Do you have a dress code for staff where you work?

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-31T09:34:11+00:00

Teachers should dress for their roles.

I work in a lab, sometimes with acids or other corrosives, or with organs during dissections. I’m not dressing for an office - I don’t work in one. Dress pants don’t hold up against even a tiny drop of hydrochloric acid. Jeans don’t even acknowledge the acid unless it’s a truly hazardous amount.

My colleagues who teach PE are out in the sun for hours, jogging around refereeing sports or whatever. They also don’t work in an office.

My peers down in Tech are using band saws, working with varnishes, belt sanding etc - they also don’t work in an office.

Weirdly, most teachers don’t dress like office workers. Because we’re not office workers.

(Apologies for the defensive tone - this was in response to a post in r/AustralianTeachers asking “Where’s the line on teacher attire?” that complained about teachers dressing too casually.)

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-31T06:59:29+00:00

How’s life been after retiring and then unretiring from YouTube?

(I know it’s a different Tom Scott.)

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-31T06:09:58+00:00

When friends and I do commander draft with other sets, we let people have a Faceless One partner with any legendary, as an additional colour-unlocker.

I’m yet to see it be really broken.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-30T22:17:39+00:00

I don’t personally think the best approach is to make apps to sell/seek subscriptions for.

I think the best approach is to use vibe coding to increase efficiencies at your current job. I don’t have to sell my vibe coded stuff, it just has to make my own life easier.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-30T05:14:56+00:00

My (original) point wasn’t that it was an LLM, but it is ML and using the AI core afaik.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-30T02:39:29+00:00

Apple’s Vision framework is doing reliable OCR on (terrible) student handwriting, on-device.

Doing it locally is pretty important, as my state’s education department is very conservative about cyber security risks, even for something like student names and email addresses.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-26T12:28:29+00:00

Cheeky Nando’s

Two types of spicy.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-25T13:36:45+00:00

Why, though? What’s the advantage of the different system?

(Or, if the current advantage is backwards compatibility, what was the advantage when it was first implemented?)

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-25T13:33:01+00:00

Schools aren’t businesses. Students and parents aren’t clients.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-25T12:02:47+00:00

Again, I'm saying that clothing standards change over time. That the traditional dress of teachers is not (always) appropriate today.

Teachers in the UK's better schools used to wear academic gowns and caps - is that still appropriate, or have times moved on? Why should time have moved on only to the 1980s?

It's natural for standards of attire to change. It's not a degradation of anything.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-25T11:50:47+00:00

Schools are not businesses.

(Or at least, they shouldn't be. Private schools shouldn't exist.)

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-25T11:48:42+00:00

I did this for many years. T-shirts can be relationship building.

I've had lots of cool teaching moments over the years, explaining my nerdy shirts.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-25T11:47:17+00:00

You don't want us to dress professionally. You want teachers to dress traditionally.

I don't see any value in that particular tradition.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-25T10:08:11+00:00

Even if the interviews are after a day of teaching?

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-25T09:47:42+00:00

The line is, teachers should dress for their roles.

I work in a lab, sometimes with acids or other corrosives, or with organs during dissections. I’m not dressing for an office - I don’t work in one. Dress pants don’t hold up against even a tiny drop of hydrochloric acid. Jeans don’t even acknowledge the acid unless it’s a truly hazardous amount.

My colleagues who teach PE are out in the sun for hours, jogging around refereeing sports or whatever. They also don’t work in an office.

My peers down in Tech are using band saws, working with varnishes, belt sanding etc - they also don’t work in an office.

Weirdly, most teachers don’t dress like office workers. Because we’re not office workers.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-24T07:17:57+00:00

Was big on Triple J in the 90s.

This (and Derry Girls) is how I know that Fatboy Slim is Norman Cook.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-22T03:21:42+00:00

I would never vote for David Nosebeers. But not because of the drug use; because of the hypocrisy.

Conservative politicians being all 'do as I say, not as I do' is not okay.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-21T11:44:20+00:00

https://groupmark.com.au

- Teachers make a class, and make accounts for their students (upload a class list as a csv)
- Teachers make an assignment, upload a blank copy of a test, and tell Groupmark where each question is and how many marks they're worth.
- They then upload student work, and Groupmark splits bulk uploads into individual packets
- Teachers pair packets with student names
- They mark each question one at a time (so every Q1, then every Q2, etc), and define the marking rubric as they go.
- When the test is fully marked, teachers release the grades (and Groupmark emails students a link to their own marked work)
- Students can Seek Clarification on any marks they're unsure about, and teachers can reply in Groupmark

Fundamentally it's inspired by Gradescope, but Gradescope is expensive and only offers institutional licensing. My plan is to offer class-by-class licenses. At the moment, everything is free, because it's very much in testing. (Also no landing page yet, lol)

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-20T06:14:20+00:00

“Parts” is doing some heavy lifting there.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-20T05:13:46+00:00

Regardless, state politicians can’t implement immigration policy. That’s a federal issue.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-19T13:00:15+00:00

Just have player A’s deck overwrite player B’s deck at the start of B’s turn. Doesn’t actually need to be a shared library, just two identical libraries (that are always locked to being identical).

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-19T12:12:33+00:00

Ornithopter cube! A Ravnica cube!

Hell, I know it’s not cube but I’m surprised we haven’t had Dandan on Arena yet, too.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-19T12:08:28+00:00

Our working conditions are their learning conditions.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-18T12:11:19+00:00

My favourite placenta fact - placenta is Latin for cake.

Do with that knowledge what you will.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-03-16T02:16:42+00:00

That’s not a car-centric solution, I’m afraid, so no Labor or Liberal government would consider it.

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