If you're in the Philly area, try a Nifty Fifty's. Lots of soda and shake options (though I myself am a chocolate malt basic bitch).

If something you used to love sucks now, 9/10 this is the reason 👇

was once New Amsterdam.

Short Story Spotlight. A dragon happily curled up reading, in front of a set of book covers, accompanied by the text "and more for $20." Two of the book covers are for my stories "Like Gold Upon Her Tongue" and "Shared Space."

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I don't really mind gray walls. Sure, it's overdone and it's fun to mock the Zillow listings full of grays and other neutrals. But if I don't like the color, I can just paint them.

(I have a not-necessarily-rational fear of falling off the side of a very large boat.)

Why is it landing so close to the edge of the boat? I assume there's a good reason, but still.

Okay, now I'm also thinking that multiple military aircraft in the same area might be the most dangerous part of this mission.

Oh, shut up about Trump.

I would be so terrified getting hoisted up into a helicopter. I think I would find that more viscerally terrifying than moving at Mach 32+.

(I mean, I'm generally too much of a chicken to be an astronaut; I'm sure my baseline would be "extreme fear" punctuated by "sleep" and "abject terror.")

And now that they're all on the front porch, the orcas could do the funniest thing.

Aww, the applause with the first step onto the front porch.

"Green" may mean the astronauts are feeling great, but no way they're not also literally green after screaming through the atmosphere and bouncing around the Pacific for a while. Before getting treated to helicopter rides.

Navy dude who climbed into the capsule should start screaming and squirting squibs out through the hatch.

I did the tours in the lead-up to applications, most in the spring and summer before senior year. The plan was early decision, then stretch-to-safety schools if I didn't get in, without any tours to decide between places where I got in. (I ended up getting into Bryn Mawr early decision.)

I did many college tours in the early '90s. (Mainly Northeast and Mid-Atlantic; I lived in upstate NY, so they were all family road trips.) Spouse, living in Florida, came to his Pennsylvania college sight unseen. I was the eldest of two, he was the youngest, his family had more money.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Things that work: giant rocket, very precise math, orbital mechanics, cameras, iPhones

Things that don’t work: Microsoft Outlook, toilets, sat phones

I mean, yeah, sure, it's an accomplishment for humanity...but NASA did some heavy lifting.

I'm just super impressed with everybody's math.

And the material science and stuff. But really, the math was just spot-on.

And nobody cares that the satphone is down.

"No toxic gases" is always good to hear.

Yeah, I was wondering if that was what they were supposed to look like...

Okay, I guess orcas don't have beef with space capsules. But if the astronauts get on a *ship*...

All right Integrity. But it's still wild that they're just, like, floating in the Pacific, where sharks and orcas live, where the environment is space-hostile not too far under their feet...and it's all fine.

Yes! Splashdown!

And I would walk 649,481 miles for you
And I would walk 649,481 more

(So very terrifyingly high.)

And it's just drifting so *gently* on those last three parachutes.

Yes! Voice contact.

We need a separate emoji for plasma.