Posts by beecycling@wandering.shop
(DIR) Post #B0KooXxd9jUuqcjfai by beecycling@wandering.shop
2025-11-17T11:16:30Z
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@futurebird Great point about colour. I will recall a book's cover and spine long after I've forgotten everything about the contents of the book. (One reason I'm dead fussy about having the correct edition selected for my reads on The Storygraph.)And doing at least some sorting by size in an inevitability. I'm at around 500 books and try to keep from bringing in too many more, because I'm supposed to be a minimalist! And I'm close to space limit bookshelf wise.
(DIR) Post #B0R6ySy8AzGLc0T6Q4 by beecycling@wandering.shop
2025-11-20T12:08:15Z
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@futurebird I don't have a freezer. I find freezers to be black holes for food, they encourage me to eat more processed food, and tempting stuff like ice cream. I'm not bothered about having ice, it hurts my teeth. I prefer fresh veg to frozen. So when mine broke I didn't replace it.
(DIR) Post #B0favFnNhiKioe8pkG by beecycling@wandering.shop
2025-11-27T11:49:48Z
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@futurebird For a while I had a wooden hatch in my kitchen ceiling that led up to a space where the hot water boiler lives. The hatch was just a square of plywood you lifted up out of what looked like a window frame. The ceiling was just the usual boring white, but I painted the hatch itself sky blue, so it looked sort of like you were looking up at the sky through a skylights. It's been replaced now, by a smoke proof and fire resistant metal one, so I'm safer, but I miss it my "skylight."
(DIR) Post #B1HICYaSZkGmti70UK by beecycling@wandering.shop
2025-12-15T16:19:06Z
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@Nonilex Just astonishing. That he'd feel that way isn't surprising. That he'd lack the discretion and judgement that would stop a normal president publicly posting something like that - well, also not surprising.
(DIR) Post #B1RPlKjF0CdTmQ6Sgq by beecycling@wandering.shop
2025-12-20T13:30:55Z
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@futurebird My sister is a head teacher, who's had to deal with 'failng' schools in the past, in rough areas. She said it's quickly obvious which kids have serious issues because of abuse and neglect, who need a lot of extra, specialised help, and which ones are mostly acting out because they're starved of attention from parents and teachers. Once they get that attention from teachers who care, rather than ones just trying to make them behave, they start to calm down and blossom.
(DIR) Post #B2WYLQSxMknC0pOAzY by beecycling@wandering.shop
2026-01-21T22:52:44Z
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@futurebird Back when I had a day job I was the office Excel/Word/Access guru. Which just meant that I was someone who actually used the Help or searched online for how to do something and figured it out. Just being willing to spend a bit of time to figure out something you don't currently know how to do is definitely a superpower in the eyes of some people.
(DIR) Post #B2eYjDbA88WddTnVgm by beecycling@wandering.shop
2026-01-25T16:18:02Z
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@Nonilex Perhaps by the time they knock on his door he'll have got to "Maybe I should be so bold as to suggest a similarity to the Nazis?"Some people don't seem to get that you can be a fascist without having anything as coherent as an ideology. Trump doesn't have one. He's too stupid and shallow for that, and can barely read. He's the type who just likes the methods of fascists. A practical fascist.Of course there are ideologues in his regime. There is no other word for Miller except Nazi.