and won — we organised and a few of us chose a middle school that wasn’t the nearest. We moved it from two classes of 26-27 to three classes of 19-20. All the teachers absolutely loved them, and the kids did great.
Exactly this.
One of the old-timers at the school I used to teach at (a k-8 building) used to say that he could predict low test scores and behavior problems simply by looking at the student-teacher ratios in kindergarten.
Class sizes matter when it comes to k-12 classrooms.
One of the old-timers at the school I used to teach at (a k-8 building) used to say that he could predict low test scores and behavior problems simply by looking at the student-teacher ratios in kindergarten.
Class sizes matter when it comes to k-12 classrooms.
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
November 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Years ago as a group of parents gambled and won — we organised and a few of us chose a middle school that wasn’t the nearest. We moved it from two classes of 26-27 to three classes of 19-20. All the teachers absolutely loved them, and the kids did great.
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
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Alice's work at Teen Vogue:
www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...
(I saw a post going around—that I can't reply to—saying her column has been deleted, but I found her words via this page.)
www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...
(I saw a post going around—that I can't reply to—saying her column has been deleted, but I found her words via this page.)
Her last post was about being laid off from Teen Vogue. Terrible.
Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Alice's work at Teen Vogue:
www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...
(I saw a post going around—that I can't reply to—saying her column has been deleted, but I found her words via this page.)
www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...
(I saw a post going around—that I can't reply to—saying her column has been deleted, but I found her words via this page.)
Michèle Audin 💔
Après son frère Pierre, parti en 2023, c’est au tour de la mathématicienne et oulipienne Michèle Audin de nous quitter. Elle avait trois ans et lui quelques mois quand leur père, Maurice, fut torturé puis assassiné par l’armée française en 1957 à Alger.
👉 femmes-et-maths.fr/deces-de-mic...
👉 femmes-et-maths.fr/deces-de-mic...
November 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Michèle Audin 💔
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Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
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Since everyone is rightly focused on the Epstein files, now would be a good time to remind you:
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Since everyone is rightly focused on the Epstein files, now would be a good time to remind you:
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
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24 hours after the Israeli army announced it would reopen the Zikim crossing, it remains closed, with no trucks entering Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports.
The shutdown leaves all of northern Gaza without a functioning entry point for humanitarian or commercial supplies...
Image: Anera
The shutdown leaves all of northern Gaza without a functioning entry point for humanitarian or commercial supplies...
Image: Anera
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
24 hours after the Israeli army announced it would reopen the Zikim crossing, it remains closed, with no trucks entering Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports.
The shutdown leaves all of northern Gaza without a functioning entry point for humanitarian or commercial supplies...
Image: Anera
The shutdown leaves all of northern Gaza without a functioning entry point for humanitarian or commercial supplies...
Image: Anera
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🔐 Account Security Thread 🔐
We're seeing an increased number of phishing and social engineering attempts targeting Bluesky users. While we're working hard to protect you, here are essential steps YOU can take to secure your account and stay safe. 1/10
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We're seeing an increased number of phishing and social engineering attempts targeting Bluesky users. While we're working hard to protect you, here are essential steps YOU can take to secure your account and stay safe. 1/10
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November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🔐 Account Security Thread 🔐
We're seeing an increased number of phishing and social engineering attempts targeting Bluesky users. While we're working hard to protect you, here are essential steps YOU can take to secure your account and stay safe. 1/10
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We're seeing an increased number of phishing and social engineering attempts targeting Bluesky users. While we're working hard to protect you, here are essential steps YOU can take to secure your account and stay safe. 1/10
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I am irrationally stupid levels of emotional about this news item www.them.us/story/pope-l...
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
“I hope this [lunch] will be an opportunity to speak to him and ask him not to backtrack on rights," Alesia Nobile said.
www.them.us
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I am irrationally stupid levels of emotional about this news item www.them.us/story/pope-l...
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.
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I attended SFF cons as a teenager.
I stopped getting regularly and persistently sexually harassed at SFF cons sometime in college.
"Oh wow you look way older"
No the fuck I did not because when I WAS older these weirdos stopped.
They know what the hell they're doing.
I stopped getting regularly and persistently sexually harassed at SFF cons sometime in college.
"Oh wow you look way older"
No the fuck I did not because when I WAS older these weirdos stopped.
They know what the hell they're doing.
To the two well-respected local SF/F community leaders who each told a teenage child of a friend of mine, "I can't wait for you to turn 18, I'll be waiting for you," I know your names you fucking shitty-ass pedo bastards, and I *remember*.
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I attended SFF cons as a teenager.
I stopped getting regularly and persistently sexually harassed at SFF cons sometime in college.
"Oh wow you look way older"
No the fuck I did not because when I WAS older these weirdos stopped.
They know what the hell they're doing.
I stopped getting regularly and persistently sexually harassed at SFF cons sometime in college.
"Oh wow you look way older"
No the fuck I did not because when I WAS older these weirdos stopped.
They know what the hell they're doing.
Can someone check for me? IIRC, in vitro fertilisation is not approved by the Catholic Church. (It’s been a few decades since I read Humana’s Vitae and other, more recent literature).
Even more disgusting: Kelly has a 14-year-old daughter of her own!
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Can someone check for me? IIRC, in vitro fertilisation is not approved by the Catholic Church. (It’s been a few decades since I read Humana’s Vitae and other, more recent literature).
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I think a lot of well meaning people think deporting certain bad people is fine actually, such that the problem is WHO gets deported. I think that's a moral mistake analogous to supporting capital punishment or torture when 'correctly' applied, a political mistake insofar as 'correct deportations'
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I think a lot of well meaning people think deporting certain bad people is fine actually, such that the problem is WHO gets deported. I think that's a moral mistake analogous to supporting capital punishment or torture when 'correctly' applied, a political mistake insofar as 'correct deportations'
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Bad news for the environment - but also terrible news for the political environment. When the center-right allies itself with the far-right, European values become optional at best. This is European history repeating itself.
🚨🚨Breaking and bad #EU news: Lawmakers in @europarl.europa.eu agreed today to exempt more companies from green reporting rules after the center-right, right-wing and far-right groups allied to pass the EU’s first omnibus simplification package. #omnibus 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/epp-...
www.politico.eu/article/epp-...
EU conservatives vote with far right to approve cuts to green rules
The outcome highlights the EPP’s willingness to abandon its traditional centrist coalition allies.
www.politico.eu
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Bad news for the environment - but also terrible news for the political environment. When the center-right allies itself with the far-right, European values become optional at best. This is European history repeating itself.
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This is giving former NYT reporter confessing “I’m one of the people who knew about those NYT emails“ vibes
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is giving former NYT reporter confessing “I’m one of the people who knew about those NYT emails“ vibes
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turns out Larry Summers really was a raging sub-literate misogynist creep this entire time, who could have known
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
turns out Larry Summers really was a raging sub-literate misogynist creep this entire time, who could have known
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A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say
A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers...
www.wsaw.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
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For the first time in EU history, someone faces criminal charges for organising a Pride march.
Géza Buzás-Hábel, a teacher and organiser of Pécs Pride in Hungary, could be jailed for up to a year, simply for leading a peaceful march for equality. 🧵
Géza Buzás-Hábel, a teacher and organiser of Pécs Pride in Hungary, could be jailed for up to a year, simply for leading a peaceful march for equality. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
For the first time in EU history, someone faces criminal charges for organising a Pride march.
Géza Buzás-Hábel, a teacher and organiser of Pécs Pride in Hungary, could be jailed for up to a year, simply for leading a peaceful march for equality. 🧵
Géza Buzás-Hábel, a teacher and organiser of Pécs Pride in Hungary, could be jailed for up to a year, simply for leading a peaceful march for equality. 🧵
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The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."