My husband keeps losing his Duo Lingo ranking to the same person and now he is obsessed with beating them. He may just learn Spanish yet!
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I’m here for the capybaras, I hope
He just cackled like a madman because he knocked them out of third place. This is delightful!
The word nonplussed sounds like it should mean something else.
genderbotThe gender of the day is a sensitive satyr in an overgrown lair.
myrmepropagandistI gave him the radio so he could call dispatch... but instead of giving his number and asking for runs he says in this really crazy voice "This is the FLY. The FLY is calling dispatch."
The radio crackled and The Fly was cracking up."The FLY has delivered the flowers. The FLY is heading for CitiGroup next. The FLY over and out!"
The radio crackled again and I could hear dispatch and he sounded mad! The Fly gave me my radio back, and before it was even in my hand I hear dispatch yelling-- 4/
Elmo’s either hired a top-notch PR firm or one has been imposed on him AND/OR bigger forces are at play, but news of baby man is unusually scarce today.
Scot HackerGosh I’d love to see Greta Thunberg join Mastodon.
Dr. Jack Brown 
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Quotes #EmotionalIntelligence
Joan MastodonIt doesn't get talked about much, but certain people hold a deep, deep hatred for autistic women. Read the anti-Greta commenters on Twitter and you'll see what I mean. We don't line up with people's ideas about what autism is 'supposed' to look like or how a woman is 'supposed' to be.
Nearly 90% of autistic women have been sexually assaulted. We're more likely to experience domestic violence, and up to 13x more likely to die from suicide (Hirvikoski 2018).
Evidence That Nine Autistic Women Out of Ten Have Been Victims of Sexual Violence - PubMed
Those findings indicate a very large proportion of victims of sexual assault among autistic women, consistently with previous research. The World Health Organization states unambiguously that sexual violence is systemic and that vulnerable individuals are preferably targeted by offenders. We therefo …
Bianca NogradySeeing as I can't remember very much about 2022, or at least can't remember if things happened this year or last year or two years ago (Pandemic time is a bit wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey, am I right?), I've decided to do a thread of articles I'm most proud of this year.
First up, this piece in The Medical Republic explored the concepts of #epidemic and #endemic, and how they apply to #Covid19.
Given it was written back in February, during the height of the first #Omicron wave, I think it's held up pretty well: https://medicalrepublic.com.au/is-covid-becoming-endemic/63290
#ScienceJournalism #journalism
First up, this piece in The Medical Republic explored the concepts of #epidemic and #endemic, and how they apply to #Covid19.
Given it was written back in February, during the height of the first #Omicron wave, I think it's held up pretty well: https://medicalrepublic.com.au/is-covid-becoming-endemic/63290
#ScienceJournalism #journalism
