@rachel But cute!

@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.

@NoraReed Happy birthday!

A new @MarissaLingen story is always such good news: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/islands-of-stability/

#SciFi #reading

Whisker guys https://www.buttersafe.com/2024/03/28/whisker-guys/

(description:
- a person thinks "Oh yeah! It's one of those whisker guys!"
- the person thinks, with a slight smile, "I hope this one makes that cool sound when I touch him."
- the person thinks, with a bigger smile, "Yessss!". The top of the head and the tail of an orange cat can be seen at the bottom of the picture. The cat goes PURRRR.)

That was the magic spell! And I got my 2 pages, not the imaginary 2 as well.

Why, o printer, do you say you're going to print 4 pages when I've sent you only 2? (And you might actually print them, you know)

#PrinterExistentialCrisis

Oh, and the temporary binder I'd used to store the parts of the Vigil and the Liturgy we weren't using because of complicated services that have things replaced by other things! That makes 9.

@Scorbet Wow, SIXTEEN of them!

I think this is a record: used 8 binders to make up two choirbooks.

* Vigil binder
* Liturgy binder
* Tones 1-4 (and if we'd had 1 or 5 this week, instead of 2, I'd have needed 5-8 as well)
* March-and-April to put some of Monday's stuff away
* Weekdays-in-Lent to put the rest of Monday's stuff away
* Sundays-in-Lent for the Sunday stuff
* "Swap" for troparia of the Resurrection and prokeimenon of St Gregory
* "Season" to put one thing away that had been filed in an illogical place

A duck and ducklings who almost walked into me

Vaatwaszout: "Bevat onder andere natriumchloride." WAT BEVAT HET NOG MEER DAN

This is going straight into my next book.

(From Charles Leslie’s 1700 work “A Defence of a Book Intituled, A Snake in the Grass””)

@rail_ I don't usually boost things that come from X but this is worth it.

Fucking savage

Uit de Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst https://e-ans.ivdnt.org/topics/pid/ans180504040303lingtopic "hoeven".

Zij vinden de zin "Hoef ik naar hem te luisteren?" uitgesloten maar ik hoorde onlangs iemand vragen "Hoeven we daarheen?" Wel met de verwachting dat het níet hoeft, denk ik.

#taal #nederlands

wtf? "a shade of red that's even redder than infrared" https://www.nu.nl/tech-wetenschap/6306880/nieuw-ruimtebeeld-van-zwart-gat-in-onze-melkweg-toont-verrassende-eigenschap.html (article in Dutch about black hole in the centre of our galaxy)