EvilK @EvilK@qoto.org

THEM: how do you do it
ME: sadly

I'm mad. Someone showed me this link:

https://www.mathartfun.com/

And now I'm broke. 😡

But, I have to do some research (playing with toys) to figure out this lesson idea I have that involves various weighted dice-- and they have a lot of really fun dies. Well, if I like this lesson idea I'll make the school buy me the next batch. Purchase orders are such a drag.

Hope everyone had/is having a lovely Saturday! Here's a picture to brighten up your day #Caturday

"Hover Cat"

My kid always lies down on bed after he is fully dressed with a crisply ironed uniform for school. I always yell at him because it creases the uniform.

Today I lied down on the bed fully dressed for work. You know what, he has a point.

remember a few years ago when we could barely find a Popeye’s chicken sandwich, and now we can barely find the will to live

Me: I will only live in a city with a vibrant public culture.

Me When Summer Event/Concert Season Starts Up: WHAT COMPLETELY INVALID FESTIVAL FOR DICKS IS HAPPENING IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD THAT EVERY FUCKFACE SUBURBAN WANKER IN THREE COUNTIES HAS TAKEN UP ALL THE PARKING SPOTS INSTEAD OF DYING LIKE THEY SHOULD??

I'm barely a suicide survivor. It's not that I never felt that way again, it's more that I understood that the darkness passes. Hope all reading this know it too. Let's all stay alive together.

Welcome to your 40s, if you wake up without any body aches you are eligible to drink the wine you have been saving for special occasions.

I learned today that 5 of my books are among the more than 1600 books banned in some schools right now.

https://pen.org/index-of-school-book-bans-2022/

For more information
https://pen.org/issue/free-the-books/

@freemo @AmpBenzScientist @MelodyCooper @stormy178 Just about all tech is descended from weapons! The two basic human technologies are fire and sharp objects; everything else comes from those two.

More specifically, engines are descended from cannon. Newcomen was having no success with his steam power experiments until he hired a cannon maker to produce the cylinders. Then he finally had a good enough seal to make his engine work.

@MelodyCooper

What an ignorant and uninformed way to view the problem.

It sounds pretty much equivalent to saying things like:

"Oh why oh why are cars still legal when kids are dying in car accidents"

Or even worse yet: "If we made vaccines illegal people would stop dying of vaccines.

The reason is because these viewpoints are ignorant of the big picture. Guns save lives, and prevent incidents from happening, they also cause incidents. Any real argument looks at all of that at frames the issue as one of violence first and foremost.

No we arent "oh but we like our toys".. no its more like "Well these tools help us prevent deaths too, so we wont give them up over a poorly framed emotional argument.

@stormy178@mastodon.stormy178.com

I’d like to wish a joyous and blessed Eid al-Fitr to Muslims around the world gathering with friends, families and neighbours to mark the end of Ramadan.

Especially to my family in Sudan who are currently locked down as bullets rain across the city. May Allah open the doors of peace and safety for you. عيد مبارك

Yours sincerely

Fun fact: In 1930, the 22-million-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated 90 degrees over a month at a rate of 15 inches per hour, while 600 employees worked inside. Despite the slow movement, there was no interruption to the building's services, and none of the employees felt it move. #ConstructionHistory #StructuralEngineering

My inability to grasp how to let people into my life is only dwarfed by my inability to grasp how to let those who’ve been let in eventually go.