It was easier than I was expecting!

Ooo thanks for sharing!

Just preordered!!
www.thriftbooks.com/w/mother-ton...

Hmm, that's what I was suspecting. Guess I'll try doing @lingthusiasm.bsky.social's first then

I'm a linguist, maybe that's a plus!

I once had a Belgian guy at a hostel in Brussels go "oh, Canada! How's the bilingualism going, you guys are like us right?" and we spent a subsequent half hour discussing our respective countries' linguistic and political complexities 😂

I want to send the image to someone not on bluesky but I'm not finding the image at the link, is there something I'm missing?

Fuck that's gorgeous

I guess so, yeah!

Oh cool, you bike with your hands?

Adorable things in life/on the social media feed is necessary for keeping up morale!

Same here! And like, I somehow had a friend or two in grade 9 when I was in grade 7 and in grade 7 when I was in grade 9, even though the same-age-mate thing was harder (I've also known preteens who blossom with babies/little kids more than peers)

Ditto. I did find that "do other activities outside school with either a mix of ages or with people who share common interests" (eg summer camp) helped me feel like at least I could get along with SOME people even if not these specific people. At least 2 years older or younger was my sweet spot

I made a chocolate mochi cake as well as butter mochi when I got into mochiko a few years ago and it was also delicious!

I believe this was the recipe I used
food52.com/recipes/3438...

Ooh there was unfortunately no online poster session, any chance of getting to see it for us hybrid folks?