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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Almost posted a political hot take here.

Typed it and deleted it.

This account is not the forum I intend to use for such things regardless of how strongly I feel about them.

Shout-out to all the musicians who cover songs but enunciate the lyrics more clearly than the original artists, so that 30+ years later I'm just now understanding what the songs were about.

That or I'm really slow, but there's room for overlap in that Venn diagram.

I've made the switch from Subway Tooter to Tusky. Not sure if I'd just gotten too used to a different interface or not but this will take some adjusting.

Tusky has you switch accounts the same way Google apps do it, rather than letting me just swipe left or right to the account's columns.

But Tusky blocks fascists, so that makes up for it.

SciShow did an episode on 5 women in Engineering, including a trans woman. Cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5-zlJJ0BOY

Also I am very excited about some of the changes that will be happening next year. Having two Media Arts / Technology teachers in the building is opening some options that were previously closed to us.

I was going to get so much done today.

And then I checked my work email.

I'm glad I checked it as it was important and involved what we're doing next school year, but I should be back home from running errands and I've yet to leave.

Tent Caterpillars

https://aaronbsmith.com/photos/2019/07/01/tent-caterpillars/

#photoblog #wordpress

Pine Cone

https://aaronbsmith.com/photos/2019/06/30/pine-cone/

#photoblog #wordpress

Bunny

https://aaronbsmith.com/photos/2019/06/29/bunny-2/

#photoblog #wordpress

Hypothetical shower thought:

So, let's say there's a bad actor that keeps firing up single-user ActivityPub instances in order to be a jerk. To get around instance blocks without buying multiple domains, they create subdomains galore.

Would I have to block 1.[badinstancename].com, 2.[badinstancename].com, etc, OR

*[badinstancename].com, or,

would blocking [badinstancename].com effectively block all of them?

Berries

https://aaronbsmith.com/photos/2019/06/28/berries/

#photoblog #wordpress

Spoiler Alert is one of the many TMBG songs where the happy go lucky tune runs contrary to the lyrics, and I love it for that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbMlIsdyJTA

Purple Flowers

https://aaronbsmith.com/photos/2019/06/27/purple-flowers/

#photoblog #wordpress

Peppermint

https://aaronbsmith.com/photos/2019/06/26/peppermint/

#photoblog #wordpress

All but one item as been delivered.

Should be here by 8pm.

Went out for delivery at 9am.

Service doing the delivery has already been by once today. 🤔