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I’m a geek and I take pretty pictures. I like music too. And puppies. And kittens.
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Cats of character
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Not that they wouldn't try #flatcat
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Fat chance. And I'm not even thinking about putting a cat in a drawer.
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https://lgbtq.yale.edu/posts/2025-01-30-new-documentary-1946-the-mistranslation-that-shifted-culture
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If your Bible has the word "homosexual" in it, it was published after 1946.
Check it out—it was a mistranslation added to the Revised Standard Version.
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Mine too!
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My church is marching in Pride again this year. Turns out that being a unicorn (a fully affirming ex-evangelical church) attracts rainbow unicorns (our congregation is about 1/3 LGBTQ now).
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YOU try putting a cat in a case—I don't care if it's upper or lower.
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FWIW, my mother-in-law remembers him as a wandering banjo player at Knott's Berry Farm. Very early Steve.
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Nor are they nuts used to flavor soft drinks.
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I did get to be a pretty good groom, which I actually enjoyed. I just like being around horses—they're such gorgeous animals.
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Sadly, I was too large to ride any of the lesson horses, so I never got to take any lessons myself. I have to settle for riding my bicycle everywhere.
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I've been stepped on by both horses and cows, which is how I learned to shove with my butt and back instead of my hands. Keeps your feet out of stomping range. Not a farm boy, but my oldest brother and sister both married into farm families, and my daughters took riding lessons.
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I once had a small horse get annoyed with me and aim a kick in my direction. Glad he missed. I give their hindquarters lots of room.
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I've seen videos of zebras in the wild dropping a water buffalo with one kick. I imagine donkeys are similar.
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If you've hung around zoos at all (my wife and I both volunteer at ours), you'll find keepers have odd senses of humor. The female red tail at #SenecaParkZoo is named Toni Hawk. Sometimes the name are educational, sometimes cultural, and sometimes just goofy.
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Thanks--at least that means I'm not losing my mind. Already lost it, but that's a different topic.
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How dare you regulate my organized crime!?
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How dare you regulate my organized crime!?
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I don't know. I *have* heard some farmers file their hooves so they inflict more damage. I believe the one alpaca farm where we saw guard llamas was more concerned about humans than coyotes.
If they used guard cassowarys, those suckers are lethal. Freaking velociraptors with feathers.
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Fun fact: the average time a zoo visitor spends at any one exhibit is seven seconds. Zoo labels need to be like billboards. Fun billboard fact: the rule of thumb for billboard copy is to use no more than seven words.
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Heh, I raised one museum nerd (studying public history/anthropology/museums) and another who is usually three exhibits ahead of us with my wife. @cjdteaches.bsky.social taught both of them at a school located on a museum campus.
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God forgive me—what have I done!?
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Alpaca farms sometimes keep guard llamas, because those suckers have attitude. Add some artificially sharpened hooves, and you've got yourself one expectorating predator killing machine.
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I generally take it to be inclusive, but because it can refer to just males I personally avoid using it about mixed groups. It's similar to using "he" to refer to an undetermined individual—that used to be standard usage, but most people now use "they". "Guys" for a mixed group may also be regional.
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Gorillas . . . um . . . moose in the mist.
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We still have coyotes in rural areas not far from here, but Durand Eastman is in the middle of an urban area, between Rochester and Lake Ontario. White tail deer are pretty tolerant of humans, and they wander into populated areas and heavily trafficked roads.
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Yep. And one of my zoo docent friends told me that mountain lions or panthers were native to western NY, unless it was another cat. Certainly bobcats and lynx.
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When we had an overpopulation of white tail deer in Durand Eastman Park in the 1990s, lots of wacky ideas were proposed. I still think reintroducing Grey wolves would have been a simple, natural solution. Hell, they could have thrown in a mating pair of mountain lions. They're both native species.
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I have Sjögren's Syndrome and can't smell much due to a chronically dry nose, but I can still smell the hundreds (thousands?) of lilac bushes in the park.
#LilacFestival
#HighlandPark #HighlandParkRochester
www.monroecounty.gov/parks-highland
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Researching this, I learned the falls were completely inundated by mud and bypassed due to a dam break in 2008.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havasu_...
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I hiked Havasu Canyon in 1993, the year after my friends had been helicoptered out due to massive flash floods. The terraced pools at Navajo Falls were washed out, and the Havasupai tribe was rebuilding them.
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Come to Rochester, NY, home of the Lilac Festival. Highland Park (an Olmsted park) has the largest collection of lilacs in the world. The festival was a week ago, and I've got to get to the park before all the lilacs are gone, although there a lots of other flowers to enjoy through the summer.
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Summer was when my mom read new textbooks. It was also when she (sweetly) made me do the extra enrichment work she couldn't give me at school. I still can do complex computations in my head if I concentrate.
www.abebooks.com/first-editio...
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Are you located in the Daks?
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I once had a book of Elvis paintings on black velvet . . . the ridiculous and the sublime.
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It's like a deer the size of a draft horse.
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😪
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Going from small, family owned companies to a 500-person IT department at a large research university (and that doesn't even count all the departmental IT groups) was a shock, but I've learned a lot about managing large projects and working as a team. We have a diverse group of really smart people.
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My daughter's fluffy Grey Maine Coon mix is named Thor.
So sorry to hear you lost him—dogs are such wonderful companions.
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Classic. 😏
I'm family tech support for non-technical in-laws, and this feels so true. 🙄
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Doubt I'll ever see it in person—Fujiama is so gorgeous and majestic.
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Such a naughty boy. 😏