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My 12 year old who loves sport wrote a school speech that was a fiery repudiation of the misogyny of the sporty boys in her class, inspired by the fact they wouldn't pass to her in a soccer game. She addresses them directly in the speech to say that their behaviour is unacceptable and out of touch. It is amazing.

Her teacher, however, suggested she tone it down as it wasn't "all the boys" and also they might respond better if she made them like her.

Dear readers, she did not tone it down.

And at the heart of the garden is this chonking great pergola! Again, made by David Carter from The Coppice Plot, it is *so darned sturdy*. He set the main uprights on padstones. This pergola is going to last longer the new build house in the background, and that’s the truth.

The pergola looks down the wooded valley, and it really is a magical place.

#gardening #GardenDesign #ForestGarden #NativePlants #WildlifeGarden #WildFlowers

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Sprawdzajcie regularnie ciśnienie swoim zwierzakom. Zwłaszcza starszym. Nadciśnienie może prowadzić do niespodziewanych i bardzo nieprzyjemnych historii. Ahmed, słodka biało-ruda kuleczka, w ciągu kilku ostatnich dni praktycznie przestał widzieć. Kot chodzący po domu "na pamięć" to widok rozrywający serce. Okazało się, że z powodu nadciśnienia tętniczego doszło do odklejenia obu siatkówek. Szczęśliwie interwencja okulistyczna była w miarę wcześnie i jeśli leki na obniżenie ciśnienia przyniosą rezultat, to jest szansa, że wzrok wróci, ale gwarancji nie ma. Trzymajcie proszę kciuki za chłopaka.

Usefull search tricks for #Firefox Users:
Start typing your search with ^ to show only matches in your browsing history.
* to show only matches in your bookmarks.
% to show only matches in your currently open tabs.
# to show only matches where every search term is part of the title or part of a tag.
$ to show only matches where every search term is part of the web address (URL).

I think some of you don’t appreciate the Googling I have to do to for your obscure references to get your jokes and then favorite and boost them. I go above and beyond for you people.

#Linguistics #Phonetics
A WWII pronunciation map of southern English towns for #Polish airmen, I believe. Some real crackers in here. "Tanbrydż-Łelz" is a personal favourite. As is "Dżylynem".

PSA: If you see a woman respond to a troll, it is never--ever--helpful to respond to her with something along the lines of "just ignore them."

She's probably ignoring 100 (or more) for every 1 she chooses to respond to. She knows that the path of least resistance is to ignore the troll & move on. She doesn't need you to inform her of that option.

A response is a conscious decision. You are *not* helping when you criticize (because that's what this is) that decision.

♥️♥️♥️Shoutout to the staff of the hotel I stayed at for expertly de-escalating a Karen situation!

♥️♥️♥️And shoutout to the white hotel guests that stuck around to make sure that hotel security heard exactly what she was trying to do. My favorite comment: "Wow! A Karen situation in real life! I've only ever seen these online! This is surreal! What is she thinking?"

End result, yours truly did not get kicked out of the hotel for no reason, and feels slightly better about the state of the world.

kampania - kampanią, ale NIKT MNIE NIE POWSTRZYMA PRZED ZDJĘCIEM Z PIKACHU

MuseScore is an awesome program (musescore.org). But avoid the sinking sands of the service set up on musescore.com domain, made by the company that acquired both MuseScore and Audacity in recent years.

This stuff is a racket. I'd advise to install MuseScore from your Linux distribution's repository and never visit any websites associated with it.

MuseGroup's monetization schemes are vile.

Read more here:
gadanidis.ca/posts/2021-11-09-

#MuseScore #MuseGroup #OpenSource #FOSS #DarkPatterns

Czy podręczniki szkolne są odpowiednio monitorowane pod względem psychologicznym?

W podręczniku do religii “Jezu, czekamy na Ciebie” Wydawnictwa WAM przeznaczonym dla uczniów i uczennic 3 klasy szkoły podstawowej można przeczytać zdanie: “Wolę umrzeć niż zgrzeszyć”, które traktowane jest jako postanowienie przed przyjęciem komunii.

Mamy kryzys zdrowia psychicznego także wśród dzieci. W 2022 roku 2031 osób do 18 roku życia próbowało odebrać sobie życie. To rekordowa liczba.

Tymczasem średni czas oczekiwania do psychiatry dziecięcego w Polsce to 238 dni, a minister Czarnek próbuje łatać braki na etatach szkolnych psychologów osobami bez odpowiedniego wykształcenia, np. teologami, a nawet technikami-rolnikami.

Każde słowo może zostawić trwały ślad w psychice dziecka, szczególnie przy tak delikatnych tematach, jakimi są wiara i religia, a słowa “Wolę umrzeć niż zgrzeszyć” zdecydowanie nie są adekwatne do wieku odbiorców. 1/2

I've been on Mastodon for about a month and I think it's time that I properly introduce myself.

I love reading, drawing, and writing (working on stories and a book). I'd love to connect with a artists, authors, funny people, people who enjoy funny people...

I've also been working on a comic about squirrels and monkeys @mooshyandco.

I have 22 followers right now and that's awesome. You all are great! That said, I wonder if folks would be willing to boost this so I can meet more great people?

After the last upgrade our black-and-white laser printer refused to print saying it's out of yellow ink.

@bethsawin During lockdowns I walked by the sea every day, and I learned the beach was never shaped the same two days in a row. So many processes constantly at work.

Gdyby minister Czarnek umiał czytać między wierszami, to by wyciął z Chłopów Jagnę. A z Pana Tadeusza Telimenę.

LB: It’s probably weird to people who weren’t there in the pre-web-2.0 days. The internet used to be a fun place to explore. It was all passion-projects as far as the eye could see.

A Google search would give you page after page of useful, interesting personal web pages about the thing you were looking for.

It’s all buried in automated landfill now.

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