President Michael D Higgins calls for homework to be banned in Ireland – Irish Mirror Online:
I think myself, really that the time at home, and the time in the school is an educational experience and it should get finished at the school and people should be able to use their time for other creative things.
I’m not sure how I missed this (or even the whole “Escape from the Office” series), but it’s really well done.
Escape from the Office | Apple at Work – YouTube:
The Underdogs are back in business — as in, small business. Escaping from their evil boss’s clutches, the team finds out how to spin an idea into a product, and a product into a company.
#apple
While looking for a way to get the RSS feed for my Mastodon bookmarks, I found this… Not what I’m looking for but interesting.
Open Mastodon bookmarks – Matthew Cassinelli:
An Apple shortcut that shows your bookmarked posts on Mastodon.
100+°F Temperature Gradient Likely As Extreme Pre-Christmas Cold Snap Hits U.S. – DAMWeather:
Temperatures will dip into the 40s down in the Everglades, and lows on Christmas morning will even get into the lower 20s across the northern Gulf Coast. (22°F is frigid for Mobile, Alabama, y’all.)
Conditions will gradually improve and warm toward some semblance of normal during that vaporwave week between Christmas and New Year’s when existence is a simulation and nobody actually gets anything done except for eating cookies and reading best-of-2022 listicles.
If you haven’t seen the new Barbie “2001” Trailer…
BARBIE – Teaser Trailer – Warner Bros. UK & Ireland – YouTube:
If you haven’t seen the side-by-side (or top-over-bottom) comparison with 2001, you have to go here – https://twitter.com/MatthewGaydos/status/1603810520003317761
CAUTION!!! It’s on Twitter
Make sure you read the thread too…
Scripting News: Friday, December 9, 2022:
I started writing, and couldn’t keep up with my mind, so I opened up my iPhone and started talking about what happened and what we should and shouldn’t do if we want to rebuild the war-torn landscape of blogging and feeds, that still exists.
“RSS Diagram” by jrhode is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 
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For now, this is an experimental page about Mastodon.
Hoping the “[No Title]” thing will be fixed soon…
Scripting News: Thursday, December 8, 2022:
# To feed reader developers… It’s perfectly legit for a feed item to have no title. Many feed readers, including some popular ones, treat an item with no title as an error.
Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash
New Feature: “New “Micropost” interface for streamlined publishing of short-form posts”
https://redsweater.com/marsedit/
Update: There may be bugs (Starring Daniel Day Lewis)
From Marcus Hutchins:
Mastodon feels much closer to hanging out with reasonable friends and acquaintances, whereas Twitter is equivalent to having 15 racists drunk uncles assigned to follow you wherever you go.
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