I remember damage. And escape. Fan of #crows, #StarTrek and the #Japanese language, among many other things. Currently posting one frog species per day. If I keep this up, I should be done in about 20 years. My toots are searchable.
On the Serious Trouble podcast, host Ken White aka @Popehat, a federal lawyer, explains the "cockroach in the spaghetti" defense. It goes like this:
"Members of the jury, if you were in a restaurant and you found a cockroach in your spaghetti, would you eat around it or send back the dish?"
In Trump's Stormy Daniels case, Michael Cohen is the cockroach that the prosecution is asking you to eat around, so according to this argument, the jury should send back the spaghetti = dismiss the case.
In my mind, I'm the CEO of a company that handles the print distribution of those glitzy yearly reports that charitable organizations like to put out. The company would be called No Good Deed Goes Unpublished.
#DraculaDaily Imagine you get an email from a female friend who tells you she's been proposed to by 3 different men in one day.
Man #1 runs a lunatic asylum and plays with a lancet while proposing.
Man #2 is American and uses what she calls "slang." Here are his exact words: "Won't you just hitch up alongside of me and let us go down the long road together, driving in double harness?"
The friend explains that she went for Man #3, without really explaining why.
@AlSweigart Technical writer here. You should really look into DITA and the principles of content reuse (rather than content cross-reference). Check out the book The DITA Style Guide, which you can find for free online.
Where Hoteliers Feel Most Threatened by Climate Change
In the 2024 edition of the European Accommodation Barometer, the study has revealed that 41% of European hoteliers believe that climate change will have a high or very high impact on their business in the next 3 years
@Snoro This is a bit misleading. Impact does not equal threat. For example, the Netherlands has been experiencing unusually hot summers consistently for some time now, which I'm sure has had a positive impact on the hotel business. So it's quite possible that Dutch hoteliers don't consider climate change a threat, but a benefit.
This is of course separate from the question whether climate change is a threat generally (it is) and whether hoteliers see it as such (they probably do).
We were walking down the street yesterday when some elderly lady in front of us was shouting loudly at nobody in particular as she was walking down the street.
A man came cycling toward us. First he passed her and then, as he passed us, he shouted at us, "Corona vaccine! Corona vaccine!" while making a gesture like he was injecting himself with something.
I'm still not sure if he was serious or just kidding, and if he was serious, I can't decide who was the crazier of the two.
#frogs#FrogsOfMastodon Ozzy's tree frog (Dendropsophus ozzyi) photographed by Pedro L.V. Peloso. No word on whether he's named after Ozzy Osbourne. Personally I don't see the resemblance.
