Notices by Doug Belshaw (dajb@social.coop), page 2

My son is trying out for American Football today. He had a neck injury four years ago so I haven't allowed him to play rugby or anything like that since then.

On tenterhooks and have already looked up the nearest hospital 😬

New #introduction time:

👋 Hey, I've been here on the Fedi for the last 7 years.

Founding member of @weareopencoop working at the intersection of #learning, #technology & #community.

Was PM of #MoodleNet, a decentralised digital commons built on #ActivityPub from 2018-2020 which has morphed into @bonfire, a federated app toolkit.

Wrote doctoral thesis on #digitalliteracies. Was on Mozilla's #OpenBadges team & led #WebLiteracy work.

Pursuing MSc in #SystemsThinking

I like 🏔️🥃⚽

Remember, kids...

(via @epilepticrabbit's excellent newsletter*)

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Some pretty incredible writing here.

"I’ve been in this position so many times that it exhausts me just to write about it. Sometimes, it’s not that I’m afraid of men; I’m just really, really tired."

https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/

New (temporary) home office set up in utility room! 🙌

Long-term, need to decide whether to go for an office pod, or whether to convert the double garage.

The mobile hanging from the ceiling was given to me as a gift by my sister when I was about 15 years old.

My mother calls it my 'pterodactyls' but they're actually hand-painted Japanese cranes from the Futon Workshop which used to be in Newcastle.

I've had it hanging in every house I've lived in since then, so delighted to have it up in the new place!

@neil

Second: I do think there's a culture in the UK that I haven't seen elsewhere that "someone should sort this out" (with that "someone" being "not me")

You see it in news stories all of the time. The parent appearing on the news to comment on "the dangers of vaping" and how "the government should do something about it". Yet theyve neglected to intervene in their own kids life.

@neil There's so much to comment on here.

First: the main reason that parents give children smartphones, other than as a babysitting device, is to track them.

While the world is objectively safer than it was for previous generations, there's social pressure to know where your kids are at all times.

Up here, kids go to middle school (and therefore walk to school by themselves) aged nine.

Unsupervised use is another thing, but easy to see how it happens.

"In relation to their systems most systematizers are like a man who builds an enormous castle and lives in a shack close by; they do not live in their own enormous systematic building." (Søren Kierkegaard)

Kind of getting inspiration wherever I can find it today, including from a Danish philosopher who used to fill a cup with sugar, pour extremely strong coffee to the brim, down it, and then write furiously.

I'm not saying it's voter suppression, but...

My 17 year-old son has had to fill in two forms, go in person to County Hall twice, send an email, and now has to provide an attestation filled in by someone in person.

Thanks to @evan for the heads up that podcastindex.org allows you to follow podcasts on the Fediverse.

Here's the one I record with @epilepticrabbit (I guess it's new and won't show episodes until we publish our next one)

@3901763

Yes, yes, it's a systematic approach to writing an assessment. But I promise I'll be systemic in approach.

https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2024/04/05/tb872-concept-map-to-help-with-my-ema/

#SystemsThinking

@Edent Out of interest, have you shared your web hosting setup anywhere? I notice you don't seem to get DDoS'd by HN or the Fedi 😅

I wish people would lay off @dansup - especially older, seemingly less successful developers.

People seem to forget that creativity breeds creativity; trying to shackle someone to *one* project that you want developing The Right Way is counter-productive.

Wishing everyone a very happy and inclusive International Women's Day

I think I'm going to go back to unfollowing/permanently muting people who don't CW war, etc.

The assumption that a regular human being should be able to emotionally context switch from shitposts to genocide is ridiculous.

Not sure how I missed this from @deadsuperhero about @bonfire a few days ago!

Such a nice write up of the great work @bernini and @mayel are doing

https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/bonfire-nextgen-framework/

My 13 year-old daughter just referred to someone as "a proper Tory" with obvious disdain in her voice. I feel like I have succeeded as a parent.

I do sometimes wonder whether solicitors realise that their profession faces an existential risk from AI and automated workflows.

Especially given they're *so* slow at doing the most basic things.

(welcome to the latest instalment of "Doug thinks he'd be better at most people at jobs he knows very little about")