Stephanie Rains 🪼

Is this like when that Chinese zoo got caught dressing up a large dog as a lion?

What to know: Downtown Anchorage braces for a canine takeover as the...

And so it begins: the interspecies war we have long dreaded

I’d be ok with this happening more often, and on a global scale, tbh.

It is hilariously Dickensian, isn't it? 😬

So I hear! But also apparently the wonderfully-named Office of the Public Guardian can't spring for an international stamp. One set of papers gave me 3 weeks to make objections/changes to my appointment and (of course) arrived well after the 3 weeks was up!

I'm an appointee under the UK system - and we've just had to go thru it a second time because we wanted to make changes. It's VERY cumbersome, which I understand as it's so serious. What drives me mad tho is they post the papers 2nd class from the UK to Ireland and they take a month to arrive!

Robert Harris was right, wasn’t he?

Not a word about the snakes of course - the real victims in all this.

It’s especially alarming that, according to his profile, he works for Blackboard, an edtech company!

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This is SUCH a good explanation of what’s happened - possibly the best I’ve seen - but unfortunately it’ll be incomprehensible to 95% of English people!

and at the other end of the spectrum "from a good family".

Those of us of a certain age used to be randomly shown Soviet/Eastern Bloc animations like these (despite us being in the middle of the Cold War) when the BBC needed to fill a random 10mins in children’s programming before Blue Peter started. They were all very horizon-expanding.

Crikey. I know not much happens by post these days, but when it does it tens to be important!

my mother (in rural Lincolnshire) just today claimed she only gets post approx once a week now. Is this really possible?

I've always felt safe in hotels because it's never occurred to me they might just *give some bloke a key* at 3am! I once locked myself out of my own room in a hotel in Chicago and they got a security guard to let me back in and check my ID before he let me stay there. And that seemed a good idea!

I just startled my cats by guffawing with laughter.

Well I’m not the better for having watched that 🥺

Yeah, tell me you’ve never really taught UGs without telling me you’ve never really taught UGs.

Yes, while surprise and novelty are sometimes fun, there’s a pleasure in correctly anticipating how a text will play out.

I'm thinking of having this embroidered on a cushion, because I always forget about it as an explanation for *hand waves at stuff in public space* and of course it's often the right answer.

The video piracy meme except it says "You Wouldn't Code A Vibe"

This is delightful 🧵

I didn’t mean you were! But I’m v unsure when he left Brighton 😁

Brighton? My grandmother lived there during WW2 and saw him out and about quite regularly.

my theory is that it's saving itself until I'm walking to the train station.

also, unless you were a hcw or lost someone to covid, how on earth was anyone thinking it couldn't get worse than that? People are SO fucking weird about lockdown.

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

‘All you need is a chair and a view’: could daily ‘dusking’ make us healthier and happier? An old Dutch ritual of going outside to watch the coming of night – or dusking – is having a revival across Europe. Fans of the practice say it’s a great way to disconnect from screens and find peace

I had a real “I need to step away from the screen” moment with this one earlier this week!

If this stuff makes me, a white woman in Ireland, experience a kind red mist of murderous hatred, what on earth does it do to people whose country, community or family is being killed?