The Bluestocking - where women are women, and small furry animals are gerbils, quokkas, capybaras, or a red panda called Rosy

[MarieDeGournay]

Welcome all to the Bluestocking Pub, a haven safe from harsh reality [mostly] full of good company, and excellent food and drink served by the most efficient team of gerbils in the hospitality industry.

It's incredibly unsettling when it happens @MarieDeGournay! Imagination working overtime thinking about possible trolls, reporters of seditious post, lurkers and hangers-on unseen for the most part, and whatever could've been bad enough to be deleted… Although I hear it was a lot worse in the old days.

We heard a couple of peewits today, mobbing a corvid - didn’t need Merlin for that one especially as we could also see them. Peewit to the ears, lapwing to the eyes when they’re in flight and can be green plovers when they’re iridescent on the ground.

I can tell when owls are calling 🤣. But can’t tell the difference between different types of owl.

Apart from the rooks, I just hear a generic tweet-tweet. I live in the countryside and really should be able to discriminate better. I’m not sure why though, although maybe it will bring me joy. This may well end up on my long “when I retire” list…

I assume your ear is attuned to seabirds!

Just when you think there's nothing cuter than gerbils in chefs' toques making cheese toasties, along comes a baby platypus, even cuter, and real.

Cutest thing ever and yes, Swash, totes Bluestockingy.

We have to have one, full stop. No debate, as somebody once said about something

Thanks @Magpiecomplex
I feel better about it now 😊

The gerbils agree.

Who could resist those little platypus eyes? Not even the incumbent cuties

The real platypus is way cuter than the AI one, isn't that a rarity?

I think they're my favourite birds. I love watching a flock of them get up from a marsh.

Their mating displays are quite impressive, too.

Hiya all been busy for me with work gardening. I always feel knackered at the beginning of the season as my body gets used to it. Plus i have a lot of winter tidy work bookings.

three grand kiddies keeping me busy too. One forgets how demanding little people are.

i have taken a particular interest in the pool game case, as I did used to play league pool, when i was young.

Hello Banned, I was mentally going through Stockingers I think we haven't heard from for a wee while, and your name popped up, as did Cake and of course the elusive Boily - but maybe I've just not noticed posts from them?

I always have a thought for anyone who hasn't been around a bit, hoping they're OK and just taking a break from the demands of 24/7 wall-to-wall hilarity at the Bluestocking..

Or more likely these days gardening, and recovering from gardening😄

I'm signing off early tonight, what passes for a busy day tomorrow - have to drive somewhere and do something, which is 'busy' for me😄

G'night all, and the Dream Gerbil can have the night off, you just have to look at the pikkies of the baby platypus to be assured of sweet dreams
🌛

Yes, indeed.
Currently there’s just one Conservative councillor in the whole city.

Polly platyous is making us all feel young.

The platypus is totes adorbs but I think she is such a very unusual animal that she might be happier living with her own kind. I have always been fascinated by them - there was a stuffed one in the Castle Museum in Norwich. So much completely unlike every other creature. Detecting batteries! 10 chromosomes! Bioluminescence!

Though having read that the platyblokes have penile spines as well as the venemous spurs on their legs and an idle habit of resting their burrows and leaving the female platypuses to do all the work, I can see why she might like a break.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus

Polly Platypus is being well looked after, in a culturally appropriate way, by Giant Wombat.

I'm sure the quokkas are doing their best too.

Which is more than I can say for Bing

I wouldn't blame Mumsnet if it kept that one in quarantine.

I reported my post saying I didn't know why it was deleted and they emailed me this morning.
The guidelines date from 2018, which may explain why they seem draconian.
Using acronyms that correctly identify biology, such as my Uncle Tim might do, is considered a slur and may result in someone having a tiff.
In my view these are correct descriptions and probably a protected belief under Forstater. However, using them more than three times in six weeks will lead to a suspension.

using them more than three times in six weeks will lead to a suspension.

unsane

Interesting - those more accurate terms have started to be used again post Forstater, but the guidelines still remain so it’s good to be aware of that.

Guidelines are here: https://www.mumsnet.com/i/trans-rights-moderation-policy

Clear as mud.

Meanwhile, baby platypuses are called PUGGLES!

Forgive my excitement.

Gemini was quite insistent that a puggle is a pug beagle crossbreed. Scale still seems to be an elusive concept, too.