Daniel Withrow

Gatto isn't part of a franchise, so there's that.

Absolutely amazing series. My only regret is that they didn't call it "Only Birders in the Building."

And when you finally break off the affair, he carves a small wooden boy to take his splintery vengeance, kind of a "Pinocchio: First Blood" scenario.

Bureaucrats can be guards or guides.

A guard says, "These are the ways of my domain. Follow them or suffer the consequences."

A guide says, "These are the ways of my domain. I'll help you find your destination."

Guards are the reason people hate bureaucracy. Guides are worth their weight in gold.

I can't tell whether you're talking about me.

Holy shit.

I mean, it's less or less the same word.
less or less
goddammit
more or more
less or more
I think I see the problem.

Humans often see vultures as base, filthy creatures. But to rodents and songbirds, they are the greatest and noblest of raptors.

There are dragons who are filter feeders, like baleen whales, who soar through flocks of birds with their mouths wide open.

Superman flying with Krypto

Easier for some people than others.

I'm hoping that cat is named Mandelbrot.

Be so careful. That suitcase you picked up IT IS NOT YOUR SUITCASE

Many years ago, my mother-in-law, wrongly thinking me an expert in all things natural, asked me to identify the hummingbirds at her petunias. I looked at them through binoculars
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and reality shattered for me when I saw their six legs.

Only for an instant, but it's never come back together right.

I think, in the interest of fun (if not realism), allowing a full held-equipment switch once per turn would be best. Sheath and draw, stow shield and sheath sword and grab bow, stow wand and grab shield and sword, etc.

I have a dog in this fight, but only in the sense that I'm playing a dog.

Is the wrong direction MORE or LESS fiddlyness?

We realized last night that if you want to switch from sword-and-board to archery (or back), you have to spend an entire round making the switch instead of attacking. I'm not a fan of that change at all.

Go Phish

Many lovely recommendations, but if you want battles with cute animals, there's always old-school: The Wind in the Willows. I read it to my daughter at about this age, and she was entranced. It's so gorgeous.

This is what I came to recommend! My daughter loved them so much that she memorized the first chapter of one of them and would mutter it to herself on long car drives.

Your cat is teaching itself, and who doesn't appreciate an otterdidact?

After Notable Wins, Can NCAE Make the Case for Public Education? Educators in Durham and Guilford secured big wins last year. Can NCAE leverage local wins into statewide gains?

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This is what I'm saying: Democrats need an "adopt a district" program, where the closest Democratic rep will come hold a town hall for districts orphaned by their Republican representative. Show up, listen, take the constituent feedback back to the missing GOP representative.

Invite media.

People should be able to cross borders at least as easily as money can. If businesses can move to countries where wages are lowest, but people can't move to countries where wages are highest, the market is unfair.

Even diehard capitalists ought to support this.

One of the few pleasures I've found in world news lately has been watching share prices for Tesla, Amazon, and Truth Social plummet.

I don't want them to externalize the pain.

Read the whole thread to make sure nobody had made my joke before I posted it, then got to your response. Dammit.

Adopt a district: for every Republican who refuses to hold town halls in their district, the closest Democratic representative should adopt the orphaned district , setting up town halls in that district to listen to voter concerns and bring them to Washington and to the missing representative.

Adopt a district: for every Republican who refuses to hold town halls in their district, the closest Democratic representative should adopt the orphaned district , setting up town halls in that district to listen to voter concerns and bring them to Washington and to the missing representative.

This is my second-favorite book by Buehlman. The Daughters' War was my "best of" for 2024, and is a masterpiece.

Starting a Greek mythology unit with my third graders, and pulled out the classic d'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths. This sentence is in the introduction, making me wonder exactly how comes up Ingri and Edgar d'Aulaire were.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO