Welcome back Sky!

that's a great one; somebody should make the storyboarded sci fi cover story movie into a short film

That doesn’t seem to be singling her out? Does he make it about her earlier on?

Swinging from the trees not recommended in boreal forests, just no way it can end well

, sincerely, your local water company

Already there are adults who don't remember when Presidents could only be white.

Oh man, thanks--you've just explained what's going on with a frequent misunderstanding I have with my father-in-law, it not being obvious when he means "yet" in the "still" sense. He doesn't have many other PA Dutch-isms, but he's from a long-established Lehigh Valley German family, so there it is.

If I heard the tannoy correctly they're offering a bulk deal on buying four alcoholic ciders. Coincidentally we just crossed into Scotland

of course, and those people are horrible incels and should be ignored. (the people who are very horny should probably also be ignored but for different reasons)

they were, uh, more sensitive about this in the remake. this did not make the fanbase less horny

On the other hand: I'm aces now at solving silly topology-ish questions about a map of islands represented as a 2D binary array. Will this skill ever help me? No. Is it fun? Kinda.

You call it sinning, I call it valuable life experience of the kind that helps with tending to a flock.

Six months from now: JKR announces she believes there is now one legitimate use for puberty blockers

AI coding agents can be used to improve mastery as well. It requires extra work to ask follow up questions and dig deeper into topics.

Story is always the same: learning is about the work you put in.

A quick reminder of what #BigFebruary is about…
Thanks to the magic of the cosmos, we start gaining daylight much faster in Feb than in Jan. Over 20 mins a week - setting us up for Spring.

This chart is by @neilrkaye.bsky.social and is one of my all time favourites.

Frémont never missed an opportunity to wild out, for good or for ill

his oldest kids would've been eight years old then