Notices by Zeborah (zeborah@mastodon.nz)

Hmm a pre-Budget education document contains "commercially sensitive information that would prejudice the government's ability to engage effectively in collective bargaining" which sounds a lot like a fancy legalese way of saying they don't plan to pay teachers what they deserve. #NZpol

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/561744/rnz-issued-gag-order-by-attorney-general-over-education-story

Sooo my best friends' son (14yo) almost certainly has ADHD. He knows his brain's "special" but no-one's ever used the ADHD word to him.

He recently asked me for advice on how to [hobby] even when he doesn't feel like [hobbying] - so I fielded this as best I could, then afterwards seized the opportunity to suggest to his mum that I could find some resources/videos by other folk with ADHD about what works for them.

Does anyone have any favourites?

Bonus for geeky/nerdiness.

@Anke The closest I can see at the moment is the "trending hashtags" page, but that only lets you approve/reject hashtags specifically from the Trending area, not edit them generally.

@inherentlee @griotspeak

@infobeautiful This is awesome, though I'm pretty curious how sodium monofluorophosphate comes from calcium fluoride.

All these products being all "This bottle contains recycled plastic" like, mate, at this point we *all* contain recycled plastic, please be more precise.

@jdmcg Yay for your kid!

@swansinflight The union action causes short-term disruption in order to force the government to overcome its "but my taxpayer dollars!" inertia - to prevent what will otherwise be a much bigger, much more long-term problem of not having enough willing teachers for the country's population of students.

A bunch of strike days now sucks - but "Sorry, we don't have enough teachers to enrol your kids this year, and nor do any other schools in town" would suck even more.

@swansinflight @blueshiftnz But if the teachers change industry there'll never be anyone to look after your kids. Send the invoice to the govt and demand they increase education funding to meet the teachers' demands that are required to support adequate education for your kids.

@swansinflight That's how pay increases (sometimes) *in the private sector* because you can attract good staff from your competitors. But the government has no real competitors so it's got away with increasingly low pay for years. When teachers leave the industry it doesn't increase pay, it just increases workload and class sizes - so more teachers leave, and fewer people see it as a profession worth joining, perpetuating the cycle of increased workload/class sizes for those remaining.

@isagalaev@mastodon.social @Jdreben Speculating: As the screencap notes, x-rays pass through flesh and only reflect off bones. If a jellyfish or octopus was transparent to you, you'd risk becoming their next meal.