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I'm wondering if September is real New Year. I don't think I'll ever lose that back-to-school start of something feeling at this time of year.

Lierally; three fellow students at my high school died when they were experimenting in the shed or garage. (I can't remember all the details anymore, they may have made napalm?)
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r o o (@jakepaulsartre.bsky.social)
When people talk about taking kids' devices away w/o addressing how they have fuck all else to do, I think about the insane shit all the bored suburban kids I knew got up to before cell phones You can't just take their phones away or they're gonna get into making homemade napalm & burn a field down

Awesome thread.
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CE (Catie) Murphy (@cemurphy.bsky.social)
I know a writer with an absolutely heartrending & uplifting story of someone she knew casually who hadn't finished high school, didn't think of herself as bright, lived in a cycle of bad choices & dead ends, who tried reading one of the writer's books, a book which is not an easy read. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Screenshots of my beeb series 7 yesterday booting off my restored Cumana floppy drive. The last one, the Teletext editor is I think by my high school Maths Teacher at the time.
#retrocomputing

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

Between 2020 and 2024, no cervical cancer deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24
- the first time that had happened over a five-year period.
Without vaccination, around 23 deaths would have been expected.
"It's incredible to think that a single jab can almost eliminate a particular type of cancer,"
said Prof Peter Sasieni, the lead researcher at Queen Mary University of London.

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

The main problem with programs like Provo Canyon Schools is that those in power in #Utah think abuse is a good and right way to treat people who don't conform.
#utpol #abuse

Voices: I survived Provo Canyon School. Utah must stand firm on its closure.
“Children deserve safe help,” Jen Robison writes in an op-ed. “That cannot happen until we stop allowing them to be abused for profit while calling it ‘care.’”

RE: https://beige.party/@amiserabilist/117140760032629542
Nice animation!
Back at school (in Germany) we'd call this an "Umkreis" (around-circle) because if you think of these 3 points as a triangle the circle would go around it. Its …

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Thanks to seeing posts here after I woke up, I finally didn't forget and didn't oversleep too much and made it to the electronics flea market.
This gauge was $1. I used to have a few analog meters when I was in elementary school (I think 3v & 15v), and recently after upgrading a multimeter was reminiscing about them.
I'm not sure what I'd use this one for, but it was too pretty to not get at that price. I got a more boring 25A range one that maybe I'll use…

Summer Social with work, which is more than two dozen people now. So much bigger than it used to be.
Enjoyable enough. The boss picks pretty good people, all of whom I'd otherwise not meet at all really being remote. Beats working for a day.
This time a painting session. Drawing a picture. Here's how we draw this particular picture.
Everyone's painting ends up much the same, within a pretty tight variance. All end up with something that's not displeasing, even though hardly anyone paints normally, even the graphics people.
The key here I think is the subject of the image. Something easy to draw is key. Very few curves, mostly straight lines, easy vivid colors. Easily identifiable subject even if it's drawn badly.
If your lines and form are wobbly and weirdly angled then yeah, that's indeed what these trees are like. You just draw a slightly different tree.
Sky, haze, and ground in acrylic. Then chalk up the tree-trunks for some reason, before painting 'em white. Add some trunk-shade and flecks, do grass then flowers.
Easy recipe. Everyone gets a passing grade. Nobody's embarrassed coz they can't draw a nose.
Good first painting session since school. Maybe I'll do another one in another 30 years.
#art #painting #acrylic