Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@heavyimage @friesen5000 @zoec Hubertus Bigend always wears this annoying blue suit jacket and his "media" "company" is called Blue Ant. (It's a creepy advertising agency.)So he has a famous blue ant coat.

@Phosphenes The clay is textured and the glaze is semi transparent, this creates the pattern and sense of depth.

When I was working with internet /tech 20 years ago I didn't get this at all. "But why would we want to make them log in the device has an ID that's enough for our purposes."I must have seemed so naive LMAO. No matter if it's a patch of berries, or some neat new technology some people will look at it and think "I could use this to make people give me money" And that's wild. Not, "people will really love this and I bet I'll get a lot of money" or "everyone will be impressed with what I did."

@grant_h A high school calculus course.

@futurebird @catmisgivings Hmmm, my poodle likes his shapeless jacket ... In fact he is a chocolate Poodle sitting on a chocolate Persian lamb coat. My wife buys fur coats at the local thrift store and we use them as throws for the couch and chairs. So Scandi.It's ironic and a little weird to be sitting on something that cost someone a LOT of money back in the day. Occasionally we find the original receipt in the coat

A lot of stage dressing and effort has gone into the institutions, traditions, and stories that focus admiration on the wealthy. But, I always thought at least some of it was organic, to their own credit. Not all of it, not even most of it, but some. I really don't know about that at all anymore. There are levels of wealth that now just make me assume people are, well, criminals. Avoid at all costs. I don't think this shift in perception is personal, I think it's a wider trend.

@log @401matthall So it’s as dodgy and annoying as cheap bluetooth but you are still tethered by a wire? That’s *disgusting*. It viscerally grosses me out. For some reason it makes me think of the expensive but cheaply made electronic devices for prisons. They are always transparent (because of contraband) and designed to be hostile to the person using the device — but what matters most? The manufacturers have a monopoly and captive customers.

@futurebird some time ago I heard a podcast episode on army worms, the fall army worm and the true army worm, two different kinds of caterpillars which feed on grass and reproduce (as moths) in huge numbers thanks to golf courses and suburban lawns. Having spent nearly all my life west of the Rockies, I've never seen them, but I heard they're a "menace"* in the southeast usa, and in bad years can spread as far north as New York and Toronto. (*I hate lawns and root for the caterpillars.)

@futurebird Thanks for the heads up. For what it's worth, I'm happy for people to use this if they want:"Human biology is not limited to two sexes. Instead it is a continuum with two broadly recognised groupings of male and female. There are people who exist beyond these groups and between these groups. Furthermore, there is no reliable way to distinguish between the two main groups. Presence or absence of genitalia, chromosomal makeup, or hormone levels are all highly variable and can provide ambiguous or contradictory evidence. Since the way that people interact with the world is more important than an arbitrary statement of "assigned sex at birth", let people identify as the gender of their choice, and be free of governmental interventions. "

@josh0 She always gets her way. That's just how things are.

I'm not sorry for ANY of the puns! I will do it again!

@dawngreeter I'm very much against that. I would be delighted to give all of my students As if they all learned the material and I felt confident about sending them along to the next class to do well again. (that is no one would say "how the heck does this kid have an A in algebra? they can't do it at all?")