@AlSweigart@mastodon.social 1) about as genuine a type of engineering as social engineering. 2) no (I am a statistician in academia, so I program every day, but not like that)
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@datarama@hachyderm.io For me it's Welsh mythology names/words. Some ones I remember over the years were morfran, ceridwen, and arianrhod.
This has been a really stressful couple of weeks, prepping Little e for high school launch. Last week it was foreign language placement, this week it was 504 accommodations. I think we landed where we needed to both times, happily.
Mr. eirias and I are cautiously optimistic. It will be a big change, moving from tiny high-privilege private school to large high-poverty public school. We think our young nonbinary alterna-teen is more likely to find their people there than in any of the other schools we thought about. I'm hoping there will be enough challenge in the classwork that they don't pull out all their feathers. We're both thinking that having to walk to school will be a positive change.
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@biogeo@mefi.social gosh that makes me smile. I lived in Arlington in 2009 and I used to visit Del Ray because it reminded me of home (my grad school neighborhood, the place I returned to when my fellowship ended). Your mom sounds like a lovely person.
There’s a protest scene in my neighborhood following a police homicide and the neighborhood listserv is doing the affluent liberals thing. Stifled the impulse to join in the useless ad hominem and instead explained how the untrustworthiness of cops is a problem that doesn’t go away when you shoo the grieving out of the intersection, but sticks around for all of us. Which of course got no traction. Sigh.
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@KatyElphinstone@mas.to This really resonates with what my family went through before our kid was diagnosed. There was a lot of effort put into controlling minorly odd behaviors like chewing on pencils or tipping back in a chair, but as the attempts to shape behavior intensified, the behaviors didn't really subside so much as get replaced with ones that really were problematic, like stealing stuff from teachers. At the same time we saw growing evidence of pretty intense stress (e.g. enuresis in a kid who previously had no bladder concerns). It was truly insane behavior on the part of the teachers, looking back, and we as parents went along with it because we didn't know what else to do. An awful time in our lives.
What on earth is the point of a May Day promotional poster that's obviously AI-generated?
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I wish the surgical waiting room had a quiet car.
Fuck domestic abusers sideways.
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@Zumbador this thread is really moving. Your father sounds like a remarkable human being. Best wishes to your family.
@ryanc truly beautiful engineering
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@maxleibman you know, that’s whimsical enough that it’s much less annoying. I feel like I’ve been invited to play pretend
My friend’s teen put together an amazing video about being intersex.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VZNX5L1K7TM&pp=iggUQAFKEFZqRGR5dzg1Zy1aQkZ5enk%3D
Red headed woodpecker today; plus, two flickers obviously courting.
Borrowing trouble is one thing but I’m like constantly overleveraged.
Mom's doing the hospital hokey pokey this week. Sigh.
Some training sessions leave me spent and waify and others leave me feeling like I could scale a tall building. Today was the second kind.
LB: Imagine an alternate world: "Are we diagnosing too many people as gay?" I think the act of diagnosis presupposes an external view and discards or at least downplays the experiential. With sexuality we now recognize this as silly, because the experiential IS the phenomenon. Will we get there with autism? #actuallyautistic
Who's up for a Ticketmaster hate-fest? Anyone?
You know, it feels pretty fitting that Biden was exiled from the political scene for being old, given that by 2022 his domestic policy around COVID was pretty much "who gives a fuck about old people, anyway?")
(This message brought to you by my kid testing positive this AM, most likely dooming my own travel plans to see my mother. We'll confirm molecularly before throwing in the towel, but damn.)
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@bit101@mstdn.social that is right up there with the pie chart that is actual pie, well done.