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,
a chapterbook: *came with a stitched in ribbon bookmark, had a cloth spine, had those rough edged finished pages, or came with a map*
8 year old me: i am a 500 year old librarian and this is the most valuable book in my collection. i rescued it myself from a castle as it burned to the ground. *gingerly runs my little grubby hands down its spine and gazes wistfully out of the school bus window* i am the keeper of all civilization’s knowledge
Hypothesis: Command !squeak! means Lay Down As Forcefully As Possible.
Results: inconclusive. Will continue to attempt until churu is achieved.
Is this it???? Is this squeaking??? He’s deploying the squeaker
On the bright side, he’s definitely figured out that Belly Up and Pet The Baby are commands. He’s not 100% on what the cues for them are but hey, you can’t have it all
I think my recent and ongoing obsession with Leverage is helping me shift to the perspective that I don’t especially care that what Trump and Musk are doing is illegal and unconstitutional (which it is), I care that it is cruel and causing excessive suffering for millions of people, or even dozens of people. I’m glad that people like Tish James and my college friend who works for her are fighting the good legal fight, but the law does not really seem to matter to the people grabbing power so why should it matter to me?
Also I just finally read The Dispossessed and the basics of anarchism are bubbling in my brain.
back again encouraging people to start using the hobby stuff they’ve been acquiring for years
reasons to start can include:
the hobby industry wants only for us to keep buying and never use, so using the stuff pushes back
some hobby items do not survive long term storage
if there’s some craft or hobby thing that you want to do but feel your skills aren’t up to, consider that those skills won’t improve if you don’t practice on other things
using it allows it to move from the hobby hoard to the [whatever you made it into] hoard, where you may be more likely to enjoy it more often than just when you specifically look at the hobby hoard
making things is good for the brain
curious to see what other reasons people might add
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