Notices by Jay Stephens (jaystephens@mastodon.social), page 2

@zens @JasonTrue Jason was in the same emigration wave as me from the bad place. Some came before, some came after, but it was easier to find people who plunged around the same time.

@mekkaokereke @rasmus91
My younger kid has been learning drums for a couple of years. Within weeks of starting, he was watching Moffett Youtubes.
Dude's amazing.

@aral
I've been biting my tongue for fear of appearing centrist on this issue.
Here's what gets me:
It is possible to accept that yes, Trump would be worse for Gaza, yes it is a two party system so on voting day it's best to hold your nose and vote Harris..... AND to understand that voting is sometimes less important than street power, and that pressure before the election is worth much more than after, so we have to hold their feet to the fire NOW.

Sometimes the timeline just lines up perfectly
@emarktaylor @girlonthenet

@tokyo_0 The Thursday suggestion is smart though and I will have a think about how to use that idea 👍

@tokyo_0 No he is quite far behind on the whole impulse control thing. We've tried a few long and short term experiments in various areas and the answer seems to be "the things his phase of life is demanding {e.g. knuckling down to x hours of homework per week) are things his development path will have him ready for in 2-3 years".

Saturday is basically unlimited and has been for 2 years and he just sits the whole day glued to the screen.

Tentatively set Mr. 13's Discord time to unlimited.
Nup, straight to staying up late on https://discord.com/blog/server-activities-games-voice-watch-together and unable to get up for school in the morning.
Gah.

A Friend is moving to Fiji from the USA.
He is looking for fully remote work in the Auckland/Sydney timezone:
Senior software engineer/engineering manager.
Specialisations in mobile and front-end.
Any leads DM me.

#fedihire #fedihired

One. It was one.

@tokyo_0 Yeah good frame thanks. It's my awareness that it's not malice that's making me feel bad every time I judge them, whereas I should probably just be like "I shouldn't judge you, but I am".

What's a Buddhist exercise for forbearance around people who just aren't very competent at life

Warning, the bleak reality of being trapped in disaster capitalism will drag you down and crush you

Dominant result for #Putin in the #Russia election - he literally buried the opposition here.

Daily pic of Brisbane

Screens.
Ruin.
Everything.

#parenting

March's peak produce time at ours!
A scramble with eggs from our chooks cherry tomatoes, parsley and chives from the garden.

@hannu_ikonen
It's both awful and dehumanising.
One can't refuse completely to participate, but every interaction with the shitshow leaves me feeling angry and complicit.

"It takes a village to raise a child"
+
"screens/devices ruin everything"

The thing I'm struggling hardest with at the moment is kid's peers' parents not putting any guardrails around screen-time, allowing open slather.

It's a wicked problem for #parenting.

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

@goatsarah yeah I cut Elon slack for a while because of the Iain Banks awareness... Boy did it become painfully clear he read them at an eighth grade level.

I hate the Putin regime and love pussycats as much as the next sane human, but this anti-Russia propaganda is getting ridiculous. This is the TOP article in the Europe section of the Guardian today.