Toadvark

For years now I've done what I can to encourage use of other sites, but the fact remains that my specific community of friends and peers (many of whom have known one-another for over two decades now) have used twitter as a stomping ground since 2008 or so. It's extremely difficult to establish that sort of intersection elsewhere, and it gets particularly ugly when folks' livelihood and income are tied into the matter.

Having the main hub for communities torn apart because of one fool's antics really, really sucks, and then I'm/we're called garbage on the sites we try to establish on, for clinging to that lifeline. It's all a frustrating feedback loop.

I found it extraordinary- I'm unsure if another movie has made me feel the whole gamut of emotion like this one did, and each heartstring was tugged differently. Skillful stuff.

Great find- Cerement's ID is on the dot. They're delightfully bizarre to stumble upon for the first time, aren't they?

Loads of oddball relatives out there as well. I haven't seen this one due to the range being restricted to the west coast (US), but it's completely absurd (Allotropa virgata).

I'll be honest: regular ol' bulk Folgers. Having three coffee drinkers all working from home became too labor-intensive for my French press habit and too expensive for my wallet.

Living vicariously through everyone else's brews, here! I may have to whip up some cardamom cold brew this week. 😄

I've never been able to budget in the literal sense due to how utterly unpredictable my income is (artist sole proprietor kind of thing- don't do it, kids!), and how wildly the structure of my months vary...but getting wise to tracking all incoming and outgoing transactions on my own spreadsheet has brought such peace of mind.

It came naturally after dealing with self employment income records, so it's frankly silly that I never applied the same ideas to my personal finances.

God, they're too cute to be real (great shot!)

I ran the photo through iNaturalist and it suggested a group of flies I've never seen before- broadly Tachinidae, and more narrowly it zeroed in on the genus Adejeania. Seems like a safe guess in terms of location, too!

You may enjoy reading about this linguistic offshoot, Missouri French!

Yep, seconding what others have said, this looks exactly like my ground cherry plants (aka husk cherry, aka Physalus genus). 😄

I know it's practically a meme at this point to say so, but: same here! I've used their return-holey-socks-for-store-credit service twice now (carried mail; guaranteed sock killer) with zero problems and couldn't be happier. I make sure to buy pairs as gifts for friends to make sure they see new business, too.

Seems like absolutely everyone (bees, wasps, beetles) loves goldenrod when it's in bloom later in the year here in the northern US.

Very much agreed. I went with a Kobo since I enjoy futzing around with files and already had a Calibre (ebook management software) library going anyway. I highly recommend e-readers of any kind to anyone on the fence!