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Little Merle in his drey cleaning up.
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Little Merle in his drey cleaning up after a meal. #cute #squirrel
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May 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Little Merle in his drey cleaning up.
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Merle hugging is favorite toy.
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May 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Merle hugging is favorite toy.
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April 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Merle the Squirrel helps out with spills.
#sqrlpix #squirrel #squirrels 🐿️
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#sqrlpix #squirrel #squirrels 🐿️
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Merle paper towel (the quicker picker upper)
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April 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Merle the Squirrel helps out with spills.
#sqrlpix #squirrel #squirrels 🐿️
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#sqrlpix #squirrel #squirrels 🐿️
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The trauma on his one eye it will never heal properly.
March 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The trauma on his one eye it will never heal properly.
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April 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Shiny new badge 🙂
And some of the fuel that got me there……
And some of the fuel that got me there……
April 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Shiny new badge 🙂
And some of the fuel that got me there……
And some of the fuel that got me there……
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For me, these things are almost entirely about cadence. “To boldly go” rings *poetic*. Look, here it is in an iambic pentameter -
“To boldly go, as best we can, and see-“
“To go boldly”, by contrast, has a crippled rhythm. Which, to be clear, is also useful sometimes…..
“To boldly go, as best we can, and see-“
“To go boldly”, by contrast, has a crippled rhythm. Which, to be clear, is also useful sometimes…..
For my money:
“To boldly go” conveys a state of boldness which almost incidentally takes the form of going
“To go boldly” conveys an action “going” possessed of a quality “boldness”
They are not the same. I need access to both. That’s all it takes.
“To boldly go” conveys a state of boldness which almost incidentally takes the form of going
“To go boldly” conveys an action “going” possessed of a quality “boldness”
They are not the same. I need access to both. That’s all it takes.
April 4, 2025 at 7:06 AM
For me, these things are almost entirely about cadence. “To boldly go” rings *poetic*. Look, here it is in an iambic pentameter -
“To boldly go, as best we can, and see-“
“To go boldly”, by contrast, has a crippled rhythm. Which, to be clear, is also useful sometimes…..
“To boldly go, as best we can, and see-“
“To go boldly”, by contrast, has a crippled rhythm. Which, to be clear, is also useful sometimes…..
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I’ve lost count of the times I’ve disagreed with a copy editor/style guide on the simple grounds “It just *sounds* better this way.”
In the end, language is about *flow*. Grammar is just a set of agreed conventions to help that flow. Where it gets in the way of flow, then hey - fuck grammar!
In the end, language is about *flow*. Grammar is just a set of agreed conventions to help that flow. Where it gets in the way of flow, then hey - fuck grammar!
April 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I’ve lost count of the times I’ve disagreed with a copy editor/style guide on the simple grounds “It just *sounds* better this way.”
In the end, language is about *flow*. Grammar is just a set of agreed conventions to help that flow. Where it gets in the way of flow, then hey - fuck grammar!
In the end, language is about *flow*. Grammar is just a set of agreed conventions to help that flow. Where it gets in the way of flow, then hey - fuck grammar!
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NB caveat - this is an 18 Certificate opinion, not applicable to kids or school. Sorry kids. First you learn the rules, then you deploy them, then - with mastery - you break them as you see fit.
April 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
NB caveat - this is an 18 Certificate opinion, not applicable to kids or school. Sorry kids. First you learn the rules, then you deploy them, then - with mastery - you break them as you see fit.
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Alarming reports of spinal growth virus infecting GOP lawmakers......
(CDC was not available for comment. Calls going straight to answerphone.)
(CDC was not available for comment. Calls going straight to answerphone.)
April 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Alarming reports of spinal growth virus infecting GOP lawmakers......
(CDC was not available for comment. Calls going straight to answerphone.)
(CDC was not available for comment. Calls going straight to answerphone.)
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(Some) capitalists have always understood this - starting with the illustrious Adam Smith himself.
The problem is that wealth is a corrosive where social and legal systems are concerned, and Capitalism has been superlatively successful at creating wealth in large quantities.
The problem is that wealth is a corrosive where social and legal systems are concerned, and Capitalism has been superlatively successful at creating wealth in large quantities.
Capitalists should have understood that capitalism itself was threatened by the effect of the excesses of capitalism a very very long time ago.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
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April 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
(Some) capitalists have always understood this - starting with the illustrious Adam Smith himself.
The problem is that wealth is a corrosive where social and legal systems are concerned, and Capitalism has been superlatively successful at creating wealth in large quantities.
The problem is that wealth is a corrosive where social and legal systems are concerned, and Capitalism has been superlatively successful at creating wealth in large quantities.
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Weird - the recent sight of the US electorate being fucking stupid & reaping the reward has brought out a rash of homegrown UK comment on here trying to justify/excuse/polish the turd of the British (well, in truth the English) electorate being fucking stupid back in 2016 & reaping the reward.....
April 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Weird - the recent sight of the US electorate being fucking stupid & reaping the reward has brought out a rash of homegrown UK comment on here trying to justify/excuse/polish the turd of the British (well, in truth the English) electorate being fucking stupid back in 2016 & reaping the reward.....
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Vote Leave, it seems, is a bit like herpes. You can never really kill the disease.
April 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Vote Leave, it seems, is a bit like herpes. You can never really kill the disease.
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"Do it to Julia! Not me!"
The naked outcome of Fascism.
The naked outcome of Fascism.
“If a farm family voted for Trump, believing that his policies were good,” writes @davidfrum.bsky.social, “it seems strange that they would then demand that they, and only they, should be spared the full consequences of those policies”:
No Tariff Exemptions for American Farmers
They voted for the tariffs when they voted for Trump.
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April 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"Do it to Julia! Not me!"
The naked outcome of Fascism.
The naked outcome of Fascism.
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It's also, of course, one of the salients of contemporary right wing politics (I'm not going to call it Conservatism, because it stopped being that a few decades ago) - one rule for me, another rule for everyone else. Strong on Law and Order, but only for Other People.
April 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It's also, of course, one of the salients of contemporary right wing politics (I'm not going to call it Conservatism, because it stopped being that a few decades ago) - one rule for me, another rule for everyone else. Strong on Law and Order, but only for Other People.
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Never in my life seen a government so determined to actively kill large numbers of its own population......
April 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Never in my life seen a government so determined to actively kill large numbers of its own population......
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Don't care how massive they are, I can see some serious issues using steam engines at that depth.....
Deep-sea mining operations plan to extract cobalt, nickel, and other critical minerals from the ocean floor—using massive machines more than 4,000 meters below the surface. grist.org/energy/deep-...
April 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Don't care how massive they are, I can see some serious issues using steam engines at that depth.....
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Oh, alright then - here's another helping......
Back Room Boys - Richard K. Morgan
He walked the rest of the way to Crumley & Kegg’s at an irritable forced pace, trying to recapture his prior mood. Caught up with it, more or less, as he shouldered open the venerable oak frame door ...
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March 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Oh, alright then - here's another helping......
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And even up here in Perthshire, it is finally warm enough for the first hot towel shave of the year. Let's do this!
March 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
And even up here in Perthshire, it is finally warm enough for the first hot towel shave of the year. Let's do this!