Beautiful! I love the snail!!
The little frog is amazing!!!!! What a lovely find!
First time loot!
First time magnet fishing (with a kit borrowed from my local library) in the Charles. Mostly just old nails but had a great time and will definitely do it again!
Also had a lovely conversation with the department of conservation and recreation about the hobby when I was asking about regulations in my area.
You are my hero and I love you
Virtual History Ancient Egypt, anyone have a way to play it?
Hey friends! Back in middle school I was OBSESSED with this Egypt resource management game called Virtual History Ancient Egypt, but it has since vanished from the internet. Does anyone perhaps have a version of that runs or know where I can get one? I have the technical skills to hack a virtual machine together if needed.
The carousel of confusion
Wish this were me rn
IDK about other clients but Tesseract and Mlem (at least on the 2.0 beta) both embed loops videos so they play the same as any other video
Yeah I find watching baseball (professional or otherwise) in person to be wayyyy more fun than on the tv. That being said the recent addition of the pitch clock does make things go much faster even on the tv imo
Fair fair. Do you feel the same way about baseball?
Do you personally dislike all sports or just football?
The city I work in prohibits the selling or giving away of city property so we aren’t allowed to sell them (and truly most of the time they are so old and crusty and yucky that no one would pay any amount of money for them), but if the quality of books is super high we sneakily donate them to More Than Words. That being said we do hold book sales stocked by donations from patrons and the proceeds go into our programming budget.
Hahaha that is hilarious!!
Probably the time I had a book come back with the pages taped back together in a completely random order. Created a wild ride of a story lol
Depends on the library and the type of book. Typical time frames are 10 years, 7 years, 5 years, or 2 years. For example I work in an busy urban library in the children’s room and we were running out of space in our fiction novel section so we did a 5 year then a 2 year when the first one didn’t make enough space. Our biography section grows less quickly so we do 7 year weeds.
It does! We gotta clear space on the shelves sometimes for new books :)
It is a blanket lol but it’s just throw size.
I had never considered printing on a shower curtain!! That’s hilarious and I will definitely be stealing that gift idea so thank you!
We Found a Hat! One of my favorite picturebooks.
It’s giving low fi beats hip hop beats to relax/study to
Servers/wait staff, do you find it rude if patrons stack their plates while waiting for the check?
I’ve always ment for it to be helpful, but I can see it being read rude or passive aggressive. Thank you in advance for your time and your thoughts!
I’ve had a mix of both but that is a good point
Probably election relation. 🤞for you that it calms down
Thank you!! Through this I discovered that registering to vote in one state does not invalidate your old registration…
How do I tell Pennsylvania I no longer live there?
4 years ago I was a Pennsylvania resident and registered voter. I have since moved to another state and have switched my voter registration. I had assumed changing my registration would be sufficient however, I am on some list of PA voters bc I get A LOT (oh my god it’s so much) of political texts and calls. It’s too late for this election and perhaps it won’t be so bad next time, and I wish they weren’t wasting their time and that my inbox weren’t so full.
What do you value in a reading tracking service
Hello! I am currently making a reading tracking website (a la Goodreads, StoryGraph, and LibraryThing) as a personal project and have hit a bit of a wall, so I've come to the internet for ideas.
What do y'all like about your tracking service of choice. What features do you think are cool or important? Are there any things that your service doesn't do that you wish it did?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
Fancy shelter cat
My shelter cat who we are 99% is a Turkish angora!
Audio balance sometimes changes
Hey all! I think at one point I changed the balance of my audio output (an earbud was a little dead so I shifted the amount of sound coming out of the left and right to compensate). I’ve long since gotten a new pair of headphones but sometimes I connect them and the balance has reverted back! It drives me bananas (I’m the sort of person who must turn on the mono sound accessibility feature bc stereo effects make me dizzy) and I have no idea if it’s something I’m doing to trigger the behavior or if I’m stuck with it until this computer dies.
Anyone else experiencing this or have any ideas about how to fix it?
6 years and ~6 months long snapchat streak
Since 2017!
Does your cat sit like this??
Is this a normal way for a cat to sleep? He is a rescue and I’m pretty sure his hips were injured at some point, so I always thought that this was related. But we’ve just gotten a kitten who started doing it too.
SUUUPER random question
Does anyone know where one might acquire chocolate Twizzlers in Cambridge (or one of the adjacent cities)? I've looked at Star and CVS and haven't found any. Thanks!
Crosswalk is at an intersection that is NEVER the pedestrian's turn so good hecking luck with that one, Lancaster.
Just read Project Hail Mary
And I absolutely loved it. It is honestly one of my new favorite books. I am going to tag basically this whole post as spoilers because the thing that truly makes this book amazing does not start until almost 100 pages in.
SPOILERS
FOR THOSE ON APPS THAT CAN'T HANDLE THEM
SPOILERS
::: spoiler spoiler
I love stories about friendship and the friendship between Grace and Rocky was truly beautiful. They are both lost and confused and in a horrible situation but they both take everything in stride. They see a way to help eachother and to not have to do it alone and they grab onto it with both (all five) hands. The way they both accept the other's habits knowing there are things that are fundamentally different between each other is a lesson for everyone.
The growth we see from Grace is also some of the best I've read. We learn later that he chose the self-centered path by refusing to join the Hail Mary crew on his own. Then, when faced with a very similar choice he chooses to save