@steadystatemcr@mstdn.social"Parents say a non-charging Clean Air Zone (CAZ) - confirmed by the government earlier this year - ‘lacks ambition and won’t go nearly far enough to cut illegal levels of pollution’ plaguing the city."
Andy Burnham defends scrapping Clean Air Zone charges after parents slam 'epidemic' - Manchester Evening News
It's the parents who are right, of course. The evidence from other cities, including London is clear.
@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?
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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.
@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…
@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…
@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
@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
@simon_lucy@mastodon.socialThe fledgeling starlings have started coming for food with their parents.
#birds #starlings
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineThe challenge of HEPA filters in the classrooms.
h/t @…
source: https://xcancel.com/kadamssl/status/1938267359233429683#m
@doktrock@toad.socialThe new documentary, “Lawrence Welk: A North Dakota Farm Boy”will premiere May 31 at the North Dakota Heritage Center on May 31.
"Born to German-Russian immigrant parents in Strasburg, ND, Lawrence Welk built a strong work ethic and love for music growing up on the family farmstead. After touring the Midwest in his 20s, he was scouted by ABC in 1955 to create the iconic "The Lawrence Welk Show,” "
@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/
@jkmartindale@mastodon.socialremembering my parents advice that "nothing good happens after midnight" as I binge a 13-ounce bag of granola out of boredom instead of going to bed
@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
@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/
@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
@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?
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz#ListeningClub I love this song but ever since I learned it’s about a little afternoon delight with a stranger I cringe at remembering my parents listening to it in a coffee shop in London.
@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 n…
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.socialI blame my parents.
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialGuy who claimed to be the ultimate negotiator and peace-keeper resorts to begging on social media to halt an Israeli attack.
“ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS. IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW!” (President Turnip quoted from TruthSocial)
Anyone who has been a parent who observes other parents recognizes this tone of powerless desperation.
#POTUS47
@detondev@social.linux.pizzamy abusive evangelical christian parents could beat up your abusive evangelical parents
@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…
@grumpybozo@toad.social
@buercher@tooting.ch«Le fils du shah est un bavard qui vit d’argent volé et qui n’a aucune idée de l’Iran contemporain». Des amis de ses parents auraient subi des tortures dans la tristement célèbre prison d’Evin Š Téhéran. «Je ne prétends pas que le shah était pire que les mollahs. Mais je refuse catégoriquement de minimiser la dictature pendant son règne, et de faire croire que le pays traversait une période quiète et prospère Š cette époque.»
https://www.24heures.ch/iran-comment-la-suisse-est-devenue-le-refuge-de-la-famille-royale-558762224371
@cdarwin@c.imThat Zohran Kwame Mamdani should be a serious contender for the leadership of America’s largest city is both a sign of the times and of his individual capabilities.
Polls show him within striking distance of the frontrunner Andrew Cuomo in what is now essentially a two-horse race, with Lander trailing a distant third.
Mamdani came to the US aged seven from Uganda where he was born to parents of Indian descent.
His father is a political scientist Mahmood Mamdani, and his mot…
@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
@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
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizzaIf groups of parents can band together when deciding on the right age for a smartphone for their younger children, they will stand a better chance to avoid making decisions based on peer pressure at school.
https://theprivacydad.com/how-parent-c
@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
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchangeThis weekend I listened to the 'How to Age Up' podcast on climate change. A lot of good observations for how parents can help their children process the daily news cycle and manage their anxiety about the future.
Turns out one effective strategy is one I keep hearing from so many different sources - you build community. Building community makes communities more resilient. Building community makes you feel less alone - so you can help do the work to combat climate change/racism/…
@Billybobbell@twit.socialAdvice to the Players - Frank Bidart
There is something missing in our definition, vision, of a human being:
the need to make.
We are creatures who need to make.
Because existence is willy-nilly thrust into our hands, our fate is to
make something— if nothing else, the shape cut by the arc of our lives.
My parents saw corrosively the arc of their lives.
Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves...
@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…
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineIs the Home Office so inhumane, or is it just some rogue, cynical (un)civil servant who made this judgement?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/18/uk-home-office-brazilian-family-children-return-alone?CMP…
@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…
@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?
@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
@cdarwin@c.imThat Zohran Kwame Mamdani should be a serious contender for the leadership of America’s largest city is both a sign of the times and of his individual capabilities.
Polls show him within striking distance of the frontrunner Andrew Cuomo in what is now essentially a two-horse race, with Brad Lander trailing a distant third.
Mamdani came to the US aged seven from Uganda where he was born to parents of Indian descent.
His father is a political scientist Mahmood Mamdani, and hi…
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@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.
@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
@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
@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.
@brentsleeper@sfba.socialThis #Connections contains material that parents may find unsuitable for younger children.
#Connections742
Puzzle № 742
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@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:
@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.
@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?
@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.
@cdarwin@c.imWhen Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536),
the youngest child of the newly dominant Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella.,
was 3, her parents contracted her to marry Arthur, Prince of Wales, the heir to the Tudor king Henry VII in order to strengthen Spain's alliances,
since Henry's kingdom was a longstanding trade partner and an enemy of Spain's greatest enemy, France.
For the next decade Catherine had the best humanist education available,
preparing h…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz @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-…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@erk709@social.linux.pizza
@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…
@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.
https://chardonsbleus.org/podcast-deri
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldLearn why one camp director quit posting daily photos of campers. Pretty interesting take on things. #SummerCamp #CampLife
@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
@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.
@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
@Treppenwitz@sfba.socialWhat kind of a recipe calls for "5 dried chili peppers"? That covers an incredibly wide range of spiciness!
I put 4 in. I should have put 1 in. The child drank a lot of water but was in less distress than his sweaty hiccuping parents.
@erk709@social.linux.pizza @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
@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
@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
@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
@newsie@darktundra.xyzNo One Knows How to Deal With 'Student-on-Student' AI CSAM https://www.404media.co/no-one-knows-how-to-deal-with-student-on-student-ai-csam/
@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-…
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