Funnily enough, the word umbrella derives from the Latin word umbra, meaning shadow. An Umbrella was originally for protection against the sun. I know it now usually is used for the thing protecting you from rain (at least in English), I just thought it was funny that people did walk around with what they called an umbrella when it’s bright and sunny for a few hundred years.
I regularly do yoga and it has helped me several times when I had back pain from sitting too much. 20 minutes of yoga targeting the back and I was fine again.
I know this might not change the fact that you do feel guilty, which is valid. But to maybe add someone else’s perspective:
From what you have described, I don’t think you actually have anything to feel guilty about. You did not yell at your colleague or anything, you were merely a bit unfriendly. Which is fine, it happens. It might warrant an explanation or apology, which you have already given. I don’t even think the food is necessary, but if it helps you feel better, it won’t hurt either.
The best thing you can do is move forward and maybe come up with a way to handle the next time such a situation comes up. Like maybe a phrase you can use to let them immediately know that it’s not a good time but not their fault.
I only see this post, the dadforaminute post and the women only posts now. I use Eternity.
Thanks for all the work you put in!
This is not really chit chat, but is it intentional that almost all the past weekly chat threads are showing up as pinned for me or is that some kind of bug?
There are six pinned threads visible for me right now – four chat threads (except the one from last week for some reason) and two other ones. So I have to do some scrolling to get to new posts.
I’m just wondering because I vaguely remember that there was a similar situation in another community a while back and it was due to a bug.
Sexy iguanas.
Is there any other kind?
Could the fast-moving cars be the problem? No, it’s the bike lane!
Came here to comment this. Are you a fellow Lateral Podcast listener?
The problem is that women are a minority on Lemmy. So when men freely post in a women’s community then we end up with a community that mostly consists of men’s voices. It doesn’t matter how sympathetic and supportive they are, in the end the women get drowned out again and the male viewpoint is the one that is carried into the world (from a community named women’s stuff).
I’m very glad that there are lots of supportive men out there, but this just isn’t the space for it.
Tbh the only Disney Princesses I cared about growing up were Mulan, Pocahontas and Esmeralda. Maybe Jasmine. I just couldn’t really bring myself to care for the others.
The evil queen in Snow White was much cooler than Snow White. The scene when she is brewing the potion is what I imagined in my head it looked like when I threw random leaves and berries in my bucket in the garden.
“Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down. That’s not my department,” says Wernher von Braun.
I would say some do, some don’t, same as with other women. I get were the sentiment is coming from, but I’m always a bit cautious about putting pressure on people with things like that. There is no need to enrich anything to be welcome, just do your thing.
Ah thanks, I always wondered why I can see some images but not others.
You’re quitting early. That’s not even half the fun of predecimal British currency. There is so much more:
Edit: Well, that didn’t work. Let me see, if I can fix it.
Edit2: or maybe it did? I can see the image in the browser, just not in the app. Here is the link, in case someone else can’t see it: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/British_predecimal_currency.svg
Anne of Green Gables is one of my favourite comfort novels. It just instantly takes me to a happy place. Somewhere on the internet, I once saw Anne described as
a red-haired, freckle-faced orphan who faces the world with nothing but the sheer force of her personality
which summarises it very well.
If anyone is interested in checking it out, I cannot recommend this LibriVox recording by Karen Savage enough.
Oooh, I never noticed that difference, just remembered there being a timestamp. TIL, thanks.
Maybe it was shared through an app. If I share a YouTube video from NewPipe, by default it will add the time code to the URL.
I don’t think the ancient Greeks used Roman numerals. Though to be fair, I-III should be easy to understand anyway.
I love my watch which has a distinctly “feminine” look to it. But when I bought it, most watches that drew my attention were watches marketed to men. Sadly I couldn’t just get one anyway because I have really slim wrists even for a woman and they were way to big for me.
Depression with loss of appetite is how I did it