Please show me something you've made recently. A meal! Pottery! A painting! Doodles! A cross-stitch! Whatever!
Natasha Joseph
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A latke that cannot stop screaming // Recovering news editor // đżđŠ // Somehow both jaded and awed by the world // (she, they, helluva gay). Profile pic: NJ, smirking, sipping a cocktail
The *only* acceptable questions from strangers in a public ladies are "are you waiting/queuing", "is there any loo roll in that one", and "do you have a spare tampon."
Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · yesterdayIf someone asks you âWhat is your sex?â In a toilet, they are the weirdo. If they ask you âWhat sex were you assigned at birth?â They want to know what your genitals looked like when you were a baby. I would look at anyone doing this in the same I would look at Rod Liddle talking about porn.
Here's a sculpture based on the muse Polhymnia from Hesiod's Theogony.
anyway, if anyone has a lead on jobs for a science journalist/writer who has been a planetarium director (meaning I can talk to the public), please let me know. I am *awfully* broke.
Catching up on the snow forecast for the next couple of days. It's going to be, and this is obviously not the scientific term, poeskoud in large parts of SA. đ„¶
I take a lot of photos but this one made me happy because summer light is so beautiful.
I've been huge on cold noodle salads this summer. Here's a recent one that was pretty! (it's got a ginger-sesame dressing, which I learned to make from scratch last month, too. it's very refreshing on hot days, a great meal.)
I couldnât get a good photo of this recent sashiko finish. Before and after washing.
Catching up on the snow forecast for the next couple of days. It's going to be, and this is obviously not the scientific term, poeskoud in large parts of SA. đ„¶
Not sure this is any good. But I made some stuff when I took leave last month.
Saw a thread doing the rounds about things have improved over the past few decades. My answer? Asthma medication and treatment protocols. I cannot overstate the strides made between my first attack (1984 - I was 3) and today.
Please show me something you've made recently. A meal! Pottery! A painting! Doodles! A cross-stitch! Whatever!
For some reason have this as an earworm today A gem that Stay hid open.spotify.com/track/28Cbxq...
Hello (Turn Your Radio On)
Shakespears Sister · Hormonally Yours · Song · 1992
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Indra's post leads me to ask: What's your favourite movie monster of all time? (Add pics! Use alt text!)
Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · yesterdayTrash Bag Queen has more character and presence than a lot of contemporary CGI monsters.
Trash Bag Queen has more character and presence than a lot of contemporary CGI monsters.
The Spaceshipper đ@thespaceshipper.com · yesterdayIt also echoes the tests conducted by Stan Winston Studios to create the Alien Queen a decade earlier. This prototype was nicknamed Alien "Trash Bag" Queen. Because it really was. Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis also worked on Aliens (1986); they founded Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. (ADI) in 1988.
(Please let me enjoy this moment of joy instead of telling me what I already know about the political and funding crisis in global HIV research and treatment. Thank you.)
One of the young reporters I'm mentoring cannot remember a time when being diagnosed HIV+ was a death sentence in South Africa. We've made such huge strides in the past 25 years.
An Ichthyosaurâs terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day 160 million years ago www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-i...
An Ichthyosaurâs terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day 160 million years ago
A rare fossil find shows a tooth embedded an ichthyosaurâs vertebra, where it was likely left when a giant pliosaurid chomped down on this dolphin-resembling reptile
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One of the young reporters I'm mentoring cannot remember a time when being diagnosed HIV+ was a death sentence in South Africa. We've made such huge strides in the past 25 years.
I am full of sickness and decided to nap on the couch. As I dozed off every bird in the neighbourhood set up shop in the tree outside the window to loudly tell me and each other all of their stories.
Some weird shit in The Guardian crossword today.
Princess Bride
Alt: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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