April 2023 archive

I can’t believe that this is actually happening.

About three days ago, I found out something that I could happily have spent the rest of my life… not knowing or having anything to do with: a convicted pedophile who is ban evading on at least two suspensions is continuing to use Twitter, and at that, he is masquerading as a dom and someone who is pro-life using those things as excuses to lash out at people who quickly start telling him to shut up and leave them alone. At this point, the only skin in the game that I have is getting this account of his suspended, and any other accounts that he may make in attempts to ban evade. But to be clear, I’ve actually seen this dude’s rap sheet. He has to stay on the child sexual abuse registry for life, was convicted of… I’m not even going to go back and look, but it had something to do with a preteen, and he can’t live or be within five hundred feet of children’s schools (how do you phrase that? elementary? elementary and secondary?). But Jesus Christ.

I’ve made a lot of awesome new friends from the other people who want him off of Twitter as much as I do, which is probably the only good thing to come of the fact that there is a convicted pedophile ban evading on Twitter. We’ve reported him to Twitter (as have other people who are not even tagged in the conversation), and we keep tagging Elon Musk, Twitter Safety, and Twitter Support like HEY LOOK AT THIS HOUSTON, WE HAVE A MAJOR PROBLEM. Pedophiles need to be banned from using social networking sites the same way those with domestic violence convictions aren’t allowed to register on certain dating sites. One can hope.

I’m continuing to have a lot of fun with Duolingo!

I’m not sure why this image… compressed in the manner that it did, but I will take my wins where I can get them. It did so everywhere on all of the social media accounts that I uploaded it to, as I do when any of these images become available to me. But the app got the majority of this image, so I’m happy for the most part.

Some of the reasons that I homeschool my children.

· they’re disabled, so I can easily modify or tailor their education to maximize their potential with it
· we homeschool year-round, so they can take mental health days off from school as needed
· we don’t have to practice active shooter drills or worry about being shot while doing schoolwork
· they can choose what time of the day they would like to do their schoolwork, and they consistently do
· we don’t have to take any state test because of the state we currently live in, so we… don’t do so, which means that I do not have to “teach to the test”, or focusing on getting my kids to obtain a certain score on it
· we don’t have to worry about bullying or the kids being exposed to illicit or illegal drug use from their peers
· the kids can learn at their own pace and they know that the learning environment doesn’t have stress
· lessons can be modified when interests emerge (Monster loves dinosaurs and Bub loves undersea animals)
· they actually master lessons faster because their learning environment isn’t full of children who chatter
· I can more directly help them with their strengths and weaknesses because I only have two students
· homeschooling can effortlessly adapt to our schedule (appointments, therapy sessions, what have you)
· my kids are met where they are at scholastically and improvements are made from there
· the kids get sick much less often than they would if they were in a public school setting
· the kids can learn with hobbies, interests, or objects that they’ve already cultivated interest in
· both kids have clearly conveyed to me that they do not want to go into public school

Monster’s artwork has really become something else.

He’s made some improvements since I took this original picture, but his art still retains very much of the same style pictured here. Six years later, both of the boys have chalkboards and marker boards, and both of them prefer to use the chalkboard for… whatever reason. Anything that the kids draw are favorites of mine.

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