pollys.bsky.social
Author of Enthusiasm and The Grimm Legacy series
Frequent baker of popovers
Admirer of mourning stickpins, portrait miniatures, rococo tongs, meteors, meteorites, proboscideans, and novels with frontispieces
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Zowie!
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Friends came over to help eat the cake, and one is allergic to walnuts, so I made half with walnuts and half with pecans. (You can't tell from the photo, but the cake layers have chopped nuts in them--one half-cake has pecans and the other has walnuts.)
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And now for Smokey Robinson in what I have identified as the high point of American culture: his U Really Got A Hold of Me on Sesame Street.
I cannot overstate: this is our finest 3 minutes.
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This seems somehow symbolic.
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I'm not complaining. I'm explaining that the pups are not dire wolves. Their DNA is almost entirely gray wolf DNA, with 14 to 20 dire wolf genes stuck in. That does not produce dire wolves. If you took an orangutan and stuck in 20 human genes, you would not have a human.
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No, that's not what they're claiming they did. They're claiming they took gray wolf DNA and edited in 15 dire wolf genes and 5 genes that are shared by gray wolves and dire wolves. The overwhelming majority of the pups' DNA is from gray wolves.
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No we haven't. We've got gray wolves with a few dire-wolf genes stuck in.
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Decades ago, @lowdudgeon.bsky.social & I were looking for something that had vanished in the clutter under the kitchen sink. One of us said, "It's under the chicken." Since then we refer to that area or any clutter situation as "under the chicken"
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I miss the Village Voice.
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Do you find Jamaica Kincaid's An Autobiography of My Mother too depressing? It fits your criteria otherwise.
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Thank you, Senator!
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Then we marched to Washington Square.
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Packing my bag--don't leave without me!
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FB decided this image went against its community standards and made me delete it.
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And the other alt text should have the same correction: Change "this sign" to "these premises."
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The alt text should say (correction in all caps), "A group of partially deflated inflatable animals wearing santa hats lying in a planter area beneath a sign that says, 'No loitering in front of or on THESE PREMISES.' A mostly deflated bear is lying on its back, staring glumly at the sky."
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Ooops, I made an error in the alt text, and I can't figure out how to correct it. Maybe I'm not allowed to correct alt text?