Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

"a company called Karens for Hire ('We Karen so you don’t have to'), which promised to harness the power of accomplished complainers in the service of beaten-down customers, abused tenants and anyone else with a dispute that outstripped their own capacity to carp....Karens for Hire, which includes two other part-time advocates and a lawyer on retainer, has received more than 2,300 requests for help since it launched last spring."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/12/26/karens-for-hire-customer-service-complaints/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

okay you all need to see this new cover by the HarperCollins Union (who are still! on! strike!) bc im pretty sure theyre not on mastodon and this is so funny everyone needs to see it

And you need to support them in their fight for a fair wage!!!!! ill share some of their links down thread for how to support 👇

artist: https://www.catleeart.com/links.html

#bookstodon #books #literature #reading #writingcommunity

When you want to go for a Boxing Day swim... but there’s sewage in the water!

😧 💩 🏊

We’ve launched legal action against the Government to make sure water companies clean up their act – and clean up our rivers and coastal waters.

Support the cleanup: https://glplive.org/clean-waters-t-261222

Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.

Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201502/physicshistory.cfm #women #history #science #energy

When I was a kid, the calendars said Boxing Day (CAN, AUS, UK) for December 26th.

I really thought Canadians, Australians, and Brits absolutely beat the shit out of each other the day after Christmas every year. For fun. Or it wouldn’t be a holiday.

I was TERRFIED of them.

For this year's gingerbread I made... Curiosity!

#space #gingerbread #nasa #mars #curiosity #baking #astronomy

I gave a glib answer when my daughter asked what I wanted for #Christmas . I now have world peas.

one of my favorite things on social media is when people nerd the heck out about hobbies I don't know anything about.

I have a friend on instagram who's super into Breyer horses and like, I know fuck-all about either real horses or plastic ones but she does these explainers about the hobby that are always a delight to read

Post about your hobbies. It's okay to take up space. Delight somebody with details.

“Booty call” and “butt dial” has been offered up as an example of where the literal meaning of two phrases is the same but the implied meaning is very different (denotative vs connotative meanings).

Today a coffee mug gave me another example: “dad bod” and “father figure”

#linguistics #wordplay

My first reaction to this is that it's about 30 years too late. But right now I'm just glad that at least someone has turned up to the party, even if it's later than ideal.

Building energy efficiency is something we really need to look into as we try to cut emissions here in the west. It's up there with reducing private car ownership for impact on emissions reductions. Imagine being able to live in a home that is warm, comfortable, and can be heated for next to nothing. Welldone Scotland.

I don't think this is getting the coverage it needs. Scottish government to require passivhaus standard for all new build homes. This is big. Really big. Growing out of lessons from the 70's oil crisis. Passivhaus buildings use very little energy to heat, or to cool. We've known how to do this for decades. It's gross negligence from all western governments that the same is not true of all new builds in the developed world.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23197204.government-announces-passivhaus-standards-adopted-scotland/

Some #BoxingDay vagina slang including the word "box"...
▼Tinderbox (17th century)
▼Icebox (1930s)
▼Moneybox (late 19th century)
▼Generation box (early 19th century)
▼Jellybox (1950s)
▼Snatch-box (mid 19th century)
▼Spunk box (early 18th century)

“You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?”
– Terry Pratchett

if anyone in Tucson Arizona knows a store that would be open on Christmas Day who would sell us potatoes, you would Save Hanukkah, please advise

Every year at Christmas now I think about Christmas 8 years ago when I nearly died with my wife, child and in-laws.

I share this every year over on the Bird Site and will share it here now.

It was Christmas Eve. 9 year old was just 1. We were staying at my in-laws who had an acreage just outside Red Deer at the time. We went to bed a bit late but the night was good. 1 year old wasn’t up too much.

@afewbugs If you are referring to roast potatoes the way the UK does it (boiling, roughing up the potato, and then quick in hot oil and then oven), I think it's because the boiling process releases more starch from the potato while double frying keeps more starch in is part of it.

I am genuinely fucking wondering what exactly Rishi Sunak thinks being homeless consists of.

@futurebird @sarahtaber You know, only now I just realized how much BS is business dress code. You need to throw away an entire piece of clothes because a mended one would look bad on you and would negatively affect your chances of getting a future promotion.

For being poor or environmentally friendly! That is SO fucked up.

Whatever happened with mended and patched clothes? We need to bring them back and we need to normalize using them.

Thanks for sharing this piece of wisdom.