Yay, Uhura! Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S02E06 — it's like they're getting round to telling the other stories from the Original Series … the stories about what the other crew members did. 🖖🏼
It's like real life: stories of what women (and minorities) did throughout history are surfacing.
Who am I? I watched the first match of the 2023 Women’s World Cup Soccer, NZL v Nor. ⚽️
Decades ago when I lived in Edinburgh for a bit I enjoyed Delia Smith's cooking show on TV so bought the books. Today I've referred to her fruit crumble recipe.
The apples were stewed up a while ago and frozen. They came from the tree at the property we used to rent out and have now sold.
We have several Barbary doves that hang around our place. This one by our gate was calling to another in a tree across the lane. 🐦
A particularly interesting fragment from a podcast episode, Gayle Lemmon on making the invisible visible | Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, 22 June 2023:
You cannot talk about Climate without talking about Gender …
We wrote a paper in 2014 for the Council on Foreign Relations … called Fragile States, Fragile Lives, about climate, natural disaster, and child marriage.
And the fact is that the minute you have fragility, it is girls whose lives pay the price. 80% of those displaced by climate are women.
Women are 14 times more likely to die in natural disaster.
If you got women equal access to inputs, you could make up for the food lost to climate, basically through better farming production.
And in places that experience drought, child marriage rates go up to 118% higher.
So all of this stuff matters, but we never talk about it.
Dammit, there are two items on the agenda for today’s meeting of the Horowhenua District Council that particularly interest me. They’re about Waikawa Beach. The live stream though lasted all of 4 seconds. I’ve reported it and hope they get the stream back online…
This is quite something:
As the Women’s World Cup approaches, a clever marketing video employed the latest deepfake technology to challenge gender stereotypes.
An ad by telecoms company Orange shows an epic sizzle reel of the French men’s soccer team displaying their skills, featuring huge stars like Kylian Mbappe, Antoine Griezmann, and Olivier Giroud. Except, it’s not actually them.
The twist comes halfway through the video when it is revealed the footage viewers have just watched is doctored. The soccer players performing the scintillating skills belong to the women’s team, not the men’s team.
Many thanks to Micro.Blogger Gunnar R Johansson for the link.
Heh heh. This Nike ad featuring footballer Megan Rapinoe as a superhero is pretty cool.
It's hard to take photos of Tīrairaka | New Zealand fantails — they flit and flutter so fast.
Photos often end up like this.
But occasionally you might get lucky.
They're so cute with their white eyebrows and necklace. They're friendly too. One of my favourites!
Stayed up too late last night reading Dana Stabenow's A Cold Blooded Business (A Kate Shugak Investigation Book 4). 📚
Kate went undercover at the oil drilling site on The Slope to learn who was bringing in drugs. She made herself a bit too comfortable. But that didn't last long …
I know that Musk's and other multitudinous satellites are wrecking astronomy and are bad in all sorts of other ways too. This morning though, while looking at the stars before dawn I thought I saw a meteor streak.
Looked closer and it was maybe a 40 or 50 unit Starlink train. Quite a sight!
Blackbird. 🐦
Number 169 asked for a photo. I obliged. 🐄
I’m having a phase of unfollowing or blocking as relevant nincompoops and nitwits in my online life. Feels great! I wish there was some way to do the same in real life…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S02E05 continues the excellence. I'm loving this series so much. Lots of exploring the nature of who we are and how we interact with others. This episode: all the feels. 🖖🏼
Wow! Dead in the Water (A Kate Shugak Investigation Book 3) by Dana Stabenow went by so fast as I had to keep reading. 📚
I wouldn't last 2 seconds on the crab boat Kate has to work on for weeks to solve this mystery. The smell! The heaving seas! The ice! The gruelling work hours! The killers!
Today we moved the (very heavy) sofa bed out of the way and I cleaned all the accumulated gunge off the floor — dust, dead flies, a couple of mouldy dog biscuits!
Window frames got washed, windows cleaned — I'll be able to see the birds so much better!
Finally, a floor wash.
Sparkling!
Dana Stabenow's consummate skill as a storyteller is evident in A Fatal Thaw (A Kate Shugak Investigation Book 2). 📚
With lesser writers intensely descriptive passages make me (metaphorically — Kindles are expensive) throw the book across the room. Her descriptions draw me in, involve me…
We went down to the Ōtaki Pottery Society Star Glaze show at the racecourse and came home with a couple of items. I bought two bowls and a mug. The blue bowl and mug are by Harriet Bright (Facebook link).
I've started entering a few photos in competitions. This is a local Capture Your Horowhenua competition. Photos are put online and also displayed in the Library for folks to vote.
My two are the birds.
