William T. Perkins

@wtperkins.bsky.social

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Former local journalist • Current local librarian • Philly-based Michigander

On Threads (where I do not go anymore), power_star_wars_memes tells another user (fairly unprompted) “I do not have any advice for you.” And honestly, I find that refreshing.
Reddit post in r/cheese asking "Why did my cheese get these lines when it melted?" Pictured it a portion of a plate with an American cheese slice over hash browns, with faint vertical lines running across the slice.
From a viral post of kindergarteners’ Thanksgiving “recipes.” Ragen's Chocolate Pie 1 gallon of regular chocolate ½ gallon of flour ½ gallon of white icing Cake on the bottom Put the chocolate and the flour in a bowl and stir with a spoon. Pour it out of the bowl on the cake part. Flatten it all out with a spoon on the side you don't eat with. Now you have to put it in the oven. It only needs to be half hot. Set the timer for 2 or 3 minutes. Take it out and you have chocolate pie! Dip the icing on the pie with a spoon for decoration. Put it on a plate and now you can eat chocolate pie!
In every community known to linguists, the patterns that constitute linguistic style are relatively different for men and women. What's "natural" for most men speaking a given language is, in some cases, different from what's "natural" for most women. That is because we learn ways of speaking as children growing up, especially from peers, and children tend to play with other children of the same sex. The research of sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists observing American children at play has shown that, although both girls and boys find ways of creating rapport and negotiating status, girls tend to learn conversational rituals that focus on the rapport dimension of relationships whereas boys tend to learn rituals that focus on the status dimension.
Me, with an I Voted sticker, giving a thumbs up
The headline of a "National news" press release from the USPS, dated June 21, 2024, states: "Mercury Remains Prohibited in The Mail."
Top, a headless Barbie/Ken-proportioned merman doll lies on its back, arms outstretched, on a sort of raised landing space of a dollhouse. Along the left edge of the shot, patches of very utilitarian yellow-brown community center tile and a few scattered scraps. In the bottom foreground, a gymnastics pad prominently bisects the screen to create a field of purple, with red kiddy-font lettering near the edge (seen here upside down), reading “antsy pants.”