I love being creative in many ways, and I think since I never do it for anyone but myself, it's really easy to never feel any pressure to start or finish things.. I get to be creative on my schedule, and it's a huge reason my desire to be creative has only ever increased with time
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Just learned that Alouette, Gentille Alouette is about preparing a lark for cooking and as a vegetarian, I have to ask if this is really an appropriate song to sing to children..... this is what I get for not learning enough French in school
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Ya'll I got the best Valentine's day gift ever from @silverwizard who commissioned a song from The Dollyrots based on Because I'm Awesome called Because Becky's Awesome 😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰
My only interaction with people on here thus far has been tangential to the small number of people I follow - but! @silverwizard has kindly introduced me to some communities in which I may be able to follow some more people. Very excited for this development, despite the fact that I'm very happy with who I follow (just would like to.... interact more)
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A very upsetting thread about casual #racism among educated people in Canada. Racism isn’t “somewhere else”, it doesn’t stem from a lack of education, it’s a culture.
Educated white people like me, check yourself.
Educated white people like me, check yourself.
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Sorry, I apologise for missing some key words there.
You don't think it's possible to buck the culture when it's an important thing to ingrain in to our kids, knowing how hard it might be to fight in areas later in life?
You don't think it's possible to buck the culture when it's an important thing to ingrain in to our kids, knowing how hard it might be to fight in areas later in life?
It definitely a start, but it won't be enough on its own. Environments like medical schools are exclusive enough to have a culture of their own regardless of the general environment. This means that kids taught about institutionalized racism may end up reneging their teachings once inside one of these environments.
We really need to work from all angles, and to do that it needs to be recognized from within the home, within the cultural connections via education and outside home activities and from a governmental perspective. And it has to be a consistent awareness from all three at the same time :/.. I mean, absolutely be better, and demand better.
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I think I'm a little more of an optimist if the kids have the right teachings under their belt - essentially to it being part of their character and having their wits about them enough to know when these problems exist.
I don't know what else we can do beyond start pushing government to get rid of for-profit education - or at least stop subsidizing institutions that are known to breed this sort of thing. That's a big ask, too.
I don't know what else we can do beyond start pushing government to get rid of for-profit education - or at least stop subsidizing institutions that are known to breed this sort of thing. That's a big ask, too.
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We all do what we can, which is gonna look different for each person. I would like to be optimistic, but I definitely am hesitant there when I see the effects of social pressures and how it can really change a person. But, I would never say do more than you a capable of. If you have power and can use it, great. I do think teaching children to fight racism is incredibly important, but it's hard for me to see it being enough on it's own
School is a part of kid's characters, but only a part. The family environment and their own personal sensibility are the two other major parts. So whether such a teaching would stick with all the students is highly debatable. Still worth it, just not the end of it all in itself.
And I'm very much with you on stripping government support from for-profit education. I don't think a ban is in order because it is neither desirable nor realistically achievable, but I'm opposed to the current public support with either accreditation or direct funding.
And I'm very much with you on stripping government support from for-profit education. I don't think a ban is in order because it is neither desirable nor realistically achievable, but I'm opposed to the current public support with either accreditation or direct funding.
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There is nothing about my kid learning to say no that I'm not stoked about (he was already pretty good at saying yes)
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Thinking I want to be a member of starfleet when I grow up would require me to desire to leave earth in a rocket on purpose. That sounds worse than a plane...
I suppose it is possible to be born in space, but if I was born in space, than I wouldn't have to cultural environment or the home environment to be me, and it's possible that I therefore wouldn't be afraid of heights in the same way ;)
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https://security.googleblog.com/2021/02/know-prevent-fix-framework-for-shifting.html?m=1
Google is just saying "We want to control Open Source"
Fuck 'em
Google is just saying "We want to control Open Source"
Fuck 'em
Know, Prevent, Fix: A framework for shifting the discussion around vulnerabilities in open source
Posted by Eric Brewer, Rob Pike, Abhishek Arya, Anne Bertucio and Kim Lewandowski Executive Summary: The security of open source softw...security.googleblog.com
So, I am reading a book called Saving Normal, which considers the expanding of mental illness categorization negatively and while that is a question and it is interesting to read about and I am happy to engage with the book.... I have some other thoughts about the perspective of the book
Which is complicated to me... it's perspective is protective of not having a mental illness, we are needing to "save" people from the pitfalls of being labeled as having a mental illness. And that isn't to say that I think everyone fits into having a mental illness, far from it, but just that maybe that perspective is problematic in some ways
There are certainly problems with being misdiagnosed, whether you are not mentally ill or simply have a different illness, and, like I said, I still want to engage with the books premise whether or not I agree with it. Just, I have mild problems with the perspective, it feels off to me..
#mentalhealth
If you have any good suggestions about who I should follow (especially if they talk about mental health, and definitely especially if they have too many followers to easily follow me back) so that I can have a more active page, that would be greatly appreciated 😊
If you have any good suggestions about who I should follow (especially if they talk about mental health, and definitely especially if they have too many followers to easily follow me back) so that I can have a more active page, that would be greatly appreciated 😊
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I was also, to a degree, gonna try to keep twitter and friendica separate. I have good friends there but it's exhausting content with little engagement in nuance, and really nuance is a place I thrive. I still think it has a place for me to engage, but probably more passively. I might also be imagining too perfect of a universe in my head tho, I really am too new to get a good grasp on that.
I was also, to a degree, gonna try to keep twitter and friendica separate. I have good friends there but it's exhausting content with little engagement in nuance, and really nuance is a place I thrive. I still think it has a place for me to engage, but probably more passively. I might also be imagining too perfect of a universe in my head tho, I really am too new to get a good grasp on that.
Fair enough, I do understand the lack of activity issue and following Twitter accounts from Friendica is a way to increase your feed's activity without being impacted by collateral content.
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I'm thinking about a post @silverwizard showed me a while ago about how friendica and mastodon are somehow not actually an example of a non-single source (I don't remember the exact phrase) open community-regulated social media and now that I have tipped my feet in, it makes even less sense to me how that could possibly be the case...
I ended up finding your "discussion" with them and, huh, I didn't get anything from it.
- Centralized instance is WRONG, self-hosting is HARD!
- Then what?
- Read my first sentence again, ha ha ha! *disappear in a puff of smoke*
- Centralized instance is WRONG, self-hosting is HARD!
- Then what?
- Read my first sentence again, ha ha ha! *disappear in a puff of smoke*
Yeah, I really tried to engage, and got... nothing.
I unfollowed, moved on, and, bitched to some friends (including my wife) about how this person was frustrating.
I unfollowed, moved on, and, bitched to some friends (including my wife) about how this person was frustrating.
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So... if anyone knows how to create a beautiful background image in settings for their friendica account, please let me know. I just commissioned some beautiful art that I would absolutely love to display (and credit, for she is an amazing artist, and everyone should look for work)... but I am still new, and still learning and @silverwizard doesn't seem to care about having a super customized appearance to his page/profile (which is ev (expected value) from him)
Thank you so much! I've finally gotten around to doing this (I don't go on my laptop much) and I appreciate the information
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#introduction #newhere
Hi, I'm Becky... you'll see me post about mental health, especially bipolar (which I have, but study, and am working on a podcast for), childcare (as I'm currently monitoring my 1.5 year old), and probably a little politics. Those will probably be my main things, but don't be surprised if I pop up randomly
Hi, I'm Becky... you'll see me post about mental health, especially bipolar (which I have, but study, and am working on a podcast for), childcare (as I'm currently monitoring my 1.5 year old), and probably a little politics. Those will probably be my main things, but don't be surprised if I pop up randomly
So @silverwizard was listening to a YouTube video this morning that had Mike Cernovich talking about memory, which I having been thinking about all day.
Mostly bc memory is *reconstructive*, which is very different from *false*. And in particular, I think it's really important to keep in mind that it is more likely to follow certain narratives only for really cogent socially important events...
Mostly bc memory is *reconstructive*, which is very different from *false*. And in particular, I think it's really important to keep in mind that it is more likely to follow certain narratives only for really cogent socially important events...
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What that actually means is, for the attack of 9/11, you may incorrectly remember certain details bc you have a social narrative of what you should remember... Also, reconstructive means you re-remember things by recreating it in your mind each time, that doesn't make it wholly inaccurate tho...
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I logged on to friendica for the first time, and, terrifyingly, was already met with not one, but *two* followers. I hope this will not turn into a scary version of twitter, where I already have a terrifying 60 followers...... After like only 1 year or so....
It's all good, just was a shock to my timid self lol, although I must warn you, you are not likely to get grumpy sysadmin rants from me, more like mental health and childcare rants
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Adding links, formatting and editing existing posts ist not possible with Fedilab nor DiCa.
DiCa ist available at the PlayStore or on Github.
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Fedilab works alright for just viewing any incoming post and comment without regard of threads. Anyway you may have noticed that you might switch to a related thread-view by tipping on any of these messages.
There is another app called DiCa, that has other limitations but lists only the contributions of your contacts without comments. Tipping on one of these brings you the related thread. So the start-view of the "Friends"-tab is less confusing.
By swiping to the left or right you change view between "friends", "public" (=local), "network" (=global), "my" (=personal) and "favorites".
#friendica #app #android #fedilab #dica
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