I pick up on people's emotions and mental state. It's both a gift and a curse. All that to say the nervous energy around the house today was exhausting.
How do #parents, who aren't also sadists, justify staying in these #redStates where their #children will be given an objectively sub-standard #education, and be subject to arbitrary #cruelty by people who should be looking out for their welfare? If I was a #Texas parent, I would sell every possession to fund moving to a blue state.
What's dangerous about the anti-trans parental "rights" movement is that it taps into a belief even well-meaning #parents hold: that their #children belong to them.
“The recurrent theme seems to be local government using the wealth of the private family home to attack the private family, channeling money to teachers, librarians, etc. who want to undermine the authority of parents.”
As we approach #Halloween, it's time to remind #parents about carefully inspecting their #kids' #candy haul for meth / weed / molly / fentanyl / whatever else.
So, your reminder: don't do it. No one likes your #children enough to give them free #drugs.
#Parents: ⚠️ WSJ reporter explains that Hamass is warning people to delete the social media off their children’s phones by the weekend in preparation for hostage videos
Hello Mastodon #friends . I have been #busy at #work. Yesterday I worked till 7pm. I bought a membership to a local #gym and exercising takes time. I haven't had time to be online so I wanted to say hello and ask how are you doing? #Today I will drive to the east #Finland by a rental car. Wish me luck that everything goes well. I will go to see my #family - my twin #sister and my #parents and my brother's ex wife. I have a holiday today. 🫶🙂
I guess they weren't convinced the last time they marched a few weeks ago where allied #counterprotestors outnumbered them in Canadian cities like 5:1.
#Idaho Banned #Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births.
Since the #SupremeCourt overturned Roe v. Wade last year, the state’s GOP-led Legislature has disbanded a maternal mortality committee, failed to expand postpartum #Medicaid coverage and turned down federal grants for child care.
The worst advice I was ever given by a professor is that Gang of Four is the only programming book worth reading. After that, its just a matter of practice 🙃
@ramin_hal9001 yeah, I never learned BASIC unfortunately. C++ was the first language I started "fucking around with" when I was in middle school, upon discovering that you can download the source code to lots of software and change what its called, and the fonts and stuff, and rebuild it as "Blakiez Audacity++", and the only programming book I read before college was HACKING: The art of exploitation, which introduced me to Linux and some assembly concepts. but the first language I really got into was #Pd, because I wanted to be the next autechre at the time, and then went on to double major in new media art & philosophy at Bennington College. and basically anything you want to do for production-scale new media installation requires openFrameworks, a C++ framework.
but BASIC seems like a pretty good language for young people to learn. easy while reasonably low-level, facilitating the creation of interactive applications quick. I think these days, the best thing #parents can do for a kid interested in programming is to buy them HTDP with #racket, because its both gentle enough to not scare them away, while still going deep.
I also think I would have really fallen in love with programming as a kid had I been given a copy of "Starting #Forth". Forth would have really hit all the right buttons for me when I was young, when I loved just exploring low level stuff with no idea whats going on, just because it seemed so mysterious and weird.
Dunno how to tag or describe this but, I hate my parents. They're not worth hating. I want to forget. I want to waste less time hating them. It's been years. I don't know what, if anything, will help me let go.
Wrote this up on reddit. Didn't realize I was tearing up until I came here. Intellectually, they're gone. I know. Good as dead. But I'm still mad.