Notices by Artemisia Vulgaris (commonmugwort@social.coop)

Would you consider paying a coach to improve your public speaking skills?

If so, what would you want to work on? Overcoming nervousness ? Speaking clearly? Keeping your audience interested? Something else?

Would you want to work one-on-one or in a group? A one off or series of sessions?

What seems a reasonable charge for a session? For a course of several sessions? For tailored coaching and rehearsing of a speech?

Any answers and thoughts welcome!

Please boost!

Oh look, it’s the fucking ghost of Christmas past.
It’s okay, I’m already getting better.
I mask in indoor public places. My mom, with whom we spent the last few days, does not. She’s better too, though she had it worse.

Immigration has been so good for the Athens food scene… #ramen

#Caturday #CatsOfAthens
This one is at the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates.
I’m not deliberately photographing cats on Ancient Greek ruins, it’s that they are car-free spaces, there’s often at least some shelter, humans stand around there - you find more feral cats, and bolder ones.

You know what I’d like, mastodon? I’d like to change how public a post is retroactively. I can edit the text, I want to edit the privacy settings too. This may be wildly difficult, I don’t speak the ones and zeros, but I wish it was a thing. #mastodon

@killyourfm I sautée them in olive oil, then add garlic and a bit of water and cook to tender. 😋

@killyourfm Don’t discard the delicious leaves!

Alt text - a concrete column in an urban spot has a digital thermometer screen on it. It reads 51 degrees Celsius https://m.ai6yr.org/@MiBaWi/112569631136621479

When I left Facebook I lost a bunch of people who are never leaving Facebook. When I left WhatsApp I had to keep WhatsApp because of the many people who will never leave WhatsApp. When I left Twitter I lost almost everyone I knew on Twitter. Leaving Telegram means losing yet another set of people. I’m tired.

Thanks for waiting. Your call is a nightmare from which we cannot awaken. Please continue to hold. An advisor will answer your call as soon as hell freezes over. Just so you know, we have a website where 90% of the idiotic questions you people call to ask are already answered. We paid a lot of money to set it up so we could fire as many helpline staff as possible. Thank you for continuing to hold.

@tokyo_0 Thank you. Most of the clothes shops in this small town have closed, so cheap was out, but I found a good pair at Marks & Spencer and will be wearing them awhile

Left most of my warm weather clothes in Greece and northern England is having one of its rare humid heatwaves so off to town I go in a flowery dress (I very rarely wear dresses) to see if I can buy myself a pair of cheap shorts I don’t hate.

@tokyo_0 Oh yes. Yes, this.

@tokyo_0 I voted akhanda but I had to look it up first

Just improvised a pasta sauce out of zucchini flowers and soft feta. No picture because it isn’t pretty, but it tastes amazing. #ImBack

Just a man washing his horse on a Sunday.

Cassandra facepalming Apollo’s come-on.

@bookstodon Can anyone recommend an entry point to Wuxia for a middle-aged European steeped in Western Historical Fantasy - a great story, well-translated and easily available? No web-novels, please. Downloadable, text only, and the best translation you know.

#SilentSunday

There’s a post going round asking if your fantasy game farming is US-style or European, and not only does Central Europe not define what is European, but *there are other options, continents of them*, so if you’re building any kind of fantasy, please consider what affects land-use patterns in many different kinds of places.