Also, I'm not sure if it applies in the US but in the UK the word 'Malpractice' is enough to scare the living shit out of most, well anyone, but also knowing the reporting system is 10/10 guaranteed to get a doctor screaming forward to suddenly be helpful. Its a word that ends careers and lives.
If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!
of the students could get private tutoring and so the local grammar schools had a somewhat different culture than when it was a national thing, so my experience is much more that of the much smaller numbered current version, which I get the impression vastly improved my experience.
The grammar school i was sent to was specifically chosen for being girls only, ND friendly (a minor miracle at the time) and more to protect me from bullying as none of my school bullies were even trying to get in than solely for any social mobility reasons, but it was the sort of area where none /?
From personal experience, I went to a grammar school more because, in my very poor, low attainment area, grammar school was an effective way of sorting out students who wanted to study and gave us a safer environment to be educationally motivated. This was early 2000s for ref.
From what I know of my cousin's school, the comprehensive with grammar school track was a bit oddball & more like hardline setting because they could move students in and out over their secondary career depending on how well they were doing, but thats just one case I've heard of, so maybe a one off.
From what I know there are variations sprinkled across quite a few counties. In some case some private schools have a state funded grammar school intake, others are just selective intake state schools. Heck there are some comprehensives with grammar school streams baked in.
Also take the numbers under advisement cos I'm not certain I'm right, especially on the empires thing cos, well, Napoleon makes things hard on that front and my memory aint always great.
Dear lord there are a lot of typos. One day I will proofread before clicking send, but it is clearly not this day.
From what I van tell from French friends, the answer is a *lot* of messy politics, not just one governemnt. Like, look at why its managed 5 republics, 3 empires and a royalty in 200 years (I think). Plus its rapidly moving right wing on certain angles so the authoritarian is creeping in.
*Stares at the 'cold' I've had for the last two weeks that disappeared when I took antihistamines to sleep*
Oh yeah. That'd do it.
really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.
I probably shouldn't be trying to work out if this was either Shep and/or Ursula. Cos it sure sounds like something I can imagine either of them dropping.
Yup, if they cared my cat wouldn't have been so affectionate when I called him fluffbutt. Or his sister Dipshit or Moron (he clearly stole what few braincells were available in the womb).
Honestly, that was me several years ago. Its part of why I segued from politics grad to medieval historian. Because studying the black death and subsequent plagues and their effect on people is considerably less bad for my mental health.
Silhouette appearing black cat asleep on a white radiator, against a grey wall with net curtains at the top.
Have a void kitten on her new favourite radiator.
It was low key fun explaining to the american wife (whose dad was in the airforce) that the USAF has had a reputation since ww2 for not being able to accurately hit the broad side of a barn. Like, I avoid most history post the discovery of the US and even I've hear *that*.
Thanks, now shared a link that hopefully works for this.
Hopefully this works - here is the google doc link to a pdf of my dissertation that should be view only for anyone interested? docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Okay, so people want my dissertation. Not sure how I can send it over blusky but if people want it I can email it on to people? Would just need an email address?
Yep, while doing my PhD my academic friends at other uni's and I would check our own libraries for resources when the one they were at didn't have it. Even when we were in wildly different fields, it was just a thing you did cos one day, you might need that one article.
This. My academic career died in the dust during my PhD but I'm sodding delighted every time someone asks for my Masters dissertation (recreating late C14th clothing) or even just for me to infodump about my pet topics. My entire world is better for someone being interested.
This. Most love it. Plus, if you do this with a UK academic it actually helps them get funding for more research cos every request gets added to the national metric for demand of that topic, resulting in more funding.
You get a free paper, they get funding. Win-win.
When it gets to wrong coat season - aka when there is no correct layering level for whatever the weather is doing today.
the year 2056:
my grandkids: what did you do to help fight fascism in the USA?
me: well kiddo...
The face I just pulled when I realised I'm stockpiling... stock ingredients.
#AlergyLife #OldFashionedCookingProbably
Fish Doorbell is back!!
Hmm, looking at my notifications and apparently I woke up ranty today. Probably the most I've actually posted on social media in a while. So apparently today I woke up grumpy and got worse. Where did I leave the caffeine.
No problem, as I say, I don't exactly have a wide range of artists to point at for help so just went for, like, the 2 I know of.
I say this in the most insulting way possible but That Robin Hood Film actually managed more accuracy. Hell, so did the history crimes committed on film by Mel Gibson and that is an *Insult*.
