Penelope Friday

Fish Doorbell: the underwater livestream saving fish in the Netherlands | Discover Wildlife A canal lock in the Dutch city of Utrecht has been making a splash with its underwater livestream. But what is the Fish Doorbell and how is it helping local wildlife?

This is another rather nice story. Read about the fish doorbell, if you missed it back in March.
www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

And another really positive story. They increased life expectancy by 75%, so people lived 4 years at each stage of illness they’d expect to spend 1 at.

Huh, you know, I don’t think I quite realised that ignorant and ignore came from the same base until then. So to be ignorant is literally to ignore the information, whether through refusing to learn or refusing to hear because it’s inconvenient…

Wow.

Yes. Yes it does.
*hugs or if you are not a hug person, painkillers that actually work*
Also very much solidarity.

You actually have to make a real effort to be that ignorant about climate change if you are in his position, I think. In his time, scientists *will* have spoken to him about it, so he will have to have looked carefully for the 0.01% of scientists who say there’s any doubt at all.

Alt text, please, for future posting? It also helps people find things because the words used in alt text turns up in searches So if you put your name there it’ll reliably come up with the book name (which it won’t being just in your screen name, ime).

Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first QNews LGBTIQA+ News

And while we’re here for good news, have this fantastic story about transgender rights in Kenya. A judge not only ruled in favour of a trans woman but ruled that there needs to be trans protective legislation in place.
qnews.com.au/kenya-transg...

Hey everyone, have a positive story about the recovery of the Kelp forest “cathedrals of the sea” in California, to be reminded not everything is bad news :)
archive.ph/Qj6PH

Yes. I’m not someone who doesn’t listen, so it can’t have been that clear, though to be fair I was bloody exhausted that first year as having ME and a baby who doesn’t sleep through the night isn’t a great combination. But there were so many vaccines that I thought one (not MMR!) was chicken pox.

I felt guilty too because I stupidly thought that he *had* been vaccinated against it, because they did the other childhood illnesses I associated with it (measles, rubella, and CP being the 3 ‘spotty’ ones) so I didn’t remove him from the playgroup that day though I kept him away from the kid.

My kid was about ten months old, just walking about the place but not able to talk or really comprehend why things were so miserable. We’d just moved house. It was midsummer and I had to close windows so we didn’t annoy the neighbours as I comforted him as he cried all night. It Was awful.

But yeah, I think if I had a kid now, I’d pay for vaccination, tbh, and I *really* don’t approve of private medicine (plus I’m hideously poor) but your kid’s health is most important.

I’m aware, as I also live in the UK. My son also got chicken pox because someone decided that bringing her son with chicken pox to a play group was perfectly fine, even 19 years ago. My dad has had shingles and not recovered properly, I’d rather my son hadn’t had chicken pox.

If you want to read a book by someone with severe ME and you’re interested in lesbian historical novels, then I’ve written a couple here:
www.bellabooks.com/category/bel...
Or if gay contemporary ménage erotica is more your thing, I’ve written that too:
ninestarpress.com/authors/p-a-...

Thanks for that, it was an excellent plan.

I post Greenpeace petitions on my “activist”/ranting bsky account, but I’d never post about anything else I did with them, were I to do them. Well, except the time I judged a poetry competition.
I know it’s exciting to do things so you want to talk about it but…

On the other hand, you only get shingles, which causes its own neurological issues, IF you’ve had chicken pox, so it was always a bit of a toss up whether it was really a good idea to get it.
(I got it twice anyway because I’m greedy that way.)

Some pinkish red carnations in a thin wide green vase. There is a silver dragon head poking out between them at the back, which is the end of an athame, as the vase is balanced on my witch cabinet. There are also a couple of bits of rose quartz in view.

My spouse bought me flowers the other day, just because. They make me happy.
#bloomscrolling
#FlowerSky
#FlowerPhotos
#photography
#BadPhotography

The cat will help. All hail the cat.

Can you thought and prayer for us? We’re turning into you, fast.
Mind you, I’m not sure whether “thoughts and prayers” won’t just make it happen faster, since it seems to be the slippery slope route…

Genuinely can’t believe it’s not already banned, and felt the same way when my son was small. He turned 20 about a week ago.

Remember the “narco terrorist” boat that Trump bombed? Venezuela reports all 11 killed were civilians. 0 gang members.

If you think they’re lying, then USA could prove it by showing the evidence used to verify the 11 were terrorists.

They’ve offered 0 evidence. This was a criminal act. Murder.

I’m going to end up saying “pockets are a privilege not a right” in the next pocket discourse online and then have to explain I got it from Star Trek fandom and it’s going to be a disaster, I can see it now…

I’ve written novels where I wrote the scenes I had inspiration for and then had to knit them together by writing the in between bits. It was quite useful - sometimes if I didn’t have inspiration for one bit, I’d have it for somewhere else. (I wrote school essays like this too, including in exams.)

That…is very easy to read. You mean Other People might not? I’m not even in the fandom (not that they added SPN for another few letters, but I guess that’s known further in fandom?) but yeah.
Mind you, let’s not get into how many million words of fanfic I’ve read already this year…

I was literally reading that on tumblr about two days ago…

Oh, and of course, finding people have “liked” or reposted your pictures of cats or Cornwall ;)

Battling doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

1. stroking/cuddling a cat

2. finally succeeding at a level of a game

3. making a baby or small child giggle

4. reading a really good book/fanfic you don’t want to finish because you could read it forever

5. hugging someone you love

Apropos my last post (which was one), if you want something to entertain you (and you’re interested in finding out what other people find memorable/hilarious/brilliant) then I do recommend this link to people offering their favourite tumblr posts of all time:
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