Patricia Correll

@SandyofCthulhu No one has ever asked for this to happen. The vast majority of Muslims are just living their lives and not demanding special treatment at all. Schools publish their menus in advance so I am sure anyone with dietary restrictions keeps an eye on it and plans accordingly.

The person who wrote this can't spell cafeteria correctly so I hope he's not part of the school. But the answer is: every school I've gone to allowed these two things: 1) you could always brown-bag your lunch 2) they had reserved special meals for special kids. Back in the day it was just diabetics and kosher Jews, but I suppose now there's a whole range. Let Muslims brown bag it. Or give them the cheese pizza instead of pepperoni. It's not this big hard leap. We didn't remove pork for Jews. We don't need to remove it for Muslims.

Use only one piece of art to convince people to follow you Not nearly as good as most of these, but I try

Sleepover.

The world's oldest preserved ham was originally smoked in 1902. Right now it resides in a museum in Isle of Wight county. There's a webcam. Yep, that's a ham all right. See for yourself. Isle of Wight County Museum Smithfield, Virginia USA - Home share.google/0QEuvBEVgL1PuT…

Drawing all the skin texture is a pain and a half but they look so much more alive, it's worth it.

@CentipedeMouse It looks like you're about to be brought down by something unusually large... 😄 It's amazing! She's really good.

My 9yo daughter made a delightful picture of us in a hot air balloon

Hey everyone - tomorrow afternoon I am going dark. Not forever! I will be in DC from Sunday-Saturday and it seems prudent to uninstall all my social media from my phone. You don't have to go back 5 years to find me trash-talking Trump. Maybe 5 hours. See you next week!

Remembered the amargasauris existed and decided I had to draw this utter freak.

Actually, keep your hands off anything to do with children.

Keep your filthy hands off Pokémon.

@armondboudreaux I learned about this from Blindsight by Peter Watts. It's a fascinating thought experiment. The novel explains it really well too.

Alright, since you asked: Imagine a room. Four walls, a floor, and a ceiling. No windows. There’s a slot in one of the walls. You’re inside the room, and your job is simple (if a bit laborious). Every day, people outside the room pass notes written in Chinese through the slot, and you respond to those notes. Now, you don’t know a bit of Chinese, but you have a (VERY thick) rulebook that tells you exactly which Chinese symbols to pass back through the slot in response to the notes from outside. If you see symbol group A followed by B on a note, you look up the rule, which tells you to hand back symbols X, Y, and Z in response. You just shape-match, follow the rules, and pass back notes that mean absolutely nothing to you… because you still don’t know any Chinese. The people outside the room never see you, and they think they’re communicating with someone in Chinese because you pass the Turing test with flying colors. You get REALLY good at using that rulebook. That, folks, is John Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment—and it’s also a description of Claude, Grok, Copilot, ChatGPT, etc. Claude is not experiencing anxiety. It’s also not thinking or communicating in any way.

@DBBell65 But no one makes pants that take that into account!

Wearing my new pants and realizing that I am having the same problem I always do. My thighs are one size but my waist is at least a size smaller than that 😅 Thank goodness for belts.

@PenseeCorner Yes! I couldn't think of his name.

@Author_PCorrell Wasn’t Fred Willard the bartender and the only real human character?

Does anyone remember a show called DC Follies? It satirized politics; the characters were real politicians but were represented by puppets. My dad used to watch it. I liked it but of course didn't understand a lot of the jokes because I was a kid. I feel like you couldn't -

Porg is obviously coming on the field trip with us. But maybe Mabel should come too. Little chicken in the big city?

make that show today. Politics is just too broken, and just too downright MEAN.

@Author_PCorrell I LOVE IT!!! I was not expecting this, this was not on my bingo card for today; YOU win internet today!!

Me: I have to go to the grocery. Any requests? Fifth-grader: Oh, I know what you have to get! Me: What? FG: That boom-boom pow. Me: That's it, I'm taking you out of the will.

@thelongcripple Women's bodies tend to have a wider variety of shapes than men's do, I guess. Though finding pants for my very tall, very thin boys is no picnic either 😅

@Author_PCorrell Good pants are hard to find.

Looks like my weekend is all set