Hmm. Both of my grandmothers worked. Great-grandmothers, let's see. One didn't work outside the home because she had 13 children. One I'm not sure. And two I'm 100% sure they didn't work outside the home because they died young (from vaccine preventable diseases). The past was not great.
Starting in moments: from the author of "My search for the Nazi who saved my mother's life":
streamyard.com/watch/bNMYBh...
Starting in minutes! @karenkirsten.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPf9...
Oh, and look, here's that class action suit! That anyone with half a brain would have seen coming! From, like, a million miles away!
Just because you work in tech doesn't mean you're smart.
Exciting! This gizmo will *fly around on Saturn's planet-sized moon Titan*!
Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony Monday, April 13, 7-8:30 pm Higgins Middle School, 85 Perkins Street Peabody, Massachusetts 01960 Please join the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Salem State University (CHGS) for its annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony. This year's program will feature a memorial service and prayers, the Salem State University Community Chorus and a conversation with Karen Kirsten, an Australian-American author and Holocaust educator. She is the author of rena's Gift, a 2025 National Jewish Book Award finalist and winner of two Zibby Awards. Karen Kirsten grew up among refugees who didn't talk about the past. Determined to understand the generational trauma that cloaked her family in silence, and to help heal her mother's pain, Karen meticulously reconstructed an extraordinary saga. After several research trips to Poland, Karen reunited her mother with the heroes who had hidden her as a child and then facilitated awarding them Righteous Among the Nations medals. This ceremony is supported by the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston. The ceremony is free and open to the public. ZOOM IN PERSON It will take place in person, and will also be livestreamed on zoom. Registration is required: We encourage you to attend in person. This campus event is open and accessible to all members of the campus community. For accommodations and access information, visit salemstate.edu/access or email access@salemstate.edu. Please email us at chgs@salemstate.edu if you have any questions. Salem State University Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
This free Holocaust Remember event is April 13 and will feature Karen telling her incredible story about researching her mother's past. #holocaustremembranceday @salemstate.bsky.social @karenkirsten.bsky.social
These days I not only notice whether there's a rainbow flag. I notice what kind of rainbow flag. Those pink and blue stripes make me relax just a tiny bit.
Kansas City, April 7: Join the Apex Welcoming and Belonging Committee for a viewing of Big Sonia, a documentary featuring the life of Sonia Warshawski, one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors, with special guest Regina Kort, Sonia's daughter. tinyurl.com/bigsoniakc
Dr Griffin and Vincent discuss the research article: Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media (Science)
Excerpt from TWiV 1302: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
@danielgriffinmdphd.bsky.social
Also while I was fighting despair by sorting laundry and watering plants I want to say Happy International Women's Day to the women and especially the women who are in the closet about that
It's your day! Even if it's a secret
a painting of a white woman in the style of the 16th century. She appears to be about 40 and is dressed in black with a black headdresses and veil and an elaborate white collar. It is Catherine de Medici.
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catheri...
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
Great data analysis of what would US would be like if it were just an average country in its cohort of wealthy democracies, e.g. “the nation that would exist if our democracy functioned to serve the public rather than protect the already powerful”. [kottke.org]
The Alpha-gal syndrome convinced of that a while ago...
English just needs a phrase that conveys 'l'ironia della sorte': the irony of fate.
Ah, how sad for her.
I am unironically asking who she has in her life who has kept her sane.
I think about this a lot
from @donovanstreetpress.bsky.social, an excerpt from the recent podcast intervieeqw of @tessmartinart.com
I wish I'd been able to see this in person. www.tessmartinart.com#/how-now-hou...
….looks at camera…
A girl can dream....
@nicolaz.bsky.social event review.... "“She is Here” is an excellent and deeply personal introduction to both Griffith’s writing and her perspective on writing. "
I went to Walmart yesterday. Instead of Target. 2023-me would be agog.
Hey hey hey, be fair - sent to Kenya where humans annotate it under conditions that they allege violate laws against forced labour, human trafficking and modern slavery, unfair labour practices, intentional infliction of mental health harm, and more.
I'm speaking at this event in Richmond, Virginia, so come get fired up for science with me!
If you need a momentary distraction right now — and by heavens (literally) we all do — then here's a story about how our local supermassive black hole undergoes episodes of cosmic indigestion. The last one was just over a century ago!
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/our-milky-...
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Podcast Re-Creative from @donovanstreetpress.bsky.social featuring @tessmartinart.com #animation #yurinorstein #taleoftales
mahoneyj.substack.com/p/tess-martin
Mark A. Rayner and I talk to animator/filmmaker Tess Martin about a film that continues to inspire her: Yuri Norstein’s Tale of Tales (1979), a complex, surreal masterpiece. mahoneyj.substack.com/p/tess-martin
#animation
I love Mucha
