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A trick if anyone needs it: I bought some ginger sparkling water, but the carbonation combined with the ginger made me cough so hard I couldn't drink it. Solve: pouring it into a glass, then into a second glass when the head dissolved, and finally back into the first glass flattened it just fine.

That response is a green flag, good for him. 😂

Attributed to Ryūsa - Flowers and Grasses with a Praying-Mantis - Japan - Edo period (1615–1868) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Flowers and Grasses with a Praying Mantis. Attributed to Ryūsa. Japanese, late 18th century. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

It's been mentioned that there's a fortune yet to be made in women's shower products simply by naming them SEA HAG, FOREST BITCH, SAVAGE LIONESS, WOLVERINE ESTROGEN, etc., with the same scents of cypress, orange zest, sandalwood, etc.

I saw my first mantid of the year today!

I don't know who needs to hear this right now, but if cars keep passing you on the right, you don't belong in the left lane. For Chrissake.

This thread and the related discussion in the replies is good. If a book doesn't work for you, the solution is to not read it, not to demand that everything be written to your comfort levels.

The whole thing is about two steps away from demanding censorship regimes and calling it community care.

Jane Goodall ❤️

Have you ever had belly rub paralysis?

Urgent: Take Action to Protect Public Services Photo by Katie Rodriguez on Unsplash I have something you can do in five minutes or less that can help salvage the integrity of the federal civil service,...

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE! Have you taken three minutes to save the political independence of the civil service? It’s easy! Here’s how you can do it:

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I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

Seriously is Duo okay? 🤣

Duo, it's been less than 24 hours. You gotta chill.

And also with you

It's been eleven years, and I'm still laughing annually at this interaction between @jonathancoulton.bsky.social and @alyankovic.bsky.social

Actually Cazaril, it seems, but the audiobook did have me wondering!

Ah, the joys of being an audiobook user. Starting "The Curse of Chalion" like, "Hang on, the main character can't *possibly* be called Casserole."

YouTube video by Julie Nolke Every Canadian Right Now

Important news update from north of the border, via @julienolke.bsky.social

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I just finished ch 59 of Bleak House, and as distasteful as I find Skimpole, the real villain was the patriarchy all along. 🤬 "People might find out I had sex with my then-fiancé more than twenty years ago? Welp, TIME TO DIE!" I know it's Victorian England, but holy shit, calm down.

The moral of YouTube seems to be, "Don't go caving, don't go scuba diving, and for the LOVE of GOD, don't go CAVE DIVING!"

Skimpole hasn't even done anything remarkably evil - he's just so manipulative and irresponsible. I hate that kind of fake helplessness.

I think the last character in ANY book who I found so viscerally upsetting was Uriah Heep.

Nobody writes a really repugnant character like Dickens. I'm in ch. 31 of Bleak House, and Skimpole just makes my skin crawl.

“Do something nice for yourself”

OK, I’ll watch this video of corgis wearing life jackets floating down a stream in corgi shaped rubber rings on a loop.

YouTube video by THE MOMENTS / CHWILE Blessing for the Tsar

Watching these executive orders like youtube.com/watch?v=FbFz...

I wish it were that useful.

Sometimes the magic works; sometimes it doesn't.

Ah, the sweet sounds of spring: Canada geese standing on the roof and screaming at each other, or possibly just at the world in general.

Learning Spanish from an eldritch abomination.