@ferrous @cassolotl for me it's got a bit of "ee" flavour (as in "bee" only very short)
Hey, you! Do you want to open a door for a fish?
Utrecht has a river where fish swim upstream to spawn, but they have to keep the boat locks closed, which blocks the fishes.
So they set up a live stream + doorbell system. Join the live stream, watch the underwater camera, and ring the doorbell if you see a fish!
https://visdeurbel.nl/en/the-fish-doorbell/
(NYTimes write-up of the story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/style/fish-doorbell-visdeurbel-netherlands.html)
1980's
π *holding ice against crotch* Dad, how come girl's bikes don't have the bollock-mashing bar
πΊ no need for it lad, they've got nae bollocks
π
πΊ not much point putting a bollock masher if there's nae bollocks to mash is there
πΊ be a bloody waste of money
2020's
π *holding ice against crotch* Dad, why
π You know, I asked my dad this when I was your age, and his answer doesn't really fit in this decade. You probably know a couple of girls with bollocks. Maybe a boy with no bollocks. Either way, girls with bollocks get to ride the bikes without the bollock-mashing bar, and boys with no bollocks can ride the bollock masher, in a lot of ways it's a more enlightened time
π Dad what
π I mean these days girls can ride the bollock mashing bikes too
π So can non-binary folk, bollocks or no
π dad
π Anyway times change is what I'm saying
π The important thing is squashing the bollocks
π
π Flat
Organic cotton tote bags with either abstracted designs by me, or watercolour birds (with or without text) are available at my online store, https://kaminenmosher.com/store along with mugs and t-shirts.
These tote bags are sturdy and useful, as well as artsy. My cats have inspected them too (my samples, not the whole supply chain) and pronounced them good for feline naps.
@dan Why do you have a litter box that's wired to alert you when it's used?
@ergative it's hilarious that the fish doorbell people call Utrecht "a small Dutch city" -- I wouldn't call it small, it's the 4th largest city in NL with about 370K inhabitants!
Add a spring to your step with this gorgeous creature about to enjoy some figs (just in time for chocolate bunny season!) β¨
πPompeii
πMAN Napoli
πΈCarole Raddato
@kdedude yay carrot cake!
@tpolecat *raises hand*
@platypus Oh that's so true (says the woman who struggles with her #PrinterExistentialCrisis every week to get the church things in order; it's the wifi really, the printer is an okay Brother)
@quidcumque @halla Extremely weird; it makes Western Palm Sunday fall so relatively early that I had to dig up the troparion for the children's procession in a book I otherwise wouldn't look at for weeks yet, and the Annunciation fall on the Monday right after that Sunday instead of being a bright feast in the middle of Lent.
A new @MarissaLingen story is always such good news: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/islands-of-stability/