Slnieckar

Slnieckar

@slnieckar.bsky.social

Birds, books, and Bach.

284 Followers 439 Following 839 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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Happy Mothers Day to the decent mum's out there. While my daughter treats my amazing wife to a special lunch, seemed like a good time to speak about autism and emotional impermanence, because I know a lot of autistic individuals can feel really bad about this, including myself, and why we shouldn't.

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4 days ago

That seems to presuppose that the currency should reflect specifically the country's history, rather than other aspects of the country.

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4 days ago

The same question was in the Guardian weekend quiz a few weeks ago!

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5 days ago

No, jackdaws.

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5 days ago
Two jackdaws tussling on the ground, with wings outstretched and claws in one another's faces.

Jackdaw negotiations.

Just about fits both #BirdOfTheDay themes: #WingsOpenNotFlying, #Black&White.

#birds

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5 days ago
Spooky trees silhouetted against a starry sky (and probably Jupiter).

Owl safari.

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5 days ago

All the Saramago I've read (including Blindness) has been hard work, but absolutely worth it.

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6 days ago

And ... they've now changed it to Mary Beard!

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6 days ago

For the carrier, small and light enough to keep on your lap while waiting at the vet's is important (ground level is typically more stressful for them).

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1 week ago

One Hundred Poems from the Chinese -- Kenneth Rexroth; Forest of Noise -- Mosab Abu Toha; Begin Again -- Grace Paley.

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1 week ago

And Pontefract is "pomfrit". Or possibly "throat wobbler mangrove".

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1 week ago

(Gifco, Travel Arrangements.)

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A few months after the death of our teenage daughter, we left her -- as we thought -- safely buried in St Anne's churchyard, Barnes, and bought a house in Peckham.

M John Harrison winning the opening sentence.

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2 weeks ago
Peregrine Falcon flying low with Teal and Wigeon on the water in the background

Amazing moment at RSPB Greylake yesterday when this stunning Peregrine Falcon shot low across the water! 😍😊
This is the fastest animal on earth!🐦
#BIrds 🪶

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2 weeks ago

The Silver Thorn — Hugh Walpole
Bannmeilen — Anne Weber
The Sad Part Was — Prabda Yoon, tr. Mui Poopoksakul
Backwater — Dorothy M. Richardson
Elizabeth Finch — Julian Barnes
Die Geschichte des verlorenen Kindes — Elena Ferrante, tr. Karin Krieger

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2 weeks ago
Cover of volume 1 of Dorothy Richardon's Pilgrimage

I finished 6 books this month, all of which fit more or less into my month's theme of favourite writers, four by women/POC, and two in German. Portuguese might restart in March.

chinese-poems.com/blog/?p=2994

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2 weeks ago

That makes him 57, by my reckoning!

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2 weeks ago

Labour Party is full of swotty boys using pantomimes of reaction to appease the unquiet ghosts of their semi imaginary blue collar granddads

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2 weeks ago

I don't know what the opposite of nominative determinism is. But Matt Goodwin does.

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2 weeks ago

Gorton and Denton by-election result:

GRN: 40.7% (+27.5)
REF: 28.7% (+14.7)
LAB: 25.4% (-25.3)
CON: 1.9% (-6.0)
LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1)

Green GAIN from Labour.

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2 weeks ago
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Learning a second language can be hard. Signing up for Pre-K and 3-K is easy.

Go to myschools.nyc to apply today. Deadline is tomorrow at midnight!

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2 weeks ago

The rat experienced both these events. The rat is no longer alive (I agree it's not perfectly expressed in the comic, but that's clearly the meaning).

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2 weeks ago

Keep going after you cross the International Date Line, and approach from the east.

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2 weeks ago

Nur Pointed Roofs wurde übersetzt, von Clara Munk als Die Schatten der Giebel.

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2 weeks ago

It's also Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (probably many others, but I suspect KSR is a likely influence).

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2 weeks ago

Cheeringly for me, I've read other books by four of these (Bazyar, Énard, Genberg, Kehlmann); I need to try Ana Paula Maia's in the original!

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3 weeks ago

Have you read the article?

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3 weeks ago

Personally attacked by the gulls.

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3 weeks ago
“Ornithological taxonomy is second nature to us birders, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the scientific names of a handful of garden birds.”
“And gulls, of course.”
“Of course.”
Even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.

This is fun. Generate your own xkcd2501.

marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-gen...

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3 weeks ago

I did earlier today, so I feel retrospectively validated!

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