But yeah, I get it. The Academy Awards don't say "And everyone did well."
No one says "And these 14 films all met the criteria to win an Oscar for Special Effects this year."
We model it after how things are, not how this one teacher would like them to be.
I understand the reasoning, but I still don't like how our Film Fest is a zero sum game. There can be only one winner in each category.
The performing arts in our school also have festivals, where theoretically each school could bring home all "Superiors" in the areas where they're assessed. (This does not happen, but regulations allow it.)
This was my opinion when we averaged 1 or 2 nominations/year.
After this incredible increase in nominations ... it's still my opinion.
If you are new to the fedi and not finding it the community driven space you were made to feel it would be where you can know your mods and the people around you: get off mastodon social or mastodon online.
For a lot of you, one of those will have been your landing point here. They each have an *enormous* number of users and moderation teams that struggles to keep up. They also don't have blocklists that are as complete as others.
Smaller instances are a very different experience to that.
Good morning, friends.
Today the winners or our Film Festival are announced.
Our students are up for several awards. They're the only middle schoolers to submit animations so we have that one category locked down, but I am very interested in the other results.
Which will be announced while I am halfway through a team meeting.
My attention ... may be divided.
#fediblock, potential new accounts, misogyny, harassment
Be wary if you get any new accounts from someone with the username @ DrKarateChop
This person has been suspended from .art and .social both in less than 48 hours, for hostility to other users, misogyny brushed off as irony, and bad faith lying about .art being "pro life" because it was suggested he not conflate pro choice to only being about abortion.
He also seems to think expecting users to follow the TOS makes people a cop.
#fediblock
With every instance that has an emote, @noelle grows in power.
This is a good thing, if you like puns.
Which you should.
►He/Him
►Teacher (K-8, Media Arts & Technology)
►Trans rights are human rights.
►Black Lives Matter.
►I DM a #DnD #Podcast (several, in fact...) and geek out about games over on @Crash
►My friends are all far more interesting than me, and I'm OK with that.
► #PineBookPro and #RaspberryPi owner. I know just enough to break things.
►I like hexagons, just not Twitter's hexagons.