Authentic photo shows JFK. Here's what we know about the man beside him
Kennedy and Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings were friends for 30 years after meeting at Choate Rosemary Hall school.
Bean soup has been on daily menu of US Senate dining room since 1903
One account attributes a supposed bean soup mandate to a Minnesota senator who expressed his fondness for it more than a century ago.
Space photo shows NYC shortly after 9/11
NASA published the photo years ago along with a journal written by the only American who was not on Earth during the terrorist attacks.
Meet Williamina Fleming, a 19th-century Scottish maid who became an astronomer
Fleming made major scientific discoveries and belonged to the Harvard Computers, a team of women who processed astronomical data at the university.
What We Leave Behind in TEL: The Silence Around Critical Pedagogy
In much of the UK's digital education research, there's a strong focus on scalability, platform integration, and institutional alignment.
What's often missing?
- Critical pedagogy
- Questions of power, justice, and values
- Grounded reflections on why we teach the way we do
In this blog post, I explore why those deeper questions are often absent -- and what we might do about it.
Read it here: elearning.home.nomagic.uk/0011…
I'd really welcome others' thoughts: are you seeing the same emphasis where you work?
#TEL #CriticalPedagogy #DigitalEducation #UKResearch #HigherEd
Why Critical Pedagogy and Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) Are Not Research Priorities in the UK
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Analyzing claim that Robin Williams had contract clause requiring all his movies to hire homeless people
Versions of claim about the comedian's unique contractual demand have been circulating online since at least 2014.
The Signal Has Gone Live: Welcome to Wish Green
The signal is live.
Just arrived in the Fediverse to start building something deeper.
I’m a conscious creator sharing thoughts, frequencies, questions, and real human upgrades.
This is #WishGreen 🌱
A flow, a project, a perspective shift.
If you think in layers, speak in symbols, or feel reality cracking—let’s connect.
#WishGreen #ConsciousCreator #Fediverse #TROM #OpenMinds #TruthSeekers #DigitalRoots
Unpacking claims that US dropped from 1st to 24th in education worldwide since 1979
Then-President Jimmy Carter established the Department of Education in 1979. President Donald Trump began to close it in 2025.
Photos don't show NASA astronaut returned to Earth with dark hair despite it being gray in space
Sunita "Suni" Williams had an unexpectedly long stay at the International Space Station after her capsule malfunctioned.
Hello Fediverse!
I'm Stephen Wheeler, an eLearning Technologist at The University of Manchester. My work focuses on online and distance learning, including MOOCs, OERs, and student-centred design rooted in critical pedagogy. I advocate for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and ethical, decentralised platforms that support authentic engagement and inclusive education.
I'm here to connect with fellow educators, technologists, and open education advocates, and to explore how platforms like Friendica can support collaborative, non-commercial educational spaces.
Looking forward to meaningful conversations across the Fediverse!
#EducationTechnology #CriticalPedagogy #FOSS #OpenEducation #Fediverse #DigitalLearning #AuthenticAssessment
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10 rumors about Trump's stated wishes to expand the US
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to annex Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal.
'District of America'? Fake audio features Trump pondering DC name change
The recording supposedly depicted Trump saying of Washington, D.C., "From now on, it will be Washington, D.A., District of America."
Here we stayed in a very nice free motorhome parking area in a mountain village called Cirat. Cirat has hiking trails, waterfalls and many beautiful lookouts (and also some microscopic creatures that we could observe through our microscope 😁)
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Ecopetrol: Whistleblower reveals Colombia oil giant's ‘awful’ pollution
Colombia’s Ecopetrol polluted hundreds of sites, including water sources and wetlands, the BBC finds.Owen Pinnell (BBC News)
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Thank you Michael for becoming our new Patreon! Although we primarily rely on the 200 for TROM campaign and the donations that go through it - see tromsite.com/donate - we also have a Patreon patreon.com/c/TROM and Liberapay account liberapay.com/TROM/ .
These accounts were up and running before the 200 for TROM campaign so we decided to not close them. After all we calculate all of the Patreon and Liberapay donations towards the 200 for TROM campaign.
Thank you to everyone who supports our project!
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Thurday Group
A busy session today with all sorts going on! Here's a selection:
We had an old USB keyboard which was awfully dirty. It had sticky and broken keys. Christopher took it home, bathed it in a cleaning solution and allowed it to dry. He then found a canny way to fixed the broken enter key.
Mohammed is a refugee from Iraq seeking asylum in this country. He is interested in learning web development. We are still working towards formal courses so, for the time being, we are offering him 1 hour 1-to-1 sessions learning HTML to start with. A laptop would help Mohammed in various ways. We provided one to him which had kindly been donated by one of our members' Mum. We refurbished the laptop and installed it with the empowering Linux Mint instead of Windows.
A great session and pleased to be serving the Swindon community!!
Many thanks to Joshua for becoming our new 200 for TROM supporter! This is so awesome to see people supporting TROM! tromsite.com/donate - We run many services and have a lot of original content that is trade-free for everyone.
Also thank you Nicholas again for donating 10 Euros! Much appreciated.
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Just found out that Meta stole 3 of my wife's books to train their AI.
Trying to decide if I'm more angry that they stole 3 of her books or that they didn't steal a single one of mine. 😕
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