Good idea!

Sounds interesting, but maybe a little too advanced for me.

That’s just the order in which Mematic gave them to me.

North East England. Around here, it goes like this:

• 4-8 years: First School
• 8-13 years: Middle School
• 13-16 years: High School

then

• 16-18 years: College or Sixth Form
• 18+: University, etc.

You are probably used to the two-tier system, with a primary school and a secondary school. Around here, though, we mainly have a three-tier system.

Yeah, but high school starts at year 9 (age 13-14), so:

(Y9 doesn’t exist for a bit)

Y9 --> Y10

Y10 --> Y11

Y11 --> (Either leave school or just take a few extra weeks off)

Y12 --> Y13

Y13 --> (Leave school*)

This is done because, after the exams, the Y11s and Y13s have no content left to learn, so there’s no point in keeping them at school.

Also, as I said, my school is strange for doing this. Most, if not all, other British high schools are normal.

*Unless you get held back, stay on for another year, or go to university

TL;DR: Yeah, pretty much

!2meirl4meirl@lemmy.ml

Instead of moving up to the next year (the British term for “grade”) in September, we do it after the exams (finals) are over, which is in June.

My school moves everyone up after the GCSEs and A-Levels are over, which is in May or June. The holiday starts in July.

As far as I know, we’re the only school in Britain that does this.

Pretty sure that’s acid you’re talking about.

!2meirl4meirl@lemmy.ml

Mematic is really the only generator I can get on my phone that doesn’t suck. Unless I were to pay £4.99 per month for Mematic Pro, the watermark cannot be removed without some godawful cropping.

Oh fuck off, you absolute nitwit.

I’m sweating too. My hobbyist software brand is called X-Industries.

@sl1200@nixnet.social Thanks!

You’re welcome. Good luck in geminispace!

I have considered the repercussions of importing Japanese honeybees (which are able to defend themselves against Asian hornets), but I don’t know enough about bees to see if it would be a good idea.

It’s a network protocol, like HTTP/S. It was inspired by the Gopher protocol from the '90s, but it supports basic text formatting (with Markdown-like syntax) and forces TLS encryption.

Here’s the homepage: gemini.circumlunar.space

Here’s a Gemini browser I like: gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange

Here’s my personal Gemini capsule (the equivalent of a website): gemini://deafeningcreationearthquake.flounder.online

And here’s an old Gopher hole, for comparison: gopher://gopher.linkerror.com:70/1/txt_index

Please note that you will need a Gemini browser to view these sites. I recommend Lagrange, which is cross-platform, FOSS, and supports Gopher, Gemini, Finger, and Spartan; but other software is available.

Sorry if I’ve made this sound confusing.

tl;dr: It’s an alternative to HTTP.

Honestly, as soon as there’s a video sharing site and a few of my friends move, I’ll be good to just abandon the web for Gemini.

Yeah, but I already have a phobia of wasps.

You know, smoke might actually keep them away. I’ll need to test this theory, but you could be onto something.