Tiger Webb

When my daughter eats, it is with joyful abandon. Her behaviour is helping me unlearn toxic standards for women | Léa Antigny Watching my daughter’s strong sense of self has forced me to reflect on my own adolescence through the wildly misogynistic early 2000s

When my daughter eats, it is with joyful abandon. Her behaviour is helping me unlearn toxic standards for women | Léa Antigny www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

this one’s about: limes or low maintenance does mean some maintenance

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enjoying the bear but something keeps nagging at me: where is it set?

why is ‘myriad of’ wrong

“In 2011 producer Amanda Collinge spoke at Mumbrella360 about the phenomenon the show had become. Live moderation of the 18,000 tweets per hour around the #Q&A hashtag was no mean feat. The late Leslie Nassar deserves to be remembered for his contribution to the developing technology.”

How Q&A personified a brave and experimental ABC Today: How Q&A rode the Twitter wave , and Vinyl Group shares fall after it returns from its ASX suspension

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two days left to apply for this role! ask me any questions about it you like! @ linguists !! @ style mavens !! @ language workers!!

never thought i’d say this but please come work for me! the abc is hiring a researcher to assist in the task of providing timely and accurate language guidance to staff careers.abc.net.au/en/job/504660/…

third time in macquarie WOTY history the editors’ committee and the public have chosen the same term; first time it’s mirrored a prior american dialect society WOTY pick

Word of the Year 2024 - Macquarie The Word of the Year for 2024 is . . .

macquarie dictionary’s word of the year — as voted by editors, and by the public — is “enshittification” www.macquariedictionary.com.au/woty-2024/

they should call it abloobloobloosky

The fact that they’ve made a movie where the friggen *Wicked Witch of the West*, the actual evil lady who cackles and does despicable things, the fact they’ve made a movie where she’s the good guy? That tells you pretty much everything you need to know about society today.

Queanbeyan Hospital bans surgical abortions, telling local health workers the procedure 'does not currently sit within' its scope An email obtained by the ABC confirms Queanbeyan Hospital has stopped providing surgical terminations for fetal anomalies and medical reasons, restricting access to a legal and time-critical form of r...

Shout-out to ABC national regional affairs reporter Lucy Barbour for revealing how two regional hospitals - Orange and Queanbeyan – have been trying to introduce #abortion bans by stealth.
Both bans have since been reversed.
This is why #journalism matters. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

"getting close to landing a huge deal with the swiss" - me at the checkout with a half-price toblerone

@lukelpearson.bsky.social fargo’s back and it’s a return to form so far i reckon. hope you’re well

from an old old old (proto-indo-european) root yē- meaning “to throw or impel”. in latin that became iacere (“to throw”). also survives in: trajectory, projectile, jet (of water), jetty, jettison, many others. ah the good old days. hope you and yours are well

i burn the roof of my mouth maybe once or twice a year — about the frequency with which i see the dentist. unfortunately for the past three years it’s happened right before i see the dentist, so now he talks to me very slowly

she just like me fr

loving bluesky's hardscrabble feel. seasoned posters starting from nothing... the savage meritocracy of nature... a war of all against all

"getting close to landing a huge deal with the swiss" - me at the checkout with a half-price toblerone

going around bluesky not faving anything, shaking my head, saying “who invited THIS freak”

guy on the stationary bike next to me at the gym used its touchscreen to search youtube for “sumerian civilisation”