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.
@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.
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
@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.
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.
@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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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
Why is Windows so bad at basic file operations? Isn't this supposed to be a Disk Operating System? Copying files is slow and unpredictable. Canceling file copies are bizarrely slow. If a file is added to a directory, I have to manually refresh for Windows Explorer to notice.
There is, in my downloads folder, a file named "2019-07-02 gutenberg.org.tar.part". I don't remember downloading this. Windows claims it to be several hundred gigabytes larger than my hard drive.
Dental crowns are one of those things that seem much more sophisticated than they are. They grind your tooth down to nothing and then glue a fake one on top.
@LouisIngenthron
Ouch!
My wisdom teeth were actually extracted using a clamp device (vice-grips?). I don't know exactly what the tool was because it was covered with a sterile cloth when I walked in. And they also covered my eyes with a sterile cloth "to protect them from possible debris". I know they just didn't want me to see them coming at me with vice-grips! 😃 @andrew
@LouisIngenthron
The first three extractions went well. But on the fourth and final one the tooth fell out of the clamp and into the back of my throat. Thankfully my tongue automatically pressed it against the roof of my mouth so I didn't inhale it.
The dentist made panicked sounds but the assistant had the sense to grab me and set me upright as I gagged on the tooth. I coughed it out and heard it ricochet off the wall and across the tile floor. @andrew
@LouisIngenthron
Then I started laughing as I imagined the panicked look on the dentist's face.
They laid me back in the chair and finished up. When they uncovered my eyes I was still chuckling occasionally and the dentist was nowhere to be seen. I explained to the assistant why I was laughing still but they didn't find it humorous. @andrew
@andrew
Yeah, had that done recently as too.
There was some real artistry in matching the crown to the real teeth colors. But a lot of it felt like body work on a car with simple techniques dinner well.
@andrew
"CEREC crown" is an interesting term so I looked it up. Very cool that they can make it that quickly.
Mine had to be made by offsite dental technician so it took about a week. They did mold and make a temp crown for me the save day they ground down the original tooth though.
Imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women's equality.
> Of all the things you’re going to hear about that video, here’s the most important one: The name “Nex Benedict” doesn’t come up for twenty minutes and eight seconds. Twenty-one minutes and ten seconds into the video, Lorenz has moved on to talking about something else.
@rysiek
That's for sharing this Micheal.
I learned a lot from it and now understand much better how badly I misread and misunderstood the situation when folks here were reacting negatively to Taylor's post about the article and interview.
Going forward I'll make myself ask:
Did this article about a trans person centering the trans person and their community?
If not, who is it centering and why?