Dianora

Dianora, 5 months ago to Ottawa

Our local CBC radio announcer often says something like "news at the bottom of the clock". Do kids even know what that means? 😀 Can they even read an analogue clock? Is that still taught? 😀

#Ottawa #Humour

Dianora, 5 months ago to Ottawa

We had apples and whipped cream left over so that’s my excuse.

#Ottawa #Baking #ApplePie

Dianora, 5 months ago to Ottawa

How does it go? “Red sky at night, sailors delight, red sky at morning, sailors warning.” Still pretty!

#Ottawa

Red sky more towards the east from my front porch.

Dianora, 5 months ago to Ottawa

One of my sisters out of town uses amazon to send gifts..

There were two gift card things inside the package, one of my sister and one from a complete stranger. I hope Amelia got her LED bedroom lights. I laughed.

#Ottawa.

Dianora, 5 months ago to Ottawa

Boy! Quirks and Quarks host loves saying BOY!

#Ottawa #CBC

Dianora, 5 months ago to linguistics

"Framing" is a useful propaganda technique.

What emotional difference registers with you more? "damage control" or "clarify" ?

Always look for what actually happened instead of that emotional pull. Always.

#Propaganda #Linguistics #CriticalThinking

Dianora, 5 months ago to Ottawa

Omelette is easier than 3d printer problems. Arghhh

#Ottawa

Dianora, 5 months ago to classicalmusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdpD2tec5Q4

Very pretty!

#ClassicalMusic

Dianora, 5 months ago to Ottawa

I don't know about you, but I am looking forward to those extra 5 seconds of daylight tomorrow.

#Ottawa

Dianora, 5 months ago to Ottawa

PSA grocery store at Woodroffe an Baseline was a zoo before lunch. ugh

#Ottawa

Dianora, 5 months ago to history

This is a great read. The Evolution of Charles Darwin
It covers his voyage on the Beagle on the writing of his Origin of Species book. Nice quick read.

#History #Biology #Science

Dianora, 5 months ago to philosophy

Not a bad outline of the misunderstanding of Nietzsche .
He was clearly not an antisemite although his sister was. Nietzsche is one of those writers one has to read carefully.

https://culturacolectiva.com/en/history/misconceptions-and-myths-about-nietzsche-god-is-dead/

#Philosophy

Dianora, 6 months ago to Ottawa

8.5C wow

#Ottawa

Dianora, 6 months ago to philosophy

So I'm going to run a quiz. Who said:

"Men are to be fashioned to the needs of the time, that they may soon take their place in the machine. They must work in the factory of the "common good" before they are ripe, or rather to prevent them becoming ripe; for this would be a luxury that would draw away a deal of power from the "labour market."

No cheating and don't give away publicly! (Yes I'll take DMs)

#Philosophy #CriticalThinking

Dianora, 6 months ago to random

I can get really irritated when a store clerk comes up to me and "Can I help you?" ARghhh is this an autist thing or?

#ActuallyAutistic

Dianora, 6 months ago to Ottawa

Sadly I still see art/photos/graphics I'd love to boost but it does not have alt-text. You don't need much. "A photo of a red bird" is fine, although sometimes the alt-text does give a lot of nice context!

#Ottawa #Introduction

Dianora, 6 months ago to random

Nothing like a glass of orange juice to get my mitochondria going! At least I don't play the bongos!

Dianora, 6 months ago to science

Coolest article I've seen today.

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30263-9

#Biology

Dianora, 6 months ago to random

3D printing adjusting the printer sigh What fun.

Dianora, 6 months ago to random

Nice glossy seed catalogue and.. spelling mistake I mean it really doesn’t matter but with all that money spent on gloss.. :-)(company name elided to protect the innocent or something)

Dianora, 6 months ago to Ottawa

So proud of our Councillor Sean Devine!

"I voted “no” against two departmental budgets:

• Ottawa Police Services budget
• Transit Commission budget "

#Ottawa

Dianora, 6 months ago to Ottawa

So I managed to make a curry hotter than the commercial curry we had last week.. It was ... glorious!

#Ottawa #Cooking

Dianora, 6 months ago to random

Oh my Bell halts use of X Twitter

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-brands-advertising-x-extremism-1.7055823

Dianora, 6 months ago to Ottawa

The insane have taken over the asylum when people mock mask wearing and refuse to get vaccinated.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-covid-flu-rsv-vaccine-numbers-risk-1.7055565

#Ottawa #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne

Dianora, 6 months ago to Ottawa

I received my seed catalogue today. Randomly opened it to see "Licorice plant" wot we can grow that up here?

#Ottawa