despite past issues I have yet to be stung I just disapprove of their nesting locations

A cashier at CVS just asked me if I’m a professional wrestler

I found a wasp in the bathroom, I don't know where it came from and as someone in a very old house with past nest issues I'm slightly worried, I should do a check outside later

it's been taking me a while to read because I keep having to get up and walk around and think about it

The stuff around recovery from brain injury is pretty great too, music therapy FTW

If you read "Musicality" and don't come away from it wanting robust music education available for all youth (and everyone else too), something went wrong, I'm nearly finished and I'm amazed

A baby raccoon

A baby raccoon

Meanwhile
A timeline cleanse:

I went to change my snow tires to summer tires this afternoon...

And discovered I've got a raccoon nursery in my shed.

everyone should read this book. i’d bet you’ll look at (and hopefully use) AI very differently if you knew about all of its consequences.

care about the environment? AI is not your friend.

care about the well-being of workers from the Global South? AI is not your friend.

Most of the pundit cottage industry is based around obfuscating a very simple truth out of psychological self-protection, that one of America’s two major parties came to be the Demented Psycho Evil-Ass Rape Party from affirmative choices their voters made of their own free will because they liked it

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

illustration of some dragon pokemon featuring garchomp, gible, flygon, trapinch, salamence, bagon, goodra, goomy, tyranitar and larvitar tyranitar and larvitar are not dragons but pseudo legends

little guys 👾
#art #pokemon

At least Claire's footwear is sensible for zombie hunting

The short shorts romper + body leotard makes me wonder about bathroom breaks

hmm. interesting. would you say it damn near killed him?

I keep getting ads letting me know I can get tamales in town now, I've never has one

it's back to more normal spring weather, it was very muggy last night, I didn't like it

From: Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose (1964), dir. Jiří Trnka, Krátký Film Praha

Egyptian Archaeologists Find Perfectly Circular Temple Tied to Ancient Water Cult At first, researchers believed they'd found an old government structure. They were very wrong.

Egyptian Archaeologists Find Perfectly Circular Temple Tied to Ancient Water Cult gizmodo.com/egyptian-arc...

I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

lol imagine being on a submarine right now

YIKES

Glad for all the romantasy readers who're living in their golden age but when will fiction drenched in unsentimental cynicism starring women who give no fucks be on trend again (asking for myself and my career)

“We hear you humans are joining the Bird Fan Club. We approve.”
(Blue Jay) #birds 🌿

Georgia O'Keeffe Pink Moon over Water | 1924

Georgia O'Keeffe
Pink Moon over Water | 1924

We mention Disney's Motor Mania in Life After Cars. When it was released 76 years ago it understood something fundamental about driving: No one becomes a *better* person behind the wheel of a car.

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

Comic: Types of Board Game. [Each panel has a person, a person with a ponytail, a person with shoulder-length hair, and a person with a white hat seated around a table with different board game and pieces on top. (1) Boring: PERSON 3: Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we all get tired and go home. (2) Abstract: PERSON 1: Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a... (3) Hyperspecific Theme: PERSON 2: It’s October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations... (4) Overcomplicated: PERSON 4: It’s a cross between *Twilight Imperium* and *Cones of Dunshhire*, but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and... (5) Cooperative: PERSON 3: We’re working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we’ll silently organize my junk drawer. (6) Branded: PERSON 1: You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku. (7) Party: PERSON 2: Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the... (8) Social Deduction: PERSON 3: Remember, per our *find the secret murderer* house rules from last week, discovering that a player has committed a real-life murder does *not* count.

Types of Board Game

xkcd.com/3235/

traveling whaleburys

Philanthropy is a billionaire trick. They took all the money and now they get to decide. And then when one of them deigns to pay for something, they get treated like they are the best people in the world. They aren't.