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They can't take away my skies ☁️

@Watchman_motto What's stopping someone from building these today?

The thing about these old homes is that the floor plan is always genius. You may think that you can come up with a better floor plan, but even modern architects have a hard time doing it right. It’s also not intuitive why this is so nice, and many people have a hard time seeing it in their mind’s eye when looking at a print.

@PhadkeTai One of my favorite floral scents!

love telling absolute strangers my favourite magnolia facts: not only did magnolias exist alongside dinosaurs, they existed BEFORE BEES! they used to be pollinated by beetles because bees simply did not exist yet!!!

STOP THE CAR

@UnseenOps Is 76 worth it? Playing 4 right now again

The first C.A.M.P which I've actually put effort into in 76, I tried to make a cosy little protected shelter which fits into the world by building it into a tunnel under the road.

@molochofficial @PBFcomics nailed it

The secret to teaching (much like tweeting) is to keep things largely impersonal and stick to the topic at hand but then to surprise them every once in a while with a tantalizing suggestion of interiority or personal history

@evilwizardbunny Peanut butter and mayo Liverwurst and onion Onion and cheese Fried egg, mayo, curry powder Bahn mi Eastern European open faced sandwiches Pressed Italian foccaccia The Elvis Lobster rolls Egg salad

on monday my (cold) sandwich arc begins so please share your favorite sandwich toppings/combos here. i need to make sandwiches i never thought were possible. i need a sandwich that will fundamentally change me as a human.

@moultano Cold brew, ice, sparkling mineral water, rub the rim of the glass with a twist of orange peel and add it as a garnish. Coffee soda 👨‍🍳👌

It would be nice if any mainstream coffee chain offered any interesting drinks where the primary ingredient wasn't sugar. Starbucks is doing a whole pistachio thing right now, so I thought I'd try it. Nope, still just sugar.

people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now

@yumtapwater Yes, I loved Old country buffet but I wish there was OLD COUNTRY buffet

Real eaters remember. Shoutout to the burnsville location which I took very seriously as a kid

@rubeishbin What in the name of Will Vinton

saint urho statue, finland, minnesota

@woofknight Programming concepts were invented by weaving loom patterns computerhistory.org/storageengine/…

@uncledoomer Inadvertently almost led a student revolt in 4th grade math by asking during a math competition what we would win if we won, my poor sweet teacher froze deer in headlights as students realized that winning for the sake of winning was not worth the effort

if you have bright kids in public school you really need to explain the game to them and give them outlets for the boredom, otherwise they will end up hunting their midwit teachers self esteem for sport like apex predators

@mubrgubn @LauraRbnsn That is very eye opening, and as someone with a great father, is comforting

@LauraRbnsn Given that "patriarchy" literally means "rullled by fathers" rather than the common interpretation of "rullled by men" this probably shouldn't be surprising

I've been reading ancient marriage contracts for a manuscript and I think it's really fun to see that a lot of our stereotypes of the ancient world are actually not the whole story. Patriarchal societies, sure. But no one can overcome the power of Girl Dad.

@SymoneBeez The ties that bind the conservative movement together are rooted in a disgust for The Other that are at times at significant odds with each other. Following it for the last 6-8 years I've been waiting for it to schism. Strange bedfellows.

I don't watch this guy at all but seeing this news about Tucker is crazy.

@ChuckDeVore Stories of soldiers on opposing sides becoming friends after war always gets to me. It's never the ones that decide to start a war that have to fight in it...

I met a kamikaze pilot once. On Kamchatka. In 1993. I was at Elizovo airport for a month to relieve the onsite manager of our JV tech stop (our Western liability insurance was only valid if a Westerner was present - something about Russians being drunk all the time). I was having a (bad) dinner in the hotel restaurant in Petropavlovsk when a Japanese man approached me, "American?" "Yes." "Businessman?" "Yes." "With the airport?" "Yes." "Please come so us in room 545." 15 minutes later I go to 545 and see a room of about seven men, late 60s to mid-70s, plus the guy who asked me questions. They're eating dried seaweed and drinking whisky. I join in (they're mildly surprised that I eat the seaweed). Eventually, the man next to me, a retired chief chemical engineer for a major Japanese conglomerate (the team was there on business recon mission) says, "I was a kamikaze pilot." (He said it with a gravely voice, clear, but accented.) OK, you have my full attention. "I owe my life to the U.S. Army Air Forces. "I was due to go on my mission the next day. But that night, American bombers came over our base and destroyed the fuel tanks. "No fuel, no mission." (He drew out the two "noes.") And so, he ended up becoming a chemist and lived a long, productive life in Japan.

I wish my WOKE kids would finally go to SLEEP so I can watch OCEAN'S 12 with my LOVELY WIFE

@UnseenOps I've had jelly like that before (Konjac?) Incredible electrolyte profile, and vegetable collagen. Definitely felt like space food.

Continuing to reverse-engineer the inspiration for Marathon's world

@StatisticUrban But I have no idea how other people are getting by. How can people afford the half-million dollar homes that keep popping up like weeds? Or multiple cars newer than 10 years old? Is it just debt? And why are people so comfortable carrying debt?

@StatisticUrban I'm doing better than a significant portion of my classmates from high school, by lucking into a career that wasn't gate-kept by a college degree. Our lifestyle isn't extravagant but it isn't stressful either. 1 or 2 small vacations a year, no debt..

I wouldn't be surprised if this, too, were in part downstream of housing costs.

@___frye If only there was a crunchy tofu ...

they should make a food that’s a perfect blend of protein carbs and nutrients that you can snack on in the pantry