another victim of this is handwriting. I've seen kids' handwriting these days and become a STAUNCH advocate of bringing back mandatory handwriting classes through at least middle school

Nice to hear the roar of the crowd.

add it to the list of fave secondary motivations, lol! that and the erstwhile

Little more than a case of wine in each hand atp! Not too too many months before I'm curling my farmer's walk weight :)

Mini ramekins are the best pinch bowls. I keep my cooking salt (Diamond Crystal of/c) in one next to the stovetop.

Bumped my weight with curls today and man am I feeling it lol

Nostalgic fave for me. Didn't age suuuuuper well, but still great fun.

It is not an exceptional feature among the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is the nyt columnists' bullpen, but I firmly believe that on a fundamental level, brooks is just an ideological moron. Insulated from the consequences of his dogshit opinions for too long to have any grasp on reality

okay as someone whose go-to noskip album is American Idiot, great recommendation for weekend listening, ty ty

From an interview with writer Susanna Clarke—

'pardon, I think you may have brought me someone else' bowl of rats'

fun bit of easterngray lore, my great-grandfather was a 31st-degree, mason, so like a tick below the top rank, iirc? kind of neat tbh.

not sure about the 'terrorist' part, but hey, i'm open to suggestions

mfw I throw a birthday party

The Hölderlin was the one that stuck out to me. I've read *a* book by Hölderlin (*Hyperion*), and while I enjoyed it, he has never come up in the near decade it's been since I took the class that assigned it. Like, how many people does this guy ask if they've read Hölderlin answer affirmatively?

Right? It's such a scattershot picking of the bog-standard retvrn bro western canon greatest hits. Sucks for the implied mentality, sucks for the surface level engagement.

Hah! I read notification preview for your reply which went up to 'center of mass for the solar system', and immediately thought, 'so, the sun then?' haha! But that is a very fun fact about the barycenter. Thanks for the reply!

The sun and her planets:

Is the default frame of reference for 'speed' in the solar system the sun? I know there was that solar probe that was going like .064c relative to the surface of that ol' ball o' fire.

yeouch, teeth out and nothing but advil? the valium didn't help much with the pain but it DID help out with the incredibly visceral sound of getting teeth pulled out of one's jaw.

yeah! I've never been given a valium for doing paperwork. I have been given ALL SORTS of fun stuff for getting teeth out.