A dog stands on a table, posing next a basted peak lapel sport coat. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.

A dog sitting on the floor, posting next to a basted blue tweed sport coat with notch lapels. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.

A dog sitting on the floor, posing in front of a wall where three tailored jackets are hanging.

A dog poses on a table. He's surrounded by a tailor's measuring tape.

Every time this tailor posts a photo of their workspace, it looks like their dog is a tailor and he's showing off the garments he made.

IG z.o.e.y.a.t.e.s

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I didn’t get a photo, alas, it moved too fast. There are also bumblebees fighting over the catmint—like actually tackling each other and knocking each other out of the air. Never seen that before.

oh, that's easy: the iPod, 200, 300, 400 GB edition
I would add to it minor iPhone functionality: it has a timer, stopwatch, weather, and calculator, maybe Apple Pay too
but it has no phone
and it has no internet browser or apps

My reflection on COVID is that it sucked for everyone, but it sucked for everyone differently, and a lot of broken friendships and family strife are the result of people assuming that everyone else had the exact same COVID experience they did.

A difficult concept to navigate properly is that *testing* is itself a major problem in education (most exemplified by the No Child Left Behind testing regimes. This can mean that the very tests revealing declines in learning are themselves part of what is causing the decline.

Team unmarried women but deep reservations about married men (partly bc I can imagine so many ways that being a priest's wife in a typical Catholic parish would be utterly unbearable.

It for sure affected the social skills of kids in preschool-1st grade. It was very clear in my son's class even a few years later. In 6th grade now, and I think they're caught up, but the school added a "social amd emothional learning" special and I really do think it was needed

I would also argue (a little to the side of your main point) that there are some things that we *should* carry forward from the pandemic. Flexible scheduling, hybrid work schedules, and zoom committee meetings have all improved my worklife and my ability to balance it with parenthood.

Even then, it wasn't all always awful. I liked having more time with my kids (way shorter commute even though I was back onsite quickly), and having kids to keep busy meant parents had less time for existential despair and ennui, but the isolation, schooling, and illness protocols were tough

squidward FOMO meme

me watching other democracies imprison their coup leaders, while we just hope ours won't get back into politics (because that worked so well last time)

What’s beautiful and fraught about Catholicism is that, for all its passion for doctrine, the primary elements that establish the core relationship among Catholics are the sacraments and laws (canon law), not ideology as such. It’s a way of saying that God is the primary organizer of relationships.

NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about.

This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.

I love iodized salt. I love fluoridated water. I love enriched flour.

I love public health tools that save lives and improve quality of health just by silently existing. They're amazing.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

This was my takeaway from More Everything Forever. These men are just unbearably afraid of death.

It's very user-friendly! I am not tech-y and I don't really make full use of all the features but it isn't hrd to set up (even for the non-techie) and I like the way bookmarks and rss feeds work in it

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Fun fact: the pope doesn't excommunicate someone. A person excommunicates themself. A religious official simply announces it.

Because it's not about throwing someone out, but recognizing that they have hurt or broken away from the community and thus left.

One may change to rejoin the community.

Fwiw it's important to recognize those are the Catholic converts jumping into the public sphere 5 min. after confirmation. There are plenty of normal Catholic converts; they just don't draw attention in the same way

I would otoh support remedial ocia

I think the latter, but it is getting tiresome.

I don't actually think it's trolling. Leo is doing very normal pope things during modern conflicts; he's just doing it with an american accent.

Build the Wolverine for Hourly Service YouTube video by High Speed Rail Alliance

Imagine how incredible it would be to be able to board a train every hour from Chicago to head to Detroit, New Buffalo, Ann Arbor or Kalamazoo.

It'd be a win for Chicagoans and Michiganders, increasing business and tourism, and reducing traffic!

In case anyone is curious, this is the “just war theory” that Vance references.

Not a single war we’ve engaged in since 1945 fits the bill.

Here’s the link: www.usccb.org/issues-and-a...

Oh, pray tell, JD, can you define just war theory and its criteria for us? Or can you point us to the sections of Ambrose and Augustine that provide *any* justification of the war in Iran or of the current treatment of immigrants?

We used to say that any given Trump post would get a regular person fired from their job. Now any given Trump post would get a regular person a 72-hour psychiatric hold.

Calling the Pope weak on crime on Divine Mercy Sunday is probably an all-timer.