Qatar helps natural gas flow to Syria via Turkiye https://www.byteseu.com/1251854/ #announced #Arab #Azerbaijan #brotherly #Commencement #deepening #development #FUND #Gas #milestone #nations #natural #opening #pipeline #Qatar #QFFD #regional #Republic #RepublicOfAzerbaijan #solidarity #supply #Syrian #through #ties #Türkiye
Hey #MastoBrain.
Why is a university graduation ceremony sometimes called a commencement? What commences?
Trump told West Point grads at commencement: “A lot of TROPHY WIVES doesn’t work out. (sic) But it made them happy for a little while at least.”
Dead silence.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_vi2w9gIWus&feature=shared
#Trump rambles about '#trophywives' during #WestPoint #commencement speech
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-trophy-wife/
#BostonWeekend 43/x
Graduation season continues through June and @hmelman
was kind enough to compile this listing of #Boston area graduation ceremony activities
5/16 #Simmons Commencement at MGM Music Hall at Fenway
- 5/17 #Bentley Commencement at Bentley University Football Stadium
- 5/17 #Lesley Commencement at the Leader Bank Pavilion
- 5/18 #BU Commencement at Nickerson Field
- 5/18 #Tufts Commencement at Tufts Green
5/18 #Suffolk Univ Commencement at Leader Bank Pavilion
- 5/18 #Brandeis Commencement at Brandeis Gosman Sports and Convention Center
- 5/19 #BC Commencement at Boston College Alumni Stadium
https://mastodon.social/@hmelman/114343656070549380
#Boston #graduation #Congratulations #Commencement #Massachusetts
Silent protesters push back against UK’s decision to end identity-based graduation celebrations https://www.byteseu.com/955579/ #Capilouto #CELEBRATIONS #ceremonies #Commencement #CraigBlair #graduation #GreatBritain #SilentProtest #UK #UnitedKingdom #UniversityOfKentucky
https://www.alojapan.com/1234315/university-of-maryland-global-campus-asia-commencement-2025/ University of Maryland Global Campus Asia Commencement 2025 #asia #ceremony #commencement #graduation #news #Okinawa #OkinawaNews #UniversityOfMaryland #沖縄 (University of Maryland Global Campus Asia) Okinawa–April 19 YOMITAN, OKINAWA, JAPAN – The University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) will hold its Okinawa commencement on Saturday, April 19, 2025, at the Yomitan Cultural Center, celebrating more than 190 graduates, including active-duty…
from #NewYorkTimes
Students Walk Out in #Protest at #Harvard #Commencement
Anger at the university’s decision to bar 13 seniors from the ceremony in the wake of campus demonstrations over the war in #Gaza was a flashpoint
#DefendStudentProtesters #USHandsOffICC #SolidarityWithPalestine #NotAntisemitism #CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael #IsraelWarCrimes
#FreePalestine #StopGazaGenocide
#Israel #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israel
"The pro-Palestine protesters marched to Epworth Church, a short walk away from Harvard Yard, where they hosted a “People’s Commencement” ceremony, in which they honored the 13 undergraduates who were denied diplomas from Harvard."
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/23/harvard-commencement-live-updates/
#Graduation #Commencement
#Harvard #Gaza
#Nuns #slam #HarrisonButker’s #college #speech for ‘#fostering #division’.
The #NFL #star's #controversial #commencement #speech was so #outoftouch that even the #school’s #nuns have #criticised it.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Misogyny #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
A march by Edward Elgar is the traditional soundtrack for American college commencements and high school graduations. It’s a stirring bit of music, but perhaps an odd choice, given its roots as a celebration of the British king.
Here’s a brief history of how it happened:
https://theconversation.com/how-a-british-military-march-became-the-distinctive-sound-of-american-graduations-230060
#news #commencement @academicchatter 
U.S. President Joe Biden is set to give a commencement address this Sunday at Morehouse, a historically Black college in Atlanta that counts Dr. Martin Luther King among its graduates. But the president’s coming speech has sparked consternation from the graduating class. Some students see Biden using Morehouse as a political tool for Black votes in an election year, and others are considering ways to protest his Middle East policies without overshadowing the celebration for their families. NPR has more.
The backlash over NFL player Harrison Butker's commencement address continues. NPR looks at the reaction to the Kansas City Chiefs kicker's speech, in which he said one of the most important titles a woman can hold is "homemaker," and railed against abortion rights, Pride Month, COVID-19 lockdowns, "dangerous gender ideologies" and the "cultural emasculation of men."
#BlackMastodon #commencement #campus #protests
Colson Whitehead (author of The Underground Railroad, Nickel Boys, and MUCH more) has canceled speaking at UMass Amherst due to the institution's reaction to student encampments.
Gift link:
Celebrating the accomplishments and #commencement of 2,400+ #MTSU graduates with Mace Carrier Dr. Hanna Terletska. #Physics #Chemistry
Good speech, worth listening to. Transcribed that for ya.
00:00
Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, would an idiot do that? And if they would, I do not do that thing.
00:08
Dwight Schrute.
00:11
The entire efficacy of this incredibly useful piece of information hinges upon your ability to pick the right idiot.
00:21
I wish there was a foolproof way to spot idiots, but counter-intuitively, some idiots are very smart. They can dazzle you with words and misdirection. They can get promoted above you at work. They can even be elected president.
00:48
If you want to be successful in this world, you have to develop your own idiot detection system. As part of the responsibilities of being your commencement speaker, I'm going to share mine. Sure, I'm naturally suspicious of people who never saw the original Star Wars movies, and even more cautious of people who loved the prequels and the sequels. But I admit, this is not a reliable idiot indicator. No.
01:18
The best way to spot an idiot, look for the person who is cruel. Let me explain. When we see someone who doesn't look like us or sound like us or act like us or love like us or live like us, the first thought that crosses almost everyone's brain is rooted in either fear or judgment or both. That's evolution.
01:44
We survived as a species by being suspicious of things that we aren't familiar with. In order to be kind, we have to shut down that animal instinct and force our brain to travel a different pathway. Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being. They require the mental capacity to step past our most primal urges. This may be a surprising assessment, because somewhere along the way in the last few years, our society has come to believe
02:14
that weaponized cruelty is part of some well-thought-out master plan. Cruelty is seen by some as an adroit cudgel to gain power. Empathy and kindness are considered weak. Many important people look at the vulnerable only as rungs on a ladder to the top. I'm here to tell you that when someone's path through this world is marked with acts of cruelty, they have failed the first test of an advanced society.
02:51
They never forced their animal brain to evolve past its first instinct. They never forged new mental pathways to overcome their own instinctual fears. And so, their thinking and problem solving will lack the imagination and creativity that the kindest people have in spades. Over my many years in politics and business, I have found one thing to be universally true. The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.
Giving a #commencement address at #Boston University, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav was met with a loud chant of "Pay your writers." https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/david-zaslav-booed-graduation-speech-writers-strike-1235620855/ #WGAStrike
Congratulations to the #SuffolkLaw Class of 2023! #Commencement
Steve Schmidt encourages *everyone* to listen to a "journalistic giant" give a commencement speech to the Columbia School of Journalism
"Christiane Amanpour delivered the commencement address at the Columbia University School of Journalism. It was a masterpiece. It is the most important address about the role of journalism in our modern era that has ever been given...
I encourage everyone to watch"
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