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I went, "What. no. she/her."

"How does that work? With she/her/hers and they/them?"

I stared at her. "What are you talking about?"

"Well you came out as-" and I said, "I'm asexual."

She replied, "Like an amoeba, I know."

"Oh. My god. No. Mom. It doesn't- it's not the asexual you learned about in biology. I didn't come out as a single celled organism."

With heavy relief, she said "Oh, it has a different meaning?"

So that’s comforting, but here’s the kicker: It was invented in 1983 by a man named Randall Rogers. The wikipedia article for the aerial saw mentions that following his death, the patent was sold to another company who holds it today. It does NOT mention how he died, but thankfully the Chicago Tribune has an archived article with this little nugget:

August 9th!! Is the official and hopefully final return date for Morgana and Oz. It will have 110 episodes in total! Thumbnails are mostly done now. I just need to finish drawing the last 5 episodes. Once weekly updates resume there shouldn't be any more breaks. Also working on volume 5 of the physical books with volume 6 being the last.

The Oakland Zoo's bison program is in collaboration with the Blackfeet Nation in Montana. This baby was released with others from the Oakland Zoo herd as part of returning bison to the plains of Montana.

We can't erase what colonists and settlers did, but we can work to fix the damage, and many, many people and organizations are working to save the bison and re-wild them, led by the indigenous peoples of the US and Canada who have been their stewards for so long.

I encourage everyone to find out what programs and systems they can support in their local areas and communities-- it can be as fun as purchasing a zoo or museum membership if those orgs do this kind of work.

Bill Nighy

Hugh Laurie

James McAvoy

John Lithgow

Katherine Parkinson

Keira Knightley

Kit Harrington

Leo Woodall

Mackenzie Crook

Mathew MacFadyen

Matt Berry

Nick Frost

Paul Whitehouse

Peter Serafinowicz

Riz Ahmed

Shirley Bassey

Simon Armitage

Simon Pegg

Stephen Fry

Stephen Mangan

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