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I keep reading “FanimeCon” as “FamineCon”

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Heading: Hard-hitting notice in my Doctor's surgery - "Do you say sorry?"

Below which a photograph of a notice in a doctor's surgery that reads:

Not vaccinating your kids leaves them vulnerable to disease their whole lives.

When your daughter gets rubella when pregnant, how are you going to explain that you chose to leave her at risk?

What will you say when she calls you and tells you she has cervical cancer, because you decided that she wouldn’t need the HPV vaccine?

What do you tell your son when he breaks the news to you that he cannot have kids, thanks to the mumps that he got as a teenager

And what do You say when he gives influenza to his grandma? How do you explain that she won't be coming home from hospital? Not ever.

Do you tell them that you didn't think these diseases were that serious? That you thought your organic, home cooked food was enough to protect them?

Do you say sorry?

Imagining Harvard establishing a new campus on the grounds of Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec and moving its international students there

Mixing my baseball with an acidball in the hopes of producing a saltball

Gap Inc. lost the sponsorship contract, so it is now known as the Delaware Water Uniqlo.

I don’t think my pulmonologist likes me. He gave me a disincentive spirometer.

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@theplaguedoc @Scmbradley @StefanThinks all canines…

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Handy bilingual mnemonic for tool use. 🪛🔩

#English #Spanish #screw #unscrew #tools #mnemonic

"Rightie tightie, leftie loosie" in Spanish is
"la derecha oprime, la izquierda libera."

[image of a screw with a curved arrow pointing to the left, another identical screw image with an arrow pointing to the right]

Meaning:
"the right oppresses, the left liberates."

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The Spanish words 'año' ('year') and 'España' ('Spain') contain the letter ñ, which is called eñe.

It comes from a double nn. One of the n's was abbreviated as a squiggle on top of the other: ñ.

For instance, 'año' comes from Latin 'annum' with nn.

However, 'puño', 'España' and 'viña' come from 'pūgnum', 'Hispāniam' and 'vīneam', which didn't have nn.

My graphic explains how they got their ñ:

@Andres4NY somehow I doubt your 7 year old heard it on the same episode of Prairie Home Companion that I did

Quote this post with a picture of the airplane you’ll accept as a bribe. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zzqajov6bqbm6bjxfpao4esl/post/3lpa32arbgj2a

A toy airplane, on a table. A vase of flowers and a child’s doll are in the background.

@gruber note that the single-story a persisted in the accented characters of Geneva 9 (å, ä, etc.) for some time after the double-story version was adopted for the unaccented character.

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woegurt

A yogurt parfait cup with granola on top appears to have a sad face formed by blueberries and a curved slice of strawberry.

Sonoma County rail station additions beyond current plans:
- Branch directly to STS airport
- Branch to Old Courthouse Square
- Branch to Sonoma State
- Schellville (extension to Fairfield)
- Sears Point (extension to Fairfield)
- Penngrove
- Hearn Avenue
- Geyserville

Pick five to get to 15.

@jef So common to confuse the Imperial March with the U. S. customary march.

@eean.dev I can think of ways to fix that

Good places for infill rail stations in Contra Costa County:
- Hercules (Capitol Corridor)
- Somersville Road (eBART)
- Crockett (Capitol Corridor)
- (possibly) Oak Grove Road (BART)

My new irredentist program is transferring the area around Littlefield, Arizona to Utah (or possibly Nevada).

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If US press wrote about the US the way they do the rest of the world

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