Robin Marwick

@electricland

Freelance medical editor, alto, digital packrat, occasional traveller, trying to make things better. If you tell me a tomato is a fruit not a vegetable, you’ll get a lecture. 🇨🇦 She/her.

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Robin Marwick@electricland· 17d

Someone liked a reply I made to this thread so now you all have to read this

Photo of a sentence from Fifty Shade of Grey, p 133:
My heart leaps and desire pools way down low ... way down there.

Tumblr post:
Way down low. Down There. You know. Down There. In the Low Place. The Bottom Area. You know, my Underneath Parts. Way down in my Deep Organ. My Sensual Basement. My Arousal Trench, if you will.
You know. The Pink Underworld. The Love Fissure. The Salacious Tunnel, if you get what i mean.
The Pleasure Catacomb, if you catch my drift. My Southerly Sinkhole. My Low-Lying Wetlands. You know. The Throbbing Coastal Floodplain. My Erotic Basin. The petals of my Abyssal Flower, you might say. The Deep-Ocean Habitat where the Slimy Hagfish of Pleasure Feast on the Dead Whale Corpses of Desire. My Abandoned Uranium Mine of Carnal Knowledge. You know. There. That. That body part, yup, that one.

Robin Marwick@electricland· 28d

(As always Sarah Andersen has a comic about it)

4-panel comic.
Happy-looking brain to cartoonist: “We need to take breaks!”
Cartoonist: “What if I don’t listen to you?”
Brain, looking slightly less happy, takes a beat.
Brain, standing by a huge master switch: “I’ll make you.”

Robin Marwick@electricland· 29d

I am assuming something happened between these two timestamps?

Two Bluesky posts

Dan Hon @danhon.com • 8m
Come on England wtf

Punished 'Woke' Bane @baneforyo... • 35m
This is what England play like when they're not threatened with the prospect of having to meet Sir Keir Starmer

Robin Marwick@electricland· Jul 14

Happy #TerrierTuesday from Bunty, who found something truly foul to dab behind her ears (maybe a fish head; maybe something worse). Dish detergent alternating with vinegar eventually took care of it. Here she is looking painfully cute with Willa.

Two dogs in the back of a station wagon. Willa, a black dachshund mix, is lying facing right with her head up and tongue out. Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, is curled up behind her facing the other way and resting her chin on Willa’s rump. You can see part of me (white woman, blondish hair, blue & white sundress) taking the photo.

Robin Marwick@electricland· Jun 20

Hello from the cottage, where so far we have spotted 3 merganser families, a mallard family, and a LOT of Canada geese with babies of various sizes.

View of Cook’s Bay on Lake Simcoe through some scrubby bushes. If you zoom, you can see a big family of Canada geese.

Mama merganser with 4 babies, 1 on her back, leaving a decent wake through the reeds.

Different mama merganser with at least 10 babies in an orderly row behind her.

Robin Marwick@electricland· Jun 20

Toronto’s raccoons support my thesis:

Text from my uncle this morning: “Trash bandits got lucky! I accidentally left a 4 litre bag of milk up at the back gate; when I went back to find it this morning, all 3 tubes had been punctured and drained.” (Eyeroll emoji, facepalm emoji, raised eyebrow emoji)

Robin Marwick@electricland· Jun 5

I bet they would if they could though

Facebook comment thread.

Patty Blanchard
NO other creature on earth ingests another creatures Milk regularly after weening Except Humans. WE are idiots!

Me
why does this only ever apply to dairy and not processing and cooking our food, wearing clothes, breeding better-tasting and more nutritious crops, using soap, or any of the million other "unnatural" things we do every day? My lactase persistence gene says dairy is awesome.

Robin Marwick@electricland· Jun 4

Time to buy a collapsible bottle? 🤔

Robin Marwick@electricland· Jun 2

Also, Bunty turned 3 on Friday, and on Saturday we went to the #AireFest meetup in aid of Airedale rescue. There were something like 25 Airedales in attendance (plus a few ringers of the WFT, spaniel, and corgi persuasions). We had the BEST time. #TerrierTuesday

Three Airedales and one spaniel puppy milling about in a fenced area

Four Airedales checking each other out in a function room full of card tables and chairs

Airedales milling about in front of a buffet table

Robin Marwick@electricland· Jun 2

On this #TerrierTuesday I don’t have much to offer in the way of #GreatScapes because I haven’t taken Bunty very many places. (Sorry, puppy!) But here are dome close-to-home favourites.

Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, pottering along a snow-covered beach on the shore of Lake Ontario. The sky in the background is grey and gold.

Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, and Ashi, her rough collie BFF, shoulder-deep in a blue, blue lake.

Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, standing on a dock in misty morning light. You can see green shoreline and another dock with a red umbrella and Canadian flag behind her.

Puppy Bunty facing away from the camera on a wooden dock, backlit by morning sun and dramatic clouds. Her nose is lifted to the wind and her ears are blowing out behind her.

Robin Marwick@electricland· May 25

Toronto problems: people ask what kind of dog you have and hear “Erindale Terrier”

Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, play-bowing with her tail moving so fast it’s a blur

Robin Marwick@electricland· May 23

…I think I went to Yahoo or a similar site to find a Pogues site, from which I figured I could probably get more info. Amazingly, they had an official website! Thanks to the Wayback Machine, you can see why my heart sank when I found it.

Internet Archive capture of www.dzm.com/pogues on February 20, 2001. Below the banner is a black box reading “Kirsty MacColl: 1959-2000
• I am saddened to report that Kirsty MacColl, long-time friend and collaborator of the Pogues, died after a boating accident on December 19, 2000. Fans of the Pogues will remember her distinctive contribution to Fairytale of New York, plus the lending of her voice to other tracks on the If 1 Should Fall From Grace With God and Peace and Love releases.
It is with heartfelt sympathy that I extend my condolences to the family and friends of Kirsty.
Kirsty MacColl on the net”

Robin Marwick@electricland· May 13

Ding ding ding

Dr Jennie Young is a professor of rhetoric who popularized the Burned Haystack Method, which consists of analyzing how men communicate on dating apps. Young feels this is connected to how people view gender roles; many women seek partnership with men still unwilling to trade in the traditional "provider" identity to meet them there.
"It's interesting because the same gender group that's constantly complaining about how women are gold diggers who exploit them for labor and money ... It turns out even they [men] can't think of what they bring to the table other than money," she observed.

Robin Marwick@electricland· May 11

Hey guess how many needles, most of them completely embedded and thus invisible, I pulled out of my mum’s old pincushion? Go on, guess. (Or count if you want.)

A grey oblong pincushion with a woven surface design

Robin Marwick@electricland· May 9

I have also almost finished mending this sweater, which has been in the pile so long it only barely fits me anymore. I thought I was done but I missed some holes in the cuffs. Little moth bastards. 🧶 #craftsky

Me wearing a rather tight flame-orange cashmere cable-knit sweater spotted with mends in blue and green using various techniques

Close-up on a patch using Scotch darning and a small hole mended with a blanket stitch spiral

Close-up of Swiss darning on the ribbed hem

Close-up on a standard woven darn using blue and green yarn to make a big check pattern, plus another Scotch darn nearby

Robin Marwick@electricland· May 9

I made a thing! I confess that I got rather fed up with butterflies, but it was really fun to make and the instructions and materials, as always, were stellar.

A cream-coloured felt teddy bear covered with embroidered butterflies and appliquéd flowers

The backside of the bear, featuring a little tail

The packaging: Bloombear by Kiriki Press

Robin Marwick@electricland· May 5

Look it was as close as I could get

Bend It Like Beckham poster in which Parminder Nagra and Kiera Knightley are yelling in triumph and hugging each other

Robin Marwick@electricland· May 5

This summer, Bunty and Eve star in BEND IT LIKE BARKHAM #TerrierTuesday

Two young Airedale terriers lean on each other, all teeth bared, with an added soccer ball

Robin Marwick@electricland· Apr 28

Also: belly. #TerrierTuesday

Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, lying on her side with her legs splayed to display her wonderfully fluffy belly. She is freshly groomed and adorable.

Robin Marwick@electricland· Apr 28

Happy #TerrierTuesday from Bunty, who is unfairly targeted by gravity

Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, snoozing on a purple sofa. Her chin is propped on the arm, her eyes are invisible, and there’s a pile of velvet cushions behind her. This dog is living her best life.

Same as the previous picture, except that her two left legs are now dangling off the side of the sofa. Her eyes are partway open and she looks disgruntled.

Robin Marwick@electricland· Apr 17

Nice kicker btw

While the Ontario government's smaller Challenger would be able to land at Billy
Bishop Toronto City Airport on the island once the runway is extended, the plan is for it to fly out of Pearson.

Robin Marwick@electricland· Apr 15

My uncle made vegetarian shepherd’s pie for Easter with these; it was pretty good

Two "Big Mountain The Original Veggie Burger" (vegan) 4x100g, $5.99, plus one "Gusta Original Veggie Ground" 340g. I found both at Freshco,

Robin Marwick@electricland· Mar 31

Four-panel comic by The Awkward Yeti

Panel 1
Liver: what is it, gall bladder? Can’t you see I have a lot to do?
Gallbladder, holding objects: I maked these

Panel 2
Liver: you made STONES?

Panel 3
Liver, shouting: You’re just supposed to hold what I give you! Get out! Go on!

Panel 4
Gallbladder, sitting alone and woebegone: I maked these

Robin Marwick@electricland· Mar 28

Hi Darth! We missed you!

Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, lying partly on me while I lie in bed. The view is mostly big black nose surrounded by fluffy tan beard, but two brown eyes are also visible.

Robin Marwick@electricland· Mar 17

It’s her thing!

Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, lying on her front in a mirror image of Willa, a black dachshund mix. She has a chewie hanging from her mouth.

Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, lying in front of a Christmas tree with a chewie hanging from her mouth.

Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, standing in front of a Christmas tree with a chewie hanging from her mouth.

Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, sitting upright in a wicker chair with a chewie hanging from her mouth.

Robin Marwick@electricland· Mar 17

The Most Interesting Dog in the World #TerrierTuesday

Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, lying on a patterned rug. She is leaning on one elbow in the patented Dos Equis Guy pose, and she has a chewie hanging out of her mouth.

Robin Marwick@electricland· Mar 12

I show so many 🥺 pictures that you wouldn’t necessarily know my dog’s 🙄 game is incredible

Bunty, an Airedale terrier, then a puppy, lying under a green metal bench on a wooden dock and rolling her eyes up to look at it

Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, lying on my chest and rolling her eyes to look at something near the ceiling (side view)

Robin Marwick@electricland· Mar 8

In fairness, topography has been against us from the start

Google Maps screenshot of the Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto, with my annotations of the various barriers to entry/exit: a ravine to the north, train tracks running southwest to northeast, water to the south, cliffs to the east

Robin Marwick@electricland· Mar 8

We just lost power for no apparent reason. Mystery!

Toronto Hydro outage map showing a big red wedge-shaped power outage bordered roughly by Greenwood to the west, Queen Street then roughly the train tracks to the south, and a seemingly arbitrary diagonal line stretching northeast from Danforth and Greenwood to (off the map) roughly Danforth and Brimley in Scarborough.

Robin Marwick@electricland· Mar 4

I need to make sure @ethankocak.com and other herp fanciers are aware there is a Lego Friends set WITH AXOLOTLS And also worms? Or larvae? Unclear at this time. Pink squiggles.