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Taking all the lessons learned from BLM and TRC from my 15 years on Twitter. Applying that anti-racist + anti-colonial lens to the Palestinian struggle against the settler colonial occupation of Israel. FREE PALESTINE. Decolonize. Resist. ✊🏽🇵🇸

Something very satisfying about a Nakba exhibit opening at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. Started by Israel Asper, a staunch supporter of the creation of the nation state of Israel and its terrorist paramilitary organization, Irgun, which lead the charge in the destruction of Palestine.

Chewing gum restores dad’s taste and smell years after Covid. A 12-week study found that using super-strength flavored chewing gums helps rebuild brain connections linked to taste and smell. Following the trial, 67% of participants reported improved smell and 83% saw improvements in taste.

Chewing gum restores dad’s taste and smell years after Covid - Discover SWNS

A dad who lost his sense of taste and smell for years after catching covid has had both senses restored - thanks to specially-developed chewing gum.

discover.swns.com

On this 83rd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, I’m thankful for the anti-Zionist Jews who see that their liberation is tied up in the liberation of Palestinians. Free Palestine from Israeli Zionist terror. (And remember: one need not be Jewish to be Israeli or Zionist.)

I realized two things yesterday. 1. For years, I didn't care at all about anything associated with rockets and going to space. 2. That's not right. I had just gotten sick to death of shitty billionaires and their performative expressions of wealth. I never stopped loving NASA and its mission.

Soooo…Israel just passed a law that allows the death penalty for one group of people but not the other. Um, so, like can we call Israel an apartheid, genocidal state in our classrooms yet without reprimand, or what? Asking for educators everywhere…

The point of a student essay is NOT assessment. (I know many colleagues also do not understand this.) Teaching (and "learning") towards assessment is empty, it means nothing. A student essay is an experience in thinking. Assessment is (at best) feedback, but is not essential. The thinking is.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

“…Now, in some Australian schools, once a student finishes an assignment an AI chatbot will interrogate them about it: put them on the spot in a two-way dialogue, to make sure they really understood what they wrote.”

“As bad”? Are you serious? How disingenuous. Anti-vaxxers actively created harm by not following the science & now the fucking measles are back. Long COVID is an *actual* condition that’s been silently killing younger people since the beginning—and especially now that govs have stopped reporting.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 6mo ago

Don't do this shit. You're just as bad as the anti-vaxxers who immediately blame the covid vaccine for people's death. Seriously, GTFOH with this baseless shit.