Puppy!!!!
I admit as soon as I got to the point in your newsletter where I realized you had a new puppy, I stopped reading and started scrolling for pictures.
(I did then go back and finish reading. But puppy!)
Congrats all around.
nooooooo!
Unless the findings were "Oh! Yeah, if you go spend 2 hours in a hot tub with someone serving you fruity, allergen free beverages, you'll be right as rain!" then that is the absolute worst.
Sometimes it's annoying how spending some time to make one's environment nicer does in fact help with mood and motivation.
*mutter* *grumble*
BRB, gotta go clean my enclosure so that I am more centered and chill.
*hrmph*
I know this doesn't mean that we're going to invest in comprehensive public transportation, including high speed, trains, expanded subways and bus lanes, but it really should mean that.
Voyager has been traveling for most of my lifetime, and the day it stops sending us signals (assuming I am still around) I am gonna break out the good whiskey and have a most excellent wake.
Make 'em sweat
Nevermind, I was wrong, I like the "impromptu street interview" format now
youtube.com/shorts/8hB85...
ANYWAY, falling marriage rates are always cast as some sort of issue? Don't agree with that. Marriage is no longer *compulsory,* is all that tells me, and that's good. It shouldn't be.
Maybe it's because I'm Gen X, but I CLEARLY remember old, married couples who despised each other for decades.
Judge races, y'all. They are the WORST to research.
Rest in Power to a major figure in the AIDS treatment activism in the 1980s, a time when many were indifferent or looking away.
Aw shit; that was fantastic
Although nothing compares to the time our GM rolled out the Super Evil Corporate Time Tracking and Optimization plotline and half the players said "oh, like Jellyfish?" and then he googled and then he was sad.
I'm playing in a SR game right now and a frequent topic of conversation is how much LESS of a dystopia parts of it are than what we actually got.
Admittedly, no one really wants to make a roll each session for "your cyber-eyes stop working due to corporate bullshit"
That's very pretty!
It scans. Means non alcoholic beverage. Often fizzy. Most generic term for a Coke.
Highly highly regional in the US with other terms in use such as:
Pop
Coke
Soda
Tonic
Respect the thagomizer
Yeah, that's box wine here. Typically with an (often incorrect) assumption of cheap, a little sweet and a bit trashy.
Cask liquor, in the US, means spirits that haven't been watered down, so they are higher proof than standard. I have no idea how that applies to wine.
I think I'm the only person who had a fabulous experience with the Neons. I owned two, both of them lasted until they were totaled, and I loved them.
They were terrible cars, but for the price point, the manual transmission went ZOOM.
It's so good
We are another step closer to this, and I'm still giggling.
I am going to be cackling about this for days, @lochinvar.bsky.social ! Days.
Yeah, I think you're fine keeping it.
And this one is weird to me, because if it were in dialogue and a non-american used math instead of maths, I think I would actually find it more odd? But I read a lot of UK children's fiction when I was a kid...
I think I know what it is*, but it is going to cause a brief mental stutter. The more it's used in context, the less large the stutter.
*bachelorette party?
Okay, that's just fucking unfair. Women's swim shorts don't have pockets.
There is literally no appliance I want to hear MORE from.
shhhhh
Vibrant hot, perhaps even neon, pink azalea blooms shot from up close. They are like a perfect late-spring day.
They have been utterly gorgeous this year.
I got this picture at the peak of bloom
One of the best places I've ever lived was a small set of apartments where I swear every household was from a different nationality. The kids played soccer in the quad, and sometime around 6:00 pm, you could open your door and smell what heaven must be like.