Get your learning on and take part in this lesson, online or in person, to educate yourself on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. I'm sure this will be super engaging!
https://www.tenement.org/events/the-tenement-museum-wnyc-the-triangle-fire-response-reform-and-reverberations/
#Triangleshirtwaistfire #educational

What Photographers Need to Know About Tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse https://petapixel.com/2025/03/13/what-photographers-need-to-know-about-tonights-total-lunar-eclipse/ #totallunareclipse #tipsandtricks #lunareclipse #Educational #nightscape #landscape #nightsky #eclipse #space #News #Tips #moon #sky

"Chinese and Indigenous communities have shared histories. We faced hardships together while mining for gold in the British Columbia gold rush and experiencing the rugged Canadian weather and terrain.

There are many graves on First Nations territories when Chinese people died from the flu and from the building of the railway, crushed by landslides, collapsing tunnels and premature blastings (Mittelstedt, 2014). The First Nations communities took in the Chinese railroad workers and care for their grave sites to this day (Mittelstedt, 2014). We enjoyed economic success and partnerships that were respectful and mutually beneficial (Ma, 2012). Chinese people leased lands (on First Nations) to farm and then hired Indigenous people to help farm the land (Mathur et al., 2011, p. 74). The Chinese built elaborate gold-mining operations among First Nations communities and perhaps most importantly our communities intermingled and there were many marriages between Chinese men and Indigenous women. In 1891, 98% of Chinese people in Canada lived in British Columbia (Barman, 2013, p. 1), which explains why there are such intimate ties between Chinese people and our First Nations communities in British Columbia. Unsurprisingly, one in six Chinese men created a family with a local Indigenous woman (Barman, 2013, p. 1)."

https://fccrwc.com/chinese-and-indigenous-history-relationships-canada/

The [#Trump] Dept of #Education issued a threatening letter this month addressed to all #educational institutions that receive federal funds. The letter offers an extreme & implausible interpretation of the #law governing #diversity, #equity & #inclusion policy. It demands that #schools abandon not just affirmative-action-like programs…but also policies that are blind to individuals’ race if those policies were adopted, even in part, to promote racial diversity.

#USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/opinion/education-department-dei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0E4.SPSK.JuIWL4DNvN1V&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

DIY - How to Make a Doll Wardrobe - Handmade - Fashion - Doll - Crafts

https://www.umifani.com/diy-how-to-make-a-doll-wardrobe-handmade-fashion-doll-crafts/?feed_id=6792&_unique_id=67a706c4a74b6&Mastodon

#reuse #15inch #Pullip #simple #10inch #Kid #easy #recycle #LPS #toys #crafting #beauty #craft #family #teen #Childrens #diy #friendly #AG #barbiewardrobe #handmade #kids #recycling #doityourself #positive #BarbieBasic #homemade #educational #BarbieStyle #wardrobe #good #SoinStyle #Howto #m...

hello, friends: a quick guide to what you can expect from me here in the Fediverse

+ inspirational quotes, positive affirmations
+ boosted #educational content
+ pics of #cats and cuteness
+ feel good things, places
+ music I like e.g. #bonkwave

Thank you, I love you xoxo
#introductions #aboutme

Butch is growing up fast. He is full of spunk and attitude. Read his full story in the PDF version of the Summer 2024 issue of the "Big Cat Chronicles" at https://www.turpentinecreek.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TCWR-2024-Q2-Newsletter-Web.pdf

Dead #trees are not wasted timber dollars - they are sources of food for literally thousands of beings in a #forest #ecosystem, from tiny microscopic beings to insectivorous birds. Standing dead trees are known as snags, while a fallen dead trees are nurse logs. A cut or natural stump can serve the same #ecological function as a #NurseStump.

Nature wastes nothing. If there is a nutrient source to be had, there is a being to benefit from it. Nurse logs, standing snags & nurse stumps play hosts to all sorts of mosses, lichens, fungi, insects & arthropods, many hidden deep inside, as well as other living beings that prey on them.

Nurse #stumps are still deeply rooted; new plant, tree & fungi life grows out of their tops. Nurse stumps & dead stumps that have no new growth atop are like anchor systems for living trees growing in forests. You destabilize the ecosystem when you remove them from their natural #environment.

If you haven't seen the #JohnPilger #documentaries about #Cambodia & how the #USgovernment is why #PolPot #KhmerRouge gained & retained power - please watch them.
It's important #geopolitical #history.
It was one of the worst #genocide atrocities in modern human history. Cambodians were #dehumanized like Vietnamese were. Both sovereign nations suffered many years of embargoes by US & their Western allies, along with with Cold War pals back then - China. US was still angry & bitter about losing their imperialist invasion in Vietnam & they opted to punish Cambodia, Vietnam & Laos - they are really sore losers.

As you watch these #documentary films - please try to pay attention to how US officials haven't really changed their scripts in decades. They use similar lies/political deflective/avoidance verbal dances to this day. In 2024, they're talking about Arabs like they used to talk about Cambodians, Vietnamese & Laotians - like none of us are human beings. It's just collateral damage when a million or more POC folks, far from Western worlds, are mass murdered for political power games.

Year Zero:
https://watchdocumentaries.com/year-zero-the-silent-death-of-cambodia

Year One:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SkUc5MrZ1JU

Return to Year Zero:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZBWtjKzVk

Before I head out for the day ->
Recommended #documentary film.

Between 1952 and 1960, Britain fought a vicious war in Kenya against the anticolonial Mau Mau movement. It was an exceptionally bloody conflict, with atrocities committed on both sides. For decades, many of the worst abuses by British colonial forces were kept hidden. Piecing together survivor testimonies and expert analysis from British and Kenyan historians, this film tells a complete and detailed story for the first time of how Britain was involved in systemic torture – including accounts of murders, rapes and forced castrations.

A Very British Way of Torture is a film by Ed McGown and produced by Rob Newman.

Document archive is courtesy of the UK National Archives.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K4sSGd2w_rk

Draw the Line Against #Transphobic Violence
Date: November 21, 2024 | 4:30pm ET to 6:00pm ET

Draw the Line Against Transphobic Violence will help participants recognize harmful dynamics, and build skills for fostering cultures of consent, gender inclusion, and healthier relationships. This session is designed for #students, #teachers / #educators, administrators, and staff in both secondary and post-secondary #schools.

https://pardot.egale.ca/e/1050202/ster-WN-G3VJukBuRHK-puhc2uPJ8Q/hgyn/65072068/h/cO8PtIWlVFQHRa4qu9ls-p-L_rdqXq_-w5DU6MDwBQo

Nohara Shiro, until his death in 1981, was a #Marxist #historian specializing in Chinese history and #ChinesePolitics who had also become strongly involved in the movement to eradicate pre-war feudal and fascist influences from #Japanese education and learning. The essay translated here originally appeared in his 1960 collection, History and Ideology in #Asia (Ajia no rekishi to shisb). Despite his personal preference for #Marxism over anarchism, Nohara’s approach to the subject is quite open-minded. The strengths of his essay are its focus upon practical organizing attempts rather than intellectual activities, and its revelation of the considerable #anarchist influence upon Li Dazhao, whom the #Communist Party has long claimed as its own. Whilst most of the early intellectual exponents of the anarchist idea either drifted away into obscurity, were converted to Marxism, or joined the bandwagon of the nationalist movement (some even becoming outright fascists), the organizing activities described here often became the building blocks for the subsequent communist movement. Nohara’s work is thus invaluable not only for shedding light on the role of anarchism as an intellectual stimulus for the Chinese #revolutionary movement as a whole, but also for making clear the political debt owed the anarchists in terms of practical activities.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nohara-shiro-anarchists-and-the-may-4-movement-in-china

Telling my friend about DOC #surfactant in creek. He was worried at first sight but it's not pollution. It is a #natural occurrence. It's an essential part of a healthy & functioning #forest #ecosystem.

Naturally occurring stream foam can be off-white, light tan, or brown. Formed by dissolved organic matter/dissolved #organic carbon (DOC). DOC results from the breakdown of organic debris, tannins & #watershed soils rich in organic materials.

I really want more people to discover the educational animations from TedEd . I know they get a lot of flak for their TedTalks , and I understand why that is, but these animations are completely seperate from those and in turn, are way more entertaining. Here's one that discusses the unusual sensations of hitting your elbow:

Why does hitting your funny bone feel so horrible? - Cella Wright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwYut9qF-jM

#educational
#animation
#TedEd