Em Fleming 🍁

A chrome door inside an elevator, upon which some optimistic soul has taped a handwritten sign reading "please stop hot-boxing in the elevator." Below this text, others have inscribed "nah," "fuck," and a scribbled cartoon of a hand with its middle finger raised.

Art

They are such stunning birds. Where I live they're a sign of spring, and I get excited every time.

Umpteenth vote for turkey vulture, especially as there were a bunch of them. The paler feathers on the rear edge of the underside of the wing are a good field mark.

... Reece might murder Ania.

(What I would have done, had I been in the room, is started at 'over a million?' And then just halved the number of potentials over and over. Boring but effective.)

It says a lot about me that last week, I joyously exclaimed "oooh! A SUM!" and paused the episode so I could grab a pen and paper.

Worked it out in under two minutes, but would never have found the equation if I'd been in the room.

Attempting to deal with the 'digital dark age' 📜 - interesting project linked to the Hawking collection at Cambridge #histSTM

A front view of a carved wooden statue of a female saint, prettily painted and gilded. She has a badass semicircular headdress in the same colours as her very fancy dress and is reading a book.

The back view of the same statue. This side has no paint or decoration and is a flattish surface with big rough chisel marks on the top half.

A museum card identifying the statue as Saint Barbara, by one or more unidentified Flemish artists, and dating it to approximately 1530 to 1540

#arthistory people - this lovely sculpture is utterly raw on the back. Is that because it was originally mounted on a wall? Was it maybe part of something bigger?

Quoting this so I can check out the game when I get home: Little Rocket Lab.

Aaaaaugh cheap motel had a plug-in air freshener whyyyyyy

(Otherwise perfectly fine, but my eyes are streaming even after putting the damn thing outside)

Super cute set at Telltale Harbour at the Royal Alex. Like my mum's Christmas village. (Enjoying the play, too! It's basically if they'd set La Grande Séduction in Newfoundland. Which the English version did for some reason iirc. Anyway, some excellent physical comedy happening.)

Every time I cross the border into Ontario, I get annoyed again at "Open For Business." Not that "Yours to Discover" was brilliant, but at least it wasn't such a naked For Sale sign.

Amd misspelled. One word! Stressed like 'understand'! Second vowel is a schwa, and the d is silent!

I get that with plasma donation. It's so profoundly weird. (Like - extremely cool, what a neat machine, isn't it great that we can do these things! but! So weird!)

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Friends! Acquaintances! Enemies! Strangers!

If you have not read Amal's short stories, what a great way to get all caught up.

I am EXCITED

Thank you!

I did say it had been a while! I haven't watched that era of Whedon since it aired and my memories are fuzzy, which is one reason I phrased it as a question. :)

Like - Superman has that very emotional conversation with something going on in the background, but the characters being emotional aren't the ones making the joke, there's just something contextually funny happening.

It's been a while since I watched a Whedon thing, but I wonder if the difference is that there is an underlying sincerity in Gunn's stuff? I like it for its earnestness.

Harrison Ford (silent film actor) - Wikipedia

ha - reading a book set in the 1920s that mentions a character going to a movie starring Harrison Ford and did a double-take and whaddayaknow:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriso...

Took a biggish step today toward doing something that's going to help my mother do something she's wanted to do since I was a small child.

(I know that's circuitous, but it's an early step of many! And I have a concrete plan for the rest!)

I can't wait to see her do the thing.

While my mother was recovering from a broken leg, she found a quite firm recliner (of the type marketed towards women - the kind marketed to men are too soft and difficult to get out of) with a handle that also folded it up to be very useful.

Lately I've been doing sequence edits of pelicans diving, but for the marine life feed hitting 2k likes, how about a NEARLY FULL BODY HUMPBACK BREACH sequence? 🦑

Happy birthday!

I got SO STUCK after five of them.

(Thanks for talking about this btw, am enjoying myself a lot.)

(And obviously there's a whole aspect that I am never gonna understand, but 'who am I' is a huge question even when you don't have a major update at some point.)

(I love reading your posts about dance, btw. Your love for it makes me want to try it myself.)

As a cis woman, I have spent about forty years trying to work out who I am as a woman. I think I have nearly cracked it. I think if I had started a couple of years ago, I would be proud to have figured out as much as you have. You are a woman who loves music, and gorgeous dresses, and dance.