My brother ended up lost in a major city, 3 hours away from home and our parents. He didn’t know where he parked his car, just that it was “at a hotel”. Drugs were almost certainly involved.

His strategy was to wander around asking to borrow strangers’ cell phones until he ended up in a gas station run by an immigrant couple who were OMG lovely. They let him use their phone and they fed him until my parents could drive over and pick him up.

My parents found his car by posting “lost car” ad on Craigslist with a reward.

Anyways, my strategy’s probably to find a local library or equivalent and email my partner and friends a “please help” message. Hopefully someone lends/gives me clothes along the way.

Edit: oops, I said 3 miles. It was 3 hours. Updated.

Can’t fool me, that’s clearly a pile of Twizzlers around an empty filament spool.

/me looks up bash’s case...of

Oh no.

It sucks that they charge for copies. I’m in the USA and when I hurt my foot and got X-rays they just made me wait while they burned a CD.

Why not share it with teacher?

No worries! Prison and jail are well worth criticizing. They charge you for anything they can get away with.

I’m just going to drop this link right here… (Some states charge inmates room and board)

Lucky. My mom can’t even name my gender, sexuality, or name, much less an existential dread or phobia.

Escalators. Those things freak me out. They’re just waiting to eat my flip-flops, which I don’t wear, or catch fire.

There’s an adorable phone game called “Tender” where you go on dates with various aliens via a Tinder-like app. That game did a good job showcasing different styles of profile and profile pic–highly recommend. Also, fun.

It’s spring (your hemisphere may vary) and time to set out tick tubes!

Tick tubes are cardboard tubes stuffed with cotton fluff soaked in permethrin. Mice use the cotton to make nests. The permethrin kills ticks on the mice, reducing the tick load of the area. It doesn’t hurt the mice, and is much more targeted than just spraying the whole yard for insects.

Wallet, mask, keys, mini scissors, dog poo bags, my meds, Loop ear plugs

My partner’s very covid-cautious and we both have immuno-compromised friends, so we both mask in stores or other crowded places.

Same. He shivers. I think he hates glass elevators more than standard elevators.

The only acceptable elevator was in our old apartment. It meant he didn’t have to do stairs. Nowadays, his old bones get carried up stairs anyways.

I read it more as ignorant and rude than racist. Like, if I said “all y’all ought to do blah” and was questioned on it, I’d assume the questioner just hadn’t been exposed to folks with that dialect.

Or like how my brother would make fun of people with a Boston accent while he was a tourist in Boston, getting directions from someone with a Boston accent. Ignorant and rude.

Of course, I’m white AF and my primary exposure to AAVE is online, so I might be totally missing subtext/context/supertext. Also my brother is an asshole.

I also love it. It was my go-to back when I had to walk inexperienced sysadmins through configuring stuff, in my tech support days. I really appreciate all the commands being listed at the bottom.

The part that strikes me as odd is the crochetet saying she “wove” the blankets. That might just be the poster having an unreliable memory/being unfamiliar with different fiber arts.

An extra $8/month could make a big difference in some folks’ lives, judging by the number of folks in my social circles that need a bit of help to make ends meet at the end of the month.

It’s not strictly ASCII–look at the cat’s mouth. But outside of using non-ascii, it looks inline with what was on usenet’s art.ascii.art in the 90s. I could believe this was made by hand, possibly with a character-art specific drawing tool.

Hitachi also makes a very popular and effective personal massage device that they’re adamant is not a sex toy. In some circles the name “Hitachi” is synonymous with the device.

We were talking about power tools at work and I said I’m happy with my Hitachi corded drill. I was disappointed no one even blinked.

The only one I call “babe” is my dog. And he’s deaf so I don’t think he cares.