flyaway.bsky.social
Jewish atheist Unitarian Universalist, autodidact, 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally. Love nature, science, language, weather, choir, etc, etc.
#ADHD; #UU; ex -pilot -birder & -catmom due to #disability ( #arthritis, crooked spine, #fibromyalgia, #Parkinson's); old.
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That's a good point. 😒
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Yep, same here. The mnemonic I learned is that Slander is Spoken – that's the only way I can remember it.
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What a shock! Who could've imagined that those primitive nature worshiping savages were capable of planning extensive agricultural and water projects. 🙄🙄🙄
The level of surprise that's emphasized here is so offensive. Large projects are so rare because we've wiped out nearly everything they did!
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Awww....
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Lacking expertise in any aspect of a subject is obviously just what the current administration wants, given the composition of the cabinet. Go submit your plans!
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I actually understood that, which is frightening. Should I seek help?
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I absolutely agree – by no means was I praising AI – especially not in any creative field!
But the Post has become quite enamored of it, so I was just suggesting they actually read the analyses they themselves are printing.
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All they need to do is read their own AI's summaries of the comments to see what their readers want. The further right they push the news, the more subs they're going to lose. The summaries invariably start "Readers felt strongly that…" or "Readers emphasized…", always followed by a very left POV.
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That was in high school? Geez! I had a lot of those petty kinds of issues in elementary school, but the issues I had in high school English were more substantive. At least that's the way I remember it.
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I once wrote "busses" on a spelling test and was marked wrong. Even back then that was a valid variant, but when I wanted to look it up to check she said she didn't have a dictionary in the classroom!😮
Mom brought one in the next day and made her change it!
Why are some teachers like that?!🤷♀️ smh
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You had the same teacher year after year? We got a new teacher in each grade.
I wonder what it's like now that descriptivism is in. I don't think "those" teachers would take kindly to "Many people spell/write it that way! Language change!" 😅
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It's not ideal, but it's better than floppy ends until you find something better. If you fold them onto the top of your fingers and wrap the tape around the finger as far from the tip as possible, it shouldn't be too bad. Experiment first with how tight or loose to make the fold for best dexterity.
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That sucks. What about folding the floppy ends back and securing them with electrical tape, which is waterproof. Also the same if there's any part of the side that sticks out. Get tape that matches the gloves—or get a pack of multicolor tape from Amazon and do each finger in a different color!
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Some of them still rankle, like the time my 4th grade teacher corrected my (accurate) pronunciation of the capital of Alaska, and *insisted* it was pronounced joo-NAY-oh.
I didn't think to ask if she pronounced bureau as byoo-RAY-oh or bandeau as ban-DAY-oh 🙄! (Or who knows, maybe she did…🤦♀️)
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Wow. Some people just can't fathom that a child could possibly be more skilled at language or more intelligent than they are themselves.
I still remember a few times in grade school when I got marked down for using or spelling a word in a way the teacher didn't get, or (!) correcting their misuse!
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So insecure teachers have found a new way to discriminate against bright kids. *smh*
My kid got an F on her first paper in 6th grade—for plagiarism. I was in there the next morning, and the teacher's explanation was "No 6th grader can write that well." I said this one can, I saw her writing it! 😡
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I watched it again and it still doesn't make any sense to me, but that's not surprising given who said it. 🙄
It was also very much a sorry not sorry statement.
She's someone the world would be better off without.
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LOL My mom's photo albums all look pretty good, so I guess my dad was a good photographer. (I didn't know my grandfathers, both died too soon.) But he had serial hobbies (pretty sure he and my mom both had ADHD), so he sold all the developing equipment and my brother got the fancy Argus DLR.
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I wasn't putting him down—just that I'd been picturing the counterpart to a modern audiophile who only wants to listen to vinyl, while it sounds like it was more that (for awhile) record players were cheaper than CD players.😉
Sounds like he was a very interesting multitalented man!
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So not the type of purist photographer I'd been picturing! 😂
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"I'm glad I didn't have to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy?" WTF did she mean by that? I mean, I know how *I* would have used the tooth fairy as a comparative reference here, but how did she mean it?
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Sounds like we're oOna similar karmic pathway. I sometimes wonder if I did something terrible in a previous life to end up with so many problems in this one.
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That's fascinating! I imagine glass plates, though much harder to handle, resulted in better quality prints than film.
But when trying to estimate when a photo was taken you have to go with general trends, not with outliers like your grandpa.
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I agree completely, which is why my previous post encouraged people to video interactions with police. But you can't help anyone else if you get arrested yourself, since you won't have a chance to upload whatever evidence you got. Resist, but stay safe so you can continue resisting!
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I tried Mastodon before I came to Bluesky. My aging technical abilities weren't sharp enough any more to figure out all the fine points of using it, plus the inability to search for someone without knowing what instance they're in made it impossible to find my co-refugees from the Bad Place.
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Ah, I'd forgotten you said that!
I wonder if choiceful is a current British term; outmoded; supplanted by the American term choosy; or just very seldom used. Between reading, online and a few acquaintances I've been exposed to plenty of British speech, and I never heard that term before in my life.
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Yep, that's exactly how I am too, including resorting to googling when I can't come up with the word I'm groping for. It's not forgetting, it's retrieval—the word or info I want is in there, I just can't bring it up!
I'm old, and also have fibrofog, ADHD and now Parkinson's, so my brain is fried 🤷♀️
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I was thinking about the blouse, but couldn't put my finger on what struck me as unusual about it. Being handmade is indeed what caught my eye. (I have some cognitive issues now, and sometimes can't think of the word or concept I want. But that was it!)
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I think you nailed it. The 1920s fits the use of glass plates at home still, as well as the style of her blouse and hair.