Waffles the giraffe at the San Antonio Zoo. Today is her third birthday
The San Antonio Zoo is not on here but today is Waffles the giraffe’s third birthday and I just felt like this was need to know information today, with everything else being so terrible
OMG, those look so delicious and beautiful!
To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
If you’re Canadian please sign it.
If you’re not, please share ❤️
Same thing with alt text
This is a delightful post to cross my feed before I saw the context!
Huh, I wonder how people are meant to learn things then?
(Like, some people can learn stuff by fiddling around themselves, but teaching people that sodering exists and what it's used for and how to do it...isn't unreasonable? For an educational institution?)
And maybe they can't afford that for 12-year-olds!
But they need to do something differently, because I genuinely believed that, if I studied engineering, I'd be solely responsible for materials, equipment, etc., and it's only just occurring to me now (in my 40s!) that maybe it didn't work that way
Which always, 100% of the time, failed, because the construction paper wouldn't stay glued or whatever.
So I figured I'm bad at engineering.
That might have turned out differently if we'd been set up for success with proper materials and instruction on how to use them
The backstory to this question is that when I was a teen, it was fashionable to "encourage" girls into engineering by having us do "enrichment" activities, which usually constituted "bring materials from home (construction paper, toilet paper tubes, etc.) and make a rube goldberg machine out of it"
Has anyone here studied engineering in university?
Currently wondering: when engineering students are assigned to build something (like, an actual physical working thing) does the school provide tools and materials? Or are you responsible for sourcing it yourself?
I mean, the first most people heard of it was when he resigned. At which point the public's judgment is irrelevant
That is an excellent question, in the sense that it sets the historians up to provide an interesting answer!
All jokes aside, DID people expect the Spanish Inquisition? Ummmbacon carefully details the historical context & how this popular Monty Python joke engages with the historical irony that the Spanish Inquisition was among the more anticipated institutional developments of its time!
Did anyone else's lights flicker a minute ago? #dlws #DarkTO #Toronto
8-week old Chocolate Lab Connor laying on his dog bed with his grey stuffed rhinoceros.
Chocolate Lab puppies are the best!
How I arrived on Bluesky from Twitter
Do they mean live theatre or movie theatre? Did I get to pick the show or did someone else?
What kind of museum is it? Do I have to visit the whole museum or can I leave when I get tired? What are its operating hours - do I have to set a morning alarm or can I go in the evening?
And because grandmothers are also part of the story:
Canadian grandmother married young with the expectation of a life as a housewife, then supported her family as a secretary when her husband abandoned her
Polish grandmother was a bookkeeper in Poland and a general factory labourer in Canada
Canadian grandfather was a general factory labourer
Polish grandfather was an engineer in Poland and a general factory labourer in Canada
Good product synergy though! They pair well!
That's a fantastic mnemonic!
I saw a picture of some juvenile wild dogs playing in a way that closely resembles what we would expect of juvenile domesticated dogs.
Unfortunately, what came out of my mouth was "Awww, they're just like human puppies!"
Same thing with alt text:
upclose of gorgeous elk face
the face so regal and yet cute
a white orb covered in black speckles and spots rests on a dark sofa cushion. the left side is a dalmatian’s face, tucked in toward her haunches with her thin tail wrapped up to hug her face. she is looking at the camera with one sleepy brown eye.
This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10 (IG: fuji_bull)
Ugh, I'm in the same boat. My Windows 10 meets my needs, I've been able to keep Copilot away (knock wood), but I fear that the hardware is going to physically wear out at some point. (That's how all my previous computers have died).
Fuuuuuu......
Could be a premise for a cozy mystery series!
For those who, like me, are annoyed on principle at having to click through to learn what the animal is, it's the Vancouver Island Marmot.
(Still adorable pictures and good story though)
