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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

I saw them on the third - such a good show! :)

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

They're very good at that sort of thing, aren't they.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 2d

Note to self: look for articles on disability in the Borderlands games, because there is something interesting happening there.

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely put my tablet down, stared at a wall, and went "OHHHHHH"

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 2d

Spent a few hours driving along a highway today -- favourite music, blue skies, golden birch, red maple and sumac, punctuated with cedars and the occasional hawk or vulture soaring overhead.

I could do with more days like that.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 2d

WHAT

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 2d

Yesssss. I can't wait to give my niblings a copy.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 2d

I had a DICK TRACY-themed plastic lunchbox when I was in grade 1. Hadn't seen the movie, didn't know anything about it, but it looked cooler than the Smurfs one.

I'm saying this to confirm that it really did permeate pop culture to that point.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

watching the warren beatty DICK TRACEY movie and it is insane? legitimately wild to me that it was a hit?

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations! The moment it dawned on me what you were doing with this story is one of my favourite reading moments of the last few years. I am so glad it's getting its laurels.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 3d

I was thinking so!

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 3d

Am now very curious whether this is etymologically related to "to remonstrate." That certainly seems to be the purpose of it here.

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 3d

The priest on the right is holding a monstrance. It’s used to display a piece of communion bread — which Catholics believe becomes the literal body of Christ when it’s consecrated — for worship.

A monstrance is normally only used in *very* solemn ceremonies.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 4d

The nice Italian by the theatre had a deal on, so I am splurging on burrata, carbonara, and tiramisu with a peach/ginger/lime mocktail before heading to my evening show. Mmm.

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 4d

Anyone in Toronto who enjoys horror, I cannot recommend The Veil at Crow's Theatre enough. It's an incredibly unsettling one-man show. Admittedly I am not a connoisseur of horror (I am easily-frightened) so I can't say if it's innovative on that front, but the whole thing was masterful.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 4d

Art

A chrome door inside an elevator, upon which some optimistic soul has taped a handwritten sign reading "please stop hot-boxing in the elevator." Below this text, others have inscribed "nah," "fuck," and a scribbled cartoon of a hand with its middle finger raised.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 4d

They are such stunning birds. Where I live they're a sign of spring, and I get excited every time.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 5d

Umpteenth vote for turkey vulture, especially as there were a bunch of them. The paler feathers on the rear edge of the underside of the wing are a good field mark.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 5d

... Reece might murder Ania.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 5d

(What I would have done, had I been in the room, is started at 'over a million?' And then just halved the number of potentials over and over. Boring but effective.)

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 5d

It says a lot about me that last week, I joyously exclaimed "oooh! A SUM!" and paused the episode so I could grab a pen and paper.

Worked it out in under two minutes, but would never have found the equation if I'd been in the room.

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 5d

Attempting to deal with the 'digital dark age' 📜 - interesting project linked to the Hawking collection at Cambridge #histSTM

joshuatj @joshuatj.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Woohoo! Great #digipres story @makethecatwise
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

www.bbc.com

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 5d

#arthistory people - this lovely sculpture is utterly raw on the back. Is that because it was originally mounted on a wall? Was it maybe part of something bigger?

A front view of a carved wooden statue of a female saint, prettily painted and gilded. She has a badass semicircular headdress in the same colours as her very fancy dress and is reading a book.

The back view of the same statue. This side has no paint or decoration and is a flattish surface with big rough chisel marks on the top half.

A museum card identifying the statue as Saint Barbara, by one or more unidentified Flemish artists, and dating it to approximately 1530 to 1540

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 5d

Quoting this so I can check out the game when I get home: Little Rocket Lab.

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 5d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 5d

Aaaaaugh cheap motel had a plug-in air freshener whyyyyyy

(Otherwise perfectly fine, but my eyes are streaming even after putting the damn thing outside)

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 5d

Super cute set at Telltale Harbour at the Royal Alex. Like my mum's Christmas village. (Enjoying the play, too! It's basically if they'd set La Grande Séduction in Newfoundland. Which the English version did for some reason iirc. Anyway, some excellent physical comedy happening.)