Mel Lee-Patrick

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She/Her. Mum of a small herd. Wife of a brilliant and hairy man. Shiny things person. Gemmologist and some kind of small business bear.
Donald Trump is freaking out, and so are his supporters.
getting this warmed up and ready to go for monday. 🙄
#blackmastodon
And yet here you are, controlling what women can do with a bun in the oven.
If Elon Musk can afford to lose $200 billion in a single year, he can afford a wealth tax.
Today’s toot is brought to you by light existential dread…
I gave a glib answer when my daughter asked what I wanted for #Christmas . I now have world peas.

“Booty call” and “butt dial” has been offered up as an example of where the literal meaning of two phrases is the same but the implied meaning is very different (denotative vs connotative meanings).

Today a coffee mug gave me another example: “dad bod” and “father figure”

#linguistics #wordplay

Do you remember being on one of those early 2000s web forums where the forum is kinda dying and someone sets up a rival forum and the admin is *pissed* and bans everyone from linking to it?

Yeah, that.

The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs was technically the highest ratio of killing birds to one stone.