Another awesome aurora down here in southern Lutruwita Tasmania. Huge beams and pulses of light across the sky.
FFS people, when you visit someone in hospital, remember the person sharing the room might be, y'know, sick! No need to shout! Just phoned my stepmum and could hardly hear her for the partying around the next bed.
I saw that "why aren't the youths reading?" Atlantic article re-shared 8 gazillion times in the last week. Here's a response from the English teacher interviewed in the article: "The Atlantic Did Me Dirty." cmsthomas.substack.com/p/the-atlant...
Early this summer I was interviewed by Rose Horowitch, an editor for The Atlantic. She told me that she had heard from a university professor that incoming students were struggling to keep up with the...
Listening to my husband tell our visiting adult daughter he loves her. (As soon as she arrives): 'I bought these wraps, here, and here are some avocados, and there's hummus in the door there.' (Next day, when he comes indoors): 'Have you had breakfast? Tonight we can have mapo tofu.'
I misread it as 'gruntilicious' and that is now my new favourite word.
I have this ongoing 'to do' list on a text editor window on my desktop. Thought I'd ticked everything off and then scrolled down to find a whole lot more was hiding down there. Feeling deflated!
A perennial complaint for those of us who've always just figured out US terminology as we went along. (I might have to read Sascha's book to check out the cricket jokes.)
There should be a Catherine Macaulay Prize for History, where the prize is four months just chilling at the seaside.
It's amazing to me that "criticizing the use of AI" is supposedly classism, but "building a product on the stolen work of people with a median annual income of $25k and refusing to compensate them because you know they can't afford lawyers" isn't.