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GinevraCat

@GinevraCat@toot.community

#Neurodiverse family person. #Education, coding, play, science. Face the #ClimateEmergency.
Born at ~330ppm CO2
Good in a crisis, as long as it's someone else's.
#CovidIsNotOver

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luckytran, to random
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"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

Without vaccines, many transmissible diseases were once an early death sentence. People are so quick to forget how fortunate we are to have access to them.

GinevraCat,
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@irina @luckytran In the early 2010s I worked at a nursery school. One of our 3 year olds got measles and ended up in intensive care. His mom asked the Dr how this could happen to a vaccinated child. Doc replied that without the protection from the vaccination he'd have died.

RickiTarr, to random
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Hello! I want to do a Spooky Picture Prompt! So, find a picture in your camera roll that would represent the phrase:

Last Picture on the Camera Roll

This should be spooky, but completely up to your own interpretation. Here's one from me, with weird eclipse light.

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr Murder pit in the garden shed. The estate agent said it was to store potatoes in Winter, but that was clearly just an excuse.

RickiTarr, to random
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What kind of high-school experience did you have? Were you in a clique? Were you popular, unpopular, the coolest kid in your Homeschool? Did you have a sweet jean jacket with patches, or maybe a leather vest? Were you an evil villain or a Mary Sue?

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr Private girls only South African high school in the late 80s. Deeply conservative - uniform regulations included underwear. Hated every second. Ended up finishing at a different school because the headmaster was a bullying prick who decided that I was "silently rebellious."
In retrospect, asking if they would prefer me to be loudly rebellious was probably a mistake.

RickiTarr, to random
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HAPPY ART SHOW SUNDAY:
POETRY EDITION

I feel like doing something a little different today, so drop a piece of poetry you wrote! It can be old, new, or written on the spot. It can be funny, sad, dramatic, or challenging, whatever you feel like!

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

-Plato

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr

Christmas is shiny, and twinkly, and cold
But I can't feel the magic.
I feel sad. And old.
I miss my bright feelings
I miss my strong core
Miss my teenage metabolism
(More and more).

I still like to eat all the sugar and fat
Life's not at all fun if I can't even have that.
So screw you, cholesterol,
Screw you, eating plan
Now I'll look at the lights,
And scoff treats while I can.

(Bah, humbug).

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Half thinking of starting an hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.

Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail.

GinevraCat,
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@pvonhellermannn But, but…..it’s such an important and rich area of study. So much indigenous knowledge is lost because many younger ppl see it as old and boring. (Context here would be South Africa)

RickiTarr, to random
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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr There are restrictions here too. It's technically illegal except on specific days (like New Year). But that law is so widely and completely ignored that there is no way to begin enforcing it.

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr Random video sample: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ti5KiYlkdw

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr Little known fact. Dutch youths are absolutely bonkers fanatic about fireworks! Having a party? Gotta be fireworks. A dutch team wins something? BOOM! Bored? Set off some fireworks.
And this town is pretty close to Germany where bigger fireworks are legal so plenty people buy there to set off here.

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr Small town in the East Netherlands.
Pros:
Town vibe, city amenities
Bike lanes everywhere, relatively safe so the kids take care of their own transport to and from events.
Big technical university, so plenty of students, pubs, theatre etc. People are generally really welcoming and nice.
Cons:
F🤬cking fireworks start in August/September and simply increase in volume and duration until the sky explodes at New Year. (The town has burnt down a few times in its history!)
No wilderness

RickiTarr, to random
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Without looking it up tell me something you know about The Great Attractor.

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr It gets us all in the end!

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr For reals though, I know it's a super massive black hole. If I needed to know direction or position I'd have to Google.

RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all I just made myself feel so old, hubs looked up top 100 music from 2001, 2011, 2021, and today and the amount of music I could recognize decreased by significantly. I recognized probably 70% of 2001 and decreasing as I went on. BUT I blame the internet, I can listen to exactly the kind of music I want with no dependence on the radio, but also I'm old!

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr On my last birthday a friend sent me a list of 120 songs that are now 50 like me! I recognised most of them. That would not happen with a current playlist 🤦‍♀️.

RickiTarr, to random
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How much alone time vs socializing do you need?

For me there are a few people who are usually equalizing, and I can just be around them, so I won't count that. But generally, I find about 3 times a week, I'm game for socializing. A day in between to rest is usually nice, but the larger the gathering or if we go somewhere particularly noisy or I'm meeting new people that involves more effort, and my social battery empties sooner. I'm very curious where everyone else falls on this!

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr I teach high school. I need de-peopling time every day! And socialising.... 1 event on a weekend, then at least a weekend to rest!

RickiTarr, to random
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I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr Yes. White kids don't get exposed enough to pointing out and criticising racism. Leaving it in children's books, with a warning, and reading with them and discussing why this is wrong opens a conversation we should be having with them.
Willard Price's books are similarly slanted re: any indigenous people the (white) boys encounter. My son loved the adventures of these and I read them too to make him aware of the bias.

GinevraCat,
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@MikeImBack @RickiTarr Yes, this is a concern. I do worry about unconscious influence. I'm an adult and I know this can still affect me.

RickiTarr, to random
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It cracks me up when people say that people with ADD and ADHD don't actually need their meds, they are just addicted to Adderall. Have they even met a person with ADD or ADHD?
My friends forget to take their meds all the time!

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr Right. Because we LOOVE needing to remember to take our remembering meds!

pvonhellermannn, to random
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#ClimateDiary Ron DeSantis Makes “Climate Change Isn’t Real” Official Florida Law

😆😭😡🤣
(went for emojis as lost for words!)

https://newrepublic.com/post/181622/ron-desantis-climate-change-florida-law

GinevraCat,
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@rzeta0 @pvonhellermannn Time to read "The Demon Haunted World" by Carl Sagan again. He saw this coming nearly 30 years ago.

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what’s a headline from a better timeline you’d love to read?

#HeadlineFromABetterTimeline

GinevraCat,
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@seachanger Teacher shortages a thing of the past as salaries and working conditions improve.

#HeadlinesFromABetterTimeline

RickiTarr, to random
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What is the hardest you've ever worked?

If you want to tell me the hardest you've ever worked it, please provide photos.

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr First year teaching at a village school - 20 kids from ages 6 to 12, multiple (mild) special needs.I was setting up curricular and each kid got a personal weekly schedule. It was absolutely exhausting. I didn't have a free weekend that whole year.

GinevraCat, to random
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Good news and something to think on - we (as humans) usually drastically underestimate how much our fellow humans care about climate change!

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/willingness-climate-action

cstross, to random
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Things they never taught you in Sunday school: that even after the apocalypse, there will still be committee meetings (and attendance is mandatory) … and then the dragons arrived.
https://hachyderm.io/@estherschindler/112394695998247902

GinevraCat,
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@cstross A friend of mine is head of sustainability for one of the provinces in South Africa. At the beginning of COVID she and her staff were working 16-20 hour days, desperately trying to get govt aid, vaccines, tests and information to people.
One staffer commented: I didn't think the apocalypse came with this much paperwork!

GinevraCat, to random
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Does anyone else have the problem that only their fingers remember their passwords properly?
So I'm fine on a normal keyboard, but as soon as I have to enter them in a phone or mobile device I'm screwed!
#MuscleMemory

KatyElphinstone, to random
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Subject: Advantages of having an autism diagnosis,

#AskingAutistics, esp if you've got experience of seeking, getting, or considering getting, a diagnosis... for self and/or child.

What are/would be the benefits of the diagnosis?

Anything at all!

Reposts appreciated too ☺️

GinevraCat,
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@KatyElphinstone Diagnosis for my children- helpful for me to understand how to research helpful interventions, and request accommodations at school. Also, for my youngest, to understand him a bit better.

Cons: Diagnosis can be disadvantageous in some adult contexts e.g. here in the Netherlands, autistic or ADHD diagnosed people have to pay for an independent psychiatric evaluation before being able to apply for a driver's license. 1/2

msquebanh, (edited ) to disabled
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I'm struggling with seeing stuff ATM. This year will be 2nd one, without my . Me & my family still have from night my Dad died, after failed us all & he lost our personal protections when he was hospitalized in 2022 for ambulatory leg issues. I hate all & every single person who still supports BC NDP on on & citizens of . Not going to stop yelling.

GinevraCat,
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@msquebanh I'm so sorry about your loss. My dad passed away a few days before fathers' day 23 years ago. Also from a bug he got in a hospital.
It gets easier. (I still have flashes of rage, though.)

CindyWeinstein, to HashtagGames
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forgotten my favorite book from 2nd grade: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

GinevraCat,
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@CindyWeinstein That's such a good book!

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