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Just saying.
Going to the grocery store and Farm & Fleet. Betcha folks stay outta my way.
Except the ones who agree. They usually give me a smile, a nod, or a thumbs up.
#Resist #GodAintPettyButIAm
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a woodcock sans leafy hat
American Woodcock doing the strut
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What's with the 40-something ass in the shiny red shirt? He's no college kid
#Monsterdon #StingOfDeath
I am sick of all these muthafuckin' racists in this muthafuckin' country
Bronze Age Greece had a robust trading economy. Sea routes were (obviously) favored over land routes.
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/115/trade-in-ancient-greece/
Interesting stuff, this. We seldom think about ancient economies, rather viewing things through our modern lens. Often, we're mistaken.
#Odyssey #HomericGreece #BronzeAgeTrade
One for the "careful writers" (to steal from Theodore Bernstein):
COMPOSE and COMPRISE are not interchangeable in the formal register. Some writers maintain the distinction regardless of the formality they're using.
I tend to let it go when I see one used incorrectly in dialogue; when I see it in narrative, I leave a comment. It's up to the client whether to change the word.
"Compose" means "to make up, to be an ingredient/portion in" (my definition, not a dictionary's).
The animals compose the zoo. (They are the parts of it. They make it up.)
"Comprise" means "to be made up of, to include."
The zoo comprises the animals. (It is made up of them.)
The parts compose the whole; the whole comprises the parts.
The difference isn't hard to grasp, but for whatever reason, it feels like it is.
Use this ignore it, whatever. I'm just putting it up here because it's one of the most common misuse cases. Garner rates the errors ("is comprised of" for "comprises" and "comprise" for "make up/constitute") at Language Change Index stages 4 and 3, respectively. Given there are 5 stages, we're almost to the "who cares" stage with the first, and "only grammar peeves worry about it" with the second.
I'm a proud grammar peeve who restrains herself in public, using whatever register is appropriate for the setting and audience. When I'm working, though, the gloves are off.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social @wulfric@beige.party I think we should all book one-way trips on that one.
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@Catvalente@wandering.shop I was much older than 7, but I too saw them in the theater and was forever changed.
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@Wallflower@beige.party @human3500@ottawa.place I cut my editing teeth on a Wang word processor. Green monitor and all.
That's also the workplace where I learned to use an IBM Selectric.
I am an Old.
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@Menschette@mastodon.social @shom@gts.shom.dev @mayintoronto@beige.party @farah@beige.party we are legion
But not demonic (mostly, anyway)
And definitely probably not a cult
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@KnaveMurdok@mastodon.social @TeflonTrout@beige.party @imaginaryuncle@masto.nu beige party is the home instance for a fair number of us.
Welcome to the fediverse!
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@human3500@ottawa.place @AncTreat5358@lgbtqia.space @Wallflower@beige.party I typed all of my college papers on a Sears manual elite-pitch typewriter.
Correction tape was my friend.
UPDATE: Partial siding on west wall! It's proven a bit more tricky than anticipated, I think, but better them than us.
The main dude will be back tomorrow morning bright and early to keep on truckin'. We agree that he should tackle the south wall next, as it's more difficult than the north (that one has no openings to deal with as we're just "boarding it up" as it were) what with the window and door.
So glad to be getting this done!
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social Roland Emmerich disaster movies are our comfort flicks. Last night we watched "Moonfall," which is totally ludicrous and highly entertaining under the right circumstances.
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@golgaloth@writing.exchange is that for a mix of d6 and d20? Those are on the sign, but assumptions are dangerous.
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@human3500@ottawa.place @AncTreat5358@lgbtqia.space @Wallflower@beige.party Wite-Out was too messy. I liked the tape.
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@human3500@ottawa.place @AncTreat5358@lgbtqia.space @Wallflower@beige.party Uphill both ways etc. etc.
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@TheEddieShow@beige.party @kimlockhartga@beige.party I have heard the name. Never seen him, though.
Glad you have a go-to!
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@davidnjoku@mastodon.world
LOL I literally did, in 2018, and it's on a table in my office.
I am NOT that kind of cool.
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@Guillotine_Jones@beige.party @GeePawHill@mastodon.social I figured the whole shebang is Epsteingate.
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@kimlockhartga@beige.party @TheEddieShow@beige.party The NWS needs to pay attention to these guys!
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@kimlockhartga@beige.party @TheEddieShow@beige.party I highly recommend Max Velocity on YT. He and his team are ahead of any of our local meteorologists when it comes to timely information. I've seen several comments on his channel thanking him for saving lives.
Y'all be safe in those storms.
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@coachmark2PointOH@beige.party Air-fried poblanos split open and stuffed with a mixture of ground pork, onions, and zucchini seasoned with chili powder during cooking, and topped with cotija crumble.
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@millardjk@vmst.io serious answer: it's from the Spanish for the islands, "las Islas Filipinas"
Philippines is anglicized.
Question for sari-wearers:
How do you clean them? I have three, all polyester, two very sheer like chiffon, one heavier like silk. All have metallic thread embroidery, and one is beaded.
None have care information (no surprise there). They've been in storage for a few years, along with some stretch velvet cholis. I haven't worn them in . . . I don't know, maybe twelve years? I was in the SCA at the time, and they were super comfortable for scorching summertime events.
I'm considering putting them in large lingerie bags to wash on Delicate. Is that sensible?
(Cultural appropriation scolds will be blocked. You've been told.)
#FabricCare #SariCare
"Aw, no one is as dumb as I appear to be." — Mo Rutherford
#Monsterdon #TheStuff1985
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That tracker on his forehead keeps changing size and shape. Disturbing
#Monsterdon #StingOfDeath
Ah, the full-length furs over swimsuits look.
Gag.
#Monsterdon #TheStuff1985
Tom Noonan, before "Manhunter."
Just an animal lover.
#Monsterdon #Wolfen
Neat glow-in-the-dark press-on nails
#Monsterdon #HawkTheSlayer
It IS Lyle Waggoner (known from The Carol Burnett Show)! In the opening credits, he was listed as "Waggner."
#Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime
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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social Sounds far less plaguelike than "Rains of Frogs, Lizards, and Other Unpleasant Creatures and Items"
And in 11 years, he'll be Commander Chocolatey! I mean Chakotay! (An ex called him Chocolatey and I can't nit think of it.)
#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet
Did yard work this morning: mowed, trimmed, clipped, and hauled away.
Went back out a bit ago to gather up branches spouse trimmed along the road and driveway and haul them out too.
Picked another handful of black raspberries to add to what I already had, in order to make a sugar-free raspberry sorbet. Almost time for that to go into the ice cream maker.
A simple five-spice salmon for dinner, a vegetable side (likely green beans), and sorbet for after.
Perhaps a bit of mulberry liqueur while watching a movie later on.
#Sunday #Monsterdon #HomeCooking
"And now, while John and the professor chase Egon and the unconscious Miss Karen through the Everglades, a word from Mutual of Omaha."
#Monsterdon #StingOfDeath
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I mean, we saw the flippers at the opening of the movie, so
It's not like there's anything to be coy about. It's Egon in a wetsuit with some cables sprouting from it, we saw it right off the bat.
Own those no-budget costume designs.
#Monsterdon #StingOfDeath
This is much more about we don't see than what we do see.
I appreciate that.
#Monsterdon #Wolfen