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Comment on Queering the Map in ~lgbt
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Comment on Queering the Map in ~lgbt
kfwyre LinkI zoomed all the way out and clicked on a random area, and the message that came up simply said: It was beautiful. Then I did it again and got: Equally beautiful. šI zoomed all the way out and clicked on a random area, and the message that came up simply said:
we are not alone
It was beautiful.
Then I did it again and got:
bigfoot is gay and he's up here somewhere
Equally beautiful. š
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure Schedule: April - September 2026 in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentSounds good! Weāll keep the schedule as is. Thanks for doing double duty!Sounds good! Weāll keep the schedule as is.
Thanks for doing double duty!
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Comment on Your AI Slop Bores Me: Larp as an AI by answering prompts as a human in ~tech
kfwyre LinkType in prompts, get a response from a human. Larp as an AI, answer other people's prompts. Simple, irreverent fun. (Note: I have no idea if there are actual humans on the site or if it's lying to...Type in prompts, get a response from a human.
Larp as an AI, answer other people's prompts.
Simple, irreverent fun.
(Note: I have no idea if there are actual humans on the site or if it's lying to me.)
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Your AI Slop Bores Me: Larp as an AI by answering prompts as a human
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Comment on Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of March 15 in ~games
kfwyre LinkTiny Crate is free to keep on Steam right now, but it will become a paid game tomorrow. Of note: the game is open source, made in Godot, and will remain free on itch.io and Flathub. I haven't...Tiny Crate is free to keep on Steam right now, but it will become a paid game tomorrow.
Of note: the game is open source, made in Godot, and will remain free on itch.io and Flathub.
I haven't played this game, but I played ROTA by the same dev and thought it was really good (and surprisingly difficult).
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure Schedule: April - September 2026 in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentWe'd love to have you captain both ships! Would you rather do them as is and host back-to-back, or would you rather I swap Lufia II and Pirates to break things up a bit?We'd love to have you captain both ships!
Would you rather do them as is and host back-to-back, or would you rather I swap Lufia II and Pirates to break things up a bit?
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure Schedule: April - September 2026 in ~games
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Comment on Digg has shutdown (again) in ~tech
kfwyre Link ParentI know that not having user-created groups has been a friction point for some on Tildes, but I think what you mentioned is a good example of how a free-for-all can end up drowning a site rather...I know that not having user-created groups has been a friction point for some on Tildes, but I think what you mentioned is a good example of how a free-for-all can end up drowning a site rather than building it.
Somewhat relatedly, it's amazing to see how the foundations and vision that @Deimos laid out years ago for Tildes have become increasingly more relevant by the day. He correctly called the shots on so many different aspects of privacy and online communities, and those choices get increasingly validated every time another platform tries to launch and runs into issues that Deimos expertly designed against or navigated around.
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure Schedule: April - September 2026 in ~games
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure Schedule: April - September 2026 in ~games
kfwyre (edited )Link ParentCGA Announcement: We still need hosts for the following months: First-come, first-serve! If you love one of these games, you'd be the ideal host for it. Let me know if you'd like to take a month....CGA Announcement:
We still need hosts for the following months:
May 2026: Sid Meier's Pirates!June 2026: Castlevania: Aria of SorrowSeptember 2026: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
First-come, first-serve! If you love one of these games, you'd be the ideal host for it.
Let me know if you'd like to take a month.
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - How is it going with the Metamorphosis? in ~books
kfwyre LinkI unfortunately had to sit out The Truth due to real life busyness, but this oneās short enough that I shouldnāt have a problem getting through it. I read it way back in high school, but I...I unfortunately had to sit out The Truth due to real life busyness, but this oneās short enough that I shouldnāt have a problem getting through it.
I read it way back in high school, but I honestly donāt remember much of anything about it, so Iām looking forward to revisiting it.
Anyone have a particular English translation that theyād recommend? I know there are several different ones available.
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Comment on Survey reveals almost 50% of California teachers may quit teaching soon in ~life
kfwyre Link ParentFunny you should mention that. I actually have been ā and still am! Over 15 years now. šYou thought teaching was hard, have you tried being a teacher's partner!
Funny you should mention that.
I actually have been ā and still am! Over 15 years now. š
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Comment on Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of March 8 in ~games
kfwyre (edited )LinkBOOMEROAD and NOTTOLOT are both free to keep and are getting removed from Steam at the end of the month. Iāve only played BOOMEROAD and itās fun ā throw boomerangs to create paths. Itās more of a...BOOMEROAD and NOTTOLOT are both free to keep and are getting removed from Steam at the end of the month.
Iāve only played BOOMEROAD and itās fun ā throw boomerangs to create paths.
Itās more of a tech demo than a full-fledged game, but from what I remember when these released, theyāre deliberately small games made by Bandai Namco teams as a way of getting devs used to the engine and development tools (I canāt find a source on this though, so take it with a grain of salt).
Interestingly enough, DORONKO WANKO, a single player puppy Splatoon-like, isnāt getting removed, despite it being released in the same batch as the other two. Perhaps because it became enough of a sleeper hit that it was worth it for them to release paid cosmetic DLC?
If youāre in Japan, there are also four other games getting delisted from that region. From what Iāve read, thereās no way to get or play these on non-Japanese Steam accounts.
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Comment on Why do I almost never catch colds anymore? in ~health
kfwyre LinkGiven the consistency, itās possible you were experiencing allergies instead of colds. (This is coming from someone who gets to play the fun game of āIs It Allergies, a Cold, or COVID?ā pretty...Before COVID, I recall that I very regularly had some kind of minor cold ā it felt like it was about 50% of the time, realistically let's say maybe 20%?
Given the consistency, itās possible you were experiencing allergies instead of colds.
(This is coming from someone who gets to play the fun game of āIs It Allergies, a Cold, or COVID?ā pretty much constantly.)
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Comment on Survey reveals almost 50% of California teachers may quit teaching soon in ~life
kfwyre (edited )Link ParentI can co-sign on each and every one of these. Let your wife know she is not alone. The second point in particular is a doozy. The primary stakeholders of education have shifted from the students...I can co-sign on each and every one of these. Let your wife know she is not alone.
The second point in particular is a doozy. The primary stakeholders of education have shifted from the students themselves to their teachers. Itās to the point where many kids do not care at all about failing, but the teacher is genuinely worried, because the responsibility for that will fall on the teacher and not the student. This is completely upside down.
Also the third point is incisive and extremely well-worded. Iāve never seen it summarized before so clearly. I canāt tell you how many meetings Iāve been in where parents expect me to go far above and beyond my duties, essentially expecting me to be a personal private tutor for their child as well as the parentsā own personal secretary, all while not meeting the bare minimum themselves (e.g. not even bothering to checking their studentās grades in our online portal).
The worst part is that I end up looking like the bad guy for maintaining reasonable boundaries, because all anyone ever has to do is pull the āyouāre refusing to help a child!ā card to make me look like the jerk in the situation. I have to maintain professionalism when faced with this accusation, but parents can say and do whatever they like and donāt hold themselves to even close to the same standard.
Itās genuinely sad that the same pattern is happening across countries.
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Comment on Survey reveals almost 50% of California teachers may quit teaching soon in ~life
kfwyre LinkA deeper look at what teacher attrition data says about Charlotte area school districts I thought this was a good companion article. Itās focused on North Carolina, not California, but teacher...A deeper look at what teacher attrition data says about Charlotte area school districts
Teacher attrition ā a measurement of teachers who leave North Carolina public schools entirely ā ticked up from 9.88% to 10.11%, but state officials said this fraction-of-a-percentage-point increase was not large enough to be meaningful.
So, about that 10.11% attrition rate. That number alone doesnāt tell the whole story.
First, that numberās a statewide average ā and it masks a lot of variability.
āIndividual districtsā experience with this measure will vary greatly. Many of our districts have very low attrition, many have very high attrition,ā Tomberlin said.
If you look at the workbook for this data, you can see that school districts' attrition rates vary from 4.3% to 26.5%. That range is even greater when you include teachers who leave one school district to go to another North Carolina school district ā a measure that doesnāt say much about teachers leaving the profession, but that highlights the challenges individual school districts might be facing in terms of retaining teachers. By that measure, attrition rates vary from 6.5% to 40.8%.
I thought this was a good companion article.
Itās focused on North Carolina, not California, but teacher retention is a nationwide issue so itās still relevant.
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Comment on Bookmark management for non-technical people? in ~tech
kfwyre Link ParentYeah, anything that un-lists a list would be good. If you think about someone with hundreds of bookmarks, if theyāre presented in a single column, then moving something from near the top to near...Yeah, anything that un-lists a list would be good. If you think about someone with hundreds of bookmarks, if theyāre presented in a single column, then moving something from near the top to near the bottom is a huge ordeal. If that same list is broken into three or four columns, however, doing the same move isnāt nearly as bad, and the user has a better overview of whatās all there.
In terms of missing features, start.me comes the closest to what I want right now. The pain points I have with it are:
As previously mentioned, it doesnāt sync with my browser bookmarks, which would be a nice quality of life feature.
Additionally, it has to load the page each time, which isnāt a huge issue, but it does mean that it lacks some āsnappiness.ā If the extension could save a purely local version of the page, instead of pulling from the Internet each time, it would take out a small bit of lag whenever I use it.
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Comment on Survey reveals almost 50% of California teachers may quit teaching soon in ~life
kfwyre Link ParentThereās been a big shift towards making grades solely indicative of mastery of standards, meaning that explicitly including things like conduct and participation in a studentās grade for a class...Thereās been a big shift towards making grades solely indicative of mastery of standards, meaning that explicitly including things like conduct and participation in a studentās grade for a class is considered bad form.
It is unlikely that grading in that manner would be supported, and the teacher would likely be asked to change their policy.
(This is to say nothing of widespread grade inflation and social promotion which would make a possible failing grade relatively meaningless to the student anyway.)
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Comment on Survey reveals almost 50% of California teachers may quit teaching soon in ~life
kfwyre (edited )Link ParentWe cannot take and keep phones. Legally, they have to be returned to the student since they are personal property. Also itās unlikely that a student who chooses not to follow the directive about...We cannot take and keep phones. Legally, they have to be returned to the student since they are personal property.
Also itās unlikely that a student who chooses not to follow the directive about phones in class would then comply with a directive to hand over their phone.
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