Spinney is a nice word for a smallish gathering of trees, alongside copse, coppice, etc. I’m not aware of a term for one specifically in an open field, though.

I can’t go on. I’ll go on.

(Samuel Beckett)

I don’t think I’ve come across that before, but I’d say it depends on what is meant:

• I don’t know what that thing is.
• There is a thing, but I don’t know what it is.
• There is a thing such that I don’t know what it is. I.e., I do not know what all things are.

There may well be some other ones, but I don’t know what they might be.

I use emacs’s org-mode for most recipes and notes, some written out, some links to web pages.

As well as that, I have a piece of paper stuck inside a cupboard door with ingredient ratios for things such as pastry, béchamel, vinaigrette, etc.

I very much enjoy the extraordinary nexus of art, science, technology, and technique afforded by cooking. And how this all occasionally comes together into something delicious and beautiful.

But what I really enjoy most of all is feeding my family and friends, and seeing the happiness it brings, if that doesn’t seem too twee.

I also can not abide washing up, so I enjoy the division of labour where I cook and someone else does the dishes.

I have a Xerox colour laser printer that I’m very happy with: accepts off-brand toner, speaks postscript, good quality printing, no problems at all. I’ve also been very happy with Brother laser printers in the past.

Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature by C C Bombaugh, one of my favourite reads, feels like it might be an obscure book.

Swot is a venerable and frequently used word, derived from the word sweat. Neek is what’s current with my children’s generation (South London): it’s a portmanteau of nerd and geek, apparently. Spod may well be regionally and temporally specific, as it’s what I used to be called in SW England in the 1980s.

These kinds of insults definitely exist here in the UK too, e.g., swot, spod, as well as geek, neek, nerd, etc. I don’t think these are imported from the US, as they’ve been around for a long time. Perhaps a manifestation of anglo-saxon anti-intellectualism?

It reminds me of Vermeer’s Milkmaid. Not Renaissance either, but a beautiful photograph never the less. Accidental Baroque?

My example did not make it to lemm.ee either, so it would not have been exclusively a feddit.uk issue.

I would be really handy for finding out what’s going wrong if there were some way to track the history of a posting as it propagates across instances, but I’d imagine that would be quite tricky to do. On the other hand, perhaps these cases simply correlate with downtime either at the origin or at the receiving instance?

I’m not the OP, but I have an example from two days ago posting to a community hosted on feddit.uk:

• https://lemmy.world/post/2131922
• https://feddit.uk/post/747976

My comment is https://lemmy.world/comment/1718032, which is present for lemmy.world, but not for feddit.uk

I haven’t posted any comments since, so I don’t know if it’s a one-off thing.

Beehaw’s defederation of lemmy.world doesn’t seem to be involved in this one.

Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal updated to the 21st century.

Thank you for this brilliant transcription. It’s as good as the image itself.

But wouldn’t ‘leery’ make sense there? It means something close to ‘suspicious’ after all.

Ian’s Shoelace Site has 25 different ways to tie your laces. I’ve been using the eponymous Ian knot for years.