Mary Aileen
@patchworkmouse.bsky.social
Retired librarian, crafter, glass-wearing reading geek. She/her, mostly ace.
Y'all. So much of graphic design is just: "Is this readable?" If the text is an appropriate size, with adequate space, margins and contrast from the background, you're halfway there. After that, just please stop jamming so much stuff on one page. Let me breathe.
Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
When Peter tells Wendy “second start to the right and straight on til morning”, this implies that both have been trained on dead reckoning and inertial navigation techniques, although it remains an open question whether the relative motion of the star to the earth is accounted for
A guy once told me a story about an interview he'd seen with a woman who lived to, like, 120 or something. Do you have any regrets? the interviewer asked. "I wish I'd learnt the clarinet," she said. "I mean, even if I'd started at 80… By now..."
Our medieval art curator rates every "European castle" emoji. 🏰
I sometimes wonder if I feature as a character in any strangers’ lore as, like, The Woman Who Missed the Curb And Did a Full Arm Windmill That One Time. Or The Woman Trying to Read Three Books At Once On the Train
Sarah Andersen@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 9h ago
And the Voice of the Vacuum Cleaner was heard in the Land.
Not only is Boots Theory correct for shoes, products & supplies, it's true for dental work, prescription drugs & healthcare devices for keeping healthy, education costs, clean water access, pollution, housing, car repairs, etc. Pratchett was a razor sharp social satirist w/ few peers.
now in stock, Pride and Prejudice: The One With the Sluts
One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!
Correct response: I re-sent this email. More correct response: I resent this email.
Have you ever seen the slow-mo video of the front collision between one of those boat-sized 1960s classic cars and a modern car? with crash dummies? www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
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Doctor says to man, you are depressed. You need to get out of yourself and enjoy life. It happens I have several cool sweet plums in my fridge, which I will happily share with you right now. But, Doctor, says William Carlos Williams
The Microwave Cooking for One site is legit useful. You know that thing that happens when microwave food is half frozen? That’s not inherent to the microwave, it’s because most box microwave instructions are for 1100 watts and your microwave is something else. There’s a conversion chart for that!
Microwave Timing Conversion Charts
These charts help you convert cooking times in a recipe to times for your wattage microwave oven.
microwavecookingforone.com
Fun@funkelly.bsky.social · yesterdaydid someone say sadder
Everyone stop and look at this negative review of Romeo and Juliet I found. "Shakespeare's pretentious ass writing style" is SENDING me 😂
I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Cars with roll up windows, telephones attached to the wall in the kitchen. Black & White television with no remote, and no cable. Computers so small they'll fit into one building. ~
My father's mother died of colon cancer. My father got it 2x, 2nd time survived the Whipple operation (look it up, it's extreme) for longer than his oncologist had ever seen. My colonoscopies keep finding polyps, removed before they can become cancerous. Colonoscopies are a nuisance. Dying worse.
Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · 13h agoMy mom died of colon cancer. For pete's sake, (as she would have said) get your fucking regular colonoscopy. If you're lucky and your mom didn't die of colon cancer it's only once every ten years. It could save your life.
This is so not the point of the post, but I adore his fashion sense. That bowtie! The colors!
Zebulon Vitruvius Pike@vitruviuspike.bsky.social · yesterday
I thought everyone knew that Ulysses S. Grant was killed by vampires because he said too much about them in the gay vampire erotica he wrote. What *are* they teaching in schools these days?
Zebulon Vitruvius Pike@vitruviuspike.bsky.social · yesterday
Bro…I make dinosaurs dressed in cosplay out of yarn for a living. Not only could I get through an entire workday without AI, not having people accusing me of USING AI all the time would make my workday significantly easier 😂😭
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 16h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
I feel like the writer here only uses LinkedIn, TikTok, or Insta. Us text based posters are misery personified.
New York Magazine@nymag.com · yesterdayOn social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?
Someday the old witch will return and lift the curse placed upon you. Your human shell will crack open and a sleepy bear will emerge, growl grumpily, then hibernate for the next 1,000 years.
