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This is absolutely bonkers (when you elect the worst people they - surprise! - keep doing the worst things). My employer - a university in Ontario - expressly prevents us from using attendance as a factor in grading - participation, yes, mere physical presence, no. Why would high school be any different?

Attendance to be worth up to 15% of Ontario high school students’ grades, exams required in most classes
Education Minister Paul Calandra also announced that most secondary school courses will need to have exams that are scheduled during a dedicated exam period.

Last October when I pruned my fig tree I threw the clippings into a moist bin in my basement in case some of them rooted. Which they did. Now I have to unload them on neighbors and passersby. "Hey, pssst: want a fig tree?" #figs #ficus #gardening

“In the long arc of our immigration enforcement history, Minnesota will be the major inflection point,”
Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow with the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute, told the Guardian.
“Accountability, at least the beginning of accountability, started in Minnesota after the death of Pretti.”
Now, the reckoning over ICE’s recent shooting of #Sosa

Wow things are going great.
#uspol

UK minister Josh Simons resigns over allegations that a think tank he led has probed some journalists and falsely linked them to a "pro-Kremlin" network (Henry Dyer/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/28/minister…

Das Wirtschaftsministerium unter #Reiche plant #Windkraft und #Solar auf Eis zu legen. Da man den Ausbau der Stromnetze verpennt hat, müsse man jetzt auch die erneuerbare Erzeugung bremsen…

It's Friday, spring is here (a bit too early) — it feels like a good day to share another minute recording of a variation of my Actiniaria piece which I worked on last spring and think also captures that much needed #BloomScrolling spirit...
See #Actiniaria for more context...

A long and constructive interview of Gordon Brown on this morning's BBC Today Programme. Even the interviewer, Amol Rajan, managed to limit his customary sneering. Well worth listening to.

Just a reminder that gardening centers will happily sell you plants such as Pelargonium citrosum that are supposedly able to repel mosquitoes. But don't be suckered. No plant has that ability even if thousands of Pinterest pages insist it's true. #mosquitoes #gardening #gardens #plants