A real doctor, though I can't help you if you're having a heart attack.Talk to me about Tarot, Western esotericism, megaliths, Adam Smith, capitalism, architecture and space design, Georgian/Regency history and culture, rural life skills, and scifi.
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Last Notes npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Damn there are a lot of Americans in Dublin. And the Liffey is empty - don't they have any boats at all here? I you're a Dublin Spinster hmu, I'm here a couple of days. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1e3x…kndc Glad I didn't throw it out or give it away! npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC I don't believe it. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1uxm…ujtm Yeah that's the kind of thing they were talking about...but I personally don't think men hobbling around in high heels sounds funny, it's more like mocking women for being vain and stupid enough to wear ridiculous clothes. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub100h…vrhj OK, so all gay men who are harassed by men are women? npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub100h…vrhj Yep, my tone would be remarkably different too if I'd written what she'd written in 2020 and then spent the next four years being the favourite target of the most depraved and disgusting men on the planet. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Do you think this is a joke or real? I can't tell. (There is a number to call on the poster.) npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub100h…vrhj Now change the duvet cover!! npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1e3x…kndc LOL no what did they do now??? npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1e3x…kndc I think that's random sloth of the day. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub17f8…s2el is it supposed to be Prometheus? npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub17f8…s2el She's trained you so well! It's such a pleasure to read about your interactions with her now, after what you both went through at first. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Cat. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub100h…vrhj I've seen that side at various folk events - they're excellent. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1e3x…kndc Such buuuuulllllshit. Propaganda to get women to accept low value men as partners. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1e3x…kndc What beautiful colouring on both. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC He will do anything to avoid sleeping in his actual bed. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub100h…vrhj Holy shit she is off the chain. I hope she's having a ball (or many). npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1e3x…kndc If they made these in human sizes I'd totally get one. I mentioned a while back that I did actually once catch him in it, so I'm not giving up hope just yet. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1e3x…kndc Pity him!! npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1e3x…kndc https://spinster.xyz/notice/AgmTc4T4hsICoTpWhU npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC In one corner - expensive comfortable bed, empty. In the other corner - cat sleeping on a pile of bags. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub100h…vrhj I love how these men have absolutely zero idea how unnecessary they are to women. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1e3x…kndc @npub1htq…nzz2 gorgeous. and very lucky npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1htq…nzz2 Oh man that totally has my name on it (except I now have no money). npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1e3x…kndc Wow that is definitely my boy's twin, down to the posture. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub17f8…s2el This Kevin Bray dude (or TIF?) is sure getting around. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub17f8…s2el Yeah I hate that - sure, you can make a nuisance of yourself at 4am, I'm the one who needs to get up in a couple of hours and go to work. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1e3x…kndc Even worse when it's a black cat. (Decades ago I helped a friend take her black cat to the vet - he somehow got out of his box and crawled behind the brake pedal of the car - so there we were heading down the motorway with a terrified black cat crouching behind the brake pedal....) npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1e3x…kndc Accident waiting to happen. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Anyone know what these are? They appear to latch and unlatch, somehow. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Well this is interesting. I think I'd been vaguely aware the slogan was older than Trump but here's some evidence. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1uxm…ujtm Slug wool really worked for me - but you have to use a LOT of it. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1uxm…ujtm Ah! Yes, that makes sense. 'Maintenance' as in 'accommodation'. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC From a description of Buckminster Fuller's utopian economy. I wonder wtf 'sex-segregated maintenance of antisocial laggards' is supposed to mean? npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Oh please. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC So I really like Pepperidge Farm stuffing in a bag, but it appears no longer available to buy. I know there are lots of 'copycat' recipes of well-known brands, and was hoping to find one for this stuffing - but all the links for 'copycat' recipes I'm finding online either don't actually have a recipe, weirdly, or even more weirdly have Pepperidge Farm stuffing as one of the ingredients. Does anyone have, or can anyone find, a copycat recipe for the original stuffing in a bag? npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1uxm…ujtm Sooners are Oklahoma, not Nebraska. Embarrassing! Nebraska are the Huskers. (Source - used to work for a guy from Nebraska.) npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1xz4…8uh7 This book is making it more and more clear that a wide variety of diets, for a wide variety of people, will lead to healthy outcomes - just DO NOT EAT anything made in a lab/factory, it is not food. Ingredient lists are terrifying. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC I'm deep into this book and thinking I will never eat again. (At least I'm not in the US.) npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Well ladies, I've been quiet on the subject for a while but it looks like I am indeed buying a house. Terrified at the commitment - I really hope I don't regret this. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1n4k…x2dq I read an essay years ago about bread and beer. Though these improvements, as well as improvements in our food supply in general (along with, to be fair, the increasing deluge of food-like products that are killing a vast number of people) has been more notable in the last 10-15 years than in the last 5-10. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Does anyone know what happened to the FDS podcast? as far as I can tell the last one was September of last year. Have they given it up altogether? npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC News you can use! npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Youall know how I get when I can't find something.... Does anyone remember the author/title of a book by a Western agricultural expert who lived and worked with an Inuit group? The book starts out something like 'one kind of culture uses up land and throws it away, and moves on to new land; another kind of culture cultivates and preserves the land they live on. The first culture is agricultural, the second culture is nomadic.' npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub17f8…s2el @npub1rv3…5ese Haha I am the opposite, I think everything I draw is a masterpiece. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub17f8…s2el @npub1rv3…5ese It is excellent. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1n4k…x2dq He wants a list? What would he do with it? npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub17f8…s2el Knight of Cups. Interesting. It's a person (not necessarily male) who is or will be significant in whatever enterprise you're considering. He's gentle, careful, caring, creative, maybe a little lazy and prone to fantasising. He can be trusted with fragile and valuable things, but don't expect him to be very proactive - he'll help and support, but you'll have to remind him and give him clear instructions. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC If anyone wants a card for the end of the year, comment to that effect before 9pm my time! (I may be out before then, haven't decided as it's raining and I'm not sure I'm in the mood, but if I am I'll pull a card for you before I sign off for the night.) npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC So, many of the self-improvement books I read suggest identifying and learning from mentors, role models, exemplars, people I can look up to and admire. I've always struggled with this - I've really forged my own path in the world (and can honestly say I'm one of the few people, possibly only person, I know for whom this is true), and there just aren't many people who do the kind of thing I do as well as I do (or at least as well as I think I do). I'm obviously always learning, but I can't think of any specific people that I want to learn from or who I would want to model myself after. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub12mq…6z5s @npub1c9s…dhf0 It's a good point - we have been brought up to view any kind of emotional disruption as an existential threat (I do think it's an existential threat for all humans - we wouldn't survive without the goodwill of our tribe - but particularly, as you've pointed out, for women vis a vis men). Which is why I'd suggest that this is one of the few things we can learn from men (within reason, and the best kind of men). npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub12mq…6z5s @npub1c9s…dhf0 Well I'm not specifically referring to feminist issues! I work in a 'male-dominated' environment, and it took me a while to learn that when a man starts to argue that I (or another man) has made a mistake, or made a bad choice, or done something harmful to the project at hand they're not 'attacking me' (or the other man) but actually offering useful input. And just because they thought you made a mistake or did something dumb doesn't mean they think you yourself are bad, stupid or wrong. Agree, accept the criticism, or argue back, but don't take their criticism to mean that they hate you (at least not any more than men typically hate women). npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub12mq…6z5s @npub1c9s…dhf0 I agree - it is typical female-coded behaviour, I've seen it in myself and in many female-dominant spaces. This is one of the few areas of behaviour that I believe women would be better off learning from how men behave (within reason, and the better class of men) - being able to argue and debate without taking it personally or insisting on dividing over impersonal issues based on who likes/is friends with whom. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC So, I've been thinking, after the most recent rift among feminists - it always does seem to break down by who's friends with whom. X takes a position, and Y takes the same position (attacking anyone who takes another position) because X is Y's friend; it's usually as simple as that. But I'm thinking about how real friends will be brave enough to tell you when you've said or done something foolish or unhelpful. If Y is really X's friend, maybe instead of offering unconditional support and vilifying anyone who doesn't she might think about having a conversation with X about what taking their position means and how it's damaging the movement. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC From Ovarit. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub17f8…s2el That is a fantastic photo. Should be your holiday card for next year. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Janice Turner - very inspiring. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub17f8…s2el Which basically means lying on the couch with the cat, watching TV and websurfing, and maybe reading a book or two, and eating lots of self-indulgent food. Though I'm going to get up in a minute and go to a party. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub17f8…s2el Me too!!!! npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1n4k…x2dq @npub1hlf…9atg That's a good point, and it is often easy to convince yourself 'well he often hurts me during sex and he expects me to pick up his dirty underwear but my friends are impressed when we go to parties together' or something. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Well ladies, I think I might have bought myself a house for Christmas. We're certainly further along in the process now than my last two tries. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1n4k…x2dq @npub1hlf…9atg It continues to amaze me that so many people seem not to be able to think 'if this person is not adding anything to my life, and is (in the case of so many men attached to women) actually objectively making my life worse, why am I in any kind of relationship with him/her?' I can understand if it's a family member, or if you're in some specific situation of obligation, but it just seems crazy to me that anyone would initiate or continue a personal relationship that is actively harming them. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1n4k…x2dq @npub1hlf…9atg I think this is what FDS is doing, and succeeding at, in terms of getting the message out. Female attention is a prize for men that they need to earn. It may be that the unintended (by the women in question) outcome is female separatism, who knows - I'd like to think most women will eventually come to understand that no relationship with a man is better than a bad one (if not necessarily better than a good one, if they can find that). npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1uxm…ujtm I'm remembering when I volunteered at a food bank and we got some Fortnum and Mason or something hamper...we were all 'who on earth is going to want pate and a jar of quail eggs?' I don't remember who ended up getting them. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1uxm…ujtm My personal opinion/experience - get it done asap, it makes a huge difference. Your lens is replaced with plastic, which does not lend itself to recurring cataracts. As far as I'm aware you only need the surgery once. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Does anyone have a link to that charming video some women scientists made in response to some video about 'science' that had only men in it? It was aeons ago in internet time. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC I just used all my online survey answers to beg a retailer to stock premade egg nog. Why oh why can't UK shops sell this? npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1uxm…ujtm good news for heritage railways! npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Well so... esoteric paper presentation went fine, not my best talk but the Q&A was excellent, engaged and enlightening. At break a very senior member complimented me, shared some useful thoughts, and suggested I might be welcome at a 'higher level' meeting.... Sounds like a win? npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1n4k…x2dq I guess not to me - economic policies and structures generally considered 'leftist' are to me so self-evidently better for women in general than economic policies and structures generally considered 'rightist' that I don't know what there would be to debate about. But I'm only talking about basic economics - I would agree that there are many other 'left/right' issues - immigration, education, religious tolerance come to mind - where feminists might go in lots of different directions for lots of different reasons. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1n4k…x2dq Shrinking government leaves more powerful organisations (ie corporations) to fill the power vacuum; that's not ideal for women or anyone else. 'Leftist' economic policies are good for women because they give women opportunities outside of depending on individual men for resources, and because policies that facilitate equality will benefit women, who have historically been unequal. (Interestingly, the conversations/interactions I've had with libertarians have made it startlingly clear to me that when they talk about 'freedom' they mean 'the freedom for men to do what they like with their property, which includes women and children'. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1uxm…ujtm @npub1700…n6pu Yeah, I normally instantly block people who post violent content, but this is important. Even that small photo is freaking me out. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1p43…f4ce Here's an updated version of the one I use. I used to make a pumpkin pie every Thanksgiving for my office, from a pumpkin one of my staff grew in his allotment. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Anyone else ever heard of/use this? Crazy. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1uxm…ujtm Speaking of practical: npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1uxm…ujtm This cracked me up: npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1uxm…ujtm 'You shall not install a kneeling stone in your land, to bow down upon it"—Leviticus 26:1. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC So, these 613 mitzvot...I think some of these I am very unlikely to have a problem fulfilling. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC This entire space has ONE window. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC What should I wear to a Diwali celebration? (Probably not one where people throw coloured powder all over each other.) npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC I was not expecting to get so much out of this book - read it in a day, cried several times. Recommended. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1dc8…wlj3 @npub100u…98g8 I have never read Mansfield Park - I want there to be one Austen novel that I haven't read. (I've been told that by many measures it's the worst, which either means I've picked the right one or the wrong one to have not read.) npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1dc8…wlj3 @npub100u…98g8 You haven't yet read my favourite :) npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1dc8…wlj3 If you want a real spoiler let me know!! npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub19wx…resf Hahaha what's that from? (I may use it in my talk) npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC I believe this is the first image of/reference to Gabriel blowing his trumpet to raise the dead - c. 1450. Isn't the internet amazing? npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC So...what comes to your mind when you see this image? npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Friend and I were talking about AI yesterday - he's worried that it will affect his job, and is going to make some efforts to learn more about it. It occurred to me that while it's great that these apps can do a lot of 'mental grunt work', specifically 'scraping' documents for information, they're also learning from these tasks the kinds of things novices in these kinds of professions would also be learning. If there's no basic work left for novices/apprentices/graduates to do, how are they going to develop their own skills and domain knowledge to be able to do the senior-level work that will still need to be done by people? npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub17f8…s2el I was going to ask if she's sleeping in the bed with you yet. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Why the fuck didn't they dress for exploring a dangerous planet with crazy weather? npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Dogs are so stoopid. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub17f8…s2el I encounter the latter in hotels every now and then. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Nooooo.... this is an area I really wanted to live in. Had no idea the design was so poor! npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1xz4…8uh7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianbing npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC I'm perhaps unreasonably excited that a new local restaurant has opened that makes my favourite Chinese treat - trying to figure out when I've got time to get over there to try it. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC Am reading Stephen Baxter's SF novel Flood and thinking it's a bit out there...then reading the news about NYC. So ok maybe not. (I will mention that the Thames Barrier was evaluated in 2003 and determined to be viable at least until 2030...which is actually getting close.) npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1vr3…za00 I definitely look more like the right one. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC @npub1uxm…ujtm @npub1n4k…x2dq Ovarit is incredibly busy these days - lots of new women in the past few months, for some reason. It's getting so I can't keep up; I need to start acknowledging that I can't instead of trying to read everything like I used to be able to. npub1uykvg9gl65ay4gufywdh0amt630ktna7tj9wfpwk4v65ke439y8sd37vy6 OCATBC I'm giving myself an 'attagirl' right now - instead of ordering a takeaway delivery I'm cooking lentil soup and noodles right now, from what's already in the kitchen cupboard. Attagirl.
