♿️Maestro Fluger (he/him)

@nfluger.bsky.social

Tacoma area SPED teacher▪Autistic▪3rd Culture Kid/bilingüe🇧🇴🇺🇸Cancer Fighter ✝ hijo de Dios✝💍@olivia-jean.bsky.social▪papá a 3▪MN Sports Fan▪Fantasy/Sci Fi Nerd▪🏳‍⚧🏳‍🌈 are welcome here ■ just a boring cishet white guy

I fully gave up on being a full-time Vikings fan after we lost to Philly in the NFCCG after the Minneapolis Miracle. I sometimes regret my decision, but days like today, when I see MN sports fans losing their minds, I know I made the right move.

I know the feed is bleak, but please have a brand new lamb picture. I wasn’t expecting this one, and he might be a premie, but his mom is great and he is eating well.

A little white lamb.

Defund and abolish ICE. Melt down their weapons and shift its budget to social services and affordable housing. Ban everyone who led or worked for ICE from any government job. Corporate death penalty for the companies that aided them. Citizenship to all of its victims, should they want it.

To add on to this, one of my biggest regrets as a parent was that because all the kids shared a room but had different bedtimes, after Ezra, I never read to them to sleep. My dad read to me EVERY night until I graduated high school. I mean, I was an only kid so it worked, but still. It +

♿️Maestro Fluger (he/him)@nfluger.bsky.social · 4d ago

having us do things with them that they hear our voice and connect it to safety. So, not only is this lazy and honestly super weird, its also incredibly useless.

Jesse whole thread is excellent and correct, but I just want to add that from a cognitive development perspective and a human connection standpoint, playing an audio book for a baby has no value in comparison to reading to them. Children learn to read by watching us read. Children form bonds by +

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 4d ago

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.