Marsupial

joined 1 year ago
[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Scrap the subsidies entirely. They’re harmful and fucking over the industry.

Stop subsiding private businesses who rate hike each year yet pass none of it into the resources, building, children, or educators.

And finally pay educators better, you want high quality education? You’re not getting it when your educators rarely stay more than a year into the industry and lack all deep long term institutional knowledge.

Not to mention we’re deeply understaffed as is, and you want to put more children in when we cannot meet the demand already existing, and no a free fucking tafe course is not getting educators into the industry.

This is policy made by people who don’t step foot in the class and have zero idea of the industry.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I tried that. No one ever really joined. I tried posting content, and no one ever engaged with it.

Guess theres not many childcare educators on Lemmy as the reddit community is always super active.

 

We’d been fighting for 25%, so only 10% left to go. Glad to see UWU putting some pressure on.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 24 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 1 points 3 months ago

Tibetans told VICE World News that the meaning of this common expression used to tease and teach children is completely lost in cultural interpretation and its English translation. The correct phrase in Tibetan for this joke is “Che le sa”, which roughly translates to “Eat my tongue.” English is the Dalai Lama’s second language and Indian news outlets have previously reported that the leader speaks in broken English at public events.

[…]

In a Youtube videoJigme Ugen, a second-generation Tibetan refugee living in the U.S., explains how this display of affection was born out of a game played between the Tibetan elderly and children. Kids who go up to their grandfather, for instance, are asked to kiss their grandfather’s forehead, touch their noses and kiss them. 

“Then [the grandfather] says that I’ve given you everything so the only thing left is for you to eat my tongue,” Ugen said. “The child probably never gets the candy or money but gets a beautiful lesson about life, love and family.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5854/tibetans-explain-what-suck-my-tongue-means-dalai-lama-viral-video

tl;dr: A harmless translation issue.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

That literally tells the story of a people’s losing their livelihood due to capitalist usage of technology, and targeting the technology instead of the systemic issue.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 12 points 3 months ago (6 children)

If capitalism is shit you attack capitalism not a technology.

All the misplaced rage and wasted effort.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Laptop mobo sounds like overkill for retro gaming compared to a pi clone or some such.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 1 points 3 months ago

Karaage is basically Popcorn Chicken.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

“Biden enables genocide, but to me he is ok”

Really? What’s a person gotta do to not be ok in your books if you look past genocide?

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

They did or Erdogan did?

Because this reeks of useless nationalism.

 

What the absolute fuck? Has anyone else seen this ad play on SBS, how can they advertise for such a piece of shit to spread his brand of hate here.

 

I've started a community to help learn and practice Irish/Gaeilge. I'm learning myself and would love to meet others who are also trying, or even people who can already speak who'd love to teach or just talk.

Links to Community:
Gaeilge
!gaeilge@quokk.au
quokk.au/c/gaeilge

 

Curious to hear people’s ideas on how education would look in such a world.

For me, I’d like to see it moved away from testing and results based learning.

A stronger focus on physical engagement with things, e.g. learning biology by going out and cataloging wildlife and learning what’s in a local ecosystem before coming together and researching findings and looking for new questions to ask.

Less sitting around at desks being fed information and a greater focus on individual agency in exploring topics of interest.

Not to say there isn’t a time and a place for “high level” stuff where you need to deep dive into books and listen to lectures, but there needs to be a greater balance in methodology.

 

As the title says it's a community based around early years learning and development, so from birth up to pre-school.

Mainly aimed at educators, teachers, and anyone else who works with these age ranges but more than happy to field questions from parents who may be wanting more information to help them.

It's a bit of a niche community, so I'm going to struggle to grow it but Lemmy needs more industry professional spaces!

Edit: It's a .au domain, but the community is for everyone no matter where you live.

Links to Community: Early Childhood Education
!earlychildhood@quokk.au
quokk.au/c/earlychildhood

 
  • It's weird
  • It's political
  • It's recent
  • It's Australian, but the title will confuse people
  • It's the vibe

I think it'll resonate well with the Lemmy audience, see these instant upvote lyrics:

When the Orange man
Came into power
The Minutes
Soon Felt like hours
Then the Old man
Won the election
But the world
Didn’t change direction

 
 
 
 

Feels like I’m seeing more than I have in the past decade this summer, even saw some crickets when I haven’t seen them since I was a kid.

 

I’m trying to download, archive, and upscale as much older Australian TV content as I can, and would love to see what other people watched or enjoyed so I can try to preserve it as well.

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