Notices by Laura Langdon (lauralangdon@hachyderm.io)

@skinnylatte Some of us need vests like service animals wear, so when we need to be alone in our heads we can pop them on and folks will know to leave us alone and not be mad about it.

@skinnylatte I love reading posts like this, because my own experience of the transition from winter to spring is more like losing a friend and gaining enemies (searing brightness and heat, mosquitos).

Being able to bring to mind people who thrive in this weather makes it easier to get on with. ❤️ Like "So-and-so must be super happy right now!"

Ironically, the person I used to think of for this moved to Norway. 😂

@skinnylatte Ooh, I'd love to be in dumpling club!

@molly0xfff Camera was like "Look, I found the face! Do I get a cookie?"

Just now I misread "Neurodiverse" as "Neuroverse", and I loved intensely the idea of using #Neuroverse as a fully inclusive way to describe the whole multi-dimensional space of our brains and their mysterious ways.

So I'm keeping it! The neuroverse. ❤️

@dahukanna @tedinski @inthehands Right in one! And I don’t blame the students; they’ve been successfully convinced by our educational system that learning is essentially just assimilation.

@dahukanna @tedinski @inthehands So much this!

@tedinski @inthehands When I started using active learning techniques in my classes (math) my student evaluations completely polarized. Some students really hated me for it, because they felt like I wasn’t “teaching” them.

I’m just a girl
Wearing a #VisionPro
Wishing I could still drink coffee

@inthehands @mekkaokereke So much this! Former math prof here, and I think grades should be entirely replaced by a binary “Mastered this content?” box. Everything else we try to make grades signify is noise.

@gpshead @webology @mkennedy @ThePSF It’s *much* harder to give a talk while masked than it is to attend a talk while masked. Attendees wearing masks makes it much safer for speakers to unmask, making speaking possible/much easier for people like me (compromised lungs). Even if masks were only required during talks it would make an *enormous* difference to my and others’ ability to be a speaker.

@mkennedy @gpshead @webology @ThePSF I understood the guarantee not to loosen the policy not to refer to future PyCons necessarily but to this one, because some cons have set mask policies and then removed them at the last minute, after people had bought tickets and so on.

Spotted on https://suppo.fi/post/430093

#Firefox #InfoSec

@isagalaev @meredithw Ha! I think some could totally go for that!

@isagalaev @meredithw That’s only if you consider it a “disorder”, and I don’t. Just a different wiring schema. 😊

@isagalaev @meredithw A rapidly growing proportion of those of us diagnosed with ADHD and/or ASD reject the ‘D’ entirely! Unfortunately an alternative word for a person diagnosed with ADHD hasn’t been mainstreamed yet, the way a person can refer to themselves as “autistic” instead of “having ASD”.

@isagalaev @meredithw The Venn diagram of “creative people” and “neurosparkly people” is basically a circle. 😉

@futurebird My daughter’s pediatrician asked me how I disciplined her (she was two!), and when I said I don’t so much discipline as figure out what the problem is (hungry, tired, sensory overload, etc.) he was mystified. He was like “But if she’s having a tantrum you put her in time out, right?”

No I don’t, because remote debugging is hard? 🤨

@acdha @mekkaokereke @bluejekyll 🎯 My Bay Area suburb grumbled for decades about how we’d been paying in to BART since its inception and it still didn’t connect to our city, then when we had the chance a bunch of loud residents said if BART came into our downtown then “people” from “Oakland” would use it to come in and rob/shoplift/mug shops/people here and our City Council declined to bring BART here.

Literally, precisely, 100% what you said. We can’t have BART because racism.

@forteller @Edent Some varieties of English are non-rhotic, which means they invent ‘r’ sounds at the ends of some words (as is the case here) and omit the ‘r’ sounds at the ends of other words. 😊

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English