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rarh3.bsky.social @rarh3.bsky.social · 16d

Since I don't know for sure that @girlinthe.bsky.social has seen this, it is necessary to repost. I think @wobblygoose.bsky.social would also appreciate it.

gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 17d

"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...

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rarh3.bsky.social @rarh3.bsky.social · 16d

I misread that as 'pursue statutes' which... would be a different sermon again.

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rarh3.bsky.social @rarh3.bsky.social · 18d

Oh, look! There you are!

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rarh3.bsky.social @rarh3.bsky.social · 28d

... but when you're talking about complicated and/or difficult subjects you need thinking pauses, and if you're doing something else as well (sewing, knitting, painting, washing up...), you don't just spend those pauses looking at each other. I guess another one is driving, looking out the window.

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rarh3.bsky.social @rarh3.bsky.social · 28d

Someone, I think it was Terry Pratchett in Monstrous Regiment, described 'women's work' as (roughly) "backbreaking, monotonous, and social" (referring to doing laundry). I'm not sure it is so much the embedded bias against talking about feelings (tho I'm sure it's there)...

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rarh3.bsky.social @rarh3.bsky.social · Sep 9

(I had to look up the refuge nation flag.. I think the refugee Olympic team just use the Olympic rings, but there's an orange/black/orange flag someone designed in about 2016. No one is going to recognise it, but it looks a bit like a RIB motorboat..)

rarh3.bsky.social @rarh3.bsky.social · Sep 9

Hang up a refugee nation flag next to it? Or progress pride would probably also annoy them?

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rarh3.bsky.social @rarh3.bsky.social · Aug 31

I'm pretty sure we called ours 'heat proof mats' because they Definitely Weren't Asbestos Now.
Mid 90s Suffolk.

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rarh3.bsky.social @rarh3.bsky.social · Aug 30

Splutter!

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · Aug 28

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

www.quaker.org.uk

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rarh3.bsky.social @rarh3.bsky.social · Aug 22

It's possible that dubbinning my sandals and @sciansell's boots last night and then leaving them in the conservatory to dry was an error. We forgot to shut the outside door, and when we came to look this morning only half each pair was in inside. The others were in the garden, I'm blaming the fox..

Top: a sandal from which one of the straps has been chewed
Below: an ankle boot with half the tongue torn out and one side mangled.

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rarh3.bsky.social @rarh3.bsky.social · Aug 21

Dunno.. I certainly lied to Facebook. I didn't think it was any of their business, but I got bored of being asked. Can't remember what I told Google.

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rarh3.bsky.social @rarh3.bsky.social · Aug 20

They reduce their environmental impact by increasing the margin on the tat to optimise the profit-per-g of the first use plastic?

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rarh3.bsky.social @rarh3.bsky.social · Aug 7

Well, y'know, got to keep him from just wandering off..

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rarh3.bsky.social @rarh3.bsky.social · Aug 7

I've been explaining what bluesky is to Mr 7, and showing him some of my posts. He wanted to know if I had recommended The Lookout, and when I said yes, wanted to know if I'd said the staff are very friendly. I said, not specifically, but I can. So I am. The staff are lovely.

rarh3.bsky.social @rarh3.bsky.social · Aug 7

Sometimes, we go on family outings. Sometimes @sciansell.bsky.social goes on exhibit maintenance trips. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.
In related news, the kids are having an awesome time at The Lookout in Bracknell Forest. Highly recommended. (Also has a really super play area).