Fascinating: “Mother” No Longer Means “Woman”
Despite UK law already recognising McConnell as male “in all circumstances” before he conceived, the authorities — specifically, the Registrar General — said he must register as the “mother” on his child’s birth certificate.
So many people sent good wishes about Ares that I can’t even list you all. Thank you everyone. I love this Micro.Blog community.
Thanks to all those Ares fans who have sent us good wishes over the last few days. 🐈 He is at rest now. RIP Best Cat in the World.
Today is dedicated to Ares. 🐈 Other tasks have been pushed aside. In March 2002 he was a tiny kitten — the first photo below was taken at about 10 weeks, even before he came to live with us. What a sweetie! The other photo is of him on the chair today. 😻 Best Cat in the World.
Ahh, apparently the side effects of Metacam in cats include:
decreased appetite, lethargy, … and weight loss… Your cat also may … experience seizures…
This is the pain relief we’re using for Ares. Our choice was either a longer, more painful life or shorter, less painful. 🐈
This morning brought me a 40mm S5 Apple Watch with Pride Sport Loop. I’ve decided to call it Hinenui-i-te-pō:
custodian of the threshold between night and day, darkness and light … seen both in the morning with the birth of sunlight, and in the evening with the setting sun.
It turns out Oshi can cry, growl, yip, bark for 5 hours straight if put in the crate overnight. Maybe longer, but I just couldn’t stand it any more. Ares is on my bed and had another seizure ~midnight. Now I just have the door shut. Dogs and cat can’t be unsupervised together.
My almost-18, ailing boy Ares, sat on my lap for maybe an hour today, then suddenly had a huge seizure (first ever). 🐈 He frothed, panted and yowled. I rushed him to the vet who checked him over, and now he’s home and in bed, doing just fine. He’s down to 4.3Kg now though. 🙀
Ohhh, I made a big mistake. 🤢 I want some lines in a ToDo list in BBEdit to sort by prefixing a special character. The manual:
sort lines of text in Unicode collation order
☛ an incomprehensible rabbit hole. I ended up typing all characters and sorting to see what to use.
This 46 min video made me realise I’ve seen signers at conferences translating speech to sign, but I’ve never seen them translate sign to speech. I’ve never seen a presentation by a deaf person!
Lingthusiasm 36: Researching signed languages in real-world contexts with Lynn Hou
A Study in Honor - a great read!
I really enjoyed reading A Study in Honor: A Novel (The Janet Watson Chronicles) by Claire O’Dell. I loved this book. Right from the sample, I just kept reading. The story was fresh, evocative and interesting. I find this extrapolation from recent and current events in the US to be very believable. Thoroughly recommended! There was no doubt at all that I’d buy the next in the series. 📚
From debut author Claire O’Dell comes a fresh, clever, and timely reimagination of Sherlock Holmes, featuring Watson and Holmes as you’ve never seen them before
Dr. Janet Watson knows firsthand the horrifying cost of a divided nation. While she was treating broken soldiers on the battlefields of the New Civil War, a sniper’s bullet shattered her arm and ended her career. Honorably discharged and struggling with the semifunctional mechanical arm that replaced the limb she lost, she returns to the nation’s capital, a bleak, edgy city in the throes of a fraught presidential election. Homeless, jobless, and still heartbroken over a bad breakup with her girlfriend, Watson is uncertain of the future when she meets Sara Holmes, a mysterious yet playfully challenging covert agent who offers the doctor a place to stay.
Watson’s readjustment to civilian life is complicated by the infuriating antics of her strange new roommate. But the tensions between them dissolve when Watson discovers that soldiers from the New Civil War have begun dying one by one—and that the deaths may be the tip of something far more dangerous, involving the pharmaceutical industry and even the looming election. Joining forces, Watson and Holmes embark on a thrilling investigation to solve the mystery—and secure justice for these fallen soldiers.
Instant quiz: does my sub to Bear Pro expire in February or September? Please folks, if you’re responsible for ‘writing’ dates, don’t do them in that format. Month names are good…
I haven’t seen any porcupine fish on our beach for a while. This is quite a little one. A gull was having a good go at it.
Those golden sand, sun drenched beaches up north are all very well, but I’ve missed our beach. 🐶
Other peoples cats must sit still for photos… Ares doesn’t. iPhone 7 takes a while to focus etc. 🐈 Today Ares is inside on a chair. The last photo shows his discoloured eye with wide open iris doesn’t respond to light, so presumably is blind. He gets stuck in corners these days.
We really enjoyed Gentleman Jack:
Set in 1832 in Yorkshire, it … is based on the collected diaries of Anne Lister (1791-1840), … documenting a lifetime of lesbian relationships.
This 8-hour series was also thoroughly thought provoking.
Today is Saturday 21 September 2019 and the quail have produced the first egg of the season. 🐦🥚 We have 12 hours and 02 minutes of sun today. Last year we also had the first eggs on this day. Clever girls!
Queenstown has a horrendous housing cost / shortage problem. Workers can’t afford to live there.
He was even aware of hotels closing entire wings because they did not have the staff needed to operate them, Mr Buckley said.
Hmmm, what could they do to help with worker housing?
As we drove north from Whangārei last weekend we saw numerous seemingly wild turkeys beside the road. Near Te Kao this crew on the grass verge were having quite a barney with a gang in the middle of the road.
Link: the hilarious 2019 Comedy Wildlife finalist photos. Some guaranteed laughs here. Click an image to view large then use arrow keys (Mac) to scroll through. See also previous years entries.