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Like so many of you, I, too, thought he was way older than that and already already dead

Nuanced view:

I hope every kid gets to score 1 full-sized bar every year or so. It should feel like winning the lottery.

More than that, and it's not special anymore.

Huge thanks for posting this link. Going to order as a gift for my gender-queer cousin.

Torn between pink, which I think might be more their color, and the orange, because it looks so good for the clownfish.

Maybe since it's a pre-order, you still have time to email and ask to adjust the order?

In the final days of New York City’s mayoral race, CNN published a misleading headline about a made-up criticism of one of the candidates instead of making an attempt to actually inform their readers.

If it were published by good-faith fools who uncritically printed every submission, and delivered to every household in town, then yes! It would be important to retake that conversation!

But that's not remotely what X/Twitter is anymore! It's now controlled and consumed by white supremacists.

I am so sorry, good luck!

May you turn out to be the mutant whose blood will save us all.

Thank you so much!

For the record, I'm okay with "cancelling" people with Nazi tattoos.

That's... good, actually?

If you're up for an app instead of a jigsaw, Boo by Bart Bonte is a happy little pumpkin painting puzzle!

($2 to remove ads on Android, dunno if it's available on iphone.)

Just reinstalled the Android puzzle app Boo (Bart Bonte games).

Happy little pumpkin painting puzzles. If you're willing to either tolerate ads or pay $2, highly recommended.

I spent the 90s struggling to subdue hair that wanted to be very large. I am very excited about your Goal!

To everyone who got to sleep in because your alarm went off an hour later today, reminder not to crow about it to the parents of young children.

It's been about 10 years since that text from my sister about how great the extra hour of sleep was, and apparently I'm still salty about it.

Sympathy to all the parents out there with preschoolers. "Fall back" is the worst, and I am so sorry.

I feel a deep kinship with the woman maintaining a cheerful smile while destroying both her back *and* knees as she scrunches in for the photo while wearing her baby.

Either her, or the short woman in the back who's also gamely smiling despite the oblivious tall folks blocking her.

I really want to see this written up and published somewhere.

Some lady once took me to task because I left a (secured, non-wiggly) child sitting in the cart at Whole Foods while I stepped a little way down the aisle. Gave me a whole lecture about kidnapping risk.

I knew it was ridiculous, but the stress of the conversation left it etched into my memory. Ugh.

East Wing lobby from 2023

This is what it used to look like inside the lobby area.

I finally bought one midway through last winter. Thanks for the reminder to pull it back out of the garage!

Poster for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, featuring Chris Pine looking smug and handsome

Me and the family rewatched Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves the other night. It is delightful, this generation's Princess Bride. Very funny, charming, and inventive, it deserved to make a billion dollars. Cold comfort for the filmmakers, but I'd say it'll be rediscovered eventually.

I feel called out.

Just realized Norwescon overlaps with the start of Passover this year. Not thrilled.

(No disrespect intended to Marilyn, who did not deserve to be dragged into this in the first place.)

1) That is not Marilyn Monroe, unless you believe an Elvis impersonator is actually Elvis.

2) I find it subtly gross that the author chose Marilyn Monroe, famous sex symbol, out of all the historical actresses and women he could have used to make his point.

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Another vote for starting with Tiffany Aching.

Some of the other Discworld sub-series start out a little rocky, but Wee Free Men is Pratchett at his best.

Yes! I am a voracious print reader, but I generally struggle to stay focused on audiobooks. Murderbot is one of the few exceptions I've found so far.

Oh, and also your dress is adorable.

I have a short list of sewing projects for myself I want to try, same strategy-- copy a simple knit garment without a pattern, but with minor tweaks. This may be the kick in the pants I needed to start working on it.

She is the cutest little snuggles!

Just sent an email to my own airport asking them to join PDX in refusing to violate the Hatch Act.

Portland already has the frogs, we gotta hustle if we want to keep up.

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