Dianora (Diane Bruce)
Dianora (Diane Bruce)N.B. Free Speech gives you the right to say what you want without the state stopping you but Free Speech also means we have the right to not have to listen to what you say. Shouting and bypassing my right to not listen to you is not free speech, it is harassment.
Dianora (Diane Bruce)So freaking hot to cook. Cold dinner tonight!
#Ottawa
Dianora (Diane Bruce)I've regressed to kindergarten playing with playdough this morning.
#Ottawa #Baking
Dianora (Diane Bruce)quote from article Can you say “phantom breaking?” (Source elided)
The question I have now is how can one break a phantom?
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#Orthography #English #Linguistics
Dianora (Diane Bruce)The username I use here is a remnant of my old IRCD days. It's actually a name I grabbed from a book by an author we had as a guest at one of the earliest CanCon's ! (Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay our GOH) I kept it for mastodon when I first got on because it was mighty quiet here when I started and more people knew that name. Now I try to keep my geeky side off of here (It leaks over from time to time) but my hamradio side is https://mastodon.radio/deck/@va3db
and my FreeBSD side is https://bsd.network/web/@DianeBruce
Dianora (Diane Bruce)Years ago when that other social media platform wasn't a fascist platform, I resolved to never argue on it. That is my policy here as well. Discourse on the Internet or email or even in snail mail is extraordinarily difficult. (Yes there are records of flame wars from snail mail writers in the past!)
Over a beer or coffee is one thing but in text is quite another I am unwilling to partake in.
Dianora (Diane Bruce)(First posted on the bird app Sept. 28, 2019)
That's Nanook in my profile photo now. She loves to help me to refill my fountain pens. One of these days she's going leave a paw print or knock an ink bottle off of the table.
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Nanook died very suddenly April 2023. :-( We suspect an unknown heart condition but we'll never know for sure. She was only 10.