Mastodawn

oh bugga n botheration. enforced #peopling at sparrow's fart tomorrow morn, damnit. 😱

main shower's HW tap today decided it rather likes the erotic tickling of the water surging over its washer & seat, & thus summarily declined my invitation to cease & desist, once my shower was over.

sassen frassen rassen

#plumber

Ancient Origins Jun 18, 2025

𝗔𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝗢𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗿 𝟮𝟯,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗔𝗴𝗼: Footprints at White Sands show humans in North America 23,000 years ago—10,000 years earlier than thought, reaffirming the 2021 evidence of the first arrivals on the continent. #americas #peopling #beringia

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/america-first-settlers-0022199

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Mx Verda May 29, 2025

People look for context cues on expected reactions. Offer an apology (outside Canada) and people are primed to assume fault of some kind.

https://peoplepsych.com/why-say-thank-you-instead-of-im-sorry/ and https://www.theplainsimplelife.com/say-thank-you-instead-of-sorry/ and https://hartsteinpsychological.com/when-to-say-sorry-or-thank-you

#VeRamble #apology #thanks #gratitude #sorry #SorryDay #ThankYou #psychology #sociology #people #peopling #comms #communication

Why Say "Thank You" - Instead of "I'm Sorry..."

Thank you for reading. Enhance your relationships and boost your well-being by replacing apologies with expressions of gratitude.

PeoplePsych

Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁Aug 1, 2023

Why, yes! I am that woman who noticed you with 4 flats of 1L canning jars in your cart at Canadian Tire, and then sees you perusing blueberries at Farm Boy and will stop you to talk about what you're canning and preserving this year.

(You've been forewarned)

#Food #GoodThingsGrowInOntario #Preserving #Canning #Peopling

Seth Chagi Apr 9, 2023

The #peopling of the #Americas is a mysterious, and long misunderstood process. Detailed expertly in ‘Origins’ by @JenniferRaff, Check out what guest author @Divypithecus has to say, and the beautiful way in which its written - http://worldofpaleoanthropology.org/2023/04/07/bridging-biomes-exploring-the-first-beringian-migrations/

Bridging Biomes: Exploring The First Beringian Migrations

World of Paleoanthropology

Matt Willemsen Feb 8, 2023

Remapping the superhighways traveled by the first Australians reveals a 10,000-year journey through the continent - New, sophisticated models combined recent improvements in demography and models of wayfinding based on geographic inference to show the scale of the challenges faced by the ancestors of Indigenous people making their mass migration across the supercontinent more than 60,000 years ago. #Australia #Sahul #peopling http://bit.ly/3Yj4aoO

Remapping the superhighways traveled by the first Australians reveals a 10,000-year journey through the continent

New research has revealed that the process of 'peopling' the entire continent of Sahul—the combined mega continent that joined Australia with New Guinea when sea levels were much lower than today—took 10,000 years.

Phys.org

Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS Jan 22, 2023

We #introverts *do* like people. It's just that we feel exhausted after a long stretch of #peopling. @oatmeal understands: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/battery_drain

#editors #LivingInOurHead #Bookstodon

Battery drain - The Oatmeal

The Oatmeal

Jonathan Beckett Jan 3, 2023

I murmered something evasive about somebody I cared about having a difficult time, and a hand gently wrapped around mine.

"The world needs more people like you."

https://jonbeckett.blog/far-from-the-madding-crowd/

#writing #journal #diary #people #peopling #life #struggle

Far from the madding crowd

It's been a strange sort of day. While the rest of the world went about their very important business I knocked around at home. Yes, I was working - but I was also doing washing, tidying the kitchen up, clearing the lounge up, going emergency shopping for a sick daughter,

jonbeckett.blog