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Helen Rosner
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Scraping them off is satisfying in a picking-scabs way but there are just SO MANY
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Helen Rosner@hels.bsky.social |
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Helen Rosner
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Scraping them off is satisfying in a picking-scabs way but there are just SO MANY
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Helen Rosner
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Yes I am an idiot for the record but at least I’m an idiot who remembered to Google first
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Helen Rosner
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YES I considered blowtorching the spongy moth egg caches that are all over allllll of our trees YES I googled it to see if it works YES I found many websites saying that absolutely under no circumstances should you ever blowtorch your goddamn trees what on earth is wrong with you are you an idiot
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
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This is literally the same shit the Nazis did before industrializing murder. They would get soldiers to just shoot people into pits. They sent Jews en masse via train to camps to starve and die. It was disgusting in the 40s and it's disgusting now.
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it's gita time
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Being really annoying is praxis. Phone, email, fax, show up in person if that’s an option. Just don’t let up until you’re too irritating to ignore.
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daniel g
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Reef sharks and garter snakes Lacking in clarity: Do they lay eggs, or do they give live birth? Scientists call it o- voviviparity! (Say it aloud, an occasion of mirth!)
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Helen Rosner
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Oh NICE
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Helen Rosner
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Hi to this pregnant garter snake! Garter snakes are ovoviviparous, which is a word I have long felt deserves to be the third or seventh line in a double-dactyl
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Helen Rosner
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Amidst it all I absolutely cannot get over that the fascistic fall of America is being headlined by a truly all-time weenie lameass loser
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Helen Rosner
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Fucking both literally and emphatically (and emphatically both literally and rhetorically)
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Helen Rosner
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On top of everything else there are so many fucking spongy moths everywhere
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Helen Rosner
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Aspects of placental functioning are influenced by paternal DNA, and small amounts of maternal DNA can get through the placental barrier, but the placenta itself is formed from embryogenetic cells (ie baby’s DNA) that split off very early on from the cells that form the blastocyst
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Colin Dickey
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Joe Biden has the potential to do the legalest thing now
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Helen Rosner
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The argument of fetal personhood is super common and for sure impactful and unfortunately (for the forced birthers) it has absolutely no bearing on the fact that it is simply not acceptable to force anyone to use their body for something they don’t want to use their body for
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Helen Rosner
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The reason abortion is important is because people should get to decide what they want to use their bodies for, not because of some vague & inaccurate idea of the gestating person and their embryo being one singular organism
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Helen Rosner
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*organ not organism!
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Helen Rosner
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Obv talking about “my placenta” colloquially is completely normal, I did it too — what bugs me is, I guess, the lack of knowledge about what the placenta actually is, and its gestational role vis a vis the various bodies involved
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Helen Rosner
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Lmaooo
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Howie
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Helen Rosner
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A lot of people don’t! It’s both a poorly understood organism AND the (well-understood) science of human gestation is poorly communicated
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Helen Rosner
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When you eat “your” placenta you’re not eating your placenta you’re eating your baby’s placenta — it’s not autocannibalism, it’s just plain old ordinary cannibalism
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Helen Rosner
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A thing I get irrationally annoyed by is when people talk about the placenta as the parent’s organ. It’s not your organ! It’s the fetus’s organ! It develops in the embryonic sac! It has the fetus’s blood type! It has both maternal & paternal dna!
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Judith Butlerian Jihad
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Everyone knows Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine, but people don't talk as much about how 7 Up used to contain lithium as a mood stabiliser.
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Frank Lynch
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Gift link, share share share www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/u...
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Helen Rosner
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Literally the drippings-potatoes are more important to me than the chicken itself
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Helen Rosner
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Please send Weber rotisserie attachment lore & wisdom thank u
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Helen Rosner
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I just bought the electric rotisserie attachment for my grill and it arrives Wednesday and I think it’s going to fix everything
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Helen Rosner
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It’s totally fine not to know things, this is not a dig on not knowing things
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Helen Rosner
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There needs to be an app that you can run new-to-you media and concepts and facts through and it tells you if it’s ok to admit it in public or not
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Jaya Saxena
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Do they even have to declare Germany's right to exist?? That is a whole ass different country!
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Andrew Nelson
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You can tell who did and who did not moderate IRC/phpBB/whatever back in the day, because all of us who did learned the true shape of online group culture: your culture is the shittiest person you don't ban
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Helen Rosner
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I’m learning Arabic at about the same rate she is, though I think she’s starting to pull ahead
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Helen Rosner
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Literal lol
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Helen Rosner
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Attempting to raise a bilingual baby is turning me into a waaaay more insufferable armchair cognitive linguist than usual
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Helen Rosner
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Somehow the baby has confused “bat’riq” (Arabic for penguin) with “bless you”—but she also knows that “saha” is what you say in Arabic when a person sneezes. So, logically, she’s deduced that the English post-sneeze salutation is to heartily say “penguin!”
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Helen Rosner
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That was by Hannah Goldfield, not me! A brilliant piece though — she’s fantastic.
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Helen Rosner
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Oh this is a FUN one!
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braak
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INCREDIBLY funny if this gets struck down not for violating the first amendment, but because it runs afoul of the Council of Nicaea.
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Helen Rosner
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God help me I made a beurre monte for the baby’s noodles with butter and cheese
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Helen Rosner
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Wait okay hang on I am EVANGELICAL about the Arabic course from Language Transfer (all audio, completely free) — it’s FANTASTIC
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Helen Rosner
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I need to join a support group for people trying very hard to learn Arabic despite Arabic’s nonstop attempts to get us to fuck off
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Helen Rosner
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Also every native Arabic speaker i know pronounces the variety of A’s in a totally different order from everyone else, and sometimes they put one or two of them before the L, and basically I just make a bunch of sounds and hope people know I don’t mean fork (shoka)
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Helen Rosner
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The word for “spoon” in Arabic is “mil3aqa” — the 3 is an ayin (a sort of swallowed-A vowel that English doesnt have) and the q is a half-silent glottal stop, so it’s basically mil-a-a-a but every A is pronounced sliiiightly differently
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Helen Rosner
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I’ve been learning Arabic and honestly this speaks to me deeply
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Helen Rosner
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I should redraw it so the title is on the same card as the content and also I can spell cynicism correctly
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Helen Rosner
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Oops i forgot to include the title
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Helen Rosner
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Time for me to bust out this matrix I made like 5 years ago and keep on the fridge!!!!!
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Helen Rosner
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Except that Billy Joel is earnest and JT is artificial — which makes all the difference
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Helen Rosner
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Don’t do William like that
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Helen Rosner
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Eviscerative tense
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