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My toddler, just now: "I'm always sniffing you, Daddy!"

Me: .... Do I... smell good?

Her: Yes, you smell good, Daddy!"

Me: Uh... Thank you?

(Fortunately, Dengue Fever is not contagious, so unlike my FOUR bouts of Covid, my little girl can come snuggle me.)

For context, her mom @thesurestthing swears I smell like the skin of a ripe mango, except when I'm sweaty, when she swears I smell like mango and curry. She sometimes playfully sniffs me tp be silly, which I assume is where our daughter gets it from.

Now she is repeatedly singing the hook to a J-Pop song @geniussheepworld was playing on her phone. IN JAPANESE. No one in this household speaks Japanese, so she must have learned it phonetically.

😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

Talking to a toddler is sometimes like talking to someone who is on acid: "Listen, kiddo: Fire burns, cars are real, and you can't fly."

Dude, I was basically in superhero shape in my twenties. I only weighed 160 or so, but I benched 260. I spent an average of twelve hours a week in martial arts classes, and many more hours each week practicing on my own or with friends. I ran two miles in a little over ten minutes, and never found a limit to how many sit-ups or pushups I could do. I used to walk around concerts with my girlfriend on one shoulder, and her sister on the other. I broke concrete blocks with my bare hands.

Today, due to various injuries and illnesses--including being run over by a truck, four bouts of COVID, a birth defect I thought I had overcome, a cycle accident, arthritis that I had no idea I'd inherit, and the fact that in my quest to take care of my body, I made some mistakes--I am on disability, walk with cuff crutches and take several daily medications in order to get by.

Now, it shouldn't take the ominous warning of "it can (and likely will, if you live to reach old age) happen to you" to get you to care about disabled people, but if reminding people of that is what it takes, then okay.

If it could happen to me, it could happen to anybody.

Me: I think the brain fog is better today! @thesurestthing: Your pants are on inside out, babe.

I have a lot of feelings on how indigenous groups who didn’t build permanent structures like cities aren’t seen as being as sophisticated as ones who built large cities, without accounting for the fact that maybe it’s in our values systems to leave as light of a footprint as possible and it’s important that our structures are easily taken down or fade with the passage of time because it’s easier on the landscape, but ya know.

This made me think of the story one of my Coast Salish acquaintances tells of how her family would travel from the Puget Sound up Mt. Rainier every year and, sure, following herds but also they had berry bushes and trees and prairies (with camas is the one she always talks about but I'm sure other foods) that were in the care of specific families so they also followed the plants through the year. They cultivated and cared for them, not just coming to gather and move on to the unknown. They came back and to the same places, the same plants and trees every year.

I think a lot of people mistake what a huge connection that is to land and territory. They hear "nomadic" and dismiss it without realizing. It doesnt mean you dont have roots in the area. It means your roots are so ingrained in the area outsiders dont even see them there.

!!!!!

My 14 year old brother just took a drink of hot chocolate and hissed like he'd knocked back a shot of vodka then set it down and went "ah... that's the good stuff."

Just watched him lose a card game as badly as he could on purpose for the sole purpose of annoying the guy trying to run the game and when I was like what is wrong with you all he said was "that's how we do it down in Vegas"

I told him that this has 2k notes and the people love him and he completely deadpan went "wow it's everything I ever wanted" and then immediately accidentally set himself on fire in skyrim and died

His reaction^

The game becomes open-world when you master the skills: Talk To People and Ask For Things

I promise this is especially true for museum folks, library folks, and academics. We are always looking for an opportunity to talk about our silly little special interests and we will love you for providing one. Send the email.

Send the email!

my brother was making fun of me and our other brother for having the same haircut, and we were immediately like "what the fuck are you talking about? you had this EXACT SAME haircut like a year ago. this is your haircut too. jackass." so we start arguing back and forth until our mom stops us and says "come here." and she brings out her ID from when she was a teenager and... its the same haircut.

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you will miss this in 40 or 48 hours. twitter will smooth your brain down like a river stone, and you will find yourself longing for a social media platform that hasn't meaningfully changed in a decade. you don't know I'm posting about you in real time bc Sarah has timestamps switched off. I'm not dead, Grant. Grant, let me out of the casket. Graaaant,

i bet there were guys in the 1800s who were super fucking Reddit about everything, but no one had the right word yet for why those guys were so annoying. so they just had to wonder

Der lästige Kavalier (The Annoying Gentleman), by Berthold Woltze, 1874.

that is a "hello darkness my old friend" face if I ever saw one.

Cybersmith off his shits

keep in mind also that this girl is

A. A teenager, since her hair is almost fully down (the longer skirt and her traveling alone make me think maybe 14-15), and

B. In mourning, as evidenced by her entirely matte and unornamented black dress, gloves, and hat

so this guy is pestering a young girl who's just lost someone close to her, in absence of clear social cues meant to convey exactly that

I recently saw it pointed out elseTumblr that, a remarkably easy detail to miss, she is going for her hatpin. The clear social cues are about to escalate.

I for one think that is very valid of her and that hatpinning That Guy should still be considered a socially acceptable and perhaps even laudable option.

If someone on the internet gives you unsolicited advice and then hounds you to explain *why* their solution won't work for you, they're signalling that they probably won't leave you alone until you've revealed potentially compromising information. They are functionally indistinct from someone trying to doxx you, and it's okay to treat them as such.

"I just don't understand" Correct. You don't.

Respect for privacy and respect for autonomy go hand in hand, as you can see from the vast number of people who respect neither.

I find it so funny, in light of TikTok’s imminent American demise, that even now they aren’t considering moving to tumblr. The last two social media refugee crises (Twitter -> X and whatever happened with Reddit) prompted a wave of wide-eyed new baffled tumblr users to flood this app and yet last I heard all of the tiktokers are flooding en-masse a Chinese social media app. That is entirely in Mandarin. Instead of moving to tumblr.

Like. People are learning mandarin to join this social media site. I’m not joking. There are tutorials going around to show people who don’t speak Mandarin how to sign up for this app. They’re all talking about how they’d rather learn a new language than join instagram reels and it is not a thought in ANYONE’S mind that tumblr is also potentially an option

To be clear im not mad about this. I’d rather see a generation of people learn a new language and engage in cross cultural connections than have a wave of tiktokers flood this app but I still think this whole thing is very funny

no because that is quite literally what is happening on Red Book right now like. All of the Chinese users went “hey why are there suddenly a gazillion Americans on here?” to which the Americans went “they’re banning TikTok and we’re moving out of spite” and the Chinese were like “oh cool send us pictures of your cats and help us with English homework and we’ll send you pictures of our cats and help you learn Mandarin” and as far as I can tell everyone is having a genuinely very nice time together.

I do think with news of the ceasefire, everyone should read up on what the ceasefire actually means and what the different phases of the ceasefire are. here's a good source for what we know as of now:

Some of my initial takeaways are:

"Deny, Defend, Depose"

Luigi sticker spotted on a Boston train

I do realize this is the second day in a row I’ve had nurse chapel star in a comic. What can I say? She is my queen.

Hey

Hey Americans.

The federal government is about to get useless for at least a bit. This is a GREAT time to get involved in state level environmental orgs. That's where you're gonna be able to do the most for the next few years. Even a bit of casual volunteering can make a big difference.

I've done this off and on for years and when we go local we WIN. And friends winning feels good. This is how a lot of progressive agendas have won in this country. The whole US isn't out of this. People ARE still fighting climate change all around you.

You could be one of those people, in community with other people who are doing something.

I like this post because it makes getting involved seem positive and fun. So many of these are like 'you MUST do the hard work of stewarding your local government! I don't care if you don't like it!' And I think that's just as demoralizing as saying you can't do anything.

I think you WILL like it. If you don't, you don't have to be married to it. You can check out several places and see what sticks. Make an event out of it! Bring cookies! If we work together, we win! We have so much to look forward to!

the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor

One of the most jarring moments of my university education was in a physics class when I was given a device that measures gravity and was told “this cost the university sixteen thousand dollars, but the only glass blower in the world who could make the glass springs inside it died so it’s literally irreplaceable. If you drop it those springs will shatter. Go fuck around with it for a day and take some measurements”

If you are truly interested in becoming a scientific glassblower, Salem Community College in New Jersey has a 2 year associates degree program for it, and if you actually complete it, you’re practically guaranteed a job in the field if you want one.

The program is amazing. I spent a year in that program before getting into an MFA program. If you really want to learn how to flamework glass, there is no better place to do so IMO.

A weird quirk about that program is that it also attracts a number of pipe makers (at least when I went there in the mid 2010s).

10/10 would definitely recommend.

Holy crap, possibly the first ever live recording of a meteorite strike?

Debris samples were sent to the University of Alberta, which verified that it was a chondrite meteorite.