Dr. Effie, red Queen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🍎♟️🐦✒️

It's my chest that's the problem... But luckily I've been doing t'ai chi since I was 18 so I'll get there. Eventually 🤣

Best of luck with your move x

Good stuff! I need to get back to GitHub, I've been unemployed for six years... Because Academia... Yeah. Plague is fun...

Well, my "smart" phone works as a tablet in my garden... because the mobile phone mast is literally other side of the road, so... Could be worse...

Can you PM your context? I think I understand the problem but I'm not trained to use your programming language

I love the "might have had"... This is why no-one without a PhD in a science subject knows that the word theory means any more 🤬

That is so bloody ridiculous. If you were my neighbour and I wasn't sick with COVID, I would come and clean your house for you for free right now. I hope this doesn't cost you money you can't afford 💜

This is also what Brexit Britain accidentally signed up for because Boris is not actually a competent PM... I lost access to Cloud computing in Scotland this week because my phoneline was "upgraded" and now doesn't work in my stone house. On a Town high street. Twenty mins drive from a City.

Starter Villain by @scalzi.com has much the same premise from the other side. I very much enjoyed it but you probably have to be a talking cat fan to get the humour 🤣

And to be clear, I very much encourage you to donate if you can afford to. Just *please* make sure the money is going to the people you actually want to help. Not scammers in the US or Godknowswhere...

Folks, will you do me a favour please? Will you *check* that the fundraiser you're reposting is actually the same one you think it is *before* you share it?

I've reported 2 fake accounts pretending to be refugees in Gaza in the past 2 hrs. If you want to help, donate to a refugee charity please.

In other words, will you please stop asking if politics is a cult and start just saying that politics is not Religion and should never be treated as such. Thank you.

And I don't actually care if you think I'm being rude because I have literally been treated like a scum this week by a man from the Church of Scotland who apparently doesn't understand that there's a difference between folk beliefs and Religious Satanism, because he's obsessed with gendering witches

In other words, will you please stop asking if politics is a cult and start just saying that politics is not Religion and should never be treated as such. Thank you.

Hm. I'm not a member of the lib Dems but I voted for them for years and am a Scottish Greens member now. The problem with cults is that everyone in them is complicit.

I am not complicit with any of this "cult" behaviour you describe just by paying my dues every year to a political party.

I would prefer not to be doing it because my identity was stolen online, but otherwise yes! Very much so.

I have, you will be unsurprised to note, rectified that demeaning misspelling since I need an enrolled Deed Poll anyway.

That's lovely!

My ruddy Awful English Mother gave me "Catherine" as a middle name, for my *Jewish* Nanna who was Kitty with a K not Cathy with a C at all 🤬

She Doesn't Approve of family pet names At All. I've had to add new middle names by Deed Poll...

Oh that is genius.

I think it might be inspired by a transliteration of a classic poem about wolves from South / Central American or Southern European literature... I have a book called "Women Who Run With the Wolves" by an American Philosopher in the house somewhere...

Nope - I've worked at two Scottish universities and visited all of them except the University of the Highlands and Islands outside of the Inverness campus... I know at least some regional Scots dialect / humour from everywhere South of Inverness that isn't Gaelic speaking.

Ahah! Many of my friends live in Fife but I never have...

I suspect broad Fife Scots is still exactly as baffling to my ears as Dorric was 20 yrs ago but it would depend on how fast the person was speaking. I only heard Dorric ranted at me by little old ladies on King St as a student 😢

Several of my best friends from my Dundee days are Glaswegian and my best friend from school did her PhD there while I was studying in Aberdeen... I am *very* familiar with Glaswegian humour, from men and women of all ages 🤣

I've never lived in a Gaelic speaking area, only the NE.

I understand as much Irish as I do Scots Gaelic - I can recognise everyday words and colours in place names and that's about it unless I look it up.

OTOH, I can speak Dundonian granny dialect in a Shropshire accent so... ⚖️/ ⚖️ 🤣

Excellent! I have done my best to go Native 🥰

Oh my God.

I still get ribbed constantly by Scottish mates for calling *anything* a "job" if I don't mean someone's career! Nevermind jobbie, which is *obviously* offensive slang even to someone whose mother scolded them for saying "crap" as a child...

And now my question is, is a Scottish man offended by the fact that my English instincts say that is a *purse* not a sporran? Or would you call that example a sporran because he's wearing it on a kilt belt?

Because my Irish husband would agree with me because he's a reenactor not Scottish...

I'm equally offended by it on your behalf.

I'm an Equal Opportunities angry person as well as a Feminist, not a Man Hater who happens to be female...

And to be clear, I very much encourage you to donate if you can afford to. Just *please* make sure the money is going to the people you actually want to help. Not scammers in the US or Godknowswhere...

Folks, will you do me a favour please? Will you *check* that the fundraiser you're reposting is actually the same one you think it is *before* you share it?

I've reported 2 fake accounts pretending to be refugees in Gaza in the past 2 hrs. If you want to help, donate to a refugee charity please.

Tights.

Not the biggest fan of men's plumbing but that's just biology.

I might hate the man, but that's on him not his pee tube. Eeeewwwww 🤣

Definitely not, I hate the sodding things! Pants exist for a reason.

I'm a woman, I can just wear both, no Scot expects a woman to flash her bits during Strip the Willow 🤣