valymonahan.bsky.social
Northerner. Stuff I like: birds, food, fishing, social equality.
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Right? Real ways to support girls/women in sport: spend more money on them/their sports; protect them from predatory/abusive coaches; look at what is keeping them out of/making them leave sport and fix those things. This is political populist nonsense of the very worse, bigoted kind. Call it out!
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Saw a very large (adult-sized) grey jay chasing its parent today. Heard weird wheeze-screaming down the trail and, that is what it was. Very fat fledgling chasing parent because it was "starving", clearly, and needed to be fed.
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I love it SO much. Plan to re-watch, in the winter.
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My Spanish experience is old, but it was def. "we have never learned another language, impressed that you have ten words of ours".
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My kiddo, fluently bilingual, with a widely varying Canadian French accent: everyone in every coffee shop/restaurant in France is absolutely making fun of me, in ways I can't QUITE figure out, but am not enjoying. I guess they prefer non-French-speaking tourists, so they can ridicule, in peace?
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I mean, just effin' LISTEN. They don't look that much alike. They sure as shooting don't SOUND alike, my dude.
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Is that first one a bee/wasp mimic moth? Very cool, regardless!
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There were birds! Many swallows over the pond, all tree, as far as I could see. Robins seen, Swainson's thrushes heard. One large spruce tree is hosting a pine siskin nest, judging from the activity. An immature bald eagle flew over. A gull (likely herring) seemed unhappy about that.
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Baleen was a pretty ideal material for the purposes it was used for. Initially thought the corset I was working on had just spring steel (lots of obvious rust stains), but checked the boning channels with a magnet and lo. Was able to tease a strip of baleen out of a ripped area to confirm. So cool.
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Link to Saturday Night Live skit on Youtube "Punk Band Reunion at the Wedding."
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One of my favourites! Underrated. Hard to discuss without spoiling the many twists and turns!
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Painful bouncing with a side dish of embarrassment. A good bra literally makes it possible to run/jump/play hard in comfort.
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You might enjoy this historical ad, in an article about corsets. Literally women in corset holding fencing foil. histclo.com/style/under/...
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Similar corsets show women playing golf. I worked on a Ferris Good Sense women's corset from 1909(?) that had a combo of spring steel and whale baleen boning, typical for that time period. Baleen was getting rarer/more expensive. Seemed super constraining! But probably less so than earlier ones.
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History nerd, here. For "Western" clothing history, you can see a reflection of the increasing popularity/acceptance of "sports" and other non-labour physical activity for girls/women in commercial corsets. Note the lady is NOT holding a riding crop, but a fencing foil. histclo.com/style/under/...
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Not a tall person and I still remember the aching limbs, at night, as a teen.
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My short/slight kiddo, as a teenager, devouring an entire package of sliced ham after school then having 2-3 helpings at dinner and randomly munching a whole bag of chips/popcorn before bed.
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Could we just live in some uninteresting times? Like, for a day, as a treat?
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Hoping this means it won't happen; rage-shaking seems absolutely justified. I live in Canada, generally horrified for you all. This step is making me nauseous.
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This seems appropriate for a related laugh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5WP...
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Love the exhausting-looking/horrible dueling scenes in The Duellists.
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Some are great! Which makes the rest even MORE boring, in comparison. Will watch the chase scene early in Byzantium over and over. The action stuff in Mad Max Fury Road is very good. Avoid most "action" movies because I know they are unlikely to match that good stuff. And, they have little else.
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Update: after a night in the bathroom, her majesty was pretty tired. Was able to get her to climb onto the tip of a fishing rod and escort her outside.
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Now noticing that RCMP fb page has the same post, with the comments disabled. So, saw their mistake, but managed not to fix it? Somehow? Comments remain live on one version of the post.
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Indeed, name of suspect, W.T.F? Comedy gold. 2/2
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So cute! A friend (with three prey-wired dogs) calls them "spicy squirrels".
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Many of the hat feathers are golden pheasant, I think? Of course, Asia has many pheasants with extravagant tail feathers. I just happen to have spent time with a golden pheasant feathers, so could be wrong.
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The opening scene, with the monarch in his "so heavily starched" cloth it looks like paper, death prawn suit! I love it so.
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Love "historically, the cool guys wore deeply weird, big hats, with feathers that communicated rank/status so they will here". Sadly, many historical shows can't bear to make men wear accurate stuff for fear of too-girly, of something.
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Ooooh. Have been kicked out of more than one book by historical characters, in Britain, who were not sciency explorer types, referencing hummingbirds. Also kicked out of a book with mountain goats where there are only mountain sheep and oaks trees waaay too far north.
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Cute! We often refer to the grouse/ptarmigan here as "stupid chicken birds". We love them! They talk continuously, undermining their (often great) camouflage. They panic and charge toward danger and vehicles. They forget you are there and start pecking food.
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My northern dog routinely blew her coat in October/November. We didn't leave her outside enough for seasonal adjustment and furnace heat triggered it? Maybe, but annoying regardless.
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Again, less and less sympathy all the time.
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No, it's apples and oranges. Anyone with an eating disorder needs help. Young men need to stop trying to make their lives better by removing opportunities from young women.
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Gender affirming care for men somehow includes taking away the rights of other human beings? Gender affirming care is about things you do for yourself/in support of body image.
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There are, as you pointed out, other options. They just like these ones better. The girls/young women with eating disorders and are harming themselves. They are not out trying to take things away from other people.
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So, the problem is that young men would prefer to get life advice from sites hat tell them they can get what they want, if girls/women don't have rights/equal access. Remind me again why I (or anyone) should be sympathetic to these young men, paying money for sexism now getting judged for it.
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Name manosphere life advice not actively hostile to women/girls that "works" that isn't available other places. Super easy way to not have to deal with the manosphere: don't watch those dudes on-line.
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Weirdly, the young women, equally stuck at home because of these insane rents don't seem to be (as a group) starting to say that young men's job opportunities should be limited, as a way to make their lives better! No one is arguing that things are good. It's about the response from young men to it.