@KimberlyHirsh Looks great! And what a fun pattern.

@Miraz No problem! One day I hope to see your part of the world (and all its wildlife) too. :)

@moira I haven't had this happen, yet, but we get most of our groceries from Costco. I keep nerdy spreadsheets on commonly purchased items. No big swings for me so far. 🤞🏼

@sgtstretch 😀

@Miraz I've read that they're cat sized, but it seemed a bit bigger. Possibly due to all that fur. It was standing up on hind legs like this:

(photo from: https://wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/species/marmota-olympus)

@mwl I've thought about doing the same thing, but I've been too lazy to do it! :)

We hiked/walked 11 miles today, enjoyed breathtaking mountain scenery, and spotted an enormous Olympic Marmot. It was gawking at a small child like it had never seen one before.

I imagine it descended into its burrow to tell its Marmot spouse "Holy shit, Janet. Did you know they make miniature humans? Scared me right out of my fur, it did!"

@moira @Configures I appreciate your high Bingo standards. 😃

Train wreck! This book is a train wreck and I can't look away. I mean... they've got a weird underwater spy agency and strange minerals stolen in a French mining conspiracy with a bunch of guys who died in a fake mine collapse and treasure sunk in the cargo hold in the Titanic for some mystery project and I have to know why. WHY. Why am I reading this insane pile of sexist gutter trash?

Damn you, Cussler! 😜

Clive Cussler, writing a scene in which the President of the US implores a woman to patriotically fuck her jerk husband instead of divorcing him because... America needs the guy for an important mission, and he's really stressed out, ya know?

FINE, she says. But I'm NOT having his baby.

And the President chuckles, conceding graciously that his authority only goes so far.

💀💀💀

COME ON, CUSSLER. WTF, man??? 🤣

@bradenslen He seemed to have plenty of self-esteem. 😏

@Emmacox Yeah! I have enjoyed (and cringed) over a Dan Brown novel. 😁

@Lundemo Me too!

@bomkatt YES. Hard to believe but yes. 😂

Clive Cussler novels are bonkers, eh?

"I created this project from nothing. My gray matter was its sperm. I must see it through to completion.”

That may be the worst sentence of dialog I've ever read, and his depictions of women are mind-bogglingly stupid, but his storytelling is pretty dang fun.

#bookstodon

We kept seeing long lines of similarly dressed Gen Zs waiting outside an unmarked door downtown. I figured it was some sort of cult, but apparently it's a new matcha tea shop.

I love that this guy set up a YouTube channel, dropped ONE amazingly quirky video essay, then disappeared into a puff of smoke, presumably returning to his mostly offline existence.

Respect. 🫡

Fellow smartphone haters, you might get a kick out of this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs1XN9ueRRI&pp=ygUcNyB5ZWFycyB3aXRob3V0IGEgc21hcnRwaG9uZQ%3D%3D

@bunnyhero Sorry to hear it, but that's good to know. You're the second person who has said that, so I'll skip it!

This morning I ordered one biscotti with two coffees. The coffee shop owner glanced at Patrick, who was seated at a window table, then snapped the biscotti in half with his tongs. He hands the plate over with mock solemnity and says, "no fighting."

😆