tingilinde

the iphone of slide rules

Dave?

 

gop georgia district chair

A flat-earther

The movement is growing in evangelical circles..

 

 

 

splitting it up

Segmenting the UK into four regions of equal population and assigning  (supposedly) non-controversial capitals. One of the comments suggests a very clever name for the section containing most of Scotland.

a tip of the hat to Bjarne

 

an excellent and free banned book

The first edition of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World  is available on the Internet Archive in a number of formats - all free.  It's been banned in many schools and libraries in GOP dominated states because .. well .. science and critical thinking.  It holds up well after over 25 years.  When I read it, I hear him speaking.  This is one every high school student should read.  The same for adults who haven't read it yet.

 

 

 

 

making florida a magnet for bad cops

DeSantis is quite the despot .. of course he has a legislature and a lot of voters backing him up.

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However, among the almost 600 officers who moved to Florida and received the bonus – or were recruited in state – are a sizable number who either arrived with a range of complaints against them, or have since accrued criminal charges, the online media outlet Daily Dot has discovered.

They include a former trainee deputy with the Escambia county sheriff’s office charged with murdering her husband; an officer with the Miramar police department fired for domestic battery and kidnapping; and a former member of the New York police department (NYPD) who was hired by the Palm Beach police department having once been accused of an improper sexual proposition.

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the surge in gop fueled bookbanning

A very small number of activists are involved.

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The majority of the 1,000-plus book challenges analyzed by The Post were filed by just 11 people.
Each of these people brought 10 or more challenges against books in their school district; one man filed 92 challenges. Together, these serial filers constituted 6 percent of all book challengers — but were responsible for 60 percent of all filings.

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states to avoid

Certainly if you're non-binary, but this should also be useful for women - particularly those going to college.

 

co2 removal

Much is riding on the success of carbon dioxide removal.  There's been a good deal of pre-purchasing, but very little actually removed.  Many of the schemes are unproven - one of the most popular is to grow/cut/pelletize forests, burn them at generators while removing the carbon dioxide at the point of combustion where it's concentrated. These technologies tend to be expensive and inefficient, but...

Also, to really make a dent you need to be talking about removing a billion tons or more.

 

 

curb

blasphemy laws

 

the alternate graduation at new college

Neil Gaiman spoke by video at the alternative graduation event at the New College of Florida - the school Ron DeSantis ripped apart, turning it into a right wing/christian institution, funded by the state. This is the sort of thing more than a few right wing states are probably looking at as a model.

a tip of the hat to John