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Comic by Kelly Bastow on BlueSky at ‪@moosekleenex.bsky.social‬ 💚 See also: wildflowers, mushrooms, water striders and more. I walk around the woods with star in my eyes.

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I think Italians really nailed it in the food department other than being huge weiners about unimportant details because none of them remember that their nonna just made it all up, and for that second point I'm really glad that from the Italian side of my family my Great Grandma did all the cooking because she was:

1: From Trinidad, which is famously not part of Italy

2: Didn't seem to care very much for authenticity if the meal came out well and satisfied everyone

3: Put curry powder and spices in everything and then lied to everyone about it until my Grandpa called her up for recipes and she'd say on the phone in no uncertain terms "of course there was a bell pepper in that, I took it out before your brother saw it and no one ever knew. Don't tell him."

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when you don't like the heel piece on bread loaves but live with somebody who really does

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I've decided I can quit this temporary reassignment on July 13th. Hopefully I would be able to quit back into my normal job.

If my worst employee quits I may be able to make it to September when we're supposed to close, but July 13 will be the earliest date I'll let myself leave.

I've been a supervisor for two months now, and my primary takeaways are:

1: I hate being a supervisor

2: the only hard parts of supervising are that it's boring as hell and one of my staff is a prick

3: otherwise being a supervisor is a fake job

[wild-west-wind]

I've decided I can quit this temporary reassignment on July 13th. Hopefully I would be able to quit back into my normal job.

If my worst employee quits I may be able to make it to September when we're supposed to close, but July 13 will be the earliest date I'll let myself leave.

I've been a supervisor for two months now, and my primary takeaways are:

1: I hate being a supervisor

2: the only hard parts of supervising are that it's boring as hell and one of my staff is a prick

3: otherwise being a supervisor is a fake job

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Today I am reminded of a brother and sister I know very well who were born in the Summer and Winter solstices (respectfully), which seems like it would be a character trait in a ya novel and one is very sanguine and the other very melancholic but in real life they're middle aged and they both have anxiety.

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So, you might or might not have other people in the car but no taking turns and swapping drivers. Just you driving for the whole day

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How many times must I go to trivia with two people who broke up seconds before we started trivia? Why has this happened multiple times??

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Crested Butte, Colorado ... in the fall. Spring is monotonously green by comparison. This is SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING.

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I wish I could build a machine that could slowly reveal the meanings that have eluded me over the years, the secret lost knowing, even too late to be useful. I wish I could lay my hands upon it and bow my head and it could extrude a strip of paper saying

Yeah that person WAS trying to see if you wanted to be in a throuple

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29 Palms, California. Mojave Desert. Highway 62

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I hate it so much I'm thinking of completely changing my career and life direction just to prevent this from ever happening again. Holy shit.

I've been a supervisor for two months now, and my primary takeaways are:

1: I hate being a supervisor

2: the only hard parts of supervising are that it's boring as hell and one of my staff is a prick

3: otherwise being a supervisor is a fake job

[wild-west-wind]

I've been a supervisor for two months now, and my primary takeaways are:

1: I hate being a supervisor

2: the only hard parts of supervising are that it's boring as hell and one of my staff is a prick

3: otherwise being a supervisor is a fake job

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im stacking extension cords on each other like theyre tinker toys. constructing a tower of babel in the name of the god of electricity. there'll be at least 100 outlets when ive hooked these boys up nice and good. ill never run out again

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quiz: why do lobsters have one claw bigger

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Here's 10 pictures of maybe the coolest thing I've ever seen in person. After a lot of dumb luck, a lot of sitting around, and a lot of staring at the HVO webpages about it, I caught an episode of fountaining in the ongoing Halema‘uma‘u eruption of (at?) Kilauea. USGS estimates a height of ~365m/~1200' at its highest point in this episode.

And yet, I have definitely waited longer for single eruptions of geysers. The atmosphere was really similar though: chaos, excitement, someone cried, hundreds of people showed up out of nowhere like 5 minutes in, and in that moment, without a doubt, there was no where else on earth I would have rather been.