She held the baby puking true,
She took three paces through the room,
She saw the frozen snowdrifts bloom,
But then the baby twisted to,
Her lips touched hair soaked in spew.
And no matter what she tried
The incubation time did slide,
The curse is come upon me cried
This mom with stomach flu
That's a nice observation, and I don't know of anything on that myself.
Though I'll one to the list that we use in my family, "You could do that" which comes from a play, where the character explains explicitly that when folks say that to him, it means he's about to do something really stupid.
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This was great, thank you!
Apologies XD.
I cannot drink coffee, I speak only hearsay 😆😭
I figured folks needed to know about Tim Hortons in advance of ICCA2026 and wrote too much and now I feel embarrassed. But uhm, ta da:::
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
So dark brown/red backgrounds w. black font let my eyes relax and it's wonderful...except every time I read a doc I look like I'm summoning a dark god.
Is it a good enough use of spite to justify the electricity use?
So, like, can I who cannot code chatgpt code my way to a bot-app that downloads period tracker apps and 'uses' them regularly, inputting swamps of absurd data?
I still quietly sing badger badger badger to myself sometimes and giggle.
It looks like the requirement to register before getting a visa support letter for ICCA has been removed? This would be good if true? I have written to Express Issues about that requirement before but I do not get responses from that email.
Oh god why, I'm so sorry. I will cross my fingers for you.
I am actually not sure if I would be expected to inform them XD, undoubtedly I do not get covered by work insurance when it's privately funded.
I am genuinely curious how many other countries tax within their borders. In Canada they just decided to remove 'most' of the interprovince (i.e., intracountry) taxes. Is this really a thing elsewhere?
(And we'll still be paying tax on alcohol and food from a different province?)
Not if it's for a project that doesn't yet have specific funding. We don't have (or many of us do not have) personal research funds. So if I want to do something exploratory, it's my own money, if I don't manage to get some other travel grant.
There really ought to be conference fee insurance.
Thi:::::s. The hilarity of a group of people trying to communicate about sounds that were being actively removed by our communication software
(I do really like MacWhisper but the audio in this file is actually super crisp, I have no idea what the heck is wrong)
The automatic transcription output for a 2 hour video file that only says (in Swedish) 'People talking in the background' for the entire file.
"But SURELY you can just autotranscribe your data"
😂😂😂😂
A picture of a Jack-o-lantern pumpkin, candle glowing inside. The carving is a silhouette of Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service, on her broom, with Jiji the cat and the delivery basket on the front of the broom.
I came here solely to say I got to be a kid again and do Halloween with my eldest last week almost like how it is in Canada and it was amazing & while I ought to be doing something to fix the world or work, I am here to share my joy, & to brag of carving a Kiki pumpkin better than I thought I could.
New tenure track position in applied linguistics open in Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada. Please apply :) www.uqac.ca/emploi/emplo...
Ti::::::ms
Person standing at counter with baby harness on, also typing on computer which is elevated using a pack of diapers.
Proud of my standing desk.
The Green party isn't even hosting a candidate page yet I can, through their personal website, get to the easy to read platform.
It cannot be that hard to host a platform page,
sincerely, a person who doesn't want to vote on the vibes
Surely you can tell that I have the botherall to look up these things and write this grumpy post---and yet cannot with that energy succeed at getting platform info. Gimme a darn list of stuff you aim to do.
Meanwhile, #ptbokaw, there is no Liberal party platform on the candidate website nor on the general party website. I can find out how to be a candidate myself, but not what the candidate promises to do. Why::::::::.
I'm not usually one to @ strangers but seriously, @ptbondp.bsky.social , if I go through the candidates website as linked on elections Canada and try to click through to the platform , I get a broken link. (Is it 'Priorities'? On Safari it gives an error; on Firefox it's not even a clickable link).
Every election for the last 15 years I have been able to eliminate 2/3 parties I usually consider simply because THERE IS NO PLATFORM AVAILABLE, before I even ask whether I agree with it. How can this utterly minimum requirement be so hard??
#2025MMM Not only is this year my best score yet for March Mammal Madness-- this year has proven it to be the best possible entertainment for 2am breastfeeding sessions. Peak mammalian behaviour?
