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@Ambulocetus @jetlagjen

"I can't use it anymore, identity theft."

Never had anyone push back on this one.

@superflippy @mycotropic @WhiteCatTamer @RanaldClouston @rk @bookstodon

Alien Clay has the most substance of his books and I was very impressed.

But don't assume he's always so serious. Many of his books are fun.

@mycotropic @WhiteCatTamer @RanaldClouston @rk @bookstodon

I like most of the Adrian Tchaikovsky series, but I'm not certain what to recommended. Would you like more of a romp (he writes space pirates in a way) or something with a bit more meaning and depth?

What do the other people who read #AdrianTchaikovsky think?

@mycotropic @WhiteCatTamer @RanaldClouston @rk @bookstodon

You see this is why I like an Adrian Tchaikovsky book. He has a thing for mean old highly intelligent somewhat terrifying women.

A Thing.

@u0421793

Um Ian are you trying to get me killed over here?

She was fine with it … until I petted it. *That* made her mad (tail puffed up ... ) so I stopped because she has enough drama in her life without simple humans making it worse.

To be clear I, personally would prefer immensely that they would win. Their inability to keep power has material real impacts on my life and the lives of people I care about. But, that isn't as true or as obvious to many people.

So, unless there is a tone shift what we have seen will only get worse.

Pica is not impressed.

my parents got us a Lego tuxedo cat to build over Christmas. We decided to introduce it to Pica today. #picathecat #lego #legocat #catsofmastodon #cats

There are many powerful interest groups in US politics. Democrats try to stay on good terms with all of them.

This makes it very hard to trust Democrats.

This is why people won't show up and vote even as the Republicans make this worse.

Pick a few somewhat powerful enemies. For example? The oil people and bosses (anyone who wants wages low and workplaces dangerous.)

Don't tell me you are "partnering with local business leaders" Disgusting.

I'm worried about the Democrats. I'm hearing some of them saying how delighted they are that everyone "even independents" hates Trump and they think "this means we win, right?"

WRONG.
Have ya'll learned nothing? You do not get to win just because Republicans are terrible.

Democrats need to pick some *powerful* enemies. You can't be friends with everyone and win. Trump understood this: picked liberal academia as his enemy.

@MisuseCase

They do have lockers, which are searched all the time, but still. Thing is his locker was full of food, medicine, essentials. The school cabinet was his "teen junk"

basically we don't do enough or think about "what would I feel like if I had to put up with this" enough.

You have people who really need mental health services, former hoarders mixed in with teens like my student, and so there is a "no stuff" policy.

But, everyone needs some space that they can *control* not having any place to put anything will make your lose your mind.

I had a chance later to talk to someone who works at a big city shelter and I told them about my student and how traumatized he was by having his stuff just vanish without warning. She swore up and down it didn't work like that, but reading between what she said I detected that there are just too many people, not enough staff and not enough space.

So, the people running the shelters have "trash out days" where they just throw things out. Otherwise the place would fill up with garbage.

But for most of that year he'd stay at the building from 5am to 7pm every day.

"The school opens at 5, miss." He said.

Basically, he'd made himself a little corner of a typical teenager's bedroom in the storage cabinet. Because at the shelter your stuff might go missing.

Not because people steal either, no the people who run the shelters just throw things away without warning.

Think about what that does to you mentally, to never feel like you can even put an item down and ever find it again.

In the next year he and his dad were doing much better.

I tend to come into school early. When I was at a different school from the one I work at now I came in at 6:30 one day and found one of my students in the back of the room. He'd discovered that the big cabinets at the back of the room weren't really being used for anything and taken one over to store his stuff. He'd hung up posters inside and neatly stacked his clothes and sneakers. He was listening to music and didn't notice me walking in.

"David* when did you get here?"

*not his name

More to the point the shelters in NYC are not a place anyone wants to be and with very good reason.

There is a lot of low hanging fruit. Anyone who is homeless with a job and kids should just be admitted to this kind of program with few questions. These are people who will get on their feet again if we'd just stop making it so hard.

There are more complex and difficult cases and maybe the shelters could do a better job if some of the pressure was taken off.

The things that make homelessness an annoyance or "inconvenience" for people who aren't homeless are mostly down to people not having a place to live. When you address that those issues* go away, and they just become your neighbors.

*It' s really absurd that when one person in suffering, sick on the train because there is no where else to go everyone is concerned about the people on the train who have a place to live but that is where the politics is.

Love this model. This is just down the street from us and I often walk by. Over the past decade the South Bronx has been built up in many ways. There aren't many empty lots or abandoned buildings anymore. Everywhere there's housing and I see no reason why addressing homelessness can't be a big part of that too.