Notices by Wendy Palmer (wendypalmer@mastodon.au)

This whole thing about a company needing more “masculine energy” reminds me of those old research stats about how men assume women are talking too much, ie more than 50%, during a conversation when the actual percentage is ridiculously low.

Or judging that there’s too many women in a movie’s crowd scene once it’s about 25-30% women.

@liztai I love the look he’s giving the camera in the bigger photo. It looks like he’s saying “Girl, I know” too 😂

There are five days left in October.
All books in the backlog have been read.
There is no sign of incoming Libby and BorrowBox holds.
All Hoopla borrows are used.
This months’s book budget is depleted.
Desperate times. I might be driven to…clean the house

My library: that book you requested is here!

Crisis averted. That was close.

@bookstodon

@ignova this is beautiful 😊 your alt text mentions the leaf size and it’s something I never wondered about before: does the leaf size reduce naturally over time with training?

#3goodthings

1) after unrecognised anaemia sapped my fitness for 18 months, I finally made it the top of our biggest hill without being out of breath (which, actually, makes me fitter than I was before 🎉)

2) the school rang…and said something NICE about our kid for once. (He’s not generally badly behaved, but the only time we ever normally hear from the school is when he’s messed up)

3) making excellent progress on this month’s goals, so I can have a go-slow day in this suddenly beautiful spring weather, and enjoy an especially long walk with the dogs and an excellent audiobook

@FlashMobOfOne I’m a fan of Grady Hendrix if you haven’t come across him

My partner decided “loaf” was a weird word so I looked up its etymology and now we know “lord” comes from “loaf-ward” ie guardian of the bread.

#etymology #TIL

@maisiesummers @acm_redfox @countcol cook cleans up is exactly my policy now — if I’m having a night off from cooking, I want it to be a complete night off, not having to clean up the truly phenomenal mess my partner manages to leave in his wake 😊

@ryanhoulihan

@sfwrtr @strangeseawolf @Nichelle

“it might mean that your gut reaction about where the plot needs to go will have to be carefully examined. Writers have reflexes, too!”

I’d most like to write a book as usual, then click a button and have every pronoun switch, and see how that affects the story.

@sfwrtr @strangeseawolf @Nichelle

true, that’s why it’d be such an interesting experiment. I feel like I write relatively gender-neutral characters but we’re all so seeped in our respective cultures’ gender markers that it’d be sure to trip me over my own subconscious biases and that would be valuable.

“Booty call” and “butt dial” has been offered up as an example of where the literal meaning of two phrases is the same but the implied meaning is very different (denotative vs connotative meanings).

Today a coffee mug gave me another example: “dad bod” and “father figure”

#linguistics #wordplay