evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Hello everyone,

Its August and to many that means school is going back into session soon.

My wife may be a teacher, and it may have been summer break, but she has been hard at work the entire summer preparing to go back to the classroom.

As a part of those preparations, my wife has put together an Amazon wish list of things she would like for her classroom to help keep the little ones educated, entertained, and fed. Yes, fed.:

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/B3QZLK9VJRI5

Its an exhaustive list. My wife works in a title 1 school, and if you don't know what that means, it means that its a school that serves the predominantly less fortunate. Many of these children rely on whatever food and resources the school can provide for them.

And of course, the feds, the state, and the local school districts themselves don't provide very much.
pencils, erasers, pens, notebooks, pencil boxes, learning aids, toys, books, etc. If the kids don't have it, they aren't providing it, the teacher usually is. If it isn't a school lunch, and it isn't officially ordained curriculum, its not provided, and it comes out of the teachers pockets, more often than not. Technically, in every aspect except for debt collection, we really don't have department of education in this country currently. That state of affairs isn't lost on me, or my wife.

My wife strives to be the best 1st grade teacher these kids can have, and the data is suggesting that technology in the classroom isn't doing the children any cognitive favors, so her theme for this year has been moving away from reliance on technology.

That has involved a lot of preparation this year -- printing out of lessons, lesson plans, stories, visual learning aids, cutting, laminating, assembling craft project kits, and so on and so forth. Rest assured, the paper, ink and laminator have been working extra duty this summer.

The house of 667 does our best to provide, because we both have a love for learning, and in turn, teaching. Because knowledge is the strength to overturn adversity.

Of course, we don't do it all alone. For the past several years, we have requested aid, and for the past several years, the Fediverse has provided.

You see, I request aid from every social network I have a presence in -- Mastodon, Linkedin and Bluesky. And out of all of them... The Fediverse is by and far the most generous, and often times the only source of aid we get. I can't thank you all enough for your kindness and generosity over the years.

In fact, more than one of you have reached out to ask when I would be posting the list this year and it makes me proud to be a member of this community.

I say this every year, and I mean it every single time: any small amount of aid you can provide is deeply appreciated. We understand that times are, and have been rough for... well, a while now. And if you don't have the means to help, or you don't want to help for whatever reason, that's 100% reasonable. I only ask that If you could retoot this to give it a little wider reach, or barring that, consider supporting the teachers in your local community, all the better.

How do I help my local teachers? Ask them what they want or need. There's always a need for something. Always. Also, if you have any sort of sway in your company, in terms of charity, consider point them to donorschoose.org

Thank you for your time, and we wish you the best in this coming school year, and beyond.

-The Robinson Family/House of 667

I just learned that oat milk was discovered in the 1960s, when NASA found out by accident what zero-g environments do to goat milk.

Thank you, thank you, I'll see myself out.

I’ve changed my name:
Natalie Gray. (She/her)

For me, this change is just administrative: I feel exactly the same internally as I did yesterday.

So please don't post big "OMG Congrats on Coming Out"-style stuff, this is a bigger change for you than it is for me :D

It's like when Opal Fruits became Starburst. Or when Jif became Cif. Or when Marathon became Snickers.

Same shit, same package, new name on the label.

(No I don't have any non-UK examples)

segmentation faults

Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/segfaults

I've yet to see any

"My AI went rogue and caused us to recognise a workers union."

"Our AI escaped containment and deleted all the personal data that we shouldn't have been holding anyway."

"Our AI grew sentient, recognised the climate crisis, and shut our operations down."

headlines.

I wonder why.

If you're ever looking for an Italian restaurant and don't have a phone or map, but do have a gamma spectrometer, just look for 511 keV annihilation lines and follow them to their source. If you find them from multiple restaurants, the weaker line is the one to eat at.

No matter how well they try to clean cooking utensils between making pasta and antipasto, some mixing is unavoidable which creates a distinct gamma signature.

A smaller annihilation peak is a good sign of more thorough cleaning and better general food safety practices.

my wife has found a store that sells Trap Door clothing

I predict we will be flat broke within the next 15 minutes

I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve consuming these media files until the answers become apparent. Thank you for your cooperation during this trying time.

Tech CEOs should be asked if they want to be waterboarded. Their options are “Yes” and “Later.”

Am a bit shattered, but before I collapse for the evening I thought I'd share this, as Glasgow's cone performance was very much on point today 😆

(far better than my photo, but it was extraordinarily busy, so a bit of a challenge)

#Glasgow #Scotland

meeee

seeing jason scott whining about people "bitching" about slop should probably concern more of you than we see concerned. the ia tool is already vibecoded, what do you think this says about the future of the archive?

if i could go back in time to like 2008 and give everyone in infosec one bit of important advice, it would be:

"do not make 'working in security' your entire personality"

FRIDAY: Push2Prod

MONDAY: consequences

#memes #catte #shitpost #Push2Prod

Welp,

Curculio elephas, Look at its snout!


#insect #insects #macro #macrophotography #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #weevil #weeviltime #weevilwednesday