Posts made by JinShei

A few knitting pattern people are giving some away.

One and two

Scrib is giving a month free access. I've used it to download a number of my fav author's books...

Colonel Al Worden - First person to perform a space walk in deep space. Wrote poetry about it after he came home.

@silverfox I know, mate, I know! Our students aren't used to online either and so my plan for lecture - group work - create wiki - means a dozen emails flailing at me

If you are an academic suddenly teaching online, this one is for you.

@Alamias said in RL things I love:

@Caggles Be disappointed. It is a fancy way of saying procrastinator

I will be calling my husband that...

@Auspice said in Resources for Self-Isolating People:

Speaking of the Great British Baking Show, I recently discovered The Great Pottery Throwdown and its full episodes on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4-6sFsql7s <-- first one.

It's like the Great British Baking Show except pottery.

Speaking of which, here is the great british sewing bee!

For the parents: https://variety.com/2020/film/news/birds-of-prey-vod-early-coronavirus-1203535955/amp/

I know some people will be home with kids, and this crossed my path:

http://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/

Also an art teacher's resources

@Testament said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Almost got into a physical altercation with someone who was in the middle of buying ten packages, if not more, of toilet paper, bragging about how much they were going to make reselling it.

There was a literal fist fight at my daughter's work over something... Both men were thrown out so neither got their shopping!

For UK people, do check out Milk and More...

@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@JinShei said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

In the UK, our government has made some interesting decisions that the people who study this shit are saying are poor choices.

So business as usual, then.

Yup. There is a little bit of me that is glad that Nadine Dorris has it, and therefore will have given it to the people making these choices... Let them try this herd immunity theory first.

In the UK, our government has made some interesting decisions that the people who study this shit are saying are poor choices.

My students may have to stay in practice, and are in no way prepared. I'm a nurse but haven't been on a ward for twenty years, and am asthmatic so... If they do release staff, I'm not going in.

But look at figures from South Korea where testing is more thorough than any other country so far.

Edit: https://mobile.twitter.com/florian_krammer/status/1235331199805149185 as some data.

@Tinuviel said in RL things I love:

@JinShei said in RL things I love:

humans

Speciesist.

True. I shouldn't assume...

Greetings humans....

McCoy Tyner

@Selerik I spent a whole year of therapy talking about how my bipolar was out of control, with my therapist pointing out that I was being put under massive pressure at work... And that anyone would be breaking. Took me ages to accept that bipolar is actually steady as a rock compare to the shit left in my head from trauma.

@Arkandel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

illegal immigrants

Refugees are legal, by whatever means they arrive. A peeve of mine. I don't accept that premise of the argument made by the idiots now sitting in old bunkers on the coast of England. Refugees have a right to come to us. They are different to illegal immigrants.

@TNP said in A bit of trouble on Firefly:

@L-B-Heuschkel said in A bit of trouble on Firefly:

@WildBaboons said in A bit of trouble on Firefly:

It does make me wonder.. The majority of MUers don't frequent MSB. I wonder what narrative he is spinning to other people about this.

The one in which he is a victim.

I base this on that being exactly what he told me the first time I encountered him. A long story about how he was misunderstood and unfairly treated (and a seventeen year old Portuguese kid in a computer lab, but nevermind that part).

You see this quite clearly in the channel log posted early on in the thread where he's Aksel. He's obviously the victim.

And he instantly ran from my rejection to two different discord channels to complain of his ill treatment. Poor little boy, picked on by the mean game admin.

Here, they are saying old and sick... And then saying they are going to bring nurses out of retirement to work. Erm. Three people today independently wondered if they are trying to reduce pension costs.