@Jakra@aus.social
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Jakra

@Jakra@aus.social

Science/IT teacher in a country Australian town. Don't really want to be identified by my students, so leaving it brief.

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ausfestivus, to random
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I wrote down some notes in an app yesterday, somewhere. Today I cant find them, nor can I recall where I wrote them.

Jakra,
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@ausfestivus I hate that!

bakuninboys, to random
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Setting up my own mail server took like a week. However, my escape from Google is one step closer.

Jakra,
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@bakuninboys email is one that I’ve always steered clear of. The risks are high, especially things like losing control of your domain name. Whoever gets your domain gets all your email. No thanks. Then add spam, viruses, managing blocklists. Then the issues of uptime, lost email, etc. All too hard for me!

Jakra, to auspol
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Labor-driven structural change is so far off the table it’s out the window
Labor is now the party of asset owners, while at the same time representing the assetless and poor. Therein lies a problem.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/05/15/federal-budget-labor-albanese-jim-chalmers/
#auspol #crikey #paywall #budget

Jakra, to auspol
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I read an article comparing the treatment of the gas industry with the education industry in the budget, but I can’t find it now, can’t remember where I read it. Anyone help me? #budget #auspol #education #climate

geordie, to random
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Not particularly technical friend had several drinks, changed their laptop password and set the password hint to "lol" so I'm dealing with that now.

Jakra,
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@Bern @geordie Ventoy makes the usb-booting process pretty easy! Just drop isos onto the partition on the drive, and it'll be instantly bootable. Can drop in as many isos as your usb drive will fit, then choose from them up boot time.

KathyReid, to random
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In the most glorious "fuck you" I have seen in a while, you know the book that Cumberland City Council banned because they're homophobic bigots - Holly Duhig's "A focus on Same Sex Parents"? Well, the publisher, BookLife Publishing, have made a PDF version of the book available for free.

Sure be a shame if it was shared far and wide now, wouldn't it?

Every time you ban a book filled with hope and kindness, and care and love, we will resist.

https://www.booklifepublishing.co.uk/a-focus-on/same-sex-parents/

#CumberlandCityCouncil #SameSexParents #BookBans #Bookstodon

Jakra,
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@KathyReid that’s fantastic!

Jakra, to random
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Very excited to see the aurora tonight! Really hoping it happens, and there isn't cloud cover! #aurora

samhkennedy, to auspol
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There are so many issues I have with citizenship and our security but one of the biggest hypocrisy of our gov is allowing people to keep their Australian citizenship if they fight for another country.

Who is to say is a friend or an enemy and there are so many people coming here and want citizenship because of wars in their country which has made it unsafe for their family. They want our citizenship and don’t want to be part of a war.

A person should automatically lose their Australian citizenship if they fight in another countries forces. No exception. They can re apply when they work out if they really want to live in a safe country. #auspol #citizenship

Jakra,
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@samhkennedy the exception were always stuck with is that we can’t make people stateless. So if they’re not a dual citizen, we can’t revoke their citizenship either way.

Richard_Littler, to bluesky
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Jack Dorsey is furious that has attracted "very very common" people. He also doesn't like the idea of moderation tools facilitating the banning of racists.

All these tech billionaires are like a version of the movie Big, in which a pre-adolescent boy wakes up in the body of an aging Howard Hughes. Or Colonel Kurtz. Or a sardine.

Jakra,
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@Richard_Littler I'm of the view that moderation shouldn't be necessary. The fact that it is necessary makes me cross. But its not the moderation that annoys me, its that fact that it was necessary in the first place. Couldn't people just not be dicks? The answer, sadly, always seems to be no.

Jakra, to music
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Heard Kalkadoon Man on ABC classic this morning, and I love it. It sounds really familiar, but I can’t pick what it reminds me of. Can anyone help me out? #music

john1954moi, to random
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I've rearranged my smartphone home screens, icons, and widgets. This has given me way too much satisfaction! 😎

Jakra,
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@john1954moi my phone screen is like my teenage bedroom. If I clean it up, how will I be able to find anything?! So it’s just stuck as it is, disorganised, but at least I know where to find each app.

Dinkenfunkle, to auspol

I see another employer has gone to the wall and said to employees: "You wont get paid your entitlements. Too bad, so sad."

So I'm starting to think that maybe employers over a certain size, say 10 full-time equivalents, should be required to pay into an Employee Entitlements Insurance scheme.*

Yes, I know it will drive the Libs and the various chambers of commerce berserk. That's what makes me think it's probably a good idea.

(*But FFS, do NOT hand it over to private enterprise to run.)

Jakra,
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@Dinkenfunkle workers need to be classed as higher order creditors than investors. Investors put their money in knowing there was risk. Employees aren’t investing money, they are being paid for their time. It should be employees first, customers second, investors/lenders last.
If that looks dodgy, don’t lend/invest with them. That choice isn’t a luxury employees have. #auspol

oldrawgabbit, to random
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Yes!!

Jakra,
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@oldrawgabbit this is the best way I’ve seen this expressed. Too often it’s people using the other plastic in shops to argue against banning plastic bags. It’s not the lag of bags that’s the problem, it’s the presence of all the other plastic forced upon us!

Jakra, to auspol
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Shame! Disgraceful! Time to split the Murdoch ‘news’ empire.
Anatomy of News Corp: What's behind a Sky News headline?

https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/04/29/sky-news-australia-news-corp-headlines/

nacho_borracho, to random
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I've expended more energy this morning trying to get the teen to clean his room than it would take to just clean it myself.

Jakra,
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@stib @nacho_borracho the ability to make a twenty minute job take hours is amazing. And then somehow it’s your fault that there’s no time left for other things!

Salvo, to random
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I started growing facial hair for the first time in nearly 50 years (midlife crisis? Probably).

I started using Moustache Wax and now my mouth feels like I’ve been giving celebrity blowjobs at Madame Tussauds .

Jakra,
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@Salvo I started in 2020, couldn’t be arsed shaving with the lockdowns. But yes, the moustache treatments are fairly unnecessary. I bought some, used it for a week, haven’t touched it since. Maybe if you’ve got a beard down to your knees, otherwise natural skin oils are sufficient.

ktempestbradford, to random
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Can my librarian and teacher friends speak to this epidemic of young people not knowing how to use computers? Cuz... wow

https://www.tumblr.com/s-leary/748660000648495104?source=share

Jakra,
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@ktempestbradford even the ones that use computers can only install and manage software via app stores. Pressing install on Steam is the extent of their experience. It’s like going back 20 years to when kids didn’t have any computer experience from home. They only learn it at school.

Jakra,
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@ktempestbradford or “why isn’t this app just a website?”

Jakra, to Teachers
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Fun quote from today's #Teachers #Union action in #westernaustralia
"Teachers working conditions are your child's learning conditions". Let's resource education properly. #education #perth

neenish_tart, to Unions
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Today, like many other West Australian teachers, I'm not going to work this morning.

It's interesting that our industrial action is represented in the media as about pay. We're not striking over salary - we're striking because the system is broken.

My son has had no Phys Ed teacher all year. He's had a procession of relief teachers which, for a special needs child, is extremely distressing. He attends an inner city public school, but staffing shortages are statewide.

Speaking of special needs students, I'd like to look after my own without having to skip lunch to ensure their needs are met.

I'd like the Education Department to give me a personal device so I can do my job
(more efficiently). If I want a laptop, I have to lease one.

I'd like an acknowledgement of how teaching has recently become more difficult and demanding, especially during #COVID19, when we kept schools open and tried to keep students safe.

I enforced the mask mandate far more often than a rank-and-file police officer. I've probably been threatened and assaulted more times than many police officers too. And the statewide mobile phone ban? Guess who enforces that every single day.

So many of my colleagues have left teaching: re-trained or resigned due to burnout and stress. Who suffers? The students.

It's not about the pay. We're tired, and we need support. We're underfunded and under-resourced. We need to improve conditions for students. We need to fix the system.

#sstuwa #union #unions #industrialaction #teachers #teaching #westernaustralia #Perth #solidarity #FixEd #australia #stopwork #strike

Jakra,
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@neenish_tart @FerdiMagellan the main issue is that private schooling has concentrated the demographics with the most behavioural problems, the trauma, the violence, the poverty into one set of schools, while the students from the families without those issues (statistically, not deterministically) go to private schools. It normalises bad behaviour for those in the public system.

Jakra,
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@neenish_tart @FerdiMagellan I think higher pay would attract more people, I don’t know that it would retain them. We have the central, fundamental problem of the emotional workload of dealing with awful behaviour. How can we fix that? Either let us remove badly behaved students, or reduce class sizes to the point where we can manage it.

bastardsheep, to auspol
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Yeah there were a lot of screwups in the Morrison Government's response, and further reviews are needed, but I honestly don't think a royal commission in to it is the right approach to take. To me that feels way too weaponised & bad faith, like the ceiling batts enquiry. #AusPol #Covid19Aus

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/22/overwhelming-need-for-royal-commission-into-covid-pandemic-response-in-australia-senate-committee-finds

Jakra,
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@bastardsheep I think we need a review to inform our future preparedness. Would a royal commission do that, or are they always about finger pointing? #auspol

Jakra, to Teachers
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A letter to parents from the SSTUWA
23 April stop work action
Dear parents,
It is likely that your child’s public school may be closed on the morning of Tuesday 23 April 2024. If it is open, it won’t be for lessons as normal.

Jakra,
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The SSTUWA’s community research suggests over 80 per cent of WA voters agree that all children deserve a quality education.
We agree too and that requires better salaries and working conditions for teachers and principals.

https://www.sstuwa.org.au/application/files/8417/1349/5973/Letter_to_parents_from_the_SSTUWA_-_19April24_11am.pdf

Jakra,
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This situation applies to the schools your children are being educated at if you are a parent of one of the 72 per cent of primary students or 66 per cent of secondary pupils who goes to a public school.
We want the public education system fixed. We want it fixed for the benefit of teachers, principals and above all for students. This is the first stop work action teachers have taken in over a decade. That’s how serious the situation has become for our members.

sortius, to auspol
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Talk about over policing. More cops than people at the 420 rally, but they let white supremacists march down Collins St #auspol #springst

Jakra,
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@sortius drugs are bad m’kay. Not sure what that says about Nazis.

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