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GinevraCat

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#Neurodiverse family person. #Education, coding, play, science. Face the #ClimateEmergency.
Born at ~330ppm CO2
Good in a crisis, as long as it's someone else's.
#CovidIsNotOver

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RickiTarr, to random
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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr Small town in the East Netherlands.
Pros:
Town vibe, city amenities
Bike lanes everywhere, relatively safe so the kids take care of their own transport to and from events.
Big technical university, so plenty of students, pubs, theatre etc. People are generally really welcoming and nice.
Cons:
F🤬cking fireworks start in August/September and simply increase in volume and duration until the sky explodes at New Year. (The town has burnt down a few times in its history!)
No wilderness

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr Little known fact. Dutch youths are absolutely bonkers fanatic about fireworks! Having a party? Gotta be fireworks. A dutch team wins something? BOOM! Bored? Set off some fireworks.
And this town is pretty close to Germany where bigger fireworks are legal so plenty people buy there to set off here.

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr There are restrictions here too. It's technically illegal except on specific days (like New Year). But that law is so widely and completely ignored that there is no way to begin enforcing it.

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr Random video sample: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ti5KiYlkdw

Garwboy, to random
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Hivemind

What would be the most credible and/or reliable go-to resources for children/teens who want help with mental health matters at the moment?

I try to keep up with these things, but I am in my forties and it's starting to show

GinevraCat,
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@Garwboy What country?

cstross, to random
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Things they never taught you in Sunday school: that even after the apocalypse, there will still be committee meetings (and attendance is mandatory) … and then the dragons arrived.
https://hachyderm.io/@estherschindler/112394695998247902

GinevraCat,
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@cstross A friend of mine is head of sustainability for one of the provinces in South Africa. At the beginning of COVID she and her staff were working 16-20 hour days, desperately trying to get govt aid, vaccines, tests and information to people.
One staffer commented: I didn't think the apocalypse came with this much paperwork!

grrrr_shark, to random
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Came home from Munich with a bitch of a cold. Meh

GinevraCat,
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@grrrr_shark I usually get sick from travelling too. Bloody localized viruses...grumble, grumble.

bluecat, to random
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My daughter came home and told me her friend dumped her because she’s too bossy and I opened my big stupid mouth and said something like “well your other friends have also said they felt you were bossing them around, so what’s going on that everyone still feels this way?” And she ran down the hall screaming “HOW DARE I TRY TO TALK TO YOU AND EXPECT YOU TO MAKE ME FEEL BETTER YOU DONT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING!”

Then she locked me out of her room (she’s 10)

Sorry but what is the universe on today? For real though.

🤦🏻‍♀️

GinevraCat,
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@bluecat ☹️

Would it be ok if I recommended a phenomenal book on parenting teenage girls to you? (Explicative, not proscriptive).

GinevraCat,
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@bluecat It's this one by Lisa Damour https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25614847-untangled

I teach high school and I recommend this to all the parents of girls aged 11 to 17!!

It is a really accessible, fantastic explanation of what is actually happening in the teenage brain, how to deal with it gracefully, and if there is cause for concern. It really changed my relationship with my daughter for the better.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Same picture. Same bullshit.

A report card from year 10. It reads in part: English, Grade A, Dana is a very able and talented student who does not always give of her best. This failure to invest much energy in her English prevents her from achieving her full potential although this is not the say that this work is of an inferior standard. Also, Mathematics (Advanced), Grade A, Dana is a keen student but her work lacks discipline. She has a lot of ability but this needs further development.

GinevraCat,
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@NanoRaptor This is the report card of a gifted student in an inappropriate educational environment. Possibly also with ADHD. As you rightly infer, the problem lies in the environment.

GinevraCat,
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@NanoRaptor I recognise it both from my childhood and my students. I was only diagnosed at 44. ☹️. Still pissed off about how much self loathing I could have avoided.

grrrr_shark, to random
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Ate some chicken earlier from a sandwich where I skipped the bread.

Stomach is saying a massive fuck off to me now. MEH.

GinevraCat,
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@grrrr_shark BATH is always good.
One of the things I am most looking forward to in my new place is having one.

grrrr_shark, (edited ) to random
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Meh. Up at 7 am on Sunday after insomnia to go provide kid's psych with intake info. I hate my life 🤣😭

GinevraCat,
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@grrrr_shark UGH. And the intake info often assumes that you can remember all that stuff about them!

GinevraCat, to random
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I am experiencing a distinct lack of chocolate.

GinevraCat,
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@grrrr_shark :) Anything other than milk, and no nuts. (Dark is always a yes, white is a maybe!)

GinevraCat,
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@grrrr_shark Oh that sounds AMAZING! Thank-you.

GinevraCat, to random
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I am an exhausted wreck after about 2 weeks of 15+ hour days to get some crucial grading done before the hand in deadline.

So I am watching a bad action movie as compensation.

grrrr_shark, to random
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So bizarre.

Post op, my lowest incision was maybe an inch or two above my belly button.

Now the scar is like 6 inches above it.

So weird.

GinevraCat,
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@grrrr_shark Like a migrating tattoo!

RickiTarr, to random
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What kind of high-school experience did you have? Were you in a clique? Were you popular, unpopular, the coolest kid in your Homeschool? Did you have a sweet jean jacket with patches, or maybe a leather vest? Were you an evil villain or a Mary Sue?

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr Private girls only South African high school in the late 80s. Deeply conservative - uniform regulations included underwear. Hated every second. Ended up finishing at a different school because the headmaster was a bullying prick who decided that I was "silently rebellious."
In retrospect, asking if they would prefer me to be loudly rebellious was probably a mistake.

dgar, (edited ) to random
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David: Hey God, check this out! plays secret chord

God: Dude! Sick!

GinevraCat,
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@dgar Well played, sir.

RickiTarr, to random
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Hello! I want to do a Spooky Picture Prompt! So, find a picture in your camera roll that would represent the phrase:

Last Picture on the Camera Roll

This should be spooky, but completely up to your own interpretation. Here's one from me, with weird eclipse light.

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr Murder pit in the garden shed. The estate agent said it was to store potatoes in Winter, but that was clearly just an excuse.

grrrr_shark, to random
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I think I need a trip to Munich soon.

I miss my in-person friends so much.

GinevraCat,
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@grrrr_shark Oooooooooh, you can come past meeeeeeee!

GinevraCat, to random
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Good news and something to think on - we (as humans) usually drastically underestimate how much our fellow humans care about climate change!

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/willingness-climate-action

IzabelaKaramia, to random
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Slowly getting moving this morning. Down to the last 2 days here. Feelings tend to veer back and forth all over the place regarding it.

I've got stuff to get done today so I'll be ready to do the final things tomorrow and have myself ready for when my ride to the airport shows up to take Ginza and me there.

This week when I've been waking up and that gets Ginza moving, she gets up from where she sleeps between my legs and comes up to sniff my face. That's different.

GinevraCat,
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@IzabelaKaramia Are you able to plan time for a mini-collapse on the other side of this? Allow yourself a couple of days where you only have to drink tea, pet Ginza, and rest?

cstross, to random
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TFW you want to go to the pub for a regular social but you're so dizzy, tired, and low on energy you go to bed at 8pm instead, damnit. (No this is not COVID, just exhaustion: slept badly last night then had an early morning start.)

GinevraCat,
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@cstross Glad it's not COVID.

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