Passports are in hand!

Well they found the credit cards and refused to move it further. Gave us 2 options, destroy the cards and send it along or hold at the distribution point it made it to for up to 5 days for retrieval. Opting for the first I guess, we'll get cards replaced when home.

At a friend's house today and they had FOUR BABY FOXES with their mother running around playing in their front garden! So freaking cute!

Current status: passports have been recovered. Hotel wanted to BOOK A TAXI to send them to us, hours away. Had to personally figure out DHL next day courier for £15 vs the £150 taxi. Now hoping they don't freak out about the credit cards that were with the passports that DHL says are prohibited 😬

Email from them "Please call back" - OK...thanks for the panic attack. BTW I have to walk between buildings because our hotel room does not have a phone and I have to use receptions, which is around the corner. Manager is going to go in and open the safe, but needed me to tell them the code.

So after talking to the hotel, they said they'd check with housekeeping. A few hours later no word called back, and a wedding party is in the room. Said they couldn't check until MONDAY??? I pushed back - just knock and say previous stay left thrift passports! Not going to wreck their wedding!

Well that's a first for us. We had a bit of a chaotic time checking out of our hotel yesterday for reasons I don't need to go into. But in the chaos we left out passports and reserved credit cards in the hotel safe. So now we have to hope they grabbed them and will mail them to us at our next stop.

They're not even fucking trying

It's definitely an @alyankovic.bsky.social - probably Albuquerque

The Fat Duck was bar none the most interesting dining experience I've ever had. Nothing I've seen or eaten has been quite like it. Food was of course delicious but the attention to detail, the whimsy, the story(???), the staff all took it over the top.

rise and shine columboheads

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

Don't ask me why but something about this dude immediately made me think of @carberry.deals - from the collection at the National Gallery of Scotland (I forgot to snap the name of the piece/painter). I love this guy.

Imagining the sound at the UPS warehouses and as the trucks were being loaded as the Steam Controllers were getting shipped

Also if you like magical fantasy in an alt-modern setting I would recommend checking out Edinburgh Nights! Huchu is a Zimbabwean author who clearly knows Edinburgh well. Maybe the most intriguing part is why the world is like it is, and that is never explained, which I appreciate.

So @aaron.bsky.team says that harrasment and dog piling are no go, but is completely fine with block evasion as a form of harassment? Seems inconsistent. And old say this in the thread he brings it up in but he has that restricted to people HE follows and has quotes disabled.

I finished up the Edinburgh Nights series by T.L. Huchu right as we got to Edinburgh. Very cool to get to see places like Colton Hill and Arthur's Seat that get regularly featured in person, and start to have a sense for how the characters moved through the city.

Found out that you can take up to 2 liters of liquids in your carry on luggage through most British airports. Clearly they understand people want to take scotch home.

@regretagarbo.rip you'll be happy to hear that this hotel minibar has only Pepsi and Iron Bru for soft drink options

Hello Edinburgh!

So Ireland is pretty pretty. Not that we'll even be here 2 hours

The world is beautiful and we should take better care of it

Our Aer Lingus pilot is named Patrick Duffy. A bit on the nose, no?

Whatever cover of Bittersweet Symphony is playing in this airport lounge is astonishingly disappointing

I hope she is sitting in her mold castle having just the worst day because of this

Logging OFF! No more work until the 27th! Thank God.

I mean this isn't why I'm flying to Scotland tomorrow......BUT

This is fucking ART. 16 of the best minutes I've spent in a while www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQx_...

Being a producer of text and being a writer are not the same thing.

would be a mistake to think of this and the other Memphis-related news item as completely separate stories

This is very funny but mostly because they have sold ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY THREE of the MOST AFFORDABLE VERSION OF THIS UGLY PIECE OF SHIT! 😂 Nobody wants this crap!

It’s depressing how things that were seen as KKK-level racism when I was in college are mundane government policies and Supreme Court decisions today.

Ohio Republicans overruled their state Supreme Court to implement their gerrymander anyway: Time for Virginia Democrats to do the same.

i don’t usually post my tiktoks here but this literally just went up so, eat shit

I do think that every non-Black who questioned Black folks’ job qualifications. Claimed racism was no longer a problem. Was skeptical of AA. Said All Lives Matter. Victim blamed us. Believed they lost a job to DEI. You paved the way for generationally weakening your most reliable voting block.

Do you know how hard I would watch Wes Anderson's Starfox?

Nintendo made a Star Fox for all of our fury friends and y’all have the gaul to rain on their parade?!?! Meanwhile you’re gonna sleep tonight and have a real nice private dream starring Hot Falco For shame!!

I am 100% positive these listings are from the legendary Game Informer vault being strip-mined for memes, in case you needed an excuse to throw up today

My Media Literacy students gave presentations today and this slide utterly disabled me for a solid 90 seconds of uninterrupted witch cackling

This is only a big deal if you’re into food.

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

Happy Anniversary to my favorite Brad Evans tweet

@grubb.wtf Rebel Assault was my favorite game for a long time. I can still feel my Gravis Gamepad in my hand as I sat at the family computer trying to improve my high score

Lazslo Cravensworth voice “The PAINTER of LIGHT”

Hey just curious, how much would it cost just to PAVE 40,000 acres? Let alone build that many structures?

Never met Tony Peters, don’t know who he is, but a million years ago on Facebook he posted this and I don’t think anyone’s ever put it better.

Nero Wolfe is an incredibly relatable character in that he's very good at his job but he just HATES having to actually do it.