Posts by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
(DIR) Post #AWUioOO5CjLpCM5LiC by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2023-06-08T20:21:07Z
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@aehdeschaine @CitizenWald One might reasonably think, "This is what the archives are missing." Under-represented voices and all – imagine how much fun it would be to write a book purporting "To provide a voice to the fragile majority who, despite their strenuous loudness, have for decades felt unheard."
(DIR) Post #AWUioPsxdPe1qPXWTo by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2023-06-08T21:49:38Z
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@aehdeschaine @CitizenWald Not long ago, a certain history department that I was close to (but not a member of) had to establish rules like "No name-calling" for faculty meetings.So much of what we are is shaped by what we study – maybe we need a new trend in the history of people being nice to each other to complement the discipline's trademark obsession with friction, nastiness, weirdness and conflict.
(DIR) Post #AWbxwIJoqWt750C4ye by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2023-06-12T09:31:37Z
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@vik How do you extract the oil? (Olive season's over where I am. I've brined about 5 litres to see us through the coming year.)
(DIR) Post #AWdA1Kwdu26bHSU4CO by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2023-06-12T23:35:59Z
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@vik I was thinking about doing a little batch in a blender but deterred by the idea of standing at the bench to stone a thousand olives for maybe half a cup of oil.
(DIR) Post #AWdTZ9JRYWSoB8z9fs by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2023-06-13T03:14:59Z
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@vik Aha! Let's see if I can remember this next year ... or maybe there's still fruit on the trees. Some of us harvest here but most of them just go to waste.
(DIR) Post #AXPXvN87tZNrY55MX2 by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2023-07-06T07:49:58Z
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@freemo Half. It's easier to write because of the stroke motions of roundhand script, and it connects fluidly and consistently with its neighbours. These features are entangled with each other.The full r fits far better into italic hands, again because the stroke motions will produce it.As you develop consistency of stroke weight – it's largely about rhythm – you'll increasingly feel how disruptive the full r is within words.
(DIR) Post #AXQsdNJONMqsO8ujKq by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2023-07-06T23:16:44Z
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@freemo Yes, I know – I was responding to your request for a recommendation. I feel that the full r doesn't actually connect well near the midline, either. What you're writing is, strictly speaking, not copperplate, incidentally. I'd call it a "roundhand script" – which includes Copperplate. Copperplate is a sub-family associated with the versions engraved on copper plates, so it carries the mechanical traits of the burin into penmanship.
(DIR) Post #AYleDBtdvk9iy3tlFg by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2023-08-15T21:35:47Z
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@lowqualityfacts and that's how their feathers become so black
(DIR) Post #AZ76gxZMdkiMFyYScC by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2023-08-26T06:04:09Z
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@lowqualityfacts Pedestrian lights change sooner in response to both increased frequency and increased force of button-pushing.
(DIR) Post #AZ8nNzHaXJg5FtOr8i by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2023-08-27T01:37:15Z
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@lowqualityfacts I heard that his chair uses a stunt double any time it needs to be sat on.
(DIR) Post #Aa0U2BV8HgGsmRSPom by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2023-09-21T23:14:49Z
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@lowqualityfacts Isn't that a *field* of hippos?
(DIR) Post #Aawh9VWY94s5MLrV9k by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2023-10-20T01:15:05Z
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@lowqualityfacts If you're making transparent potato chips, this fact becomes high-quality.
(DIR) Post #Ac5Std0tTwnWjEJuGO by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2023-11-23T04:09:19Z
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In the hospital today, I saw many more people wearing masks today (perhaps a dozen) than a few weeks ago (zero).I talked with a three of them (joking about the oddity of more than one mask-wearer being in one place at one time) and they told me that the hospital tells them nothing about the current state of the epidemiology. Of three health workers I spoke with, not one knew that wastewater and case reports suggest that our area is at the start of a Covid wave.#covid #masks #hospital
(DIR) Post #AcaT1FlIjOwTQpf48O by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2023-12-07T22:50:24Z
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I've heard tinnitus for years, maybe decades. It's just been almost completely fixed by my physiotherapist who has been releasing a pinched nerve in my neck to address a different set of problems. Neither of us had any idea that nerve pinches could cause tinnitus but there turns out to be lots of literature on tinnitus caused in the temporomandibular joint nerve especially. Neither did my GPs or audiologists know about this.Maybe this'll help someone.#tinnitus
(DIR) Post #AcfvezH9DPZeOH5lOC by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2023-12-10T18:51:43Z
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@lowqualityfacts You should see what happened when the French tried to replicate 蝦餃/ha gau. There's a reason why they call them "raviolis chinois aux crevettes à la vapeur".
(DIR) Post #AsvNFAnKX7VNx8akfQ by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2025-04-07T02:10:28Z
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Do dogs flap their ears (head shake that makes the ears sound like they're clapping) to communicate with each other? Our dog does this to communicate to us, and I've never noticed dogs doing it to each other.#DogsOfMastodon
(DIR) Post #AyaVil0ibSDIoe0Itc by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2025-09-26T05:11:13Z
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My son told his mum that he'd eaten a good healthy breakfast of eggs.He avoided mentioning that the eggs were in the form of pavlova.
(DIR) Post #AyaVwIWzHnXqXgYQAy by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2025-09-26T05:16:16Z
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@ricci I had nine duck egg whites left over from salt-curing the yolks so there's a container of six small pavlovas still in the cupboard. Very convenient for breakfasts.
(DIR) Post #AyaWf1DiUgnXsvrgcy by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2025-09-26T05:24:16Z
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@ricci good choice!I like mine with lemon curd, yoghurt, whipped cream, and bitter chocolate.
(DIR) Post #B05USQPlpmHOvsNI6y by libroraptor@mastodon.nz
2025-11-08T23:18:31Z
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@futuresprog expensive brands are especially bad for this because they put plastic into making their teabags look pretty.But from another standpoint the cheaper brands are bad in a different way because their plastic is much more limited and after the paper's rotted out the plastic is harder to find and remove.