Aaron Smith @theartguy@is.aaronbsmith.com

#Introduction / #Introductions

I'm Aaron, a Media Arts / Technology teacher for a K-8 Creative & Performing Arts Academy.

Before I did this, I was a Visual Arts teacher.

I'm very much into #DIY, #STEM, #STEAM, #DnD, #photography, the #Maker movement, and the idea that artists should be fairly compensated for the work they do (vs reposting said work without even attribution).

My politics lean left, but I don't talk about that much here.

I'm a widower.

I talk about games on @Crash.

*"Follow-for-follow." Life's too short to clutter my timeline.

*Post, boost, or favorite profanities. Yes, even the ones included in super-insightful posts. My students can find me.

*Post, boost, or favorite copyright infringement or endorsements of the same. Copyright law needs reform, sure, but it is still used to protect artists. If you're punching down and up at the same time, You're still punching down.

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I have been quiet on here as this is our Performance Week as well as the time of year for several other important deadlines.

Last performance of the week was tonight. I am very tired, but our students are incredibly talented thanks to their hard work.

Expect a return to my ramblings soonish.

Classic Editor, you're the one,
That makes WordPress so much fun!
Classic Editor I'm awfully fond of youuuuuu...

Progress.

It's been a while since I made something for someone else.

Even longer since I did something like this.

Feels good.

I've mixed feelings about the effectiveness of the change they intend to make to their blocking policy (silencing instances with over 5k unique logins), but it's THEIR instance and in this case I mean THEY, PLURAL. It was and technically still is open to discussion.

The downside of less federation is that things get a lot more quiet. Here on my little single-user instance, my Federated timeline is usually identical to my home timeline.

Scholar Social will be fine, though. Here? Not so much.

I may no longer hang out on scholar.social, but @socrates is still an incredibly useful account to follow. The administrator there does good work.

"Milo Yiannopoulos lasted a single day on Patreon before getting banned"

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18127994/milo-yiannopoulos-patreon-comeback-ban-hate-speech

(The article also points out that he's still on Facebook & Instagram, in case you were wondering which social networks don't think he's violating their TOS...)

Having reinstalled Debian Linux on my laptop I have discovered that my trackpad functions as a 3 button mouse.

The middle (but not center) button effectively closes tabs when I click on them, or pastes my clipboard when I click in a text box.

You can imagine my frustration as I tried to figure out what was going wrong.

#Introduction / #Introductions

I'm Aaron, a Media Arts / Technology teacher for a K-8 Creative & Performing Arts Academy.

Before I did this, I was a Visual Arts teacher.

I'm very much into #DIY, #STEM, #STEAM, #DnD, #photography, the #Maker movement, and the idea that artists should be fairly compensated for the work they do (vs reposting said work without even attribution).

My politics lean left, but I don't talk about that much here.

I'm a widower.

I talk about games on @Crash.