It's a start.

Got a voice mail from Erika Kirk thanking me for my gift(?) so that was... something.

🐋 ch. 114 "Tell me not of thy teeth-tiered sharks"! And ch. 118 confuses me: "the vigilant helmsman would ostentatiously handle his spokes" but I thought the Pequod had a tiller (ch. 16: "Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller")

210 (because I forgot it was 2 to a sheet when I needed ten more and printed 20 instead, for Philly. Will we need them? Hope not!

ok this one made me say "holy shit" out loud

More paper sculpture. I miss the print shop tools though.

I definitely think one element of this particular response is “we need to find the men who are really running all this.”

Our snow guy hasn't shown back up (he did a mid-storm run) and I'm a little concerned he is one of the snow-related heart incident statistics (he has already had heart issues, and is SUPPOSED to just be running the snowblower while his healthier guys shovel buuuuuut... 😬

Hmmm, do I want to read the fast-paced version or the slow-paced version? (Also I am "gamehawk" on StoryGraph if you're so inclined.)

[action news theme playing loudly]

Papercrafting! It's very satisfying (though I should go dig up my bone folders)

Printed a zine holder but I think it counts on thicker paper, and is definitely going to have poor grip on the half-sheet zines. Will try another one at a lower %.

Hi, Walter! This is a fake screenshot/post, I'm afraid

There are 20 people in this breakout session (Rep. Jayapal's Zoom thingy) and 19 of them are female-presenting. 10 of the 11 people with cameras on appear to be white (11 of 12 if I include myself), though that's more to be expected since this is a If You're Late To The Party sort of intro thingy.

Pandemic couldn't do it but current politics managed it: I installed stupid Zoom on my stupid main computer.

If you want to print whistle zines in bulk, This Is The Way. (I need to edit it: forgot to mention that you will need to free up the folded pages after stapling, though you'd probably figure that out anyway.)

The One-Page Zine format is nice for short run but for in bulk converting it to a conventional saddle-stitch form (or alternatively an accordion) is more efficient. Gonna publish the PDFs to do both shortly.

A white whale! And in the #MonthOfDick, too. (Humpback, though.)

Citizens are in the driver's seat now imho. It's cool if some politicians are quicker on the uptake than others but they are following us now, I'm not waiting for them anymore

This is tomorrow. I went to one of these in NYC. It was good. www.mobilize.us/pramilaforco...

I get that this virtual meeting thingy is indicating that this is the name I'll show up as, but "Attend as Karen" sounds more like a role than a name.

First nonbinary elected official in Delco?

Making an offering to my antifascist deity of choice.

Welp

🐋 Re Chapter 104 (The Fossil Whale): The idea of dinosaurs was still pretty new - earlier assumptions were that dino tracks were from prehistoric flightless birds and turtles and things, and the first complete(ish) skeleton, Hadrosaurus foulkii in New Jersey, wouldn't be fully excavated until 1858.

Weirdest thing about the printer is going "eh, enough time for another ten whistles before bedtime" and just lighting it up from upstairs. I can see by the built in camera that it finished them nicely, and I never had to get out of the recliner.

Alas, the two-color will be rarer, unless I put together a ganged file myself. For now, monocolor.

Timeline cleanse: apparently it's sumo orange season again!

And now to grab the scraper so I can remove this print... wait.

GO GET 'EM

Okay so my Oreo whistle came out inverted because I gotta learn the difference between "color 1 in the design" and "slot 1 on the AMS" but otherwise: whistle 1 of N. Gonna do orange and black Gritty colors on the big batch.

It is "TV interviews in the checkout line at Acme" weather. (Not me; they are much more likely to pick someone with an Eagles pompom hat for any given interview, plus I was still shopping) (I do own a pork roll hat but am way too warm-blooded to wear it indoors. 3/4 sleeves and no coat for me!)

Little worried that the current regime is very interested in repeating it.

After the Trump administration removed signs and information about George Washington's slaves at the President's House in Philly, someone put up a sign that reads: "Slavery is part of U.S. history. Learn from the past or repeat it!" 📸 - Tom Gralish, @inquirer.com

CEOs so busy fart-huffing they are completely unaware just how *weird* their products are getting

People have been posting video of their printers printing whistles and I thought okay, set their phone to time-lapse it, cool, but no: printers these days have their own cameras. (Our printer is printing a Benchy!)

Streisand the heck out of this. share.inquirer.com/f8oPuO (The President's House is an archaeological site of George Washington's Philadelphia house, now included in Independence Park.)

Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky? Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices? NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN... Press release: www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

Drove the 45 minutes to Micro Center and got right in the online-order line and spent zero "well as long as I made the trip I should look around..." impulse dollars, please clap.

Good things I already stopped using mine a long time ago! (Seriously though, guess I gotta check the model, though knee doc says no more for me.)

Google Maps: mmkay so you're traveling in a Winter Storm Watch Me: I'll be home before Saturday you weirdo Maps: so, highway is really busy, want to take an alternate route Me: sure *takes exit* Maps: gonna route you through Villanova Me: Are they still locked down?! Maps: 😇🤷

The new printer is now in the middle of the living room, but I gotta have lunch and do Storm Shopping before I can play with it.

Welp, gonna drive over and pick up a new printer and six kilos of filament in the morning. It'll give us something to do while snowed in (assuming we don't lose power). RAGEPRINTING (but also I want to print horns for my little dragons and stuff)

Gonna get a stupid 3d printer tomorrow and print stupid whistles for my stupid mental health.

The 7th. "The plows and shovels haven’t had a whole lot of action in the region in recent winters, and it looks like the rulers will be at rest at least for a while." Mother Nature: "Hold my beer."

Hey cuties. You need a valentine set right now, I can tell. It's only $20. You get 20 of them, 4 designs, & each one has a little fact inside. I need a little more cashflow into Skype a Scientist to do the amount of shit I want to do this year. These valentines are a good start! SquidFacts.net

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

Democratic leaders going "we have to save our political capital for something with a chance of success" but yeah, you're talking "political capital" that gets you reelected, what about political capital that shows our allies there's still some interest in democracy and a stable world? C'mon man!