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@visitnorthyork YES! 🥰

One year. No WiFi, but a stack of your favourite books 📚 Could you stay here? Yes or No?

@nateinthewild Perhaps the person you are responding to could use "photo-safari" in promoting this concept. Just my .02 on the matter.

Non-lethal hunting absolutely exists. I shoot animals all the time and don’t kill a single one.

@SamaHoole In the USA, I've seen canned coconut water for sale. Just checked, multiple retailers sell it; some products are packed in eco-friendly packaging.

Thailand produces approximately 3 billion coconuts per year. The coconuts go into coconut milk, coconut cream, coconut oil. The coconut milk goes into the curry at your local Thai restaurant. Into the vegan dairy-free ice cream. Into the coconut yoghurt that costs three times as much as the regular kind and is photographed on the packaging next to a beach. A portion of Thailand's coconut harvest is picked by monkeys. Not metaphorically. Pig-tailed macaques, caught from the wild or bred in captivity, trained through a process that animal welfare investigators describe as involving prolonged chaining, isolation, and repetition until the animal learns to climb trees and twist coconuts until they fall. The training begins in infancy. It lasts months. The conditions at training facilities have been documented by investigators who found animals chained by the neck, unable to move more than a few feet, rotating on coconuts for hours a day. A trained macaque can pick between 500 and 1,000 coconuts per day. A human picker averages 80. When Waitrose, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, and the Co-op were presented with this information in 2020, they removed the implicated brands from their shelves. The implicated brands were not niche. They included Aroy-D and Chaokoh, two of the most widely distributed coconut brands in the world. Aroy-D coconut milk sits in restaurant supply chains across the UK, Europe, and North America. The brands remain on shelves in most of the world. The macaques remain in training. The coconut milk is still plant-based.

@martianwyrdlord With due respect to Ms. Ridley, (I haven't seen this cinema), the *original* meaning of Mary Sue was a fan writing fan fiction and placing herself in the "lead role." No doubt the meaning has changed, but unless Ms. Ridley wrote, directed, and starred in this work: not M.S. 🙂

Naturally she fails to understand the meaning of Mary Sue entirely. It does not mean "girl character", it means "perfect character who can do anything with no limitations". Luke Skywalker was a half decent pilot with a degree of natural ability with the Force that takes him years to develop. He isn't particularly good at anything else. From the very beginning of The Force Awakens, Rey is an expert pilot, a master martial artist, a top spaceship mechanic, and within five seconds of finding out that the Force exists ascends to the level of Jedi Master. She's also hot, smart, brave, and all the other good things. She needs neither assistance nor instruction. Character growth is unnecessary and impossible. Her only struggle is getting people to admit her natural perfect awesomeness. And even this comes easily to her.

@WilliamShatner You just *had* to do it, didn't you? 🤣 The Lindt chocolate. 🥰 Back in the '90s, we learned to ask random Starfleet fans: "Where is the chocolate!" -- in Klingon. 😁 Good times.

Go for the second shelf down. Lindt!🙌🏻

@CheekyJesterton @SketchesbyBoze True. In ancient times, practical knowledge was transmitted via the apprentice system. Humanity "lost" the recipe for concrete (Roman) for about 1,000 years. Philosophy, mathematics, even plays & poetry: vellum, but "how-to" stuff: not so much.

@SketchesbyBoze With all due respect, people were engaging in real learning for all of human history without books. Literacy rates were not stellar until the modern era, and yet people taught and learned many things. It's not good to overstate your case like that.

I constantly hear people say, “Books are obsolete because you can just learn things from videos.” And that couldn’t be more wrong. Video is not capable of teaching you anything with the level of depth that a book can. If you don’t read, you’re not engaged in real learning.

@manfromroto @SketchesbyBoze Yes, Post-It note flagging for me. However, no writing in the margins or underlining the books themselves. (A family thing-books costly, don't deface.) Me: but a cheap notebook; copy out sentences & paragraphs meaningful to me. 🙂 BLUF: hardprint = superior to electronic anything

@SketchesbyBoze A physical book means I can make notes in the margins, underline words or phrases, quickly flip back to a section I want to reread & put post-it-flags to mark pages of interest or locate an interesting phrase or paragraph. I couldn’t live without books.

@LouDPhillips 🤣👍

Boom! Love it!

@lostndaworld1 @SketchesbyBoze The 2004 movie was directed by the very talented Antoine Fuqua. Just so you know ...

@SketchesbyBoze What’s not true? That you picked very white movies with all white casts and decided that people who didn’t know about them weren’t culturally literate ? Cuz that’s exactly what you did lol

This might surprise younger people but in the ‘90s most of us knew how to read & were culturally literate. You could mention King Arthur or Citizen Kane and everyone knew what you meant. We were capable of writing essays. We had educational TV. We have lost so much, so quickly.

@WilliamShatner Excellent catch, sir. Some yo-yo tried to get me to click on junk "fan updates" about Odo and Jadzia Dax (ST:DS9). Nope. Not today ya jerk. Both are still living according to IMDB. 🙂

It wasn’t press it was some person or persons who don’t seem to understand English that are using AI to create stories that they monetize and feed to fanbases so they get money for views while their AI induced rumors that rocket around a fandom all while they rake in money. Why do I assume they don’t know English?👇🏻

@WilliamShatner Trekkie, 100%. But I don't spazz out if somebody says, "Oh, you're a Trekker." Usually with a smirk. Yes, I am. And your point? 🙃

Trekkie or Trekker. 😉👍🏻

@WilliamShatner @Hostinger 🤨 What would Spock do? 🙂 I sincerely hope this issue is resolved well for you, sir. Seems exceptionally annoying to me. *smh*

BTW, @Hostinger I did file an abuse report yesterday about the domain putting in URLs even responded to the report (reference number: XVN-VPFCJ-025) with images and screenshots. The reply I received back was 👇🏻🙄: Hello, Thank you for contacting HOSTINGER regarding this matter. Your letter was received and your request was examined attentively. Please be informed that the provided information is not sufficient to adopt decision on the reported domain name. Accordingly, in response to your request, we hereby ask you to provide sufficient documents (e.g. Trademark/Patent Certificate, Letter of Authorization, and/or Power of Attorney) or information proving that you have legal rights and / or legitimate interests in respect of the indicated intellectual property, using which infringes your rights. If requested information or documents will be provided, we will further consider you request. Hostinger Abuse Department

@sappholives83 In the USA: for me it's gummy worms and sour patch gummy worms. ☺️ Yes, it's Star Trek related. Klingon 🤣 delicacy. Again, let the gales of laughter begin. 😁

I’m 42 years old, but I still love me some fruit by the foot. And no, it’s got nothing to do with feet lol. It’s just a specific kind of fruit roll up that’s very definitely marketed for kids, and almost certainly has no redeeming nutritional value whatsoever. Do they have it in the UK? Are fruit roll ups even a thing there? And does anyone else eat food that’s mostly meant for kids? I have a weakness for the kinds of things that end up in lunchboxes of kids whose parents can afford the extras. I’m sure there’s some deep psychological reason, probably stemming from growing up in a family where those sorts of treats were a rarity, but I do feel a bit silly sometimes.

Clarification for the confused or those lacking understanding:

@MilHistNow One of my paternal 2nd cousins fought at Okinawa, survived. Never spoke about it that I know of. One of those quiet, solemn, steady men of that generation.

Today in 1945, U.S. troops land on the Japanese island of Okinawa. The 82-day campaign that follows claims an estimated 300,000 lives, most of them civilian; America suffers 49,000 killed wounded or missing. It's remembered as the single bloodiest battle of the Pacific War.

@ksorbs So am I, sir. Read a few replies. Had to take a dose of Pepto. 🤢

I regret asking

@old_guy_666 @SGTWipper1Each WD-40 and some Superglue or Gorilla Glue. 🙂

@SGTWipper1Each Duct tape and a deluxe swiss army knife can fix almost anything.

@sappholives83 Gee, I'm the Crazy American Cousin and I'm offended. The first two endo repair surgeries nearly killed me. (Not kidding.) No way any man could comprehend endo's impact on a woman's health: physically, emotionally, and psychologically. 🤬

I get so tired of watching these men whine about transphobia any time they’re criticized.

@CSI_Mayberry @Grunt2A 😳 So glad I missed that. Saw a few episodes of "Strange New Worlds." The musical episode 👍😁

@Grunt2A I've said it before- if a Klingon was going to be *gay*, he certainly wouldn't be a *bottom*.

So far this new Star Trek Artemis series is way better than the one with the fruity Klingon.

@BasilTheGreat I have a few, but it's still Great Lent sooo I'll keep it clean. She needs a Come To Jesus moment before she's struck by a Holy Lightning Bolt From Above. Since she's in the UK, that's not a threat. Just stating God loves children. There's even a verse about millstones...

🚨AYESHA HAZARIKA MAKES JOKES ABOUT GROOMING GANG VICTIMS This is absolutely beyond the pale I honestly have no words