Betty Potter

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@selzero it’s incredible how much I’ve aged in the past 3 years
I can’t stop thinking about the Afghan girls Robotic team knows as Afghan Dreamers. The girls with minimal resources were able to design and build low cost ventilators and their expertise were used during Covid crisis. Roya, a member of Afghan dreamers was ranked among Time’s 100 most influential people for her work in building internet classrooms in Afghan high schools.
#afghangirls

“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

@Kay @eharlitzkern @histodons @antiquidons ‘So-rry I thought we’d started’

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

I think the photo’s just been taken from quite close up, to be honest with you.
@rbreich @LostInPompeii ‘what did the unions ever do for us eh?’
@eharlitzkern @annaraven @histodons @antiquidons ‘they’ve got lumps of it round the back’