I have felt the way the left bee seems to be feeling, I just didn’t have as many legs to express it with. 😩
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I have felt the way the left bee seems to be feeling, I just didn’t have as many legs to express it with. 😩
What about log in vs. login? To me, the latter is a noun and the former is a (compound?) verb. “Use your login information to log in.” But based on what I’ve seen it seems to be rare to make any sort of distinction.
Adorable! How often do you have to refill that in hot weather?
Showing this post to my husband with the comment “It’s always been furries all the way down” is how I learned that the phrase “turtles all the way down” isn’t a common colloquialism everywhere. Do I live in a weird philosophy bubble or something?
Oh wow, a lost treasure! Back when mobile phones were expected to be good at being phones and being mobile.
Bring back the Nokia candy bar! I had a prepaid one for my last couple years of high school (flip phones were the hot new thing at the time) and that allowed me to get in touch with my parents easily but did nearly nothing else. I may have texted more if it hadn’t been $0.25 per message, admittedly.
The ones that still pain me the most are food-related, because I already hated ordering anything from anyone and these both made it worse. Ciabatta, as a senior in high school at a Big Boy restaurant. And linguica, ordering pizza in Massachusetts for the first time in my early 20s.
I have trouble even getting my eyes over to where a fish is jumping before it disappears, 300+ hours sounds absolutely reasonable for managing to get a camera pointed at one.
I’m so glad I clicked through and read this article. On my way to send it to everyone I know, because it is absolutely not just kids who could use guidance on how to approach this situation.
😍 That is all.
Wow! I know perfectly timed action shots are your thing but I just can’t stop going back to look at the jumping fish.
Did it have chocolate chips last time? Do the other version this time.
I’m wincing thinking of those prickly stems against soft frog skin, but your friend doesn’t seem to mind. They must be small enough the thorns are more pokey than stabby.
knowing a guy is one of the only ways you can make it in an America that costs this much
Taking this sentiment to my neighborhood bar where there’s a Welding Guy, Garden/Landscape Guy, Beekeeping Guy, obviously several Brewing/Wine Guys, Interesting Food Guy, Sawmill and Off-Grid Guy… Some of these Guys are women, of course. Local community is priceless.
That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification!
Store inventory bots seem like an actual good implementation of automation in the retail world. Counting things is a very robot-appropriate task and it might actually lead to a better shopping experience (empty shelves getting noticed and refilled sooner). What horrifying caveat am I missing?
Real borosilicate glass should be fine at 450, my old lab baked all our glassware at 400 as part of routine cleaning to remove organic contaminants. I’ve heard to look for Pyrex with the capital P, or get real lab ware that tells you what it’s made of. Or a ceramic baking dish?
any body want to help me plan sneaking around and raising all the flags back up to full mast
Update: for the one thing I have information about, the answer is Not Today. Still hoping for good news about the other question.
I read this thread earlier today and said “oh wow, I should make sure my Detroit based prenatal group knows about this!” Tonight, walking into the hospital to get something checked: “Ok, good, they’re way ahead of me as they should be.”
That is a very impressive toad and I also love that your outfits coordinate.
You’re how I just found out it’s Sexy Watto night. This knowledge is both a gift and a curse.
I wonder if that baby was somewhat easier than average, after that, to teach not to put things in her mouth.
I felt bad liking this, but it’s only because I’ve been there. Milk on a cotton ball, everybody. Even worked against the scorpion peppers that I had to dehydrate on the porch because they made the house air too spicy.
I’ve had some obvious key words muted for many weeks to protect my sanity, so the buzz on Bsky tonight was a little tough to pick up on (not very). However the reason I’m scrolling so much rn is to keep busy while timing what might be contractions, so the “is it happening???” energy is VERY strong 😫
I have a little Pacific Chorus Frog living in my garden who like to hide under the garden gecko. 💚🐸 #frog #garden
Supporters are rallying for the #windmillmushroomboycott! Join us this #LaborDay weekend and don’t buy Windmill mushrooms!
I just planted a sycamore in my yard, I can’t wait (but y’know, will have to for several decades) until it towers over everything else. If it ever drops a big branch the worst thing it will damage is the fence.
One of the saddest things about suburbia, in my opinion. “That tree did too good of a job growing, now we have to kill it.”
Same. “Hey honey, look at this bird. I’m not sure if that’s its name or if the poster is making a joke I don’t get.”
I do wish people would treat transphobia as the serious red flag it is, because if someone is repeating bullshit pseudoscience talking points from right wing cranks, that's just as bad as conceding to anti-vax nonsense and undermining trust in science and medicine, alarm bells should be sounding!
Tell misogynists, especially the men: “You know better than that.” “That’s not how we treat people in this house.” “You sound like a boy trying to prove something.”
Lush like the bath bombs? I can’t think of many better places to kill time while waiting for an order to be ready.
They’re only testing for salmonella and a type of e. Coli. How are all these listeria cases getting caught? If that’s no longer a mandatory test and they’re stopped that’s a scary thought.
Gross.
Happy birthday to Antoine Lavoisier (1743 – 1794), a progenitor of the study of #chemistry, shown here with his wife Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758 – 1836). 🐡🧪 The couple, working closely together, modernized & quantified chemistry & the scientific method, named oxygen & hydrogen, explained 🧵
(Disclaimer, I’m no kind of expert, I just have also grown a lot of compost pile squash) I retract my melon suggestion! They’ll probably work as decorative gourds even if they are a hybrid of other stuff from last year. Enjoy your mystery cucurbit!
A comment already covered zipper merging, and how it’s ideal in some situations and wrong in others. Failing that, I would be hard pressed not to get into some very contempt-laden messages about littering. I know it’s worlds better than it used to be but I live near a main road and ugh.
Are the leaves broad like pumpkin/cuke or more divided? I’m wondering if it might have some melon influence. Most importantly, how does it taste?
Mr. Jerry, the custodian at my K-5 school, wasn’t the laughs-and-hugs kind of beloved. But if you ever got singled out in the hall with his trademark “Hey. Tie that shoe.” you did, right away, and also had the feeling that everyone and -thing else in the building would leap to the same obedience.
I sent this to my dad and he replied: And they couldn’t have been hoarders, since they were moving all the time. Truly a case of egregious historical misrepresentation!
Post something from your camera roll that comes up when you search yellow car.
For about half an hour, cardinals were all I could hear out the window in the chilly morning darkness. Now it sounds like a bluejay wants to go back to sleep, it keeps chirping over them every time one starts a call.
Baby lumpfish for #SundayFishSketch. Kind of based on balloon lumpfish they're not as true to a reference as I usually go for. Watercolour blobs and acrylic pen details
The trouble with going nearly two months between RPG sessions is that sometimes you start gameplay and get partway into your combat before remembering you’re still nearly dead from last time. Oops.
Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.
Normally I rail against seasonal creep but I tried the same stuff you have in your fridge pic, from Athletic, last week and it was the taste of almost-real-beer that I really needed after a weekend doing traditionally beer-accompanied things Up North with just water. Most NAs don’t get that close.
I just want every liberal to know in advance: if he becomes the nominee, he will lose bc of shit like this. No self respecting queer person is going to support him, and that'll be enough to keep him from the presidency.
Hello SE Massachusetts & Cape Cod! Please share with your communities that if they are seeking abortion care, these are not locations where they will receive it! Have we missed one? Let us know! #abortionishealthcare
Half the theater booing the Google AI ad that ran before the movie tonight was the social connection I didn’t realize I needed 💖 (The Naked Gun also really nailed the “toxic masculinity billionaire tech bro” character for its villain, which made the whole thing more enjoyable for me)
Half the theater booing the Google AI ad that ran before the movie tonight was the social connection I didn’t realize I needed 💖 (The Naked Gun also really nailed the “toxic masculinity billionaire tech bro” character for its villain, which made the whole thing more enjoyable for me)
I haven’t eaten a single leaf of the kale I planted this year. It’s all for this guy.
The feet feathers 😮😍
As a cis woman I will now consider it my duty to post about it every time I shop for a bra. As a woman of below-average bust, I tend to opt for the soft bralette types that are fine with a broad S/M/L/XL designation, so I’ll leave the nitty gritty details of bra fittings to others with expertise.
Bottom right now, but if I get back to say 80% of the physical capacity I had before being loaded down with a proto-human passenger and all the associated extra tissue and fluids and joint issues, I’m back to top. Until age reinstates the extra tissue and fluids and joint issues.
Antique oven problems 😅 🍽️🍜
“12 yards long and two lanes wide - 65 tons of American pride” was supposed to be a parody, not a design target!
Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
B, now that I own kitchen scissors (hope that’s not weird). I also don’t rinse the whole container at once unless I expect to go through it in a day or two, so the little tree goes in a little colander to rinse and then into a little bowl so it doesn’t drip and to leave any squishy ones in.
goddammit I was literally humming a different song as I scrolled and the moment I read this it evaporated and was replaced. I don’t even know what the other song was. I think the original composer of that jingle might have actually incorporated a supernatural curse into it.
Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.
I’d love to! Just made this one for the first time last week and it was a hit :) cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019...
Life is about looking at Pacific spiny lumpsuckers, in case you forgot.
Oh I want that. Intensely. Gonna go home and see how close I can get from the garden and fridge.
^This. Your public demands it!
🛑 PSA for creators 🛑 Please remember to go into your YouTube settings and disable automatic dubbing! I use captions for accessibility plus no one asked for this. There was backlash then and now because it’s a garbage genAI feature that replicates your voice in other languages. Tutorial below ⬇️
When the forecast is uncertain, I leave my car windows cracked when I go into work specifically as thunderstorm bait. The two times it’s rained significantly in the last month are the two times I’ve done so. The second time, the storm poured an inch or two around work but did not reach my house 😤
Sandwiches like that are why I haven’t voted to outlaw summer completely. The tomatoes make it all worthwhile.
Appropriately horrifying when taken seriously, but that sounds like the cutest halloween costume
*sigh* once again I am imploring people to STOP USING THE OCEAN BOILING PLAGIARISM MACHINE TO DUNK ON THE OCEAN BOILING PLAGIARISM MACHINE. “LOL I tried to get it to spell blueberry and it was wrong!” Congratulations! You are part of the fucking problem
This all day. When someone is like "yeah I will voluntarily give up privilege and experience the trauma of misogyny AND the trauma of trans misogyny all day every day on top of that" My first thought isn't "no, mine" it's "damn, ok, you are my SISTER"
Because then it’ll be easy to diagnose you and where’s the fun in that?
Wait I missed this the first time around. Your neighbor and my husband should talk…
It’s definitely a good introduction 😂 (I was also delighted to see Jamie Farr just because I’m a lifelong M*A*S*H fan and it’s nice to see familiar faces doing other stuff.) I guess the censors figured nobody too young to understand would understand?
I was unfamiliar 😳
A few years ago I caught an episode of Laugh-In on the retro tv channel while at my parents’ house. It wasn’t the first time I’d seen the show, but the epiphany hit me while watching a seconds-long clip of women in bodysuits dancing with words pasted to their limbs: this is just TikTok for Boomers.
In my opinion it’s the “instead of serving a bowl of cheese spread, I’m gonna mold it into a freestanding shape, spend an hour adding garnish, and the whole thing is a reference to unrelated but trendy fruit” part that makes it a midcentury horror 🙃
Oh, it was delicious. I ended up making the best baked mac and cheese of my life out of the half that was still left a few days later. Even my friends couldn’t make much of a dent in what ended up being, I think, three pounds of cheese.
This should help with searching, thanks! I’m sure any basic cheese ball recipe will do, but where’s the fun in that?
Hoping #foodsky can help me find a lost recipe. Last year I hosted a dinner party of midcentury oddities, including an enormous cheese ball decorated to look like a pineapple but which didn’t contain any fruit. Crucially, the outer layer is olives, not pecans. Anybody have a reference or lead? 🍽️
Sshhhh! Repeat after me: it’s horrible, tastes like poison, oh god I just drank gasoline, worst experience of my life, here try it I’ll do a shot with you. There’s a whole image to maintain.
here's a banger, but i'll post more in the replies
Today is National Underwear Day so here’s a briefs thread of international phrases about underwear, starting with this one… A slang Finnish word for getting drunk at home in just your underwear is kalsarikännit. It means “pants drunk.”
I’m definitely reading it as melon, but between the two options I think I’d go sour apple.
I love her 🥹
Feeling very insecure today about what may be my normal absent-mindedness or may be the dreaded Pregnancy Brain. These help me feel like I’m doing something about it even if I don’t know that they’ll actually improve anything.
The scoot lines 🥰
He’s so vibrant!
I just let myself get talked into buying Finspan even though I’m very much a (b) person on the rare occasions I can be convinced to sit down at the board game table. This is very reassuring to hear!
My friends who are at GenCon just talked me into buying this even though I’m not a board game person at all. I can’t resist the siren call of all the beautiful fish art!
Liked in solidarity. Ours is just an “unhealthy for sensitive groups” air quality alert, so sorry lungs, you’re second priority right now to give my sweat glands a break.
Somebody in my creative projects group chat literally asked today if everyone had moved on to a different group chat without them because we’d all been so quiet. I was ready with a concise explanation:
I wish they (and a lot of the other competition in that era) had lasted, because that’s a really respectable policy.
I used one of the many small discount airlines of the 2000s, this one called Zoom, to go Toronto-London in 2007. They won an award for respecting flight lanes or something like that, and I know this because I was seated next to the official who was going to collect the award. No private jet for her.
I absolutely love the adoring look that the bird and rider are sharing. This picture makes my heart happy in a way I desperately needed after my other scrolling today 🖤🤍
…and then you notice they have the same first name as you! Truly a brilliant coincidence! And then you start wondering if maybe this actually *was* you back in 2021. And you can’t quite tell. It will bother you forever. But at least you’re going to have some really excellent soup soon. 🍽️
When you open a bookmarked recipe for the first time in years, reread it and the comments to refresh your memory, and come upon one that sounds like it’s from a kindred spirit! They plan like you, take shortcuts like you, and you’re really grateful they corrected an earlier commenter’s misinfo…
No, no, you may be the only MAGA patriot that’s still unemployed, but it’s not because you’re a colossal failure. It’s because of the gays/Jews/trans people/Mexicans/Democrats/black people/women/Californians. If we just got rid of them you’d be a millionaire like you deserve to be.
Dory in Finding Nemo may have been a bit forgetful and ditzy, but her real-world counterpart is actually pretty neat. She's commly thought to be a regal tang, in the family Acanthuridae. So for #FishOfTheWeek, let's talk about surgeonfish 1/6
