maybe you should build a shrine to vive la france...

I'd never encountered those coffee shops that are secretly church fronts till I moved to portland in my 20s, I feel like this is related

it was originally recommended to me w/american, but I usually use sliced colby to be honest

why not have a million chess sets in the basement next to looping footage of dance pioneer loie fuller, with the queen of romania's jewels upstairs, etc, etc!?!
(my husband, jesse's pal from lincoln hs days, took me there on one of our early dates, his grandma was a longtime docent)

hope you don’t need anything that comes in [checks notes] plastic packaging

I had no idea about this aspect of Hughes' life and work.

a slice of cheese on top really ups the experience imo

Founder of iconic Oregon roadside amusement park dies at 96 Roger Tofte spent seven years building the woodsy wonderland — and another 50 watching crowds flood in.

oh RIP to mr tofte! my cousins and i all grew up around his grandkids and he worked at the highway dept with our grandpa bob, they were both draftsmen. he was a nice man and of course he built the world's best theme park by hand

www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”

― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Happy Birthday! hope this year is the best one yet!

load bearing tweet for a settler colonial society

this is a little more on the spendy side but I got a cameo for my spouse's bday a few years back from Mark Boone Junior(my dude loves Patriot so much, but he was also a frequently recurring character in SOA) and the dude did like a 16 min long video for him, it was amazing! he even played guitar!!!

@billhookunion.beanyear.com just wanted to make sure you see/saw these gondolas for apples...

when my kiddo was around 6 months old I was taking him for a walk and two ravens suddenly appeared on the hwy pedestrian bridge. I said hello & very politely introduced him to them, and that's how I discovered my queens nyc hood has seasonal ravens (they fly down from canada for the winter).

These eager beavers saved the Czech government $1.2 million After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, nothing that beavers do surprises me.”

2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments.

One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿

yeah I'm just now realizing how reading pippi as a kid made me feel seen & okay with myself in many ways

ronia is definitely my favorite too, just top notch

as requested.

🧠: gondolas for ski
🧠🧠: gondolas for urban transit
🧠🧠🧠🤯: gondolas for apples

The gondola connecting the central treatment hub of the largest apple producers consortium in Italy to the underground storage facility.
Opened last November.

I own philip k dick's travel razor

yeah this is exactly how the discussion went last year with my kid, too

‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve

Some good news.

“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”

this car was just one banger sticker after another...

definitely

it's such a good bumper sticker, I took a pic of a car with one in the dalles

this just flooded my brain with so much dopamine

do I know any folks with a focus on nyc slang & speech patterns c1918, especially of teenagers? trying to help out a canadian academic who's in need of second pass on a chapter of their novel, set in this era, lmk if this is you, thanks!

now I have "add it up, add it up" running through my head, love it

oh wait it's my pal beth that runs that thrift store for the rock kicking guy I think, you would love her, I've honestly thought about how much y'all would hit it off!