We've been sent a huge questionnaire from our daughter's psychologist about her childhood and we are meeting with them in a few weeks time for an in depth interview.
There's some suggestion that she may be #autistic and this has played a major role in her troubles over recent years.
I'm suspending judgement because I don't know enough about the subject and Internet research on #autism in adult females isn't particularly helpful. I'm leaving this one to the professionals
I read a #scifi#book about an ice hauler that gets suddenly sent out of the solar system at relativistic speeds on the back of something that apparently isn't a comet, it starts as a survival story and then turns really interesting and weird.
@Nornennetz
und zu Unrecht von mir bei der Aufzählung zum Fragefreitag vergessen:
Diandra Linnemann (von der es nur einen Link zum Käfig gibt), deren Bücher man als hard boiled Urban-Fantasy bezeichnen könnte und die immer knapp am Horror vorbeischrammen. Bloß nicht von den Covern täuschen lassen!
@pernia@Owl who asked
i’m pretty 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 ig..
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Had a pretty quiet weekend, as I tried to stay off my wicked sore knees. Saturday was particularly awful, but they do seem to be ever so slowly getting better. I stayed in bed, took ibuprofen, kept them both iced down and played #NoMansSky on my ROG Ally. It plays very well on the little Z1. Amazing how they have kept the game relevant and getting better, after all these years. It is getting a little grindy, but I should probably push off my start planet and get exploring.
#Today has already been very busy and will only get busier. I drove my wife to work and took a foster kitty to the vets. Later, I'll meet some ex-coworkers for lunch about an hour away and hopefully pick up my wife on the way home. And then I will need to rest up for the #NHLBruins playoff game tonight. They looked really good on Saturday night. I really hope Coach Montgomery learned his lesson from last year and just sticks with the goalie rotation.
I finished "Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation" by Andrew Weissmann and found it so frustrating. He details the timidity that Mueller had pushing the investigation into places it should have gone (like a T**mp subpoena) but he gets grating when he writes about how "surprised" they all were at the lengths the Orange Menace would go to cover his own fat ass, from stonewalling to dangling pardons. Why keep getting surprised by it? #books#reading@bookstodon
Heute steht Faschist Höcke vor Gericht, weil er eine verbotene Nazi-Parole benutzt hat. Wir haben 50 Reden analysiert: Höcke wird anscheinend auffällig oft von Reden von Nazis wie Hitler, Goebbels & Co inspiriert. https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/hitler-steckt-in-hoecke/
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If Israel escalates by attacking Iran and striking at the country’s infrastructure, then Iran’s counter will be to take a page out of Russia’s book and commence the one line of attack which Israel, the US and their allies cannot withstand any better than Ukraine – that’s Electric War.
For the seven months which have elapsed since Hamas began its operation against Israel on October 7, and Israel commenced its genocide against the Palestinians, there has been no targeting by Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, or the Syrian and Iraqi groups of Israel’s highly vulnerable maritime gas platforms, gas pipelines, coal and oil-fired electricity generating plants, the coal and oil storages nearby, solar and wind power units, or the electricity grids keeping the country alight.
The Arab inhibitions and calculations are understandable. Iran’s will disappear if Israel triggers a new round of attacks.
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@criitz@worldnews I'm gonna start by debunking the myth that Israel is invulnerable because they have nuclear weapons. Since they have so many conventional precision weapons pointed at Israel, without nuclear weapons Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran are still able to take out strategic targets: missile launchers, AA weapons, radar, runways, facilities in important bases, etc. In addition to this, they can use the strategy even against protected locations like these powerplants striking them with barrages that first use a bunch of cheap projectiles like drones to break the air defense then get a bunch of conventional strikes through depriving Israel of electricity. They can also do this to other facilities like water treatment, forcing military logistics to shift to providing food and water for civilians. note that none of this has the domestic and international consequences of using nuclear weapons. Now something to know about Israel is that they're not able to do without these amenities and they require extremely high morale to be willing to fight since they live in a giant strip mall.
joke explanationit’s a response to colleagues putting skill of nocode / zerocode platforms in their CV and demanding onpar compensation — “subzero” here plays a double duty bc it’s a cool character and also bc code, you wrote but was never used, should be counted as negative work i.e. subzero code
#askmastodon #askfedi #poll
So questions of the day!
I generally like to ask this of older or experienced people in life.
Disclaimer a fun post, so if you troll it at least make it relevant
If today was your last day alive. #spring
In a paragraph or phrase what do you feel is the most important message to pass on to future generations?
I’ve thought about it for awhile. How would you choose, or prioritize a paragraph or so on the most important message for them that you value personally?!!🙏🥰
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Also: All we have to decide is what to do with the time we are given.
We also hope May will be a lower-Covid month. But by taking mitigation steps as a matter of course, we hope we can have a successful conference while acknowledging the new-normal.
(Thanks @phpledge for giving us some language & ideas to work with! And to some attendees who asked us about Covid policy, which made it easier for me to push a little from inside, too.)
Update: we've now heard from an attendee that they've mostly given up on participating in academic things because they are not inclusive and accessible, and thanking us for conference accessibility policy.
(In addition to requiring masking we planned for some remote participation from the get-go--and we know we will get some last-minute shifts, too.)
Anyway, we don't have to internalize & perpetuate the lousy ways our institutions treat us; better conferences are possible!
Het debuut van Shula Tas is een mooi, klein, autobiografisch verhaal. Ze is gaan samenwonen met haar vriend en daarom is het tijd om ruimte te maken op zolder. Die staat vol met dozen met allerlei spullen van haar ouders en grootouders. Shula studeerde zang aan het conservatorium. In die tijd moest ze ook voor haar zieke ouders zorgen, die al op leeftijd waren.
[VIDEO] Scenes of Al-Qassam targeting enemy soldiers and vehicles on the afternoon of the 27th of Ramadan in the Al-Zana area, east of the city of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip [subbed].
@Blyfh Well in the show she was 12, but it does seem they aged her up a bit. I'm just wondering how good her aim would be. I could see Toph with an SMG (and loving it), but the idea of her with a sniper rifle amuses me.
“It shows interdependency, and how connections and networks have been fundamental to economic success for hundreds and hundreds of years.” In this case, 1,400 years ago.
From the academic article: “We consider it most likely that the Byzantine silver fuelling the earliest northern European medieval coins was already available in a massive, but finite, reserve of bullion that had been imported and accumulated, probably during the sixth and early seventh centuries.” Very cool. @histodons