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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 15h

I just had perplexity show up as a search option in Firefox *even though I deliberately didn't update*!!

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 22h

This is Zebby. He finally managed to catch his tail. Super proud of the accomplishment and would like to pretend no one saw the part right after. 12/10 (IG: zebbythegolden)

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 21h

Happy birthday! I covet your big poofy rainbow skirt!

51 is a fantastic age because it seems intuitively like it should be a prime number but is in fact 3x17, and no one ever thinks of multiples of 17!

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 23h

There's a saying that all babies look like Winston Churchill.

Did they have a different saying with a different person before Winston Churchill was around?

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if you could play a practical joke on them by changing some of the handwritten letter Fs to handwritten letter Es

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 1d

The first year or two of COVID when schools were closed at grad time, they started doing yard signs in my area that had school name and grad year (e.g. "Congratulations Artonas Class of 2021!"). Mixed feelings about that.

But adding the picture and the students name is a whole other level of nope!

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 1d

(And, to be clear, I'm okay with these emotions carefully deployed by a skilled creator under controlled conditions. But too often in romance, the author is so all-in on the characters belonging together that they fail to build the case for the reader and elicit unpleasant emotions unintentionally.)

Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 1d

Fanfiction is better for romance than original romance novels, because you as the reader are already convinced these two characters belong together so you can just enjoy the ride, whereas if they're new characters you may have unpleasant emotions like "Is he even safe??" and "Ugh, that's so unsexy"

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 1d

My great-grandfather's (common, English) middle name is spelled one way on his birth registry and another way on his military enlistment papers.

No living people know which is correct, and finding further info would take a go-to-another-city level of research.

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 1d

What do you call a garment that's like a hoodie but doesn't have a hood?

(That sounds like it's a riddle, but really I just need a search term for online shopping)

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 2d

In men's clothing, is $30 actually any sort of a noteworthy price for a shirt?

In women's clothing, it's completely unremarkable. Like, I'm sure you could find something cheaper, but $30 is such an astonishingly unsurprising number

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 2d

I just keep thinking how useful it would have been if, instead of Telefrancais, they'd shown us whatever shows were actually popular among Quebec kids our age

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 2d

If you feel like everyone in Canada actually speaks English and everything is originally written in English, that's because I and my many peers are good at our jobs. You're welcome.

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 2d

Some bilingual things you see around are written in French and translated into English. That's my job! And I keep encountering people are genuinely surprised that this is a thing that's happening at all!

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of them tend to see French as a checkbox - there needs to be a French version for legislative requirements - without truly believing that there are actual, real people who need to be able to understand and use the French version

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 2d

Pondering whether this is why so many non-bilingual anglophones in bilingual spaces tend to have this subconscious idea that French isn't real, by which I mean they don't consciously recognize that there are people thinking and writing and living in French

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 3d

one big hint that the Anglo Canadian French education system doesn't give a shit about actual functional understanding is that it teaches Metropolitan French rather than Québecois French

you know, the primary version of French that's *actually spoken* in Canada

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 4d

The Fahrenheit Thermometer in Gdańsk, in honour of the scale’s inventor, features two important design choices:

- What did Daniel Fahrenheit look like? We don’t know but we’re guessing “ripped”

- look we have to put Celsius on the scale as well or people won’t understand it otherwise

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 3d

In the great tradition of ideas randomly popping up days later, a simple adjustment would be:

A: I can catch a sparrow
B: I can shoot an arrow

(No violence - befriending wild animals and participating in sport archery!)

You could also catch a partridge, but I can't think of a verb for cartridge

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 3d

An efficient approach to this survey that's circulating:

Write up the points you want to make, then copy-paste them into the questions where they fit.

The survey lets you leave questions blank and move back and forth between pages, so you don't have to carefully answer each question in order

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 7d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 3d

More time fixing up the errors the robots introduced into your employer's spreadsheets

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 3d

When I went to bed last night, the weather forecast for today was all rain all day. When I woke up this morning, it was sunny and forecast to be sunny all day

Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 3d

I wish I'd thought to mention the example of subprime mortgages when I was composing my survey response about the importance of avoiding a bubble!

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 4d

Pilates!

(I'm sure someone cleverer than me could make a cat-related pilates pun)

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 4d

Also, logistically, you don't have to answer every question, and you can move back and forth between the pages.

If you have only one thing to say, you can find the question that it fits best in, say it there, and submit the survey.

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Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 4d

I'm seeing a number of people filling out this survey with just like "Fuck AI" in every field, but a more effective approach would be say what would have to be true for AI to be positive. (Even if no one's doing that)

For example, imagine if 90% of respondents said they needed hallucination-free AI

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 7d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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