Thread 6 - TalkExiles: "Yup, still round."

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of previous threads (thread 5).

Gather here all ye refugees from the JTT Flat Earth Society, welcome to the reassuringly oblate spheroid of MN! Ye all already know the answers to the questions "How the heck do I format my post?" "Why can't I edit my typos?" "What do those acronyms mean?" and most importantly, "Where is everybody that I used to know?"

So really we're all here just to chat randomly.

i Why does Covid = ditching geography?

The son told me that Geography teaching was fragmented in lockdown then the geography teacher didn't come back after lockdown ended. Add to that he was often sent home because a boy in his "COVID group" had tested positive.

I get the feeling that the school didn't handle the disruption well.

I watched a bit of that New Zealander comedy guy and what was he on about with transphobia being popular in the 1930s? Is this TRSOH arseholes rewriting history again?

Yes, their current thing is that trans people were persecuted by the Nazis as much as Jewish people, gay men etc. This doesn't appear to be the case, from the available evidence. It's a retconned narrative, the trans people persecuted were gay men and persecuted on those grounds.

https://twitter.com/hatpinwoman/status/1639288935837827081?s=46&t=SPorwN-mokktL467rcZ57g

The Auckland debacle is truly terrifying. They want her dead and if the police are happy to leave her unprotected, as they did in Auckland, those "be kind" types will get their wish. It's a fucking disgrace.

It also clearly emboldened male TRAs and other men here into a huge aggressive presence outside the Lesbian Project meeting this afternoon.

Time for a cheery thing: unusual Japanese textiles (30 minutes).

They're Zen textiles, of course.

Thank you for that link. I'm in love with her intellect. Followed the rabbit hole she opened to her thread on Sacher -Masoch which was equally brilliant. She inspires me to be better. People who dig deep into research are my one and only non-kink kink. When I bother to do it myself - which I used to do much more of - I am at my best and it helps me to almost love myself.

I always feel a little bit better about myself when people post links to someone cool and clever on Twitter and I am following them already, or better still we are both following each other.

OK thread people, who knows what this delightful little crathur is?

What is this?

My immediate guess would be a golden mole, but it also doesn't quite look like one.

All Crathurs Great and Small.

Thank you for that link. I'm in love with her intellect. Followed the rabbit hole she opened to her thread on Sacher -Masoch which was equally brilliant. She inspires me to be better. People who dig deep into research are my one and only non-kink kink. When I bother to do it myself - which I used to do much more of - I am at my best and it helps me to almost love myself.

She's great. One of my favourite Twitter terves. I know what you mean, I am also a very thorough researcher!

I agree. Golden mole, or marsupial mole - depending on where it is.

I love hatpinwoman too, particularly as the one member of the RN editorial team who distanced herself from that rather rubbish attack on KJK, Maya, Helen Joyce etc.

Hatpinwoman is great, been following here for a few years now and she's always worth reading.

Spicy but not carbs - yesterday I made another batch of kimchi, as we've nearly eaten the first lot, and the house already stinks again. It would have lasted longer but my gannet of a brother visited for a few days and got through a fair bit.

On second thoughts, mole rat of some type - possibly a lesser blind mole rat, or one of the other

Spalacidae.

It's got some teeth on it, whatever it is!

Our ship has hundreds of crickets, which will sadly die. We're 200km North of Darwin, in the Timor Sea.

There was a rhinoceros beetle, but he flew off to the dock, when we were alongside. Hissed when I picked him up.

Cricket

Bird's nest, built and abandoned. :-(

Oh, it said the beetle pic was too big... It's truncated it.

Bird's nest...

Wow - you get about, Sinner. Do you ever get any land leave on your trips, or are you at sea for the duration?

What kind of bird would it have been?

The teeth were key to my mole rat decision. They're digging teeth.

No lizards you could feed the crickets to, Sinner?

Having the display for our new solar panels up in the attic is doing wonders for our exercise levels - we're both running up to check it every time we turn anything on or off, or the weather changes.