corporate birds sign their emails "nest"

It's amazing!

Griffin does not even know ABCs!

Determined 90-year-old grandma breaks record for oldest woman to hold a dead hang The indomitable Ann Crile Esselstyn (USA) took this record in front of her proud family, after a lifetime of encouraging her children and grandchildren to be their healthiest selves.

she rules

We all must. Every day.

My pleasure! Thanks for playing. I hope you report back.

I could have cheated, but at what cost!

Your chance paid off! Your word is "reinvest." Verb: 1. to invest again or anew 2 a : to invest (income from investments) in additional securities 2 b : to invest (earnings) in a business rather than distribute as dividends or profits

Sounds promising.

Your word is "congruent"! Adjective: 1. CONGRUOUS, as in the sentence "establish incentives and rewards ~ with professional standing" 2. "superposable so as to be coincident throughout" (as in triangles)

Okay! Your word is "polychaete": noun, "any of a class (Polychaeta) of aquatic and chiefly marine annelid worms. Often brightly colored or bioluminescent."

May your April NOT be filled with glowing sea worms.

Your word is "chronic." Adjective, "continuing or occurring again and again for a long time."

From the Greek chronikós "of time, temporal, in order by time."

This is an ambiguous one––it doesn't have to be negative. Hopefully there's been something good in March that can continue into April...

Your word is "sharp."

Adverb: "1: in a sharp manner 2: exactly"

I can see it.

Your word is "overbuild"!

Verb: "to build beyond the actual demand of"

Sounds potentially productive...maybe you're an overachiever.

Your word is hemiparasitic! "Adj, botany: Of, relating to, or being a plant (as mistletoe) that possesses chlorophyll and typically carries out photosynthesis but is partially parasitic on the roots or shoots of a plant host."

Thanks for playing...the mistletoe association could be significant!

Bibliomancy: I am sitting in front of a copy of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Twelfth Edition.

Reply to this and I will close my eyes, open it, and point to a word at random that will signify something for you in the coming month. No redos. Brave souls only.

got a new dictionary and immediately used it to look up the definition of evil

takes talent to be both a chonk AND just a little guy

Just a little guy with eyes and a mouth that someone made on the base of a stoplight. He is both a chonk and a little guy.

I love him

what if I got really into carrying a change purse

it's not only whimsical, but enables further whimsy (pinball, gumballs)

ADVICE FROM LUCY some good advice from Abigail Welhouse

ADVICE FROM LUCY

Absence of certainty is never the problem.

That’s what we focus on––

instead of the frightening, specific problems

that would take a lot of work to combat.

#SmallPoemSunday

ADVICE FROM LUCY some good advice from Abigail Welhouse

A new advice poem published this week by Be About It Press. Thanks @alexandranaughton.bsky.social for picking it.

I need to re-read it myself from time to time.

How rude. Of course dogs can do ballet. www.instagram.com/dancersanddogs

fighting the good fight 🫠

I'm not my dog's mom, but I AM his publicist

Our Customers Demand Terrible AI Systems We’ve been banging our heads against the wall, trying to think of the new “it” thing our customers want. At one point, somebody suggested improving...

"Customers only care about one thing: barely functioning AI crammed into every facet of their lives."
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Reports from the Phantastikon An irregular bulletin of poems in prose and verse, flash fictions, reviews, critical commentary, aphorisms, feuilletons, satires, cri de coeurs, crackpot ideas, and strange stories that may or may not...

Wrote a weird riff on "Snow-Bound"; if you're stuck inside today you could sign up and read it. buttondown.com/gregorycrosby

Jessica Hauser I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis.....

My friend wrote this about Alex. She was his last nursing student. He taught her lessons we all need right now.

I'm sure the waitress loves you, too.

the psychological need to be the waitress's favorite

My husband just resized his too, and he ended up getting a temporary ring in the meantime because he felt too weird without it