(Not actually the one I have, I altered mine from a thrift store vacation hat, but it's similar in style.)

Get yourself one of these bad boys and you can both prevent skin cancer and make new friends:
www.etsy.com/ca/listing/6...

Having an interesting or unique clothing item that people can comment on really helps break the ice when out in public or meeting new people.

Pro tip for having little interactions with people: Wear a somewhat unique hat.

I have a straw hat that's vaguely historical (inspired by Victorian boaters/18th c. bergères), and I get SO many comments on it.

I've also had people I talk to say "Oh! You're the hat lady!" even while hatless.

Used some metal thingies that come on new mens shirts, and are essentially a sort of clip, to keep my tea towel from falling off the stove rail. Was congratulating myself for that genius yet again this arvo.

This is true for me on a short term level (I will feel cranky on a day off, I feel most depressed by my SAD in early spring), and on a long-term level seeing improvements in my MCAS.

Yes. This exactly.

Some flat-earther in astronaut's IG comments: "This is clearly an AI-generated photo of the earth. Where are the stars? Where are the satellites?"

People are all like "bro u don't understand science" but bro doesn't even understand photography.

So anyways chemtrails are kind of real in Alberta in the summer.

Whether or not cloud seeding works is debatable, but the insurance companies seem to think it's worth their while.

Alberta is the Hail Belt of Canada, and I've experienced golf-ball sized hail twice in this decade. One storm even had like the 20th-largest hailstone on record or something bonkers like that.

So anyways insurance companies are very motivated to seed clouds and make smaller hail.

Something that sounds like a conspiracy theory, but is in fact true: In Alberta they fly planes in the summer to spray chemicals into clouds, so they don't make giant hailstones.

(These are paid for by the insurance industry.)

US organisations funding Alberta separatism is a verifiable fact, the conspiracy bit here is that I think it's not just independent organisations.

The US government is doing a foreign interference in Alberta, by stoking Alberta separationism, like they do with all places that have oil.

Some places only have one flight a day. Or even two to three flights per week.

Even the busiest flight paths in Canada often only have 2-3 flights per day (per airline). The "very last flight of the day" might be the afternoon flight.

Sure I CAN eat that avocado toast. But I'm gonna suffer for it.

Sure I CAN run marathon with training. But I don't wanna.

Sure I CAN work a 9-5, but I don't wanna and also it would be the only thing I do and also I will probably burn out.

There are very few things I can't do, but there are a whole lotta things I don't wanna do, or are too expensive in time and energy and thus I won't do.

My suspicion is it's airborne virus transmission, and I just grew up with cleaner air than most North American preschoolers. I really don't think I magically had a better immune system than average. We just played outside a lot, or were in rooms with open windows.

I was in preschool and so was one of my siblings, at about 5 years old. And then I went to school for 2 years, before we started homeschooling. So it's not like I wasn't AROUND other young kids. I was also in kids' church on Sundays.

But I was not sick that much.

We live in the freaking twenty-first century. Why are we normalising this.

Also the other thing I find really weird is that I did not experience this as a child. Asked Mom about it, and me and my siblings didn't get sick like that.

I keep hearing people say oh when your kid is about daycare age they're just sick all the time and it's totally normal and WHAT. Kids being sick for 1-3 weeks out of every month should probably not be normalised.

I've heard DOCTORS say it's normal ("they're building their immune system").

Ok now I've got the Skippy theme song stuck in my head.

I have just looked at an adventure from DnD 3.5e and it's WAY easier to follow?!? Two-column text, starting with a map, and clearer hierarchical organisation is making a world of difference.

(note that this is about DnD 5e)

I tried to do an intricate campaign with worldbuilding somewhat inspired by Umora and Worlds Beyond Number and uuuuuggghhh I just couldn't. I have to be inspired in game and then figure out how that shapes the world afterwards.

I've definitely learned that I'm the kind of GM who does best when I create the world with the players as I go. I can't do tons of prep, it burns me out and bores me at the same time. Just give me the highlights and we'll flesh stuff out as we play.

Give me

- an adventure hook
- a map (with numbers for "what happens here")
- stat blocks for PCs and opponents

and I'm good to go.

I know there are a lot of other adventures written in a way that does work for me (What Child Is This by Highland Paranormal Society is the platonic ideal of adventure writing for my brain). But every time I try an offical DnD adventure or indie ones written similarly, my brain slides off.

There is simultaneously too much information and not enough information in an official DnD adventure. And it's organised sequentially, not hierarchally (in order of what players will run into not in order of what's important to know) and I just CAN'T.

Looking at offical DnD adventures from various books and my brain DOES NOT work like that. My mind glazes over and I just can't follow the information (which is bonkers because I'm hyperlexic and words are like magnets to me. . . but not in this format).

I need bullet points, graphs and tables.