Michael Porter

@MichaelPorter
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Retired Chemistry, Physics, and Earth and Space Sciences teacher.

I have opinions and I like to argue, respectfully.

I’m a fierce advocate of a strong social safety net, including “free” healthcare, education, and mass transit. We’re better off as a society when we take care of our weakest members.

#ChemEd #ITeachPhysics

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Keeping my tradition of painting octopuses on the bottoms of tables in hotel rooms alive 😀

#ITeachPhysics Here's a great "real-world" discussion of the forces involved in centripetal acceleration 😄 😱

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/how-physics-and-a-video-game-trick-forever-changed-the-nascar-championships-33efad426f1b

How physics and a video game trick forever changed the NASCAR Championships

How physics and a video game trick forever changed the NASCAR Championships. Using physics, Ross Chastain floored it during the final turn, scraping the wall and passing 5 cars to advance to the NASCAR championship..

Starts With A Bang!
Dear public health colleagues, school board trustees, and other leaders, together let’s put forward motions for return of masks at work, school, essential services, on public transport. To address the current health crisis, it behooves us to use the tools we have. #BringBackMasks

Just remember, if it's not on Twitter, then it's not called a tweet.

It's just a sparkling short story.

Stephen Fry -one of the early adopters of #Twitter, joining the platform in 2008 and with 12 Million followers - has just deleted his account.

It kinda says it all really!

#TwitterExodus #ElonMusk #StephenFry

As a kid: "don't get in a stranger's car"
As a teenager: "don't trust strangers on the internet"
As an adult: "let me quickly summon a stranger on the internet with their car who drives me to the place I want to go"

Of course.
Wordle 508 3/6

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Seriously though, fedi was *built* by furries, trans and queer folk, disabled neurodivergent people.

This is *the reason* the culture here is what it is. Why CWs are a thing. Why image descriptions are a thing. Why privacy matters here. Why moderation tools not only exist, but are usable — and used.

If you had joined and asked yourself "wow, how come this place is so chill and kinda… nice?" — that's thanks to all the nice people from communities some people call "weird".

So #KeepFediWeird.

Baking my first non-sourdough loaf in ...a year? Two? Anyway, the little yeast beasties seem to be doing their job 😊
...Took them a while to wake up - the expiration date on the jar is 2018 😄
Has anyone migrated to another instance? I'm curious as to how much of my stuff (old posts, followers and followees) gets retained.