@thethinblackduke.bsky.social
SciFi Nerd. Bookworm. Cinema Junkie. Pulp Culture Philosopher.
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Taught reading on and off over my career. Reading is an isolated subject, which is ridiculous because kids need to read in every class. It should be a multi disciple endeavour, but I never saw it approached that way during my career.
One hard part of the literacy problem in the United States is there are a lot of people -- some of them with college degrees and beyond -- who don't realize that they are bad at reading
I don't know how to reach those people
I don't know how to reach those people
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Taught reading on and off over my career. Reading is an isolated subject, which is ridiculous because kids need to read in every class. It should be a multi disciple endeavour, but I never saw it approached that way during my career.
“Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.”
—Christopher Hitchens
—Christopher Hitchens
November 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.”
—Christopher Hitchens
—Christopher Hitchens
Art Basel Paris 2025 / Louise Bourgeois.
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Art Basel Paris 2025 / Louise Bourgeois.
We miss ya, Joe.
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We miss ya, Joe.
America can’t afford to be left behind as the rest of the world moves on. That’s how major world powers become third-world countries. And it happens quickly.
www.smh.com.au/business/the...
Strong counterpoint to the coalition’s fake arguments against renewables costs
Strong counterpoint to the coalition’s fake arguments against renewables costs
Price shocks force factories to dump gas for cleaner energy
Industrial energy users are starting to turn away from natural gas after a jump in prices, and as solar systems, batteries and heat pumps become cheaper.
www.smh.com.au
November 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
America can’t afford to be left behind as the rest of the world moves on. That’s how major world powers become third-world countries. And it happens quickly.
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Maybe another way to think of it is as the "participation line" - the income one needs to fully participate in expected aspects of US life without worrying about plunging into deprivation one way or another
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An investor called $140,000 the new poverty line. Experts disagreed but said he had a point.
Michael Green’s tally of the costs of raising a family in the U.S. today is going viral, even if some economists scoff at his math.
wapo.st
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Maybe another way to think of it is as the "participation line" - the income one needs to fully participate in expected aspects of US life without worrying about plunging into deprivation one way or another
(gift article)
wapo.st/3MeOGki
(gift article)
wapo.st/3MeOGki
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The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
NPR Tiny Desk Contest 2023 - Andrea Gibson - MAGA HAT IN THE CHEMO ROOM
YouTube video by Andrea Gibson
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Leslie Fish didn’t change, she just stopped hiding what she was.
November 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Leslie Fish didn’t change, she just stopped hiding what she was.
I believe Pete Hegseth is being set up to be the fall guy and he’s too stupid to realize it.
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I believe Pete Hegseth is being set up to be the fall guy and he’s too stupid to realize it.
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They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
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I feel like this story, about the Trump admin removing references to black soldiers and their plight in WWII, alongside their campaign to erase the histories of minority soldiers, should be a bigger deal, as its part of the conservative attack on objective truth. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p...
Display about Black soldiers in World War II removed from US military cemetery | CNN Politics
Decades ago, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old 1st Lt. Jeffersons Wiggins, along with hundreds of other Black soldiers in, were tasked with burying the...
edition.cnn.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I feel like this story, about the Trump admin removing references to black soldiers and their plight in WWII, alongside their campaign to erase the histories of minority soldiers, should be a bigger deal, as its part of the conservative attack on objective truth. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p...
“Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? Because they came in on a plane along with thousands of other people that shouldn’t be here and you’re just asking questions because you’re a stupid person.”
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
“Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? Because they came in on a plane along with thousands of other people that shouldn’t be here and you’re just asking questions because you’re a stupid person.”
Resist.
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Resist.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
—Maya Angelou, “And Still I Rise.”
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
—Maya Angelou, “And Still I Rise.”
November 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
—Maya Angelou, “And Still I Rise.”
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
—Maya Angelou, “And Still I Rise.”