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05-30-2015, 03:11 AM | #702 | |
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Though the idea isn't wrong per se, you can't just stick kids with for example autism or high sensitivitiy in classes of 32 and expect them to do well and be happy. By the by, though my students don't get to decide our curriculum, I do often give them practical assignment where they can do pretty much whatever they want within a certain learning frame.
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05-30-2015, 03:16 AM | #703 |
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In other news:
to Earn! *sets out cake* I hope you have a great birthday!
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05-30-2015, 10:32 AM | #704 | |
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Your running schedule sounds awesome and intense Question: what do you do if there is no wind on a given Sunday? I did sprints Wednesday evening and am still sore I may need to start a running thread...
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05-30-2015, 02:08 PM | #706 |
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Looks like it's summer again. ... ...Damn it
Gotta think of new, ingenious ways to keep my dear flesh in the shade... Sun is evil. Tan is bad. Oh, and welcome to the new sapling, Nerwen! Don't mind me, I'm the broods-in-the-corner- antisocial meddler of the place . Hasn't anyone here gotten a Twitter account yet btw?
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05-30-2015, 03:29 PM | #707 |
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No, I ain't touching that, for sure.
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Yep, that totally happened
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05-31-2015, 04:25 AM | #709 |
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And that's why I stay far from that.
Speaking of "I ain't touching that"
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05-31-2015, 05:16 AM | #710 | |
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Such as? Haha Mine's been very useful really, gotten a couple of nice contacts, and it's also been interesting (news/science/life hacks) and humorous. 67 follows, and 48 followers now. I recommend you follow @Letha_Hughes, @LiveScience and @funnyjoke (Jenna Marbles), to name a few. Also, if you're into punkus, follow @DemiNewell
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05-31-2015, 01:33 PM | #711 |
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Luckies, i used to gt a little spray of freckles across the bridge of my nose in the sumertime and I was enchanted by them, I thought they made me look cute. Now they are gone, they never call, they never write...
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05-31-2015, 05:53 PM | #712 | |
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06-01-2015, 01:23 AM | #713 |
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06-01-2015, 04:08 AM | #714 |
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"Ain't joining that site until they get a grip on their trolls."
I haven't suffered from those?
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06-01-2015, 06:21 AM | #715 | ||
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But otherwise, I'm perfectly happy to be off twitter. I can still read tweets of people I like, and for science I tend to prefer blogs anyway. |
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06-01-2015, 06:48 AM | #716 |
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"Good for you! But I am a woman and then things are different."
Oh, right. What's it like then? No need to tell if you don't wanna of course... Ah, and do excuse me - Happy birthday
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06-01-2015, 08:02 PM | #717 | |
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Sane for one lol
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That's why you don't feed them. They always come back for more food. But those stupid "buy followers" accounts drive me up the freaking wall. They get blocked as soon as the follow me
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Women on the internet, especially women with an opinion, or women engaging in fields which are regarded as male-dominated fields, run a far higher risk of being harrassed online. You may have heard of last year's 'gamergate' debacle, which started with a jealous ex-boyfriend, pretended to be people concerned about ethics in game-journalism, and ended in several women being harrassed online; threatened with rape, physical harm and death; being doxxed (having your personal information, often including home address, exposed in public) which led to some people having to leave their house in fear of their own safety; and -if I remember correctly- even one instance of attempted swatting (in which somebody calls in a fake report and gets a SWAT-team to come and bust down your door.) And gamergate isn't just a one-time occurence, just the last big sordid, public display of misogyny online. Twitter is notoriously bad in dealing with this sort of abuse. It has been a laborous process to get accounts that send threats or abuse suspended, and the abusers can make new twitter handles even faster than all that. As recent as just earlier this year(!) Twitter had to admit that they suck at moderating their users to stop abuse and finally made some attempts to combat it. That all is not to say that men don't get abused online, or that every troll is male, the opposite does occur. But as it stands, women face a higher risk of online harrassment. So yes, things are different for women. We have to think twice if we want a female handle on a multiplayer game and what reactions that will give. We have to think twice about expressing any opinion on any platform. We have to think twice what we share online and how it can be used against us. Quote:
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Is campaigning to have for once a woman to grace a bank note feeding the trolls and meritable with rape threats? What on earth did a historian like Mary Beard ever do to be sent sexual slurs? (I do like the bit where she actually managed to identify the troll and threatened to sent copies of his messages to his mother. Sadly, those pay-backs are few and far in between.) |
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06-02-2015, 02:11 PM | #719 |
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Eärn,
As a phenomenon, no it's not; but Gamergate and all the "after-shocks" are nothing but distant thunder, at most, in my practical everyday some. Then again, being male, and not participating much in the convos in Twitter (mostly trying to show religious people the flaws in their "logic", and so far I have only thrown in a remark in a few already on-going debates, and withdrawn) I'm not that familiar with the war. I also try not to assume too much in life... Most welcome dear . Anyhoo. Reading The Blind Watchmaker by Dawkins, also borrowed Climbing Mount Impropable.
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That lady is awesome
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