liv

@liv@beehaw.org

I’m new here and don’t know what to put in my profile. She/them, living in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

liv,

Thanks, this is a great article. It completely tallies with my experience teaching higher ed as well.

liv,

No, there are not handicapped stalls in the other bathrooms. In this particular art gallery/museum the womens’ and mens’ are very difficult even for some disabled people who can walk, because each is fitted with two fire doors (heavy doors that self close) - one to get into the sink area and another to access the stalls area.

If it was like @Tippon was saying, I might feel differently but this is in a new part of the building and they are only a few years old. There’s also an enormous supply closet next to them. It really shouldn’t have to be like this.

liv,

Thanks will repost

liv,

So cool!

askekammer, to politics Danish
@askekammer@mastodon.online avatar

This is the wildest obituary I've ever read.

H/t @politics

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

liv,

Me too.

liv,

Yes, it was quite good. They didn’t really cover all his genocide crimes. I guess it would take a book.

liv,

Wondeting what to give people for christmas. Having no energy and no money is a bad combination. One year I planned it months in advance and slowly made everyone hand-made gifts, but although they were touched by all the time and effort, no one really liked them. I think that goes better in movies.

liv,

Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and a member of its board, who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place.

I am so confused.

liv,

Ugh, yours sounds even worse than ours.

We just elected a centre-right party that needed to go into coalition with our most right-wing party, who are libertarians, and our most populist party. They finally formed yesterday and now we have a government that is going to destroy the environment and decimate social services.

liv,

I’m sorry. Just wanted to give you a virtual hug if you’d like one.

liv,

Maybe it’s because I live in a country where the police don’t carry guns (and sex work is legal), but I found it really hard to put my finger on exactly what they are advocating for here.

They seem to be saying that police only exist to enforce middle class interests? I don’t think that’s entirely true.

I would like to see more change in how policing is done, but the idea that communities self-police is idealistic. Sure they do in some ways, but it can be just as selective and just as damaging as anything police do.

liv,

In our case it was a city of about 40,000 that only existed for two weeks, so it’s hard to say how it might scale

Keeping order is one thing, but police do a bunch of things no one else has time for.

Endless follow ups, liaising with social workers, taking long statements for inquests, or spending all day protecting someone’s right to peacefully protest.

Americans are explaining why they don't say 'you're welcome' in customer service settings after foreigners complained that 'mmhmm' comes off as rude (www.insider.com)

I was watching a video from two years ago about different social norms and this showed up. Found someone questioning the same eight years ago on reddit (when it seemed less normalized). It feels so weird not being aware of this shift, even as a foreigner.

liv,

“c’est moi,” meaning, “it’s me who thanks you.”

Ah so that’s what that means. I thought I was mishearing. That’s pretty close to what I was brought up with, “it’s my pleasure” (meaning it’s me who is pleased to be helping).

The informal/vernacular in my country (NZ) is “sweet as” which puzzles most visitors, or sometimes “it’s all good”.

liv,

I was a bit offended by tourists doing that mmhmm thing until I found out that it’s considered polite in the US.

I was interpreting it as “yes I know you are thankful to me, and so you should be! By the way, I’m an oaf.”

liv,

Yes this was pretty telling:

Instead, an individual’s economic success would be tied directly to the quality of their work and the strength of their ideas. Gesell imagined this would create a Darwinian natural selection in the economy: “Free competition would favor the efficient and lead to their increased propagation.”

liv,

I thought they had already done it. I got the notification months ago.

liv,

Ah that explains it. Thanks!

John Oliver's campaign for puking mullet bird delays New Zealand vote for favorite feathered friend (apnews.com)

Oliver discovered a loophole in the rules, which allowed anybody with a valid email address to cast a vote. “After all, this is what democracy is all about,” Oliver said on his show. “America interfering in foreign elections.”...

liv,

The top result is already out. Obviously the John Oliver fans got their wish and Pūteketeke won. Thousands of them had to be disqualified for cheating, though.

We are all waiting now to see who is in second. Fingers crossed for the Fairy Tern, New Zealand’s most endangered bird!

liv,

That’s so cool that you’re doing NaNoWriMo! I’ve always felt too daunted by lack of plot. Let us know how it goes!

liv,

That sounds hard.

Do you meditate at all?.Sometimes it can help reset the critical inner voice.

liv,

That’s such a cool idea!

liv,

I’ve never used twitter in my life, still have a vague interest in what Musk is doing to it though.

liv,

I love it!

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • mdbf
  • ngwrru68w68
  • modclub
  • magazineikmin
  • thenastyranch
  • rosin
  • khanakhh
  • InstantRegret
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • Durango
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • megavids
  • GTA5RPClips
  • tacticalgear
  • normalnudes
  • tester
  • osvaldo12
  • everett
  • cubers
  • ethstaker
  • anitta
  • provamag3
  • Leos
  • cisconetworking
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •