alexsearle.bsky.social
(She/Her)
Student. Historian. Student Historian. Mad cat person who adores her dog. Passionate about architecture, heritage, narrative, historiography, photography, and much, much more.
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Great! Glad I could help. Maybe @ajacobs.bsky.social might have some thoughts, too, so I'll tag him.
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This may not fit your bill but right now I'd want a quiet place to go write w/ no distractions, a view, & no choices to be made, not even about food. Just somewhere where I could disconnect from everything except writing, & letting writing stuff percolate away in my brain. Anything else is optional.
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I've yet to try it, but I will report back when I do!
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Same.
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A creamy cheese with honey and pistachios that I think I'll try with dates and fleur du sel.
And that's just for starters.
I shall report back!
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I'm not saying it's your fault that there's a lot of cheese in my next grocery order, but...
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If there's one thing that food blogs of the 2000s taught me, it's that you've basically made your own recipe that way.
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Oh, there was a recipe?! I thought it was just your inspiration striking.
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Oh, oh, I wonder how La Vache Qui Rit cheese would be.
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Dates stuffed with Boursin cheese sounds like something I need to investigate. I normally stuff them with peanut butter. I wonder if we can get Boursin cheese here.
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@ajacobs.bsky.social you can answer this.
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Are you two playing together?!
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TIL that Whit Sunday is a thing. Up until now, the only reference I had was the Whitsundays, a group of 74 tropical islands on the Great Barrier Reef that are a popular holiday destination for Australians on the east coast. We went to one for our anniversary two years ago.
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Effort & commitment, damn it!
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I meant to add that we've been best friends since grade 5, & we stopped attending school together in grade 11, so it's been a long road & lots of effort commitment to maintain it this long.
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I don't think any of us realise when we're younger how much effort & commitment friendships require once you're out of school & no longer seeing each other daily. Life & capitalism demand our time for so many other things that cultivating & maintaining friendships requires serious effort/pushback.
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We don't see each other anywhere near as much as we'd like, but she's in my D&D group & we text when we can & try to meet up as able, but the demands of career, families (parents, siblings, & kids), & study make time to care for yourself scarce, let alone carving out time to maintain friendships.
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If it's any consolation, it's not just men in that situation (prioritising romantic/family relationships over friendship). My best friend & I have led such disparate lives but realised in our 20s that it would take effort & commitment to remain best friends, so we have.
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You're most welcome! I was having a very stressful week but knowing that my suggestion was helpful & appreciated made it a bit better. I hope your week & weekend are lovely.
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Wait until they find out about BLATs.
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Don't even get me started on how awful - different, but still awful - it is for elderly women. The number of times my mum has been told there's no way to ameliorate something, she'll just have to suck it up/learn to live with it because she's older - mate, I've lost count. It enrages me.
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Great! Best of luck.
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I'm not saying it can't or shouldn't be redressed, just that this is why tragedies like this are still happening in a time where we should & do know better.
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Because the system is set up so that the hegemony benefits from misogyny, so even female doctors are forced to learn medicine from a male perspective with male-selected/male-prioritised data. To correct this takes a willingness to throw out what we know & start over, & that takes a long time.
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Double check, but, from what I read some time ago, tangelos can be okay when grapefruit is forbidden. They apparently don't have the same enzyme that messes with some medications, but do check it first. It could take you halfway there?
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Even if you're doing it to sell the lamps, maybe put props w/ them? Say a figure that stares at the lamp like it's the sun, or something that interacts with it? It'll be more fun for you & the products will be stand out/be memorable. Or just mentally anthropomorphise the lamps for their photoshoot.
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For the record, I had no idea how well this would translate to a non-Australian audience, so I'm relieved that @mildlyreal.bsky.social was the first person to like it.
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I am sufficiently unfamiliar that I had to look up Tekwar to get this! If only I'd thought to do so earlier, I could've searched yesterday. I guess there's always this morning... (we leave Hobart today).
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I get that this makes me very particular, but I can't be the only one. It also makes me wonder how screen readers or other accessibility aids cope with them, since they affect the use of translators or dictionaries.
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I hate em dashes, but mostly because I hate the way software can't handle them when they're placed against a word. I've found that, if I go to select a word which has an em dash against it (eg, to highlight it or do a dictionary search), the selection auto includes the em dash, & the search fails.
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Okay but I can't be held responsible for whatever I pick up at the next used book store or antique shop.
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Tell me you've got kids without telling me you've got kids?
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It's one that's worth it.
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What a coincidence, I'm in a bar singing along to The Zombies.
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We've not yet been!