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Jellycrystals
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Aussie who recently moved to teach IB chemistry in Bangkok. Interests include science, retro gaming, pinball, Nintendo homebrew, metal music, roller skating, puns, The Simpsons and black band tee shirts.

So I switched off my VPN for regional stuff and swapped for DuckDuckGo in house tracker blocker. Blown away by the top app with tracking hits.

The cloud storage Mega! It is Google through Mega, but still! When I shopped around for cloud storage I was looking at privacy and they kept coming up. I only put encrypted stuff in there but even Bitcoin Miner had fewer trackers! https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_6736173646464806941691139266.webp

Just spent 20 minutes with my 9 y.o. trying to explain to him how important it is to say sorry to yourself and admit that a poor choice was made.

He has a tendency to blame everyone else and refuse to back down even when you (and he) knows he is wrong.

We started small, based around a decision he made in a board game ( #Munchkin). Instead of blaming another player and trying to invent a rule loophole, he just needed to say to himself, "I did not read that card properly, and I wasted it." Following up with saying to everyone else, "Whoops. I guess I misread that card!" Instead he got angry, blamed us both and rage quit the game. Sad times.

I reminded him how important it is to forgive yourself. No one is going to tease you for admitting you made a mistake. No one is going to be upset if you only realise you made a mistake *after* you lost your temper, but then apologise and admit you made a mistake.

Something he can work on, anyway.

#parenti ng #mist akes #gro wnostr

Found this gem. The Sad Bastard Cookbook. The pure dedication to ramen in the first part of the book is worth the free download. https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook #foodstr #ramen #cookbook

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_3798796252385231651691113396.webp Chemistry meme c/o @twisteddoodles (on Mastodon and X)

#memestr #chemstr

Hmm. I may not go in for dank memes.. But I do have a swathe of science and chemistry memes...

I put Magic For Humans (Netflix) on for my kid and husband and we ended up watching 3 episodes. Husband even put his phone down to watch!

So I have lived in Thailand (Bangkok) for a little over 3 weeks and have worked my chilli tolerance (which was already pretty decent) successfully to "Thai level spiciness" for 5 consecutive meals/snacks in one day with zero repurcussions. So stoked. Bring on the flavours!

#foodstr #spicy #thailand

OK #asknostr

I hate to ask because I kind of assumed I could work it out, but what exactly (other than zap stuff I like..?) do I have to do in a #zapathon ?

So good.. Sadly I had to pack up all my consoles to storage as I just moved overseas. Massive withdrawals.

Eating new foods, staring at nature, Zelda Breath of the Wild 💚

Added my lightning wallet address to my Mastodon accounts. Maybe I will score some sats for my banter on that platform. Or not, can't hurt either way.

I had a dream that someone made a #PokemonGo type app but you were collecting scientifically correct #dinosaurs and the kms you walked and dinos you caught earned you sats... Someone needs to make this! #sats #zaps #gaming