I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:

Mat Ricardo but know that's a geographic challenge most of the time

Reminds me of the time I photographed a lizard basking on a wall in Malta, and then when I got back to where I was staying and had internet to pull up ID reference materials found out it was... a Maltese wall lizard

(Last little few weeks suddenly seeing more chestnut-backed chickadees mixed in with the black-cappeds and I am STOKED)

And there are SO MANY KINDS of little guys, and then sometimes there'll be different little guys that are just slightly different from the usual little guys and you can get excited about THAT

Ahem, *A* 'No One Wants This' candidate...

He splurged on the retractile option, he drives a motorcycle and needs to fit it in to a helmet sometimes

The dream

The beef industry has enough influence with food safety regulators to artificially keep temp guidelines for pork and chicken higher than necessary for food safety reasons to preserve steak's high-end caché

(I think I lean team stamp just because I never had a someone stick a sticker on my wrist that let me get in and out of a cool music venue)

Wow RIP stamps, what a bloodbath...

Far from the first time, calling anything "almost a guarantee" that something was written by an "AI" is deeply irresponsible. LLMs imitate corpus, and if they use a given construction it's because it was in the human-written texts scraped to train them.

The edible gravel in my neighbor's driveway tastes awful. He keeps telling me "stop eating that, it's not edible". What kind of edible gravel isn't edible?

There are two types of people in the world: People who sometimes make off-by-one errors

RIP to the lucky fan who won the drawing to sit on the back and wave

Wild to me that they're not "Max"

Loving how much within-network crossover there is in this year's @maximumfun.org #maxfundrive, both the Casters on Casters feed drops and in a lot of the drive boco eps

I find it so frustrating when I'm playing a game and figure out a possible solution/action and then before I even have the opportunity to try it and see if it works the game tells me in words to do that thing

Wow, I haven't seen such casters on casters since my short lived D&D campaign where all the wizards and sorcerers had to ride around on office chairs and AV carts!

(Unofficial subreddit motto: "It's Santa")

The Chanel logo, a "C" and a backwards "C" crossing on their closed side

The Under Armour logo: a "U" and an inverted "U" crossing on their closed side so the upright "U" crosses the inverted one to give the sense of an "A"

Wait, waaaaait

What is My Cookie Cutter Reddit’s cozy nook for finding what your cookie cutter could be.

www.reddit.com/r/whatismyco...

Your mom’s a TIGER?!?

(Yes I know I am incredibly late, I have this problem where I'll want to see a movie but then completely forget it exists every time I sit down to pick a movie to watch, yes I should keep a list, I've tried but always forget I have a list)

Finally got around to "I Saw The TV Glow" and wow glad I saw that in the privacy of my own home because if I'd seen it in theaters the theater staff would have had to carry me out in a bucket to turn over the house, I was a quivering puddle on the couch for several minutes after credits

[positive]

In fairness to you pretty unfair and misleading to call that open tube a "basket"

Yes, but it's not "healthy," for orthorexic values of the word

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

The deeper unintended symbolism is pretty hilarious, putting this on an accessory that is worn in such a way that at no time will any legible part of it be visible

That relief when you go to a new thing with a bunch of strangers and are cautiously feeling out the cultural vibes and then you get to a break and everyone gets out water bottles and they all have least one antifascist slogan sticker and at least one queer flag on them...