Both bloggers and commenters seem to be less active at the moment, which, if my perception isn’t slanted, started with the commenters slowing down. Salrite, things can be like that. At the same time, FtB has become a bit unstable. It’s actin’ funky.
Given the recent legal shenanigans, I wonder that one of the haters has decided to employ extralegal shenanigans against us. Something something DNS something DDoS something whatever. It isn’t full-on like those weird takedowns that hit us from South Asia.
Speaking of South Asia, I heard thousands of people are dying from the heat there, but this was only from one random social media post. In fairness to mainstream news, such as it be, I don’t follow it, so I wouldn’t know if they’re giving that short shrift or not. Good luck to all of you. AGW is a beast.
I saw another social media post collecting tweets from immigrants in France suffering the heatwave there, reporting their embarrassment that it hit them so bad, when they lived through higher temps in their home countries all the time. Somebody commented that even at noon, the closer you get to a pole the more you get broadsided by the sun’s rays – it’s hitting more of your body than just the head and shoulders. I dunno.
Anyway, y’all know I despise the sun like the veriest of vampires, so big sympathies.
I spent over 40 years doing archaeology, outdoors, sometimes with very little clothing on.
I reckon I’m about a dozen photons away from skin cancer. Now, I never go outside without long sleeves, long trousers and a hat.
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Funny. I originally typed “pants” instead of “trousers”.
I’ve spent so much internets time on British sites, I’m now imprinted that “pants” means “underpants”.
oh hey, you can continue the interview thing anytime u please, or drop it, no pressure.
pants! trousers provide the service of trousing. if you’re wearing them you’ve been troused.
As far as your readership/comment count: still lurking here.
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aww, thx. i don’t doubt people are still around, but i wonder if something recently started pulling attention away from ftb. pharyngula comments seemed pretty quiet within the last week or so.