Can't believe those storms did nothing about this heat or humidity

[conuly]

Blech.

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Comments

[rebeccmeister]

They did do one thing for me this morning, in that the water falling from the sky made me EXTRA wet!

But yeah...this has been a hot and sticky July!

[conuly]

the water falling from the sky made me EXTRA wet!

And then it doesn't even evaporate properly.

[maju]

Re animal gender in kids' books, my daughter consistently read the protagonist (human or animal) in kids' books as female when she was reading aloud to her daughters - until they learnt to read and started to complain that she was doing it wrong.

[conuly]

Smart plan!

[movingfinger]

Chip Delany tells a story about trying to raise his daughter in a less-biased way, including carefully editing some toddler-age books for her to change all the "hes" to "shes" on animal characters, including Corduroy. And she picked up on it immediately and told him that Corduroy was a boy, obviously he was a boy bear, and wouldn't go along with him on this.

[conuly]

Well, he tried.

[ioplokon]

Supposedly it will cool down tonight, but I don't know if I believe it. It feels like this heat wave is eternal.

[conuly]

It won't cool down *much*.

[ioplokon]

We will see. I have felt one (1) refreshing breeze so far today so... maybe.

[cellio]

Same here. How can we have so much rain, some of it quite fierce, and still have 90% humidity?!

[conuly]

It’s 11pm and still above 80f. It’s ludicrous!