@comex@mas.to“Our parents kept us carefully isolated - from birth - from even witnessing examples of other children being disrespectful, and even the faintest disobedience gets slapped out of you starting as a baby.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/aella/p/the-joy-is-not-optional…
@UP8@mastodon.social👯♂️ Young men in UK more likely than women to live with parents
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/23/men-women-society-uk-housing-parents-women
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialI broke my parents blender trying to make this and now they are mad at me
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialThe fascists doing these razzia's don't care at all about children, even regardless of the legal status of their family members.
@brian_gettler@mas.toI've been a sportsball coach for a few years now. The kids can be maddeningly distracted, but for the most it's fun getting them to see things in the game they hadn't seen before and helping them get better. But holy shit I could do without the parents (and the opposing coaches) who take it all way too seriously. This is a game. These are kids. Can't we just shut our traps and let them enjoy it?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple unveils updates to help parents protect kids and teens, including easier Child Accounts setup, stronger defaults, and granular App Store age ratings (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/11/ios-26-expands-family-tool…
@sean@scoat.esI know this makes me one of those chlichéd people that listens to someone’s music after they pass, but…
Pet Sounds is a masterpiece album that I always undervalued.
My parents played the Beach Boys, quite a lot, when I was young. I should have explored this—more—as an adult.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsAbout morbid thriftiness (Autism Spectrum Condition)
As you may have noticed, I am morbidly thrifty. Usually I don't buy stuff that I don't need — and if I decide that I actually need something, I am going to ponder about it for a while, look for value products, and for the best price. And with some luck, I'm going to decide I don't need it that bad after all.
One reason for that is probably how I was raised. My parents taught me to be thrifty, so I have to be. It doesn't matter that, from retrospective, I see that their thriftiness was applied rather arbitrarily to some spendings and not others, or that perhaps they were greedy — spending less on individual things so that they could buy more. Well, I can't delude myself like that, so I have to be thrifty for real. And when I fail, when I pay too much, when I get cheated — I feel quite bad about it.
The other reason is that I keep worrying about my future. It doesn't matter how rich I may end up — I'll keep worrying that I'll run out of money in the future. Perhaps I'll lose a job and won't be able to find anything for a long time, Perhaps something terrible will happen and I'm going to need to pay a lot suddenly.
Another thing is that I easily get attached to objects. Well, it's easier to be thrifty when you really don't want to replace stuff. Over time you also learn to avoid getting new stuff at all, since the more stuff you have, the more stuff may break and need to be thrown away.
Finally, there's my environmental responsibility. I admit that I don't do enough — but at least the things I can do, I do.
[EDIT: and yes, I feel bad about how expensive my new phone was, even though it's of much higher quality than the last one. Also, I got a worse deal because I waited too long.]
#ActuallyAutistic
@hex@kolektiva.socialI have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
https://youtu.be/YtWOYUDMsBw
@servelan@newsie.socialPSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now
https://gizmodo.com/psa-get-your-parents-off-the-meta-ai-app-right-now-2000615122
@Xavier@infosec.exchange"It was a comment he couldn't take back, even though he deleted the words and never sent the email. School administrators saw it within an hour because of a monitoring software installed on school laptops."
I've had challenging kids and have dealt with school systems that don't give a fuck about protecting kids. They just hide behind the rules once they've decide you're a bad kid. I really feel for this guy. HE DIDN'T EVEN SEND THE EMAIL?!? Just p…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageIntergenerational AI Literacy in Korean Immigrant Families: Interpretive Gatekeeping Meets Convenient Critical Deferment
Jeongone Seo, Ryan Womack, Tawfiq Ammari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10197
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeThis was foreseeable. Want to go on vacation on the state's dime? Pull your kids out of school and get vouchers.
Reminds me of the time I saw my sister-in-law tell her first grader to read a book for a treat. That was her idea of teaching her kid how to read. Both she and my brother benefited from special education throughout their schooling. The state was fine with them homeschooling. I believe they were eventually convinced by her parents to send the kids back to school. My pare…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@rmdes@mstdn.social🎧 Avec Ricardo, explorez 40 minutes d’un récit intense sur OKC : comment une communauté hippie bouddhiste a dérivé, séparant parents et enfants, menant Š des abus. Aujourd’hui, certains de ces enfants luttent pour la justice.
Aidons-les dans leurs quête de Justice!
https://chardonsbleus.org/pod…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA Parkland shooting victim's parents created an AI version of their son to speak about gun safety, starting with an interview with journalist Jim Acosta (Jon Blistein/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cultu
@usul@piaille.fr
@benrosstransit@mastodon.socialCar culture at its absolute worst meets an unjust legal system. Parents lose a son and are then convicted of a felony because they let him walk across the street. Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion
@hex@kolektiva.socialLiberals would rather go to a peaceful candle light vigil for children who have had their parents stolen from them than brick a cop who's stealing parents away from their kids, and they wonder why all their politicians "are so concerned" about Gaza but aren't willing to actually do anything to stop arms shipments to Israel.
#USPol
@joe@toot.worksI don't own a lot of computers anymore that still have x86 chips in them. I'm going to pull my backup server out of my parents house and try to run it on that. This might be a fairly long process.
I should see if I can recover the docker containers that were running on it and put those onto my Mac Mini for the time being. I was incredibly good about keeping 3/2/1 backups.
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldIt was not the first time Princess Leia had beseeched her friend and Jedi master.
- Help me, Obi-Wan! I need dental insurance!
- Help me, Obi-Wan! My period is late!
- Help me, Obi-Wan! My parents won't share their Netflix password!
@shriramk@mastodon.socialHow to feel inadequate: TIL that Michael Holding — Whispering Death — preferred being a computer programmer to a professional cricketer, and worked as one well into his career. (This is from an article about the 1976 Oval match.) #Cricket
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSome kid on the pier is telling his parents how one time he saw an adder that big.
Me: wondering if it indeed was an adder or a grass snake (two snakes common in PL).
Me a minute ago: almost stomping a grass snake that big.
@teledyn@mstdn.casee also the #Anduril corporatese home page http://www.anduril.com for a slick peek at all the kewl weapons tech our #Instagram and #Facebook friends now power with their loyal attention.
Trouble is, telling them doesn't work. This frustration feels maybe something like what the kids say they feel like when their parents watch Fox?
@raiders@darktundra.xyzDeland McCullough using unimaginable life story to connect with players, fathers alike https://www.raiders.com/news/deland-mccullough-using-unimaginable-life-story-to-connect-with-players-fathers-alike
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe parents of a Parkland shooting victim created an AI version of their son to speak about gun safety, starting with an interview with journalist Jim Acosta (Jon Blistein/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cultu
@jake4480@c.imYou know it's coming, but you just never know. I was lucky to see Brian solo once, it was a magical show. RIP to this legend. I don't even know how to start with how much I love the Beach Boys. I've talked about it many times on here, how I really got into them in my teens, my parents had tapes (I wrote about my love for Wild Honey here:
@scott@carfree.citythis *sounds* like SFMTA agreed to painting full 20-foot red curbs at every intersection, rather than the mere 10 feet at stop-controlled intersections that has been traffic engineer Ricardo Olea's policy. if so, good! parent organizing worked!
https://www.k…
@mlawton@mstdn.social“Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families”
“[…] a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, insisted that “ICE does not separate families” and placed the onus on the families themselves, saying that the parents have the option of staying with their children by leaving the country together.”
Using children as a leverage to convince their parents to return (while seeking asylum!) or be separated? Disgusting & ghoulish!
@rberger@hachyderm.ioFascism in the USA:
Oklahoma Set to Teach Trump’s Election Lies in Public Schools as Parents and Teachers Push Back
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/oklahoma-set-to-teach-trumps-election-lies-in-public-schools-as-parents-and-teachers-push-back/
@cdarwin@c.imTexas parents frantically posted photos of their young daughters on social media with pleas for information as more than 20 campers from an all-girls summer camp were unaccounted for Friday after floods tore through the state’s south-central region.
At least 13 people were dead Friday and dozens missing after months worth of heavy rain fell in a matter of hours on Texas Hill Country, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said.
The flood-prone region is dotted with century-old summer …
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io“Wie der Herr, so’s Gescherr“*
*German expression that often children emulate negative character traits of their parents
https://gizmodo.com/round-them-up-grok-praises-hitler-as-elon-musks-ai-tool-goes-full-nazi-2000626156
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPete Buttigieg Doubles Down on Comments About the "Fairness" of Trans People in Sports (Samantha Riedel/them.)
https://www.them.us/story/pete-buttigieg-trans-athletes-parents-sports-fairness?client_service_name=them.&client_service_id=31178&service_user_id=1.78e 16&supported_service_name=instagram_publishing
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p148#a250806p148
@muz4now@mastodon.worldEducators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties?utm_source=fli…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzayippie im forced to travel a lot with my parents while this whole area is under a severe flash flood do-not-travel warning
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… Should work. I switched from WIndows to Mint last year and found it to be easy. Now, I am probably more computer savvy than your parents, but Mint's interface should be pretty easy for them, especially for the limited uses they want.
@servelan@newsie.socialHe gave children saline shots instead. Isn't that fraud?
I bet parents are pissed...
Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/covid-utah-pam-bondi-joe-biden-salt-lake-city-b2787978.html
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI work not far from where Salford University have their graduation ceremony and honestly I think it might be my favourite day of the year.
Whether it's proud parents looking awkward in posh suits & fancy frocks, or embarrassed students looking awkward in posh suits, fancy frocks and graduation gowns, it's a perfect people watching extravaganza.
@benrosstransit@mastodon.socialCar culture at its absolute worst meets an unjust legal system. Parents lose a son and are then convicted of a felony because they let him walk across the street. Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de“And note the rare special case illustrated by Harry S Truman: the S in this name never takes a full stop, because it's not an abbreviation for anything; President #Truman's parents actually gave him the middle name S.”
Wow, just wow. Didn't know. My world view is crumbling.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince:
🎵 Parents Just Don’t Understand
#DJJazzyJeff #theFreshPrince
https://open.spotify.com/track/4vEWRakctkzouRwOeR6BRQ
@brentsleeper@sfba.social“I would take my son’s MacBook away from him if he came to me with a presentation set in Arial.” https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/22/apple-can-convince-your-parents
@lilmikesf@c.im
@prachisrivas@masto.aiA good news story about the great gender preference divide.
After years of declining sex ratios that saw increases in female infanticide and missing girls, it seems there's a change.
'Globally, among babies born in 2000, a staggering 1.6m girls were missing from the number you would expect, given the natural sex ratio at birth. This year that number is likely to be 200,000—and it is still falling.'
Beautiful hope.
@raiders@darktundra.xyzDeland McCullough using unimaginable life story to connect with players, fathers alike https://www.raiders.com/news/deland-mccullough-using-unimaginable-life-story-to-connect-with-players-fathers-alike
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRaising Arch: How Cooper and Ellen prepared Texas' QB for the Manning family spotlight https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6448919/2025/06/25/arch-manning-texas-football-parents-cooper-ellen/
@cdarwin@c.imIn recent months, immigration agents, often masked, have arrested and detained undocumented people at court hearings, school drop-offs, and in one case, shortly after a mother gave birth.
💥The agency has, under many administrations, separated children from their parents, and denied people contact with lawyers and family members.
⚠️ And some high-profile cases seem politically motivated, as well:
In early March, ICE agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil,
a graduate student …
@grumpybozo@toad.socialAt 7 I was walking the 5-ish blocks to/from the neighborhood grocery store occasionally & exploring the patch of woods halfway there. By 9 I was biking over a mile to school every day and often further to my Dad’s apartment. All in University City, an inner suburb of St. Louis. Some of it crossing or riding on major arterial roads & crossing a freeway.
I wasn’t special in any of that. My sisters & kids in my neighborhood did it too.
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org...I didn't realize until I was an adult having parents who loved you and made it obvious they did day to day is so valuable...
A parent that loves their work also provides huge benefits, in my experience...
https://curiouscatlinks.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-was-lucky-…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzAI Models And Parents Don’t Understand ‘Let Him Cook’ https://www.404media.co/ai-models-and-parents-dont-understand-let-him-cook/
@gwire@mastodon.socialTender notices revealing the things you'd just assumed had been done already, haven't.
In this case the Police not having digitised old VHS tapes, something your parents managed to do almost decades ago.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/uk_police_dangl…
@samir@functional.computer@… @… My parents can’t go a year without bolting something onto their house. I think it’s pretty reasonable. It’s part of the reason I want to have my own place. (Also rent is the worst.)
@brian_gettler@mas.toThis generation of young'uns has a superpower: they can spend hours staring at their phone and never once notice the string of texts from their parents.
@ThatHoarder@mastodon.onlineWhen Harriet Impey started clearing out her childhood home after her parents died, she started with the clothes and was faced with a colossal quantity - which was a sign of things to come.
Back in January, she talked to me in episode 172 about the experience of clearing out a very large home of its very, very large volume of contents, and the way it was all immortalised in a film.
#WhereDragonsLive
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI complain about how often I find my parents in my house unexpectedly (they live fairly close) but I just came downstairs to discover one of them had left home grown strawberries and sweet peas in my house. They are temporarily forgiven!
@pre@boing.world
A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.caMe: searches "Google classroom report spam"
support.google.com search result:
> Welcome to the Google Classroom Help Community.
> Unfortunately, just as we can't control people who abuse email accounts by sending spam, we can't control those who create Google Classrooms for spam purposes.
> Simply ignore the emails and do not join the classroom.
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGranddaughter is visiting this weekend, without her parents giving them a break. We are off to Barrie's waterfront splash park near Centennial Beach. It's basically a series of bouncy castles on the water connected by slides and bridges. Thankfully, our youngest daughter is chaperoning the granddaughter because I could not keep up with a 9 year old.
#GetOutside #WaterSports
https://splashon.ca/
@cheryanne@aus.socialThe wee one is sick (again) so he'll be going to the doctor's instead of childcare tomorrow before being dropped off at his mum's.
Childcare: the gift that keeps on giving.
Too many people have to work and therefore the little ones go to kindy and childcare even when they're not well.
Because the parents have to work and feel they have no choice.
#UBI
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDisney and Hearst put A E Global Media, home to A&E Network, History, and Lifetime, up for sale; sources say it's unclear if it will be sold entirely or in part (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/ae-lifeti…
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaWe visited my parents yesterday and I decided to bring along my PS5/VR2 to see if my Dad would be interested in checking it out.
He was, so I hooked it up to their (20 year old and about to quit) TV and got it set up and tested for a minute with No Man's Sky to make sure everything was working as intended.
Dropped the hat on his head and set him up a custom save, all settings tuned to "easy mode", no combat or damage, all slots unlocked etc so he would be able to j…
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social @muz4now@mastodon.worldEducators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties?utm_source=fli…
@ruari@velocipederider.comJust relaying a story I told elsewhere.
When I was young, maybe around 5, there was a cat in our neighbourhood who regulary came into our garden. His name was Monty. He was a really nice cat and my brother, sister and I really liked him.
At some point our parents bought us a cat and we disgreed on what our cat should be called but in the end we agreed to just copy the other cat's name because we liked that one so much.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgI used the acronym "LLMs" after the word "AI" in a school parents' meeting today and only one other parent ( my husband) knew what it was.
Is it just a bit of jargon? Completely unknown? Or am I out of touch?
@rmdes@mstdn.social🎧 Avec Ricardo, explorez 40 minutes d’un récit intense sur OKC : comment une communauté hippie bouddhiste a dérivé, séparant parents et enfants, menant Š des abus. Aujourd’hui, certains de ces enfants luttent pour la justice.
Aidons-les dans leurs quête de Justice!
https://chardonsbl…
@jae@mastodon.me.ukOn a road trip with my parents and I am so excited their car has USB-C outlets.
@markrsmith@smithtodon.orgGenX didn't learn empathy from our parents. We had to learn it on the streets.
#GenX
@laxsill@social.spejset.orgstark och gullig halacha yomis (dagligt mail om judisk lag) idag https://oukosher.org/halacha-yomis/my-father-as…
@UP8@mastodon.social🤙 Sage iPhone for children review: ‘Would it make me want to divorce my parents?’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/16/sage-iphone-for-children-review-teenagers-internet-safe-smartphone
@brichapman@mastodon.socialBaby corals inherit heat tolerance from their parents, offering hope for the future of coral reefs facing climate change. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate
@seeingwithsound@mas.toParents of young blind children face ethical dilemmas both when applying or withholding sensory substitution options: children have greater brain plasticity, but long-term benefit of sensory substitution in daily life has not yet been firmly established, while mastering sensory substitution as an adult likely becomes harder and with more limited results. #ethics
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com"People want to believe, and the fact that it is AI generated is causing widespread crisis among people who thought that AI slop would only fool their parents."
We are witnessing the AI slop singularity.
https://www.404media.co/ai-bunnies-on-tram
@simon_lucy@mastodon.socialThe fledgeling starlings have started coming for food with their parents.
#birds #starlings
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.socialI blame my parents.
@Nael@pachyder.me@… @… peut être que l’un des parents s’appelle Ferrero ?
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMelissa Hortman's parents speak about slain Minnesota lawmaker and husband in first TV interview (Lilia Luciano/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/melissa-hortman-parents-harry-linda-patrick-haluptzok-cbs-news-interview/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p180#a250617p180
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhen women on the train are talking about their children staying up late, then themselves having to get up, turn the lights off and lock the doors behind them, and you're realize you're in the same situation… except, in your case it's the parents staying up late.
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineThe challenge of HEPA filters in the classrooms.
h/t @…
source: https://xcancel.com/kadamssl/status/1938267359233429683#m
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialRefugees, intergenerational trauma, child death, abusive family
Also just finished "The Best We Could Do" by Thi Bui, which is the second memoir I've stumbled upon recently that deals with the Vietnamese exodus after the end of the war (House Without Walls by Ching Yeung Russel is the other one, which is written in verse, not illustrated). Bui traces more of the political landscape and history of Vietnam through the stories of both of her parents, and also unpacks a lot of intergenerational trauma, but has less focus on the boat trip out and refugee camp experience, presumably because hers were easier than Russel's.
My thoughts after reading this return repeatedly to all of the impacts that patriarchy and toxic masculinity had on her father, from setting up his father and grandfather to be abusive towards him and the women in their lives, to pushing him deep into depression when he feels unable to fulfill the role of a protective husband, ironically leaving his wife to pick up the slack and ultimately ruining their relationship, to how it teaches him to despise and shirk the caregiver role he's left with, ultimately passing on some measure of trauma to his children. For sure war, abusive family, and child death can happen in the absence of patriarchy and those are in some ways perhaps bigger factors here, but at the same time, Bui's mom copes with most of the same factors in healthier ways.
#AmReading
@cdarwin@c.imWhen he left the Soviet Union for a new life in America, the novelist never imagined he would live under another authoritarian regime.
Then Trump got back into power
... Is it time to move again?
https://www.
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialFewer than half of the 8- and 9-year-olds have gone down a grocery-store aisle alone; more than a quarter aren’t allowed to play unsupervised even in their own front yard.
https://www.
@detondev@social.linux.pizzamy abusive evangelical christian parents could beat up your abusive evangelical parents
@cdarwin@c.imWhen unvaccinated families present with measles at healthcare centres, doctors sometimes struggle to even discuss vaccination with the parents, Hussain said.
“It’s really hard to even approach the conversation.
I would ask: ‘How come you aren’t [vaccinated]?’
And they will say: ‘Oh, we’re exempt’
or ‘We’ve had this discussion before and we just don’t want to,’” she said
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldMy parents were tumblers. I was both conceived and born midtumble.
@rmdes@mstdn.social🎧 Avec Ricardo, explorez 40 minutes d’un récit intense sur OKC : comment une communauté hippie bouddhiste a dérivé, séparant parents et enfants, menant Š des abus. Aujourd’hui, certains de ces enfants luttent pour la justice.
Aidons-les dans leurs quête de Justice!
https://chardonsbleus.org/pod…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toParents of young blind children face ethical dilemmas both when applying or withholding sensory substitution options: children have greater brain plasticity, but long-term benefit of sensory substitution in daily life has not yet been firmly established. #ethics #NeuroEthics
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok adds new safety features, including enhanced parental controls, and publicly launches Footnotes, its Community Notes-like feature, in the US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/tiktok-adds-new-parental-controls-tools-for-c…
@servelan@newsie.socialParents should talk to a doctor about COVID shots for kids, CDC says : Shots - Health News : NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/30/nx-s1-5418506/cdc-covid-19-shot-kids-pregnant-women
@detondev@social.linux.pizzamy parents went to get us pizza for dinner, and on the way back the car ahead of them broke down. they pulled over and hopped out to check on it, and discovered the driver was an absolutely ancient looking iranian immigrant and his son. he immediately started going off about how he was bahšʼí and not muslim and how the muslims in iran were crazy evil oppressors, almost like he thought that was a foolproof spell to ward off ice agents and other hostile whites
@cdarwin@c.imThe daughter of a woman murdered by a man from Laos who is among those controversially deported from the US to South Sudan
has spoken out about her family’s pain -- but also to decry the lack of rights afforded to those who were expelled to countries other than their own.
Birte Pfleger lives in Los Angeles and was a history student at Cal State University in Long Beach when her parents came to visit her from their native Germany in 1994
-- and ended up shot by Thongxay Nila…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTikTok adds new safety features, including enhanced parental controls, and publicly launches Footnotes, its Community Notes-like feature, in the US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/tiktok-adds-new-parental-controls-tools-for-c…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSupreme Court says Maryland parents can pull their kids from public school lessons using LGBTQ books (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-lgbtq-books-religion-maryland-schools-c0b0fb4b96531636fcb98b08aabc3cf9
http://www.memeorandum.com/250627/p147#a250627p147
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNetChoice sues Arkansas over two laws that would put limits on social media content and let parents of children who died by suicide sue over platform content (Andrew Demillo/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/net-choice-ar…
@rmdes@mstdn.social« Ça a été un choc immense, dit-elle. Mais ceux qui jugent mes parents ne savent pas ce que c’est que d’être sous emprise : le seul responsable, c’est Spatz. »
https://archive.is/qbJa1
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetChoice sues Arkansas over two laws that would put limits on social media content and let parents of children who died by suicide sue over platform content (Andrew Demillo/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/net-choice-ar…
@servelan@newsie.socialRep. Emily Randall of Washington's 6th congressional district via FB (link to SeaTimes in 2/2):
"The American people are being told one thing, but my eyes saw another: the people inside this facility are our neighbors, people who we would see in the community, parents, and siblings. We spoke with a legal permanent resident who is being detained on a 20 year old crime for which he served his time." 1/2
@rmdes@mstdn.socialMais en fait, qu'est-ce que la OKC, alias Ogyen Kunzang Choling ? Comment des adeptes-parents endoctrinés ont été manipulés pour abandonner leurs enfants Š 2000 km dans le sud de la France, où des sévices et des abus sans nom leur ont été infligés.
https://chardonsbleus.org/la-okc-…
@rmdes@mstdn.socialQuelques mots de loin :
1️⃣ Je me souviens de vous tous…
De nos rires, de nos amours, de nos croyances.
De l’intensité de nos vies, magnifiques.
Mais je me souviens aussi de… 🧵 #Témoignage #ChardonsBleus
2️⃣ Je me souviens
De l’absence de nos parents, du no…
