A butterfly with a speech bubble that is just a flat "JAMES."

This was really not the year to try out winter sowing, I gotta say.

(It's fiiiiine I have an unused seed starting tray for another batch of echinaceae, I *WILL* HAVE CONEFLOWERS IN 2027)

(the precarious tables are a nearly-universal bookstore thing; packing them this tightly in the store, including in a slalom format down the central aisle with only a couple feet of clearance, is thankfully less of one)

I was once again inspired to fill out the B&N contact form with a request to meet with the store manager, in which I will bring in our wheelchair and rollator and ask them to negotiate their store with them.

I regret to say I was unable to resist adding "It'll be fun to watch."

Oh yeah, that's a whole thing, but in this store they then jam them a couple feet apart all down the central aisle. Slalom course!

Someday I'm just gonna come in with the rollator, stop at the first too-narrow gap, say "well FUCK" loudly and wearily, slump theatrically, and turn around and leave.

I find that hard to believe, at least at this level. It's a pretty blatant ADA violation at my store (you cannot navigate it with a mobility aid) and I feel like if it was chain-wide they'd have caught a lawsuit by now.

I guess I'm glad I hadn't scheduled the new tire installation yet (this was road debris).

The front wheel of a Ford Escape, removed from the hub and leaning against the bumper. There's jack behind the wheel well and lug nuts on the ground next to the cheap tire iron.

I am "where are you supposed to put the lug nuts if you don't have hub caps?" years old.

So no tapir-riding babies in Ohio then?

I mean it's worth a shot!

Oh neat, I missed that! (I haven't run any bot accounts here, obviously, just Feeds. Guess I should check to see if I can filter them out of my Skyfeeds yet.)

We have that now too!

Fediverse has a (self applied) bot flag which I think goes a ways toward solving this: didn't tag your bot? Bad bot. Did tag your bot? Cool, people can use it to filter places bots shouldn't be, make sure their bots don't loop with other bots, etc.

🫂

Shhh, we don't want to encourage them to make stealthier perv glasses!

Yes! As a former Wichitan (with terrible scheduled service even for a city of its size) the idea that there are options if you miss your flight is still foreign to me. I let them bump me once coming back from MCO to now-home PHL and it was such a novelty: "You mean there are *two* more flights?!"

So we're supposed to get another freeze after temps in the 90's, the second cycle like this this spring, and I bet it's gonna kill things like peach blossoms.

Didn't they used to sacrifice the ruler to appease the gods when the crops failed? Maybe we should see if there's something *to* that.

North Jersey, surely. Down South near Philly we wooder our gardens (well not me, I've only lived here ten years, though I have noticed lately that I turn the water oawn and oawff).

Someday I am going to claim my name and ask to see that manager. I just want to talk.

Barnes & Noble stores supposedly let their managers have some leeway to make them more indie-ish. Regrettably my local store's manager has chosen the theme "what if we fill the aisles with precarious tables, because people in wheelchairs or with walkers don't read."

... course, I just realized I am gonna get fed to a chatbot, so I just deleted the auto response without reading it. 😒

Looked up the right way to submit a bug report to Bluesky (app freeze on alt bug tap) instead of just @-ing Mayor Josh, please clap.

I duckducked it and DDG just wanted to offer me news articles about the outage (I was not on the News tab, duck!) but it turns out it's "Feedback" right on the menu.

A poster for an event called biodiversity on April 22, 2026 an Earth Day cabaret at 254254 S. 12th St. door seven show 8 PM Burlesque and dragged performances in local vendors and educators performance performances by jaida MX Monstera, Victoria Reno, honey tree evil eye, DJ Carl michaels kitten pony Corbo benefiting by scientist. there are many girls interspersed among flowers, and one hot dude

Alright Philadelphia, this is a city-wide alert!

We have an event this Wednesday that you're not gonna want to miss. We've got babes, rain barrels, drag queens, native plants, a diversity of butts, and trees!

At 254 (in center city!)
doors 7, show 8
Get tickets here: biodiversitease.eventbrite.com

Two odd-shaped coated-wire hooks, one red, one green, and mirrored shapes.

One hook, around a doubled two-by-four. It's clearly designed for something a little less thick, but when it hangs around whatever it's supposed to, the hook will have a standoff from the whatever. Maybe a rod goes in the two hooks, between the two whatevers?

Another angle of the weird hooks.

A door, or single 2x4, is too thin to hold the hook at the right angle.

Oh, does a set count? We still haven't figured out what these hooks are for. They are clearly a pair, and seem to friction-fit on something but it's not dimensional lumber afaict. I'm sure they're a genius solution to *some* problem we had in the past. 🤷

I saw an article about Tesla opening a showroom in Voorhees NJ and I do wonder if that means they're bailing on the perpetually-protested Cherry Hill site.

Any permanent disability!

A 3d printed figure whose face is a smooth blank of pale flesh, and the to of the head ends just above the ears which are disturbingly organic attached to the blocky base. It's fine.

Some pieces of this print are snap fit and others are glued which means this guy is nightmare fuel until spouse gets home so I can ask where the superglue went.

An AI thing followed me unsolicited.

Coincidence? I dunno. I blocked it.

I'm not sure if that indicates that it was a human, or not.

No problem, I'll just contact support. Which requires an order number, but all I have is the "your order is upcoming, make changes?" email. Support figured that out, and canceled the Autoship... without bothering to question the fact that THE PASSWORD RESET DOESN'T WORK.