@AutSciPerson Access through the mass is key. My autistic friends have spoken up for years about autism speak being evil and behavorial approaches. When I became parent of an autistic child, it took a LOT of Googling and deliberate excluding of words to even start finding better results. ):
Un AQI qualifié de Unhealthy, la météo qui dit "smoke", et dehors les gens passent la tondeuse, prennent des marches sans chien, et ne portent pas de masque.
@imnotcaroline Back then the Mtl City gave out some but now it is opt-in only so they stopped, I think. Canada Poste seems to have some "Choix des consommateurs" program available where you can subscribe to tell them to stop forwarding you these ads. No idea how to subscribe to it, tho.
@imnotcaroline The joys of suburbs!! <3 jays and cardinals are gorgeous, aren’t they? So bright.
If you were planning on making a food garden, you might encounter competition for your crops.
Rating poisonous plants by how good they are as names for non-binary people:
First up, Foxglove.
It is an animal + an object, following the enby naming convention of just finding a thing that is Gender™️, but makes me think of (hot) cartoon Robin Hood doing crimes. 8/10
@brisedete As a fandom, we were incredibly starved for women and it was still novel for Canon to ackowledge that women could have lines.
Kevin is a treasure. Please get locks for your knife drawer.
@were_duck (Like others in this thread, I gave her the dollar as a coin, which I buffed beforehand to make sure it was extra shiny. It has even more wonder value that way. ;) )
@were_duck We have explained most of these customs as "social stories" to our kids. Stories that people love to make-believe or true-believe. It works for tooth fairy, santa, easter bunny, and religious occasions. We tell them which we celebrate, and to respect other's opinions on them.
While working in our archives, I found an old metal box. Inside was a long-forgotten roll of silent 8mm film marked "The Philippines 1942"
Excited at possibly discovering lost WW II footage, I sent it to specialists for care and digitization.
Yesterday, it came back. On it was: