Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@tobiaspatton @CppGuy

Sitting and thinking about things like:

"It had've been"
and
"It hadn't have bent"

Which people say all the time but are probably cursed.

A friend of mine who has learned English in the past 8 years or so asked me to please explain what "had had" meant and what "have had" was.

I could not. "You can mostly just ... say something else. It's horrible."

She found a helpful youTube video, don't worry.

@josh0

It's not even a real language just a bunch of words that became roommates and who all hate each other but can't afford to move.

@josh0

Exactly. What is going on?

I just learned
"buccal"

As in "the lamprey wriggled it's buccal funnel with joy" is apparently pronounced "buckle"

All this time I'd been saying "bew cal" like the car, the buick.

I still like my way better. *grumpy*

@Enema_Cowboy

My dad has one, and he's short like all of us... but he didn't like it as much as he thought... says it feels a bit catastrophic to get in.

So maybe go sit in one in a store.

@btuftin

I'm still looking for a more natural way to describe the spirograph in this context... and it's time for this lesson soon enough so I'm reworking it again.

@johncarlosbaez @llewelly

I'm totally in to this but just didn't see it.

@minmi @arstechnica

A lot of the people who got it and didn't die will think that they have "gotten immunity the natural way" ...

we're all gonna die

@tlariv @arstechnica

Considering that even in this area with lower rates *most* people are vaccinated, 90+ percent... this is even more wild.

@arstechnica
"Of the 111 outbreak cases, 105 were unvaccinated, three were partially vaccinated, two had an unknown status, and one case was fully vaccinated."

Hm.

what could it mean.

@WarnerCrocker

That bus is NEVER coming, right?
*stomping feet*

@WarnerCrocker

This photo made me open some chemical hand warmers.

@apophis @Gorfram

Pinning is about having a sample of a species so you can compare new bugs against it and put it under a microscope and stuff.

Pinned insects often look very sad. Their eye look dead because the fluid in them is gone (but the facets remain)

I guess that's why the crabs are kind of fascinating. It's like if pinning could preserve what an ant really looked like when alive.

@apLundell

OK it looks exactly like the dried ants people sell to eat for some reason that I know about because ... well I have looked for every ant thing that exists.

@apLundell

Those are "edible ants" some people like to eat dried ants.

It's probably fine. IDK.

@Virginicus

You might think but look at this:

The sheen on the shell, the color, those aren't just natural to a dead crab shell.

And most important the life like eyes, which are made of resin to mimic what the living crab/lobster would look like.

This is an artform.

It's subtle, but amazing.

@gnomekat @peachymist

@apLundell

It's not an ant and I almost don't want to admit that I have this one speed dial in my bookmarks... yet... who else would keep track of such things.

etsy.com

(www.etsy.com)

(I am curious what "ethically sourced wasp" means. )

@Moss

...
...

I know I shouldn't bite but...

How exactly could a crab take a shower?