snakeling.bsky.social
She/her. Fan, feminist, knitter, genealogist.
snakeling about everywhere except when she is sssnakeling.
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Listening to The Planets by Holst is like listening to a John Williams medley.
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I don't know about the US/UK but in France, you don't even need to pay: make an appointment with the tax office and they'll sort the French part out for you.
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May I recommend The Henchmen of Zenda, by KJ Charles? It's got swashbuckling in droves and also reframes the plot of TPOZ in a really funny way.
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AprĂšs tu auras peut-ĂȘtre plus d'ombre Ă Paris, parce qu'ici le soleil tape fort et ce n'est pas trĂšs couvert.
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Ăcoute, lĂ je suis en Italie et il fait 23, j'ai un pantalon lĂ©ger en viscose, un t-shirt Ă manches courtes et un chapeau en paille.
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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World, by Jevin D. West and Carl T. Bergstrom.
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If you really want greedy bastards, you want them to do Tintin/Captain Haddock. The Hergé estate is something else.
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Warnings for a lot of violence, personal and institutional, and some sexual violence. The writing of the first season is a bit rougher, and there's a rape in an early episode.
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Black Sails has plot threads over each season and also over the whole show. It's got a lot of very well written female characters, with distinct personalities and their own agency. Also a lot of queer rep and some very good social commentary.
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They're recycled, and they're often collected through classes. IIRC they're recycled into assistive devices for people with handicaps. The scheme exists in France and elsewhere: www.bouchonsdamour.com
You might want to ask P for more info.
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Aha, it's le Figaro, but Autocarrot doesn't like me mixing languages đ
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And everyone went right back to using le COVID. I just checked la Figaro, which is their unofficial mouthpiece, and even they are using le COVID in their last article about it đ€·đ»
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Basically, they think themselves relevant, and the media tries to make them relevant, but in the end, no one cares. They made a great fuss about COVID being la COVID in 2020 when 99.9% were using le COVID. All the newspapers at the time wrote their article about "from now on we should say la COVID"
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I wouldn't use "stop" in this sentence, I would rather say "Je me suis arrĂȘtĂ©e pour manger", but that's because stopper is transitive and expects a complement, like "j'ai stoppĂ© la machine pour manger" (still sounds weird, but not wrong per se).
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Dude. Duuuuuude. Who cares about the opinion of not quite 40 zombies whose last linguist died more than a hundred years ago and who treat French as if it's already as dead as they are?
(Look up Linguisticae on YouTube, he's got some doozies about the AF.)
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Stop has been used in this way in French since the 18th century, I think we can consider it French at this point.
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Mouette
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Alas, I got the info from a French linguist YouTuber. IIRC, the scientific term is adstratum, so you might find info searching for that.
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I learned recently that languages that are close geographically will influence each other even when they're part of different families. That's why a lot of European languages have a complex vowel system, and the normal word order for most of them is subject-verb-object, both being rare elsewhere.
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Funnily enough, the English word budget comes from the medieval french word bougette, that used to mean "pouch where one puts ones money".
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Etsy has been doing that for ages, and I got some good laughs out of it over the years, like the leather pouches, called "bourse" in French, that became "leather budget" once automatically translated.
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I got the version before this one: www.boulanger.com/ref/8008434 Easy to use, easy to clean, it's been going strong for 5 years.
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En mĂȘme temps, vu ce qu'ils trafiquent, je prĂ©fĂ©rerais qu'ils travaillent moins...
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J'imagine que c'est le mĂȘme dĂ©lire, oui. Je comprends pas trop l'intĂ©rĂȘt perso, et d'un point de vue de la sĂ©curitĂ© des donnĂ©es, ça se pose quand mĂȘme lĂ .
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The last mosaic is probably Clovis, yes, baptised by Saint Remigius, with his wife Saint Clotilde looking on.
The mosaics are beautiful!
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Oooh, a carnyx! Less strident but very unsettling, especially at 3am.
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â€ïžâ€ïžâ€ïž je suis en TT demain si tu as besoin de parler
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As a French native speaker, English pronunciation is way more inconsistent than French. The real problem is that our spelling is extremely complicated by design (fuck the Académie) and we have very few sounds in common with English, especially among the vowels.
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Maybe 15-20 hours a week, almost exclusively on YouTube. I tend to go for sewists, furniture restorers, cleaners, and historians. It's not quite background, but I usually do something else while watching (knitting, genealogy, board games on Steam).
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Despite having actually read the rest of the thread, my brain has a moment of disconnect where I went "well of course Sarah wouldn't make a good pope: she's a woman and a lesbian and possibly not Catholic". Time for bed, I think.
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PDF is not what you want. ePub is best: it's actually zipped html under the hood, so an open format that you can read with very basic software and convert to anything you like.
And the software you want for ebooks is Calibre: it does everything except the coffee. Ask me if you need help with it.
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I keep reminding Boromir that what he does is against the Geneva Protocol, and he keeps not caring.
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Maybe for you. For me 0F is tundra-like weather, the like of which hasn't been seen here since the last glacial era, while 100F is, more and more, an average summer day.
It's not better, you're just used to it.
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Don't take it the wrong way, but it's not 21 years old. It's 31 years old. đ§đ»
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Quasiment personne ne touche les 635⏠complets.
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Boromir informs me that all cat behaviours are by definition dignified and becoming.
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Boromir drowns his preys too, which is how my watch ended twice in the water bowl, and once I found one of my Crocs. When he was a tiny kitten, he also used to dunk his woollen ball in the bowl, then bring it back to me in bed at 3am. Thankfully he does not do that anymore.
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No no no, this is definitely something to avoid. Because of the presumption of innocence, that would mean that the State would need to prove that the victim was not consenting to get a conviction. The more criteria you have, the more things you need to prove. The law worked as intended.