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rjblaskiewicz, to random
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I got my election assignment yesterday. I'm now an election worker. Not a volunteer. You get money for it. Not a huge amount. My thinking is that I have students who think the last presidential election was stolen. Well, shit, I think, I might as well go in and be able to tell them from personal experience how elections are run.

As best I can tell, it's by checklist. Checklists read aloud.

roytoo,
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@rjblaskiewicz
That is great Bob! My wife has been a poll worker in several recent elections and it was interesting and reassuring when she described how things works at her locations.

rysiek, to random
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Okay, so, podcasts are great but sometimes I prefer to read instead of listen. 🤔

So what if – hear me out – there was a thing like podcasts, but for text! 🤯

It would still be distributed via RSS, you could still follow them and automagically pull them to your device. But instead of audio, there would be text. ✏️

👉 We could call them: textcasts!

And get this: I already have one! It was super easy to set up, actually. You can find it here:
https://rys.io/en/feed.rss

roytoo,
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@rysiek
I've added your textcasts feed (blog 😉 ) to my RSS reader. Slowly going through your older posts and looking forward to new posts when you make them.

roytoo, to random
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@rysiek posted a great fandom mashup photo for May the 4th here:
https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/112380636158676013

It had lots of great comments and this one by @FantasmitaAsex :
https://todon.eu/@FantasmitaAsex/112381784685457733
caught my eye and inspired me to try to add in the missing Babylon 5 and Doctor Who they mentioned.
Been a long time since I tried any serious photo editing but it came out pretty good (other than the plastic packaging).

rjblaskiewicz, to random
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I talked to my students about the war in Gaza and asked about the climate on campus. They were saying that people were so entrenched and they were confused about who was who and why and all that. They mostly don't have clear opinions. They seem to think they are expected to have strong opinions. There have been very few protests on campus that I'm aware of. Some pop-up displays about both sides of the issue. That's it.

roytoo,
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@rjblaskiewicz
Our 7th grade daughter asked Wednesday at dinner, "Aren't we supposed to be on [redacted]'s side?"
It prompted a good discussion as a family about how nuanced (and confusing) the current and historic situation is for Israel and Palestine.
We were pleasantly surprised that our 10th grader had been reading news about it on her own and already realized beforehand it was a not a clear cut situation.
Not unexpectedly both said no one is discussing it in classes or at school.
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GrimmReality, (edited ) to random
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Apparently someone RTed this tonight so I have done so as well but now I am going to embellish the RT with a quick note to say this is one of my favorite jokes ever done on this quantum multiwebsite and you should follow the delightful Ms. McFlurry if you don't already.
https://beige.party/@Alice/109594948136424134

roytoo,
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@GrimmReality
Thanks for the embellished RT, it persuaded me to follow Ms. McFlurry.

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