Mr Spock 🖖Good Morning Mastodon
This object, called the Helix nebula, lies 650 light-years away, in the constellation of Aquarius. Also known by the catalog number NGC 7293, it is a typical example of a class of objects called planetary nebulae.
LilacNanny
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As soon as I find out who I am I’ll let you know…
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Robert ReichTrickle-down economics has been an abject failure over the past 20 years. It’s time to invest in workers. Now.
Robert McNeesSister Mary Kenneth Keller was born #OTD in 1913. She worked with John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz on the design and implementation of Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code — BASIC — and was the first woman in the US to earn a PhD in Computer Science.
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Sheril KirshenbaumRosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but it was James Watson & Francis Crick who received the credit & Nobel Prize.
Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their model. They never acknowledged her contribution until after her death.
How many discoveries & innovations of #women do we attribute to the men who took credit for their ideas?
https://theconversation.com/sexism-pushed-rosalind-franklin-toward-the-scientific-sidelines-during-her-short-life-but-her-work-still-shines-on-her-100th-birthday-139249 #history #science #HistoryRemix
There are people on this platform who want no politics.
We didn’t move over from Twitter to talk about kittens everyday.
We needed a place to carry on our work. To carry on fighting injustice, racism, misogyny, antisemitism and anti-LGBTQ hate. Because these things are important no matter what platform we are using. That was the whole point of our #twittermigration
We don’t have the privilege to be quiet.
We didn’t move over from Twitter to talk about kittens everyday.
We needed a place to carry on our work. To carry on fighting injustice, racism, misogyny, antisemitism and anti-LGBTQ hate. Because these things are important no matter what platform we are using. That was the whole point of our #twittermigration
We don’t have the privilege to be quiet.
VeryBritishProblems“If I don’t see you before have a good Christmas!”
Narrator: They saw each other another eight times before Christmas.
Yesterday I refused to accept a parcel from Royal Mail as they were using agency workers to break the strike. Today I learned they have returned it to sender rather than redeliver when they don’t have to cross a picket line. I made it clear why I was refusing delivery on that day so I can only assume this is punishment for the “crime” of standing in solidarity. Am I wrong to feel such pride? #CWU #StandByYourPost #Solidarity
Kitty Grayling@LilacNanny Good for you. Beats me how agencies can morally justify supplying staff to cover striking workers. It’s so wrong. Wrong for the employer to use agency & wrong for agency to supply staff.
Yesterday I refused to accept a parcel from Royal Mail as they were using agency workers to break the strike. Today I learned they have returned it to sender rather than redeliver when they don’t have to cross a picket line. I made it clear why I was refusing delivery on that day so I can only assume this is punishment for the “crime” of standing in solidarity. Am I wrong to feel such pride? #CWU #StandByYourPost #Solidarity