Thank you for a healthy and uplifting discussion, as well as your informative posts. I keep subbing to superbowl groups for eye bleach and the stories that warm my heart.

You’re the one that gets all the people upset when there’s some rare salamander or endangered frog that holds up the bridge rebuild?

Yep. I am a pest for those kinds of people. Although I admit that even when we created areas for ”salamander hotels”, frog tunnels under walkways and moved ponds and small waterways… it tended to help establish snake populations that can prey on salamanders and frogs more extensively. OTOH those snakes are also a protected species. So…

Our biggest problem though tends to be NIMBY’s.

In my line of work, it is helpful to know what birds (and bats or other endangered species) nest or burrow in the vicinity of where we have plans for development. That helps indicate whether we need surveys or more detailed reports on the impact on wildlife and vulnerable ecosystems to minimize, mitigate or compensate loss.

Predator birds usually have specific areas/territories where they search for prey. The general area where the nest is located can usually be estimated within a radius from where the owlet was found. This can indicate whether owls of that species are nesting in that area.

I keep on hoping to wake up in an alternate timeline.

Did you flip it?

Really tired today, wondered what IKEA had done this time around when I read the headline.

It’s still a big deal, the eggs shouldn’t have been contaminated and released for consumption in the first place.

Surely you can look the other way.

Sooo… this is as close to a product recommendation as you can get on The Guardian without reverting to ads.

The Xtrema ceramic pans seem really enticing.

Or they could have left it underwater and in a few hundred years have a ship museum about it.

I just had that comment the other day from a recruiter who “dug into” my socials with the help of “expert tools”. She said “Aww… you seem really nice to everyone!” (eller “Faaaan… du framstår som så trevlig mot allt och alla!”) after browsing all my non-anonymous social posts and seeing which Facebook groups I’ve participated in. I had just about deleted my Meta accounts before I realized I needed to have some kind of semblance of “social posting”, as my LinkedIn and such were pretty meager. The recruiting company unfortunately seems to prove that I need to have a social media trail in order to be employable in my field of expertise. Which has literally nothing to do with social media.

Don’t worry, I also DM’d him a picture where the spoons were aligned more harmoniously.

To bug a friend who has mild OCD.

Was thinking of cropping it before I posted, but felt that the window frame added character and allowed for optional cropping if anyone wanted to use this image.

Doublespeak: anti-discrimination laws force organizations to discriminate against trans people…

I hope there is a reciprocal measure at British airports. Currently, it kind of sucks traveling to the UK by air.

Technically they probably could for a long time. But that might mean that some of the family members might demote themselves to multimillionaires instead of multibillionaires .

Tv, short form media, game shows or even ridiculous things like kids shows. Is there e.g. a similar show to Taskmaster (or some similar show in your more familiar language) in that language. You will not understand all the entendres but will see a different kind of language structure that isn’t as linear as news, series or movies might have.

Simplistic, but can’t decide whether I’d want to slap you, high five you or skuff you over the top of your head.