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The internal meetings and memos have been... stressful

My lil beans is a high school grad 😊

No kidding, photos are SUPER forbidden at my on site DHS location. Luckily I'm a contractor and they don't have room for us 🙃

I need some kind of Master Class on utilizing different herbs with different flavor profiles.

Especially the unusual ones that are hard to find at a grocery store but I can grow in my garden.

Teach me the secrets of chervil and Syrian oregano please.

I spent so much on parking when Ken was in the hospital in Baltimore. They offered valet parking for days I couldn't make the three block walk from the garage 💀

Made this comic a few years ago. Still relevant. #comic #burnout

I always loved this one

Sometimes when I get sunburn, I joke to myself "aw yiss, feel that carryover cooking" and then I wonder why I thought that was a funny joke.

Gardening is a silly hobby. I have a watch tan and May hasn't even started yet.

I mean, that's surely an exercise in imagination...

Aside from all the known horrors of working in the federal government right now, it is next to impossible to get things done because THERE IS NOBODY AROUND TO DO IT. I have been wasting so much more time finding people that can still do certain tasks and I hate it.

The thing about having an electric induction cooktop is that it has an auto shutoff if you leave it going for several hours.

Which means if I'm going to simmer something overnight, I need to turn it off and back on again before bed.

Modern technology means having to reboot your soup stock.

There was a pack of girls I knew that used it constantly. I hadn't heard it recently at all, but retro is in...

I know in the 90s it was to announce your departure, like "I'm outie" and I think in a movie they made it an Audi reference or something.

What are people doing with it today??

90s slang?

Royal Tomb Of Egyptian King Thutmose II Unearthed Finding the original tomb of the royal is one of the most significant developments in Egyptian archeology in recent history.

A British-Egyptian team has made one of the most significant Egyptian archeological finds in recent history: the tomb of pharaoh King Thutmose II, who ruled sometime between 2000 and 1001 BCE. This is the first tomb of a pharaoh unearthed since Tutankhamun’s in 1922.

Today I have found joy in burning a stack of homebrew Dreamcast discs to CD-R and labeling them in Sharpie with 2000's era h4x0rz iconography

And they asked me why I insisted on having an optical media drive... 😎

Saw a thing talking about dad music and the comments blew up saying "that's not dad music, that's Gen X!"

Hate to break it to you my dudes, but my child is a legal adult, we are the dads now.

My spouse has caught a teeny sanguini in DQ Monsters and named it Sandwich

Gun violence 🙃

I agree though, I don't want a lingering nuclear death, let me be vaporized quickly (11 seconds for my elementary school, right by our hypothetical ground zero)

The nostalgic vibe is comforting and unsettling.

I recently discovered that my kid never discussed with his peers how long it would take for the school building to be vaporized if the highest yield Soviet (Russian) nuke hit DC like me and the spouse did growing up 😂

A teeny sanguini from the Dragon Quest franchise. It's a round white furry creature with black splotches, a silly face, giant triangle ears, and teeny tiny bat wings, feet, hands, and tail.

My spouse caught a teeny sanguini in Dragon Quest Monsters and named it Sandwich. This brings me an inordinate amount of joy in a time when I really need it.

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🧶💾 Punch cards aren’t just relics of computing—they’re still powering knitting machines today! Discover how hobbyists & archivists are preserving this blend of tech + textile. ⁠

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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

A row of overlapping thin slices of vibrant orange fish on top of white parchment paper

I did it! I have replicated the food of my people! Smoked cured fish! It's steelhead, not salmon, cuz that was on sale, but it's delicious!

There's some surprising things you can do with honey or sugar substitutes using Pomona pectin because it binds with calcium rather than sugar! But that is probably not what Grandma did 😬

YEAH... Nobody is more terrified of other people's home canned goods than other home canners. If I'm gifting, I try to label with the lab tested recipe I use, but anyone can put anything on a home made label.

I don't know why, but as soon as I saw it was WBAL, my first thought was "ah, that makes sense"

It doesn't but it still feels like it does

Locking down Signal Also available in Spanish.

Okay, so you're using Signal for encrypted messaging. Cool. It's a good time to use usernames instead of a phone number to talk to people. That and lots more about how to make the most of Signal's security features in here: freedom.press/digisec/blog...