Are you there Claude? It's me, Margaret.

Had an incredible time at Chasing Wonder! 💞

Who wants to be first to welcome me back to SF?

Watched a loud group of American tourists from Massachusetts (“which is in the United States”) break into the conversation of a group of Norwegians at the next table at the cafe, to ask “how much did your sweaters cost?” with each side proceeding to entirely fail to comprehend each other

Someone (I can’t find it now) responded to a prompt asking how to describe the internal experience of autism, without relying on external gaze / inconvenience to others, and gave “the desire to observe without being observed” and I loved that. What’s the ADHD edition of this?

Ólafur Darri is no longer the telecom’s voice for a wrong number in Iceland, I’m so disappointed that I no longer get to be gently laid straight by his crackly booming baritone. 🥲

If I could redesign bathrooms with unlimited budget — Floors would have a lot more texture and not be slippery when wet tile General purpose sink? No, I want a car wash for my hands. I want some kind of actuator-driven terry cloth end-effector thing, like a massage chair but for suds.

A dear friend (one of my roommates in an apartment during undergrad, we kept in touch) passed away this Sunday. I’m heartbroken, my sleep has been wrecked. I’ve also discovered that he scrubbed himself from the social networks, which I respect but find surprisingly upsetting.

fun 🍬 idea — I know it’s early to think about Halloween 🎃 but if anyone wants a big bag full of Icelandic candy to hand out this year HMU, I’m thinking of importing a pile of it myself.

Bluesky is definitely better than all the other posting text things at this point. So glad we’re all still here.

My 3.5-year old read story books to me for an hour yesterday before bedtime. I’m astonished. To be clear, he learned how to read while I feel like I did very little to actively encourage it. There’s so little guidance about how to be a good & supportive parent to a kid like this.

Autistic people trying to flirt

Who do I know in Toronto?

I left Ireland and moved to New York in 1997. Decades on, what the US has become has broken my immigrant heart. It also baffled me, until I began to piece together Gen X memories of apartheid South Africa.

Anyone still looking for a place to stay at Airventure? One of our roommates backed out. If you’re going to Oshkosh and looking, contact me or @starstar.bsky.social

The former Governor of Maryland seems to be mistaking stars for drones. From x.com/MatthewCappu... / @matthewcappucci.bsky.social

Not Gabor Maté describing his own compulsive book-buying addiction as a symptom of his ADHD no no no nope

Brutally owned by a complete stranger

If all the people on Earth lived in countries of no greater population size than Iceland there would be over 21,000 countries.

I’m finding the discourse over the attractiveness of the shooter to be REALLY annoying. Don’t get me wrong, I love mess! But it is erasing the incredibly important conversation about our deeply unjust system and why folks are, in this case, sympathetic to a murderer and apathetic about the victim.

Does anyone know where I can buy a whole / not-ground nutmeg in Iceland?

Post someone you’ve been told you look like who you definitely don’t look like.

He turned 3 and we got dinosaurs and that means it’s time for me to learn how the heck to pronounce Parasaurolophus. Parenting books never cover the real facts you need to know.

Americana at Brand Memes is here!! 🥲

Claude for therapy is like Soylent for meals: not a true replacement but better than the alternative, which is actually just not having it, and the lack of friction is probably a huge part of what makes it so useful especially while experiencing depression.

Why is the ‘p’ in pterodactyl silent but not in helicopter

Lava flow with a person for scale, yesterday. Photo by Jakob Vegerfors.

Pretty much every serious photographer here tries to capture photos of the volcano and the northern lights together. Sometimes, they succeed quite well ;) Photos from Wioleta Gorecka, taken near Reykjanesvíti.

When my kid was born I was so befuddled about children I had no idea that it was crazy for him to be cruising on furniture at 3 months old

Should scrambled eggs be a’a or pahoehoe?

Cutest thing I’ve heard so far to day “mama that’s a Tyrannosaurus Legs”

All my Newskies: I implore you to go to your account's settings icon, click the thing and choose accessibility, then fix it so you CANNOT post an image without alt text. I am visually impaired (as are many using this app), and alt text is my friend. And my friend is your friend too. Right?

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Then he goes, “that’s MY drawing. Look at my drawing, mama” and scribbled all over it. And it’s simultaneously samsara and adorable.

@bnewbold.net just want to thank you forever and always for introducing me to ts eliot, for saying yes to adventure and crazy ideas, I’m glad everyone literally survived, for being there when everything was low. You’re solid, man.

My kid’s preschool teachers are on strike, and I’m supposed to do my job, play with him, shop, cook, clean, and this week the dishwasher AND washing machine both broke too. Can we do bets on what’s next?

On-the-spot drawing request from this morning: “mama draw me a cat driving a very fast CAT CAR”

Oh my god I’ve been missing all of you and you’re all *here* now! Yayyyy

My trilingual toddler has adopted saying “Here am I” and it’s so cute, I won’t correct him. (I’m not even sure it’s wrong, just unusual??)

And here we are 🦋

Portraits of peeps here on Bsky: @starstar.bsky.social bryanwjones.com/2019/02/star... #engineer

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #38,006!

Asked my cousin if he could give any reason at all why each item in the standard cutlery set has a different grammatical gender in German. He said “you know, I realized I’ve been waiting my entire life for a view of the source code to German to make sense of all this.”

Has anyone here got experience teaching a child a language that they themselves didn’t toootally speak? For example using books/media?

How do I make my Bluesky feed as good as my Twitter lists? Like. Something is somehow missing for me here.

I just wish Bluesky had DMs

Hello east coast

How would you describe the fragmentation of community between Bluesky, Twitter, Mastodon and Threads? Who is where?

Walked to the grocery store with a handcart instead of driving, and I’m actually amazed by how much less I wanted to buy. I am starting to understand better and better why we have this car culture… revenue must have exploded when they built the first grocery store you had to drive to.