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Relevant XKCD

Is this the start of “relevant Sesame Street” replacing “relevant XKCD”?

“Rice is great when you’re hungry and want 2,000 of something”

• Mitch Hedberg

I didn’t know wasps did either until I bought a plant for my garden that is primarily pollinated by wasps. They were as chill as any other pollinator, not at all what I expected.

The person who actually spotted and photographed the basking shark is only referred to in the article as “Gallant’s wife.” She’s never named.

I do both freelance graphic design and historic window restoration on the side. I did them both before my current full time design job, and do them in my spare time. I’m lucky that my current job considers 32 hours full time, so I have Fridays to do side work.

I highly recommend the book The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs by Tristan Gooley. It’s far more applicable for the roaming in nature possibilities in the UK than where I am in the US.

The ultimate thought-terminating cliche triumvirate: This is it Fuck it It is what it is

• Paul Crik

The novel Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu is a neat story about a self-described “generic Asian man” who is stuck in the “background Oriental male” role while aspiring to be the “kung fu guy”

At a more northern latitude than part of Canada. Detroit is directly north of part of Canada

I’ve started using it and I’m north of Canada … In Detroit

I’m 39 for a few more months and was hoping a complete transformation happened day one of being forty. Guess not.

You’ve gotta read parts 1, 2, 4, and 5

And where you can rebuild a society someday assuming this doesn’t end in the complete destruction of Gaza

A snooze bouche

We’ve been over 50 north of you in southeast Michigan multiple times this December

Not as a “well actually” but just a different example: I regularly see Mennonites on Amtrak, which is maybe out of necessity, but their norms are very different from the diverse people on the train. I don’t like sharing space on the road. I’m generally a calm pacifist until I’m around other drivers

Straw is for bedding

That’s pretty neat