Avrila, dodging COVID round 2
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2
@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
Part adjunct, part self-employed, entirely neurodivergent. She/her in STEM, i.e., had pronouns before people got offended by them. Can't believe it's controversial to not want SARS. Also plays with string 🧶
For lessons I use "hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people" but for other things I've started resorting to "greetings, fellow beings" because fuck it.
December 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
mumble mumble better or dead by then even if it's minor right now mumble
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 AM
No, portable as in can be run without installation, so you can do things like bring it around on a flash drive.
December 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I'm using Proton Pass now since getting the paid version of Proton mainly for the cloud drive (Google pissed me off nagging me to upgrade).

Used Bitwarden before that -- it was fine, just needed signed into more often, which could be a feature depending on the person's risk profile/tolerance.
December 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I just did a search for cross-browser bookmark sync and found Floccus, which seems to be available as an extension for Firefox and its kin. Haven't tried it yet but the reviews look promising.
December 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Oh, and it's available in portable form so I can use it in the lab, that works! Thanks!
December 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
(like bitch if you're planning to show up at my house to check what will happen if I die tonight, be aware I would shoot back)
December 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Basically I'm less and less convinced that siloing off education as a separate profession is on point.
December 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I'm sure there's willful pretending in the mix also, but I'd be shocked if there's not also a significant swath of honest denial about how realistic those paths are at scale, given that higher ed is done by people who got into doing higher ed.
December 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Considering that someone who's 70 now was 20 in 1975, yeah, this is completely predictable.
December 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
At the very least, she's a rich person with sufficient sense to take up an otherwise-infeasible but awesome hobby rather than obsess over becoming even richer.
December 16, 2025 at 4:44 AM
(The idea is to make the job too good to lose so they'll stick around forever, bc fuck I am not dealing with finding a good minion *over and over*.)
December 16, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Oh my dual-neurodivergent household would *so* have a Straightening Up After Us minion with a six figure salary, good insurance, and a card for supply shopping on where we explicitly do not care if they toss snacks in the cart along with the soap.
December 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Fair, some tasks can definitely be structured so that even the little ones can help out, which also keeps them from running wild.
December 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Yup. Get patched up by the first aid helpers if that's what you need, etc., but in general adults aren't meant to just bask in the existence of helpers like a lizard under a heat lamp.
December 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Also, kids as in 12yos have a different range of ways to help from kids as in 4yos. Fred was talking to kids as in 4yos.
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Reposted by Avrila, dodging COVID round 2
my name is cow
and wen its nite
and when a star
is shiyning brite

and three wise men
give me the nod
i walk up close
I lik the God
December 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
It's not even as if basic gun safety is hard. Just don't point it at anything important, plus keep your finger off the trigger.
December 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM