@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-10-17 14:05:21
If a book hasn't made it to a second edition, it doesn't have a first edition either (grumble, XML, grumble, grumble, library catalog, grumble, grumble, grumble).
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-12-16 13:39:35
A delta jš mudava a maneira de fechar os seus sacos de café ou colava melhor a tirinha de plšstico do fecho ao saco propriamente dito.
*grumble*
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-10 06:09:32
The U.S. just bailed out Argentina
Argentine President Javier Milei,
a staunch ally of Donald Trump,
hailed the initiative
-- even as some MAGA supporters grumble.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announcing Thursday a
$20 billion economic support package
-- and the purchase of Argentine pesos
aimed at stabilising the South American nation’s volatile markets.
“Lending money to Argentina is easy;
getting repaid is what is hard,”
@mooncorebunny@social.linux.pizza2025-11-07 12:23:56
@… Sounds like he has a bit of an attitude. Might make him more likable to young people, even if we old folks grumble about the darn disrespectful kid?
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-11-23 10:55:05
"Health officials are urging people to take extra precautions - including wearing a face mask if you have symptoms - as four winter viruses continue to circulate across the UK."
"If you have symptoms"? Nice start, but maybe also mention that covid is infectious _before_ symptoms! Or indeed _without_ any symptoms!
At least the person in the photo has a fitted(ish) mask and not a "baggy blue". Well done to whoever selected that. One little step in the right direction.
#CovidIsntOver #UK #UKHSA
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-11-12 08:50:35
"All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets"
Bad situation but I don't feel this article does a lot to help!
Yeah it's gonna be difficult to get back to "pre-pandemic levels" when covid is still making kids long-term sick, can we get a mention of that inconvenient fact.
No critique of the social pressure put on chronically-ill kids when attendance targets filter into the classroom.
How about a namecheck for (especially neurodivergent) kids' bad experiences of teach-to-the-test education, and the immense difficulty of getting funding for special needs support.
Not a lot on what the school staff are already doing to support kids or what govt could usefully put on more cash for, like good free breakfasts.
Includes some disrespect to non-school education along the way. (“We can only deliver opportunity for children in our country if they’re in school”, okay maybe it's true that _you_ can only "deliver" via school, because you don't know the alternatives, but shouldn't it actually be part of your job as Ed Sec to know them)
The delegating to so-called "AI" is the least of it!
#school #education #AttendanceTargets #neurodivergence #UKPol #CovidIsntOver