I am still single. I'm kind of looking, but it's hard cause I'm also still taking covid precautions. She doesn't bring it up much, but when the topic comes up she just says I should do what makes me happy. I figure it would nice if it happens, but my life is pretty nice anyway, so I'll be ok.

I think she was just trying to be helpful. She doesn't generally hassle me about it.

I was single, but not actively looking at that time.

The pottery + nerdy + 4 children. I knew she had business cards, cause she made some for a combined pottery/flower arranging event we did, but afaik she didn't hand them out that often. Of course, I didn't know about this incident - maybe there's hundreds of them floating around the twin cities 😆

I'm almost afraid to ask...

The thing I learned about myself during the pandemic is that I do want a certain amount of social contact. Prior to that I had assumed I didn't like it cause I always got more than I needed.

Yes, that was her 😳😄

Oh my God, you might've met my mom. What did she look like? Was there a picture of a flower arrangement on the card? (To be clear, I didn't authorize my mom to do this, but it is the kind of thing she might've done)

What is Dubai style chocolate anyway?

Ankylosaurus all the way. It's not even hurt that it didn't make the chart; nothing can hurt Ankylosaurus.

I looked up some numbers in FRED. Median house prices went from 134% of median household income in 1985, to 230% in 2000, to 509% in 2024. I don't think inflation is necessarily the only metric we should be looking at.

It made it! Congratulations!

The use of scare quotes around whole civilization is interesting. A way to imply that Iran is not a whole civilization without actually saying it. I think in the future I'm going to refer to the nyt as a 'news' organization

Cameron Reed's new book is coming out tomorrow: What we are seeking.

The hardest thing about supporting comics on patreon is when they post a new strip on social media, and you get a quick dopamine hit, and then you realize you've already seen that one.

Shards of Reflection has 6 days left and needs 1.9k! Here's a thread that is a run down of everything in the kickstarter
www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...

Part of the cool thing about photography is knowing that the image actually happened. The sucky thing about llms is when you see a really cool picture, and you have to be immediately skeptical. Although with Photoshop and other things I suppose we always have had to be a bit skeptical.

It woke me up, but if it hadn't been for the phone alarms I would have just gone back to sleep and forgotten about it

I've already read Shards of Reflection online. These books are the real reason I want this kickstarter to succeed :)

I did square dancing in elementary school, and I can't imagine anything better for proving the superiority of Black culture.

I only just now noticed that her name is the same as Mina from Bram Stoker's Dracula

I'm a bit too old to have gotten into animorphs as a kid and I'm beginning to believe I missed something really cool

If you ask for a dollar what stops the other side from saying 'ok fine, here's a dollar, now go away'?

Yeah, but then you couldn't have speed runs where you try to get Jesus crucified by the age of 12.

I admire your record keeping. I occasionally tried to keep gaming notes, but I've only got scraps here or there

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_hKJ...

Inside of MAGA are two wolves. One is islamophobic and the other is antisemitic.

I did not know ax-man had swag! What do they have for swag?

Yeah. I think I would go for the eclipse, cause I haven't seen one yet.