Zeborah @zeborah@mastodon.social

This is an outrage: how does Two Words not allow the venerable word "sophont" while the Susie Bot gets away with gibberish like "zoeae"?

An outrage, I say! @susie_dent@twitter.com

Couldn't be hedgehogged cooking rice so I'm now eating stirfry on crackers.

One of my favourite things about my family is so I'm writing a smutty fanfic and a character starts teaching another Ancient Greek as you do and so I ask my Mum "Hey where's that Teach Yourself Ancient Greek textbook?" and she says "Actually we've got two, which one do you want?"

Blog: In which she tells an implausible story https://ift.tt/2MnQ7ss

Oh for an electrician who'll turn up on the date promised which I specifically organised to work from home for!

(No charge for parts because none were needed, which is lucky because the shower is 25+ years old and the manufacturer no longer sells parts for it. 👍 )

I highly recommend Appliance Pros in #chch who fixed my electric shower and have only charged me for the housecall + 15min labour despite I swear spending at least 30min trying to get off the cover that some plonker of a previous owner had glued on.

Why is my cat licking my sleeve so assiduously, I didn't think I was that messy cooking the scones?

Oh look if I could have described my book in five emojis I would have given up a long time ago. I have never got the hang of emojis.

(please rt for more sample points)

FTR my and a sibling from ChCh have always heard "tag", as have my parents from Wellington.

Important question, people of NZ: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12068634 claims that the game called "tag" in the US is called "tiggy" in NZ.

Have you ever in your life heard it called "tiggy", and if so, where?

Er, minor warning: if you scroll down that page you get an image of "packet loss" that may sadden some ornithophiles.

OMG this is great: "During the last 20 years, the information density of storage media and thus the bandwidth of an avian carrier has increased 3 times as fast as the bandwidth of the Internet."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

(Transfer time to/from storage media is a pain though.)

Moreover I just got courage to wander over and chat to the dude operating it. I learned a) contact details for the project manager to coordinate ivy removal across our shared fence, b) it will indeed be two houses, and c) which will be lifted in by crane so all done within weeks!

So was woken up at 8am (on a Saturday, I clarify) by heavy machinery next door making my house shake. On the plus side I'm getting more housework done than normal for a Saturday morning.

Biblical.

I remember two cases in the Bible in which children were ripped en masse from their parents' arms.

In neither case were the people doing this the heroes of the story.

I get home late from work and a grocery shopping trip and not only do I still have to make dinner AGAIN but apparently I've missed a trash panda, people, none of this is okay.

Ugh I suppose I have to cook dinner *again*. Why do humans need food so often? :-(

Would it be rude to stick my head out the window and call out to the tradies next door to ask how many houses they're building there?

(Spoiler: I'm shy, I won't anyway.)

Pure brainstorm: is this a brilliant or terrible idea?

Abolish public holidays, instead give workers 11 days for holidays of their choice. Some minimum notification to employer who can't veto. Employers who want to open on Xmas just need to hire workers from variety of cultures.