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I keep seeing people have sketchy follower requests and am glad yet again that I'm so boring I rarely get new followers. So rarely that I haven't turned the lock on because checking the one new follower every couple of months isn't onerous for me. (And I do check them, and remove them if I don't like what I see.)

The benefits of being boring :flan_hurrah:

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funny index entries in an old french book 

Wow I did H,I,K, and L since yesterday's post. (No J: they all seem to be typeset with an i)

Man does not want to be treated roughly/knocked about [no shit]

Snake oil

infusion in human blood, of billy goat, & of executioner??? [seriously, what?]

Arthritic juice??

Mares see themselves/each other in water, are surprised by amorous rage [lust? or jealousy?]

distilled fat/bacon [possibly rendered lard?]

Laurel guards the house from lightning

Detergent from cabbage ash good for washing the head

The home should not search for the land: nor the land for the home

Wolves won't do anything to ewes if the first one has a garlic hung around her neck

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"distilled" shows up a *lot* and I'm pretty sure at this point that it's a generic term for purifying or separating, not the modern meaning.

Also apparently garlic repels wolves. :flan_shrug:

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funny index entries in an old french book 

What funny things did I find under G...

Garrison very damaging to the country house [yes, I imagine it would be]

Broom 159B
Thorny broom 159B
(Geneure)Intruder? 159B
[hm, all on the same page. Maybe thorny broom is a way to deter intruders? Maybe I will translate that page...]

do not shoot game on/over ponds, because that kills the fish

Thrush highly valued by the ancients

Marshmallows

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Ok did they mean the same thing as we do by "Guimauves", which translates as marshmallows. Or is our modern sugar-and-gelatin confection is a sad attempt to simulate something older? Inquiring minds must know. (I flagged it for translating later.)

Not as much hilarity in this index letter. Ah well. Translation progresses.

I did finally find the entry for how barns should be built though! (Grange = barn) Farm buildings are one of the items I was specifically looking for in this book, so I can do a decent job of describing them.

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An anthem for our times from 1640 (long) 

Bro sent me a facebook link to a track by vocal ensemble Windborne of The Diggers' Song. I couldn't get sound to play, but just found a rendition of it on Bandcamp:

windborne.bandcamp.com/track/t

According to commentary on the video I couldn't fully access, the Diggers were a 17th century English sect that actively cultivated common land and believed in freedom and equality. The song itself includes the lyrics:

"Against the hate and fear, stand up now, stand up now,
Against the hate and fear, stand up now.
The press have closed their eyes, they spread the tyrants’ lies
They’ll tell you with their cries, who to love and to despise
Stand up now, Diggers all."

Solidarity is centuries old. Now more than ever we need to keep up the good fight and work toward our own liberation from the powers that would subdue us, just as people did in the 17th century.

Enjoy, rejoice, and unite! 💪

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People need to understand that "economic growth" is killing us, and we need to oppose it.

It's been a fundamental misunderstanding in much of the left for generations. Economic growth means greater exploitation, always, and that's the problem.

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Bank of Canada bullshit 

Ok awesome. Now that I've learned that I was using words of a bullshit not-actually-science wrong, I'm going to complain about it differently.

The Bank of Canada increased interest rates again citing increased inflation, and guess who that's going to hurt. Probably not the banks or the big corporations.

(Probably not me *directly* for a few years, until I have to renew my mortgage. Not unless the company that pays me for my labour decides that it needs to lay some more people off to maintain their profits, anyway.)

Gosh, I wonder if there are other tools to combat inflation, than just interest rates. Gosh, I wonder if anyone remembers the marvels of "stagflation" and thinks, hey maybe this isn't a simple one-variable-one-result system here.

Anyhow, fuck capitalists for grabbing more and more profit and raising prices on everyone so they can do that even more. Oh look! there's a possible source of inflation!

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Fiscal policy bullshit 

Oh FFS. The bank of Canada just increased the interest rate again, because inflation has been increasing, and a major chunk of the inflation increase is caused by rising mortgage costs, which is increased by higher interest rates.

Way to go, economists.

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Questions about top surgery logistics 

What do people do when they get top surgery somewhere where they don't live. Do you have to get a hotel? How long do you have to stay there? How much do you need to have someone with you to help? How soon after top surgery would you be able to drive or fly?

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grump, neighbours 

:flan_smile: the weather is lovely out, I can leave windows and balcony doors open!

:flan_sad: the weather is lovely out, the neighbour is on their balcony, smoking.

:flan_heckk: the neighbour's second-hand smoke is coming into my apartment.

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Apparently I am best at writing when I should be doing something else.

It's bedtime. I'm writing.

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Ahh he looks so comfortable :blobcatcomfy:

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squidward's cousin

fat tgnc* community is really hard to find on masto, even with the #fatliberation tag.

masto's fat tgnc communities aren't nearly as active or visible as on other social media sites.

so I plan to start using #fattransmastodon or #fattgnc to post content & communicate with fellow fat tgnc folks.

if you're not fat & tgnc, don't clutter the tag with thin or cis "ally" shit. you have the run of a fatphobic cissexist world, you can spare a hashtag!

*(tgnc- trans & gender nonconforming)

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Heh I lost a subscriber with my first new chapter after adding the stuff to my story.

Oh well. If that offends them so much, it's no loss.

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Question for people who live in Florida:

What is the most helpful thing people who don't live in Florida can do to help support those who do?

Boosts extremely welcome.

Please only *reply* if you have lived in Florida within the past 5 years.

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I was going to write but a certain cat has decided that he needs to be right where my elbow would rest while I type.

He is purring, too.

I guess I'm taking a break from writing!

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long, funny index entries in an old french book 

Yeah I realized I'd been posting really long posts about this index...

But hey, I finished translating D, E, and F sections!

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Brandy has infinite virtue

Oat water intoxicating like wine

Snail eaten by cattle [please tell me the advice isn't as horrible as it was for a horse eating a spider...]

Writing and reading not necessary for a farmer [sigh]

Famous ponds

Stirrups, what pastry [I have no idea either.]

Impatient women [now taking bets on how misogynistic the referenced section is... oh wait I'm not planning to translate it never mind]

Demanding too much of a farmer, makes him careless or a thief

Chicken manure to regrow hair

Fig trees pacify/soothe bulls

Strawberries, their admirable innocence & characteristics

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There were a lot of weird things they did with manure, in that series of entries.

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Lazy mornings are the best

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Delightful audio short story featuring food 

I was recently reminded of a short story I heard years and years ago on Escape Pod, and looking it up to tell the person who reminded me about it... I found out that it had been written by N.K. Jemisin! I had no idea who she was at the time, but it was one of the very few stories on that podcast that I listened to more than once, and even went out of my way to save a local copy of.

Premise: a fantastic chef gets some magical ingredients and...

escapepod.org/2006/01/25/ep038

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Food, happy 

Went for a hike with a friend today. And by "hike" I mean cycling to a forested park with a picnic and a walk along one of the easy trails. Some trips to this park we've done the challenging trails, but today we just felt like an easy amble and a great conversation.

Also our picnic was full Hobbit mode, and we were very full after it. It involved fresh baked sourdough bread and scones from a bakery, cheese, lentil dumplings, an avocado and a tomato, some fennel spiced flatbread, grapes, pears, and we didn't even touch the chocolate and pretzels... Oh and friend brought me a jar of pickled green strawberries from his local farm market. Weird as they sound, and *really* good.

Lots of berry bushes flowering which is always nice to see! And healthy skunk cabbage leaves (the flowers are done for the year) all over the wet areas, love to see them too :flan_ranger:

What a great day :flan_tired:

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Cait the Encourageable

Just for old times' sake, my petition to allow US and UK trans and nonbinary people fleeing transphobic laws and a potential genocide to claim asylum in Canada? Well, it closes in just under one week. At the moment, we're about sixteen thousand signatures short of the second-most signatures on any Canadian petition to the government. Ever.

So I'm gonna send this around one more time, with the hope that Canadians will see it, sign it, and pass it along. You will need a Canadian address (a real one) to fill out the form.

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4268

Disponible en français ici:

https://petitions.noscommunes.ca/fr/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4268

Thanks for your attention; boosts and x-posts to other social media welcomed.

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