“Rod was a leader and a friend,” former President George W. Bush said of former Secretary of Education Rod Paige in a statement. “Unsatisfied with the status quo, he challenged what we called ‘the soft bigotry of low expectations.’"
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Person of the Day | Rod Paige, Mississippi Native and the First African American to be Secretary of Education, Dies at 92
Rod Paige, a Mississippi native who was the first African American to serve as U.S. education secretary, died Tuesday.Safiyah Riddle (Mississippi Free Press)
Trump vs BBC
Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion
over a documentary he claims removed portions of his speech on Jan 6, 2021,
in which he urged supporters to protest the 2020 election results peacefully.
Lawsuit's claims
The lawsuit accuses the BBC of defamation and violations of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act,
seeking $5 billion in damages for each claim.
BBC's response
The BBC says it will defend the lawsuit, saying it had
"no intention of misleading anyone"
and arguing Trump cannot sue in Florida because the documentary did not air in the U.S or run on its American website.
san.com/cc/trump-sues-bbc-for-…
Trump sues BBC for $10B over edited Jan. 6 speech
President Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion over a documentary that edited his Jan. 6, 2021, speech at the Capitol Ellipse.Shea Taylor (Straight Arrow News)
#CatsOfMastodon #catsofbluesky #catsuit #gatos #gatosdomastodon #gatosdomesticos #CatsOfFediverse #catsofpixelfed #кошка #кошачий #котят
Louis-Ferdinand Céline — Face à l'histoire
france.tv/france-5/face-a-l-hi…
Où vous apprendrez qu'en plus d'être un geignard et un planqué, c'est aussi un fuyard qui n'assume pas ses actes.
#vulgarisation #éducPop #histoire #littérature
Épisode 1 - Le virtuose de la colère - Documentaire en replay Face à l'histoire - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, le voyage sans retour
Chez Céline, l’écriture a toujours été une lutte contre le papier, un combat contre des ennemis imaginaires, un poison lent qui le ronge depuis l’enfance....France Télévisions
Moi ce qui me rend ouf c'est quand c'est Céline ou Queneau qui écrivent avec des familiarités et un style popu c'est génie mais quand c'est Aya Nakamura, là c'est pas ma France, c'est pas la grande littérature ouh là là.
Bref perdez pas votre temps avec Céline, le monde regorge bien assez de bouquins et chers profs, arrêtez de faire lire ça aux mômes, la société est bien assez misanthrope…
Je dois être chanceux, on ne m'a jamais fait lire du Céline. Peut-être à la rigueur de brèves citations mais pas de bouquins en entier.
C'était plutôt JJ Rousseau pour moi. Pas toujours marrant à lire quand t'es ado, mais au moins c'est pas Rance National...
Every story has an end. Today I say goodbye to my longest relationship, the Logitech Marble, after more than 20 years, for better or worse.
All hail my new Kensington Orbit.
I use a trackball on my left side, so my options are limited to just a few ambidextrous models on the market (the Orbit and the Expert).
So far, the Orbit feels less ergonomic than the Logitech: the ball is too high, and with my small hands my fingers overstretch to manipulate it l but I don’t have much choice.
Much to my dismay, I've opened an Instagram account. Don't have the time or energy to be a pain in the butt about it, just quietly use it to find info I really can't access otherwise because public agencies and such don't offer a fuckin open alternative. So annoyed.
Question: A few weeks I saw pass by on the Mastodon TL a concise, technically inclined blog post explaining anti-cheat software in Windows gaming and why you don't find it working on Linux. The author's Mastopost about it used some specific wording like "This describes the world as it is, not as we want it to be". I am trying to find this to link it to a friend. Does anyone know what this post might have been?
EDIT: Via @pearl it was this tulach.cc/the-issue-of-anti-ch…
The issue of anti-cheat on Linux | Samuel Tulach
Why are developers so hesitant to bring anti-cheat solutions to Linux?The issue of anti-cheat on Linux | Samuel Tulach
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Have also made available on my substack... christinapagel.substack.com/p/beyond-the...
RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rw2kf…
Beyond the Headlines: Corrupti...
Beyond the Headlines: Corruption, Coercion and Power in Trump’s First Year
This is an article I wrote for Best for Britain's Diplomatic Cable on President Trump's first year of his second term.Christina Pagel (Making sense... of evidence, data, and the stories they tell)
I wrote about a year of Trump for Best for Britain's Diplomatic Cable, covering some authoritarian themes that haven't been making the headlines…. open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...Beyond the Headlines: Corrupti...
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Good article from Novara Media.
C/W for article as it does contain description of transphobia in two tribunals.
novaramedia.com/2025/12/16/ant…
Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One
Gender-critical campaigners had hoped that this year’s Supreme Court ruling would tee up US-style bathroom bills across the UK, throwing hundreds of thousands of pounds at lawsuits to exclude trans women from women’s spaces.Novara Media
MAGA turns on Trump after ‘vile, disgusting’ anti-Rob Reiner rant
https://www.silive.com/politics/2025/12/maga-turns-on-trump-after-vile-disgusting-anti-rob-reiner-rant.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Staten Island News @staten-island-news-SILivedotcom
MAGA turns on Trump after ‘vile, disgusting’ anti-Rob Reiner rant
But the president only doubled down on his screed.Tom Wrobleski | wrobleski@siadvance.com (silive)
Donate to World Central Kitchen
World Central Kitchen https://giving.classy.org/campaign/746963/donatedonate.wck.org
A 3D printing enthusiast's view on LEGO's first 3D printed retail product
The LEGO Group boards the additive manufacturing train.Oliver Johnson (TCT)
House of the Rising Sun
Woody Guthrie
There is a house in New Orleans
You call the Rising Sun
It's been the ruin of many a poor soul
And me, oh God, I'm one
If I'd listened to what mama said
I'd be at home today
Being so young and foolish, poor girl
#mastobada -Young
Woody Guthrie enregistre la chanson en 1941. La plus vielle version écrit date de 1925.
La version qui popularise cette chanson folk américaine, et celle des Animals en 64.
Kinene⭐🐻
in reply to Chuck Darwin • • •Don Pedo doesn't understand (or care about) international law. BBC is British, to sue them, I believe he would have to do it in the British court system.
Jurisdiction, dude.🤦