Posts by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
(DIR) Post #AzpnbkudQQELxf2PDM by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2025-11-02T12:06:57Z
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@futurebird @jmax @Peace Isn’t a lot of algorithm based on bee swarms and ant colonies anyway?
(DIR) Post #AzpnvCk2BKKpm1Ly7s by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2025-11-02T12:10:31Z
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@futurebird @jmax @Peace I think someone found them useful for predicting tensile strength in architectural fabrics but I can’t say as I grasped the paper completely.
(DIR) Post #B06ZTYsaXdRGP7AvNA by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2025-11-10T14:18:44Z
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@futurebird Then he will be bumbling about a bit. I think the big fiction trope is that it’s terrible and melodramatic but honestly it doesn’t have to be. If neither person enjoys drama it can just be a moving apart. There can even still be love. Your life paths are just not aligned anymore. Maybe one person wants to grow while the other wants to stay put. Maybe running the joint household is too much as other opportunities call. It can be gentle.
(DIR) Post #B0GkDzmpYoyzz69yYS by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2025-11-15T12:06:17Z
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@futurebird I remember that skit from grade 8 French class clearly. Monsieur Le Blanc! Nous sommes riches! Nous sommes millionaires!
(DIR) Post #B0KkYhM83drXXJNk4u by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2025-11-17T10:28:52Z
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@futurebird IN YOUR KITCHEN! Tell me you need all that space for food. Tuh. Make a coffee table from crates & fill with books. Reduce room by 1foot along one wall & build DIY shelving unit.
(DIR) Post #B0VIMkcm3qjtRp6KaO by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2025-11-22T12:34:49Z
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@futurebird @IngaLovinde I *really* hate to be the one to break the news, but the 90’s are approximately 30 years ago, not 20😱
(DIR) Post #B0wCrhwE29LXjBNCNc by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2025-12-05T12:10:13Z
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@LibrarianRA Just in case there are young people on here, that's s parody of 50's cartoons and not representative of the early 90's...although...there were an awful lot of cartoons in the early 90's that were obsessed with parodying 50's cartoons....🤔
(DIR) Post #B1BmXYnqnblpKDXzEW by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2025-12-13T00:30:45Z
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@futurebird wabisabi is not deliberately making mistakes, it's leaving the mistakes in there when they happen, as evidence of the human who made it. The skilled craftsperson's thumbprint, that kind of thing. I saw a bit with some hipster dudebro who makes pottery and refuses to learn how to do it well. That's his schtick and hey if some people like the results all the power to them, but it's not something you cancommercialize.
(DIR) Post #B1fIwqACUPAWzbgyVk by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2025-12-27T06:20:30Z
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@futurebird Hmmm,1. Tori Amos, Baker baker2. Morphine, Yes3. Housemartins, He Ain't Heavy
(DIR) Post #B1mC0OQyBpKUZp0Cxs by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2025-12-30T14:05:43Z
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@futurebird I've come into doing 2, once I understood that the so-called 'procrastination' was part of the process. Before that it was either 1 or 3, with the breaks being spent beating myself up for having them. Life is so much better now.
(DIR) Post #B1rNbamHKUbirQi2vA by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2026-01-02T02:09:15Z
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@futurebird @copiesofcopies 🤣Nobody does, but I love this story!
(DIR) Post #B1vERYkdt2ggj0vPlY by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2026-01-03T22:45:26Z
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@futurebird You trach math. You've got this! Patterns printed on cross stitch canvas is a relatively new/fancy thing, I think. Growing up it was just counting. It's very soothing. Until you realize you miscounted the start of your almost finished row and have to decide what to do about that. It's like coloring squares on grid paper to make s picture, or pretending to be a living dot matrix printer. Pixel art.
(DIR) Post #B1yV1eYDyy7HsWEGg4 by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2026-01-05T12:35:22Z
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@futurebird I dunno, my lines are kind of fuzzy grey-pink and frayed around the edges. Humans gonna human, y'know?
(DIR) Post #B220e0PzUHDLoCLEsS by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2026-01-07T05:13:47Z
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@futurebird Are they not one and the same?🤔
(DIR) Post #B26iexiiB3CoLVCiae by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2026-01-09T11:45:50Z
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@futurebird Oh I see it's 'make fun of t-rex' season again. Very well.
(DIR) Post #B2AqFJmP7919Uz3OvQ by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2026-01-11T11:29:41Z
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@futurebird I work closely with a CS teacher snd I am a language teacher and just this past Friday we had a conversation about this exact phenomenon, which we both experience. I think because they can use their first language 'perfectly' and I think because their devices work 'perfectly' they think it should be easy to do right the first time and panic when they can't. They don't know what 'perfect' looks like in math so maybe they're more patient with it. 1/2
(DIR) Post #B2AsxLnhA6FAPrmXJo by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2026-01-11T12:00:00Z
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@futurebird This is an excellent exercise and most of your students will get a lot out of it. Be prepared though for the 3-6 who simply will not believe you. Especially if they've used ChatGPT. My CS friend has students who don't believe him when the thing in front of them differs from ChatGPT just like my language students will not accept that the machine translation is not correct/common usage.
(DIR) Post #B2DtLiVuwtoXHgxtY0 by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2026-01-12T22:23:57Z
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@darkling @futurebird Decorative brassicas are a NY tradition in much of Asia.
(DIR) Post #B2ICUxWvAE6YDwOWyu by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2026-01-15T00:42:00Z
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@futurebird @dancingtreefrog Maybe use 'numbers' until you hit the letters and then see if they can solve the problem if what to call them. Explain that you also had trouble about what to call them, and that their ideas might help next years' class, and hey presto you're also teaching empathy! Win-win!
(DIR) Post #B2OImnu5STzMFosl2u by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2026-01-17T23:20:43Z
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@futurebird @moira @Photo55 Is the difference: mammals>>Oh, seasons changing, better eat up so I can sleep! // ants>>Oh, seasons changing, better eat up before my body ceases to function! Don't...don't turtles hibernate? Wait. Noe I'm confused.