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Mammal, still working on convincing the kid that they are a mammal, too.
When in doubt, right click.
When in doubt, right click.
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Kids are excellent mimics.
Thus one should be careful before saying out loud: you are amazing, you are beautiful, we spoil you so much, it's a wonder that you don't have the swelled head of a god.
Toddler: I DO have the swelled head of a god.
Thus one should be careful before saying out loud: you are amazing, you are beautiful, we spoil you so much, it's a wonder that you don't have the swelled head of a god.
Toddler: I DO have the swelled head of a god.
January 4, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Kids are excellent mimics.
Thus one should be careful before saying out loud: you are amazing, you are beautiful, we spoil you so much, it's a wonder that you don't have the swelled head of a god.
Toddler: I DO have the swelled head of a god.
Thus one should be careful before saying out loud: you are amazing, you are beautiful, we spoil you so much, it's a wonder that you don't have the swelled head of a god.
Toddler: I DO have the swelled head of a god.
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Some of my fellow manuscript nerds may not be familiar with the thriving practices around handwritten Torah scrolls, which should be remedied! So have a 🧵
Torah scrolls as we know them are about two thousand years old, and have been essentially identical to one another for the last thousand years.
Torah scrolls as we know them are about two thousand years old, and have been essentially identical to one another for the last thousand years.
January 2, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Some of my fellow manuscript nerds may not be familiar with the thriving practices around handwritten Torah scrolls, which should be remedied! So have a 🧵
Torah scrolls as we know them are about two thousand years old, and have been essentially identical to one another for the last thousand years.
Torah scrolls as we know them are about two thousand years old, and have been essentially identical to one another for the last thousand years.
I have been thinking much too much about the biology of mermaids and it doesn't make sense. Obviously, they are mammals - they have tails that go up and down like a dolphin. But their tail fins are like a rayfin fish, and you don't see them come to the surface for air.
Selkies make more sense.
Selkies make more sense.
December 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I have been thinking much too much about the biology of mermaids and it doesn't make sense. Obviously, they are mammals - they have tails that go up and down like a dolphin. But their tail fins are like a rayfin fish, and you don't see them come to the surface for air.
Selkies make more sense.
Selkies make more sense.
I am a recently retired viceroy, about to embark on a journey through multiple worlds
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I am a recently retired viceroy, about to embark on a journey through multiple worlds
I met Robin Wood (who drew/painted The People of Pern, one of the best books of fictional portraiture ever, also many book covers) and I was in awe of her - and she told me how she got started drawing pictures of Spock at conventions to make a bit of money to buy food.
Maybe a major celebrity
Maybe a major celebrity
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I met Robin Wood (who drew/painted The People of Pern, one of the best books of fictional portraiture ever, also many book covers) and I was in awe of her - and she told me how she got started drawing pictures of Spock at conventions to make a bit of money to buy food.
Maybe a major celebrity
Maybe a major celebrity
The algorithm has started serving me frogs.
I am not complaining.
I am not complaining.
Today's frog is the eastern banjo frog, also known as the pobblebonk.
December 27, 2025 at 5:33 AM
The algorithm has started serving me frogs.
I am not complaining.
I am not complaining.
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“Eating Dates In Babylonia” would be the name of my memoir
December 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“Eating Dates In Babylonia” would be the name of my memoir
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Guess what? Turtle butt!
December 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Guess what? Turtle butt!
This is a very likeable frog.
I told Rupee He got over a THOUSAND likes! I told him he's famous! He was so shocked he started singing!
🐸🎶✨️🎄
#greytreefrog
🐸🎶✨️🎄
#greytreefrog
December 26, 2025 at 5:35 AM
This is a very likeable frog.
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I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:
Lay article attached:
One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires
Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...
www.pbs.org
December 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:
Lay article attached:
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60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
www.filemail.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
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AI tech bros promising to allow you to talk to a digital simulacrum of your dead relatives as a false comfort during your natural process of grief are, I’m afraid, in contravention of the 1736 Witchcraft Act, the 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act, and should be hanged. I don’t make the rules.
December 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
AI tech bros promising to allow you to talk to a digital simulacrum of your dead relatives as a false comfort during your natural process of grief are, I’m afraid, in contravention of the 1736 Witchcraft Act, the 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act, and should be hanged. I don’t make the rules.
This is an awesome Goosefish.
I also now know that Goosefish (Geesefish?) exist, and my life is so much better now.
I also now know that Goosefish (Geesefish?) exist, and my life is so much better now.
This picture has been making the rounds again, and is being misidentified again.
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
December 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
This is an awesome Goosefish.
I also now know that Goosefish (Geesefish?) exist, and my life is so much better now.
I also now know that Goosefish (Geesefish?) exist, and my life is so much better now.
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Wanna avoid responsibilities while appearing responsible?
Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?
Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?
Try reading a book in public! 📖
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?
Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?
Try reading a book in public! 📖
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
December 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Wanna avoid responsibilities while appearing responsible?
Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?
Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?
Try reading a book in public! 📖
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?
Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?
Try reading a book in public! 📖
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
We need more housing - especially supportive housing - in Toronto: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/pa...
Toronto must be for all Torontonians, and yes, I would like a supportive housing building to go up beside my house
Toronto must be for all Torontonians, and yes, I would like a supportive housing building to go up beside my house
Build Supportive Affordable Housing at 1499 and 1501 Queen West
The City of Toronto, and Canada as a whole, is in an unprecedented affordable housing crisis. Many struggle to find safe and stable housing in Toronto and Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (PARC) wa...
you.leadnow.ca
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 AM
We need more housing - especially supportive housing - in Toronto: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/pa...
Toronto must be for all Torontonians, and yes, I would like a supportive housing building to go up beside my house
Toronto must be for all Torontonians, and yes, I would like a supportive housing building to go up beside my house
Very honest.
Skies are hard.
Skies are hard.
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Very honest.
Skies are hard.
Skies are hard.
This thread has a good explanation about the changes at the US Coast Guard re hate symbols that goes over what is actually happening, what it might mean in the future
(1/9) The CG and Hate Symbols: What We Know So Far (a thread).
Yesterday, WaPo reported that the CG has removed swastikas, confederate flags, and nooses from a list of "hate symbols". This is both technically correct, and an oversimplification.
Yesterday, WaPo reported that the CG has removed swastikas, confederate flags, and nooses from a list of "hate symbols". This is both technically correct, and an oversimplification.
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This thread has a good explanation about the changes at the US Coast Guard re hate symbols that goes over what is actually happening, what it might mean in the future
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some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Is it good or bad parenting when you are trying to teach your child how to read...
mostly to avoid reading the same very repetitive book again and again?
mostly to avoid reading the same very repetitive book again and again?
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Is it good or bad parenting when you are trying to teach your child how to read...
mostly to avoid reading the same very repetitive book again and again?
mostly to avoid reading the same very repetitive book again and again?
@alicefraser.bsky.social I'm sorry for being months behind on Realms Unknown - but about Tamora Pierce's Alanna series: Alanna is 11 in the first book, and I read them first when I was 9 or 10 (in 1986-7), and they were terrific for that age.
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
@alicefraser.bsky.social I'm sorry for being months behind on Realms Unknown - but about Tamora Pierce's Alanna series: Alanna is 11 in the first book, and I read them first when I was 9 or 10 (in 1986-7), and they were terrific for that age.
It's always best to give food banks money - also, maybe then Loblaws doesn't get a cut
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
It's always best to give food banks money - also, maybe then Loblaws doesn't get a cut