<![CDATA[I started elementary as a high school student.]]>I started elementary as a high school student. When we were building the first versions of our desktop environment, one of our core developers was in high school and his parents accompanied him to the Ubuntu Developer Summit. How many things we have today wouldn’t exist if young people weren’t allowed to participate? The cost of not creating spaces that we can safely share with young people is too high

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/dccf8672-a5ca-4b89-bc5e-50e78cd84dc2/i-started-elementary-as-a-high-school-student.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 07:08:31 GMTSun, 10 May 2026 15:55:45 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Tue, 12 May 2026 05:12:26 GMT]]>@danirabbit To the illegal spaces

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dcre/statuses/116559888136240793https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dcre/statuses/116559888136240793Tue, 12 May 2026 05:12:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Tue, 12 May 2026 02:02:18 GMT]]>@danirabbit
They yearn for the mines

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bigshoulders.city/users/wakingrufus/statuses/116559140528905030https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bigshoulders.city/users/wakingrufus/statuses/116559140528905030Tue, 12 May 2026 02:02:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Tue, 12 May 2026 01:53:25 GMT]]>@kawunngg
Not necessarily. Not as long as there are for-profit prisons.
@tranquillity @danirabbit

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/ap/users/116445370832752574/statuses/116559105614413136https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/ap/users/116445370832752574/statuses/116559105614413136Tue, 12 May 2026 01:53:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Tue, 12 May 2026 01:48:34 GMT]]>@danirabbit seems pretty clear they're going to hit the streets. if we're lucky, ready to scrap

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/capn_b/statuses/116559086501286044https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/capn_b/statuses/116559086501286044Tue, 12 May 2026 01:48:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 23:53:11 GMT]]>@jeang3nie @danirabbit Very much same sort of history. And agreed that it's doing no one any favors.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pagan.plus/users/Ashmire/statuses/116558632831967466https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pagan.plus/users/Ashmire/statuses/116558632831967466Mon, 11 May 2026 23:53:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 18:17:49 GMT]]>@danirabbit crime, clearly

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bayes.club/users/wronglang/statuses/116557314098949047https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bayes.club/users/wronglang/statuses/116557314098949047Mon, 11 May 2026 18:17:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 18:12:03 GMT]]>@danirabbit Libraries!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/koen_hufkens/statuses/116557291452087926https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/koen_hufkens/statuses/116557291452087926Mon, 11 May 2026 18:12:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 18:07:28 GMT]]>@danirabbit
Kinder-Gulag ☝️

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.nl/users/amro/statuses/116557273423494587https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.nl/users/amro/statuses/116557273423494587Mon, 11 May 2026 18:07:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 15:14:01 GMT]]>@danirabbit Some of the powerful have plans, but I think they've all drunk too deeply of the idea that they can do whatever they want and let the externalities take care of themselves. And what they want is for anyone and anything that questions them or gets in their way to not exist anymore.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/foolishowl/statuses/116556591365347588https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/foolishowl/statuses/116556591365347588Mon, 11 May 2026 15:14:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 13:48:10 GMT]]>@martin_t i was thinking of safety more in terms of from predatory adults. In terms of content I wish that our society was focused a lot more on violent content. I’m not a child psychologist but I think being exposed to extreme violence and death is probably not good for anyone to see let alone a child. Being exposed to sexuality as a teen seems vaguely developmentally appropriate. I remember reading gay smut with my friends in class lol

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/danirabbit/statuses/116556253781959928https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/danirabbit/statuses/116556253781959928Mon, 11 May 2026 13:48:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 12:26:42 GMT]]>@danirabbit Thank you for your and the folks hardwork \o/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://navi.lain.day/users/radhitya/statuses/01KRBG204METE4R9MWYM598ZYChttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://navi.lain.day/users/radhitya/statuses/01KRBG204METE4R9MWYM598ZYCMon, 11 May 2026 12:26:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 11:56:29 GMT]]>@danirabbit We live in a place where the state, and its paid up “elected” agents, look at children like they’re animals to be controlled. Of course, seeing how things are going, our same government does not seem too crazy about the adults, either. Control and profits are the twin evils and motives of our age.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116213636521702584/statuses/116555814652441777https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116213636521702584/statuses/116555814652441777Mon, 11 May 2026 11:56:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 08:21:32 GMT]]>@danirabbit
I’m Rania from Gaza 💔
We lost our home, and now my children and I are living in a fragile tent with no protection from the cold or illness.
Watching my children suffer while I can’t provide even the basics is breaking my heart every single day.
Please don’t leave us alone in this pain 🙏
Even the smallest donation or a simple share could help us survive 🤍

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freesewing.social/users/Rania/statuses/116554969420643058https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freesewing.social/users/Rania/statuses/116554969420643058Mon, 11 May 2026 08:21:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 08:10:13 GMT]]>@danirabbit They'll get let into our spaces as long as they do exactly as we say.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://apobangpo.space/users/dnkboston/statuses/116554924916787635https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://apobangpo.space/users/dnkboston/statuses/116554924916787635Mon, 11 May 2026 08:10:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 07:52:25 GMT]]>@danirabbit and that question is one that no parent wants to have to ask about their child.

When there's no obvious place to exercise an interest in a healthy way, it'll be done in a sketchy place in an unhealthy way.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/rasmus91/statuses/116554854904381411https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/rasmus91/statuses/116554854904381411Mon, 11 May 2026 07:52:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 07:33:37 GMT]]>@kawunngg @danirabbit yep, gotta magically figure it out 😆

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.minionflo.net/ap/users/116346548544271763/statuses/116554781012071629https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.minionflo.net/ap/users/116346548544271763/statuses/116554781012071629Mon, 11 May 2026 07:33:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 07:32:08 GMT]]>@tranquillity @danirabbit
But when they are released at 18, they must be perfectly fitting in members of the society. ☝️

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastoart.social/users/kawunngg/statuses/116554775153237594https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastoart.social/users/kawunngg/statuses/116554775153237594Mon, 11 May 2026 07:32:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 05:23:54 GMT]]>@danirabbit simple answer: they aren't. they're supposed to have nothing outside their parents, their school approved reading materials and ,in the cases of a lot of the people pushing this, the church

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.highenergymagic.net/ap/users/116201069828972775/statuses/116554270962665490https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.highenergymagic.net/ap/users/116201069828972775/statuses/116554270962665490Mon, 11 May 2026 05:23:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 03:34:23 GMT]]>@danirabbit This is very surprising to me because I thought it was a requirement to finish elementary before starting high school.

This is a joke, and I’d like to apologize to you for making this joke.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/nwd/statuses/116553840313048686https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/nwd/statuses/116553840313048686Mon, 11 May 2026 03:34:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 02:17:34 GMT]]>@drwho @martin_t

That argument was so bad I was wondering if they were scamming the oil companies.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://timeloop.cafe/users/alienghic/statuses/116553538232447698https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://timeloop.cafe/users/alienghic/statuses/116553538232447698Mon, 11 May 2026 02:17:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 02:16:20 GMT]]>@alienghic @martin_t Ye gods, talk about a crit fail.

They weren't really trying there, were they?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.hackers.town/users/drwho/statuses/116553533410333522https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.hackers.town/users/drwho/statuses/116553533410333522Mon, 11 May 2026 02:16:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 02:15:12 GMT]]>@danirabbit Church, bible studdy, and to their rooms where they are seen but not heard.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Epic_Null/statuses/116553528956315005https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Epic_Null/statuses/116553528956315005Mon, 11 May 2026 02:15:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 01:09:47 GMT]]>@danirabbit 100% agree. There is a huge range of contributions young people can make (and have made). In all fields, and I do not exaggerate.

I used to be a special prize judge for the US national science and engineering fair. (Was Westinghouse, then Intel). Every year I was astonished by the work of students who were often very young. One year I met a young woman at the competition, age 13 or so, and she was brilliant. She was there every year with something new. A brain computer interface at age 16! The next year I got her a hosted day at Caltech to hang out, attend some lectures. Not your ordinary college interview. A well known professor of astrophysics told me later that she asked better questions than his graduate students! Caltech offered her a free ride, a stipend, a fully equipped lab, an assistant … she ultimately chose MIT which was closer to her home. She has had a brilliant career.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/meltedcheese/statuses/116553271707075490https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/meltedcheese/statuses/116553271707075490Mon, 11 May 2026 01:09:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I started elementary as a high school student. on Mon, 11 May 2026 01:01:51 GMT]]>@martin_t

Ah ok. yeah. the character limits.

A core mastodon inequality.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://timeloop.cafe/users/alienghic/statuses/116553240490019829https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://timeloop.cafe/users/alienghic/statuses/116553240490019829Mon, 11 May 2026 01:01:51 GMT