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grannygoatfish

@grannygoatfish.bsky.social

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I am at least one million internet years old. Lefty leftist. Art, math, preferably both at once. Always knitting, usually socks. Western Canadian in Ottawa. I don't know how everyone else sounds interesting in these things. She/they.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

😂

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 17h

there's not enough Prosecco on this plane to make up for landing in Alberta, but so it goes. we're off to Edmonton for a week to eat our weights in cabbage rolls and perogies.

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 17h

allo, lovelies. D. and I are currently here, sipping wine and pretending we're first-class sorts. (I splurged on business class seats.) soon we will have chicken souvlaki with 'seasonal Canadian cake' for dessert, whatever that is.

a photograph shot out of an airplane window, looking down at the clouds, lit by golden afternoon light.

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 1d

Quebec has one (1) English-speaking person, and they are about to meet them! It took years to get the time off, he's always proving they exist everywhere else.

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 1d

I do not want to throw the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine any bones, but for those who take a very binary all-or-nothing stance, it's important to understand some of what you oversimplify includes tools that keep people from staring Clockwork-Orange-like at the worst of the internet for a living.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who was doing that human review of images before even PhotoDNA existed, I can testify that the amount of human suffering automated image classification prevents is MASSIVE. Like, I am the best case scenario of the human cost of that work and I still have lifelong consequences from it.

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 1d

You know what your day needs? Your day needs some gloriously rumpled geese with what may be the last living existence of added music that fits the video.

The Fiber Farm @jjco.bsky.social · 2d

Crowded pool day

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 1d

I wasn't sure I would ever be able to say this to anyone ever again, but this music fits so well with this video. :D

Thanks for sharing it. It was quite a treat to watch while I had my morning coffee.

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 2d

pistachio latte sounds amazing. glad you're on the mend!

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 2d

There is only one solution.

Cow print shag carpet on all surfaces.

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 2d

That was bewildering. How can someone who behaves like that think they deserve anyone's attention?

Sorry you're catching the real ordinary ones again.

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 2d

You simply must! It's literally /right there/!

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 3d

I hope you feel more heartened soon. There is goodness and good people out there, and I think you are one of them.

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 3d

It is either naivete or a belief that people can be good / that there are good people out there. It feels like naivete to me, often, but that doesn't mean I will ever stop believing in it. It feels like holding a cocktail umbrella up against a firehose of awful a lot of the time, doesn't it?

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 3d

This is a great picture. It almost looks like a painting, in that the colours are all so beautiful together. Thank you for sharing it. :D

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 3d

*evil cat laughter*

I can't remarking, disneyland! As it stares at a whole bunch of boxes

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 3d

me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis

my brain: not u though

me: not me though

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 4d

I love this video so much. I'm so glad you shared it. Please give Whimsy, Who Has Never Done Anything Wrong Not Even Once Ever, a scritch for me.

The happy nonsense song is very familiar and heartwarming to me; I sing them to D. often. And my dishes when I'm cleaning the kitchen. And and and.

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 4d

Today the internet showed me an article about a Mexican chocolatier based out of Austin that sells delectable-looking drinking chocolates, and I hesitated sharing the links here because maybe it'll be the tiny domino that ends in the 'and then ICE disappeared them' plank.

I hate this timeline.

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Jenkins’ Emporium @jenkinsemporium.bsky.social · 7d

👻🍂 Spooktober is here! 🍂👻

The pumpkins are out, the mist is rolling in! Our autumn chocolate bars and chocolate boxes are ready to bring cosy flavours to your cauldron.

Perfect for gifting, sharing… or keeping all to yourself (we won’t tell). 🍫

A box full of shiny chocolates in front of chocolate bars. All surrounded by conkers, pumpkins, and smoke.

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 4d

Finland is one hell of a drug.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 4d

Jasmin Kokko (snacksmin) has blessed us all who were Finnish kids of certain age with this educational model. It finally answers many questions, while raising many others.

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 5d

has posting through it ever worked? ugh. I'm so tired of people who should know better being such children.

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 6d

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 5d

The best time to be unhappy with your yarn choice for a silly little toy that needs to be completed for an unmovable deadline is DEFINITELY when the US is made of tariffs and Canada Post is on strike. >.<

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 6d

Have you used one before? I'm curious how truthful the internet bumf on them is -- if the rougher stone is really All That compared to a regular/smoother mortar and pestle.