Part of me is thinking it's an educational experience for me as well - learning to let go. Another part of me is like, I don't wanna let go without ensuring these kids have a good replacement in the coming academic year!

I mean, I took a lot of work - establishing trust, patterns of learning that worked for both the pupil and teachers, now it's just sort of up in the air.

And personally, I think the things that worked for me were because of my non-formal-education background, which is kinda rare (most teaching assistant staff are there because it's part of the career route to being a teacher, so there's limited experience in other educational backgrounds)

Most of the London schools are breaking up for the summer holidays between today and Tuesday. I work via an agency as a teaching assistant in a primary school, today was my last contracted day.

Very emotional time. It's hard to say goodbye to kids you've worked closely with for so long, while knowing you're probably never going to see them again. It's hard to trust that whoever is going to replace you will be better at the job than you are, especially if they're coming in cold.

Setting aside the obvious one, war, there are a lot of different ways for one state to exert control over another.

Quite a few of them are helped when people don't think about them.

Right, so Americans fucked up the English language generally - but, I'm willing to recognise that the word 'vacation' is a genuinely useful distinction from the more general 'holiday' 😜

https://apnews.com/article/x-twitter-european-union-musk-dsa-645e9a224cd82ed1bc3cde9156215293

With the benefit of hindsight, I probably didn't need to say that the catflap was for the cat, did I...

So far, it's tickling me in all the right places

Got a new catflap for the cat so she can get out the back door on her own. That was the way part.

It's one of those fancy ones that only unlocks when it detects her microchip. Teaching her to understand how it it works is a whole new level of hell/training.

Just had to think about how some parental abuse stuff can still affect you decades later, even when you thought you might've gotten over it all.

Starting to suspect that shit*s never completely going to fit into the dustbin of history.

THREE DAMN TIMES

I mean okay, maybe I was the dick, but that's harsh

I got "Outer Range" on my to-watch list. The Rotten Tomatoes summary says Josh Brolin is a rancher "who discovers an unfathomable mystery..."

Not really a selling point, people.

If I'm gonna watch, it's in the hope that the damn mystery eventually gets fathomed. You just yeeted your entire premise into the sun there, wtf
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/outer_range

JFC AGAIN

I don't fucking believe this.

Been having a 'difference of opinion' with a friend, really sensitive subject matter, so I'm writing something out on notepad before emailing or whatever.

Partway through, I get my first BSOD in years and have to restart...

The indifference my cat has for me means a lot. Like, at least I know it's genuine.

I never got round to watching Moulin Rouge, but it's on BBC IPlayer now - How's it hold up?

I voted Green btw. If it matters to anyone.

Gut feeling is "cool, Tories are out."

Not-gut-feeling is "meh. Same shit, different branding."

@Alfred is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test an indicator of conscious or subconscious presentation of a public persona?