Oooh, I know this one because I grew up in a small fishing village in Cornwall. They're small pilchards (& pilchards are large sardines!) At one point Mum worked in a museum about the pilchard fishery.
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Oooh, I know this one because I grew up in a small fishing village in Cornwall. They're small pilchards (& pilchards are large sardines!) At one point Mum worked in a museum about the pilchard fishery.
TIL!!! Thank you for enlightening me 😃😃 (I'm obviously dead common, because I didn't know about the caviar either.)
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They were sooooo tedious - handcrafted block duly applied because no-one needs to sit through their nonsense.
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Bluesky has a scold issue, people bursting into hobby posts to scream that the OP should be DOING SOMETHING IMPORTANT. I have come to the conclusion that we must fight fire with fire and scold the scolds.
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They certainly end up in the oubliette of the blocked when I see them.
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Another to say that I personally find them fine. Minor discomfort due to how you have to position your arm, but that's it. Mine's tomorrow & the only pain I'm expecting is because you have to stand & my arthritis is now really bad, so my knees & ankles will be *not* happy with me.
Excellent thread of mansplaining experienced by the poster in relation to her specialist area as depicted by classical paintings. The facial expressions & body language of the women are a delight! (Long thread but worth going the whole way through.)
Not a request but a heartfelt thank you for your review of Battleship Potemkin. I've never seen it, but the cinema I go to is showing it on Monday (a public holiday here). It's the restored version & I'm now really looking forward to it thanks to you.😁 (Music's by the Pet Shop Boys).
I've seen so many small creators here in the UK sadly announcing they can't accept orders from the US for the time being with the end of the de minimis exemption. Most of their customers are in the US so it's hit both buyers and sellers hard.
Sorry to be that pedant who ruins everything, but you do need to give us a reasonable chance of working it out. The one before this can't give the answer quoted above because a beluga's not a fish, it's a mammal. Sorry sorry, I'll show myself out.
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The number of replies saying "maybe she's autistic" to excuse her self-centred, inconsiderate behaviour.🙄 What bugged me here was her talking in the cinema. There are Rules about that (us autistic people like rules because they make it easier to navigate an experience). I'd have told her to shut up.
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I always have some store-made ready meals in the freezer. But that's still 9-10 minutes in the microwave. (I finally broke myself of thinking breakfast has to be one of the foods usually associated with that meal & accepted that food is food.)
As your previous GP should have done. So glad this one understands what their job is.
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Ooh! That's nice. Thank you!
Sorry, I know you've probably been asked & answered this before, but I vaguely recall that the folding seat is also your cane. Is there a specific make/model you went for? I've got to the point I want to get one, but it's an expensive mistake if I get one that's not really fit for purpose.
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And don't forget, if you get around to applying, to describe what your *worst* days are like. It's easy to think, 'well, I can sometimes/often do x', but you need the support because on the bad days you can't.
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That stripy one looks like naval dazzle camouflage from the early to mid 20th century.
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It's why I followed you in the first place. Your sheer enthusiasm & passion for things. It's energising and delightful.
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A very good thread - some excellent laugh-out-loud moments. Nice brief respite from *gestures vaguely at everything*.
We've all been there! 🤣 Then, of course, there's undoing back to where you made a mistake several rows ago, redoing it, and finding you made the *same* dratted mistake, in the same place. More than once.🤦♀️
Visa is easy but you have to trick the phone tree with Mastercard 1. select option that you have a card 2. select option to for account info 3. press a few random buttons when asked to give ur card, wait until it transfers you to an agent 4. Request to file a complaint abt discriminatory practices
It's a shame tampons are uncomfortable for you, because I was going to suggest a mooncup, but you're likely to have a similar problem with that.
Once again, there is an ACLU petition specifically made to stop Mastercard from unlawfully policing adult content. It’s getting pretty grim for us out there. Please sign and/or spread the word. action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
www.change.org/p/tell-maste... There is also this
I don't know the best way to do organize it - and it would be best if we organized it - but I feel like we can easily get 10,000 angry people to tear the board a new one over this christofascist censorship bullshit
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Y 'know, I think you're on to something here. You could crochet string bags to carry your yams in.
AN UNCOMMON BETROTHAL is all gay and sooo disabled and soo chronic pain and so sexy and so horny about it all the time. New release from me, Johannes T. Evans, and my publishing assistant and household nuisance, TomTom.
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First stage, take off any footwear. Second stage, walk without looking at the floor. Final stage, utter a cry of distressed disgust a few seconds later because you found it.
Get a load of this… one of the most beautiful caterpillars I’ve ever seen. And a first for me. Notodonta ziczac - Pebble Prominent. Look at those sharkepillar fins!
What even are you doing if you're not following this account? (There are 2 more videos in this thread for your delight & delectation.)
That's too good for him. He should spend the rest of his days in screaming agony with no prospect of relief. 🤬
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ladies and gentlemen, the weekend.
"What was your favourite part of motherhood? When all the kids left home OK, before they left home what was your favourite part of motherhood? When they were sleeping When they were home & awake what was your favourite part of motherhood? ... Did you enjoy any part of motherhood? NOPE" 🤣🤣
I'd recommend it here in the UK too - increasing vaccine refusal, even if not at USA levels yet, & we're seeing outbreaks. I'm so old I got actual measles & rubella (one twice). They recently made MMR vaccination available for my age group, & you bet I went & had it done.
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Grocery shopping's not usually this exciting. 🔥 We weren't out for long, but I'm glad I got a small trolley I could lean on instead of a basket.
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This thread just keeps on giving. Every time someone mentioned yet another thing I scrolled back up to have another look. 😂 A bit of light relief in the midst of *gestures at everything*
This is gorgeous!
Only the middle one of those is. Stone is a unit of weight (14 pounds) still used in the UK, so the first is saying how heavy the person is. Dozen is another word for a set of 12 items, 3 dozen being 3x12, so the 3rd one is saying there are 36 of whatever they are.
Set up and ready to go for the Trans Solidarity Market by ArtBurn at Hyde Park Book Club today! Selling some assorted badges, copies of my books Heart of Stone, Strange Liberty, and Touch-Starved, and of course, Issue 11 of Transmuted! Hope to see you there! 😘😘 #BookSky #TransRights
I’m going to start doing “wholesome graphic of the day” posts lol. The maps and infographics have been veering political Anyhoo, here’s every apple
RTs appreciated: Is there anyone in the ttrpg space who offers "handwriting services"? In other words, folks with excellent handwriting skills that can help me produce some physical documents for a game that I'm working on. (Paid work with fairly detailed specifications)
That bench is absolutely gorgeous 💜
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Dr Who", or "Transformers".
In Louisiana!?! I live on another continent and wouldn't be able to see that as even remotely plausible. Even I know the magic system's going to be substantially based on vodou. Never mind the mixture of peoples making up the population there. 🙄
Congratulations!
34 years ago!
Yeah, I found out by chance today that I had the rice truck story guy muted/blocked by lists I'd subscribed to. Lists named things that don't fit him at all. They're all lists from skysentry.
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I'm never eating KFC again! I'm not sure their marketing people really thought through the message their current cinema advert conveys. Is being eaten by a creepy cult in the woods really what they want you to think of in relation to their food?
Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish! You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧
In case you're still looking for an answer. It may be phone-specific, but on my Samsung it's in Settings➡️General management➡️Language & input➡️On-screen keyboard. When you tap that last one there's an item 'smart typing' that allows setting several options, including turn predictive text on or off.
So sorry to hear this. I knew she must be getting near the end because she was suddenly looking old. My condolences to you & your family.
If you go to @rincewind.run 's profile, there's a pinned post with suggested reading orders that might be helpful. The first 2 or 3 are before he really hit his stride & a lot of people bounce off them. He also does a discworld 'quote of the day' post.
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If you care about Medicaid, I need your help. These kids are the best chance we have of saving Medicaid. Families are on the way to DC. We need to cover van rentals and hotel rooms. I will not, I will NOT, waste your money or time. Can you help get this donation link in front of your people?
Congratulations it's well deserved.
While I wouldn't mix peanut butter & something sweet, myself (just not to my taste), I'm curious to see you say they're similar flavours. One or both must taste very different in the US, they have very different flavour profiles here in the UK.
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This one is grest fun. Amazing just how many words have a connection to water & waste treatment work.
If you've been considering backing the Wrath Month Kickstarter, we're in the final few hours. This is why the project can be transformative.
So they assume the only screenshots of text one would make are news articles. 🙄 Just because that's all they'd use it for.
This is based on a true story told to us by a friend of ErrantScience. It was a very VERY expensive experiment. 🚁
In the last couple of days I've set up some new announcement channels for the Gender Census. - Signal: signal.group#CjQKIHuGOBP0... - Telegram: t.me/gendercensus - Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/gendercens... - Discord: discord.gg/xWVK3CrNGD
So, I've been working on a kind of FAQ transition resource for transmasc people. I wanted to make it a zine but it just kept getting longer and longer and now it's over 8k words, so I figured what the hell, might as well just pack it into a PDF and send it. #transmasc #transMan #trans