@jezebelkat still, something to look forward to in the long run...and at least they still somehow have coffee

@jezebelkat I hope at least it's as peaceful and calm as that

@takosix so many special little joys in owning a dog😬

@shimst3r @AnthoDerv nothing will ever be better than the iPhone SE. I don't know why we can't have nice things😢

it's good to be a pug, your biggest problem is that it's hard to hold the ball

#pug

@AnthoDerv when the battery won't hold enough charge anymore. however, I am thinking of buying an iPhone mini while I can still get one, since I read that Apple isn't going to make small phones anymore, so I'll have it when i need to replace my current phone. but if I thought I could get what I wanted in a few years I wouldn't buy till this one was dying.

@FlockOfCats I grew up Italian-American, so it was normal to eat squid. It was kind of exotic for Americans then. Now it seems super common - they call it calamari and batter it and fry it, often without the tentacles, so people hardly know what they are eating.

@Rachel_Thorn I don't get this either, but one thing I think it shows is that their jobs really must not be very hard work

@takosix condolences

@Rachel_Thorn yeah. I had just one friend who went to Tokyo and went to literally every weird little thing I recommended in Yanaka - tiny cafes, a sandwich vending machine, you name it. Probably significant that she's a fellow manga editor and most of the others have been people who are going to take one trip to cross Japan off their list

@Rachel_Thorn Did they follow the advice? Lots of people ask me for travel advice for Tokyo and when I tell them to avoid an overcrowded tourist spot, I think the vast majority don't listen. They want to see the stuff they've seen photos of. I don't blame them I guess - so do I! it's just that the stuff I've seen photos of at this point is much more obscure. So I honestly don't know if it's possible to solve the problem - for first time tourists, at least.

@Rachel_Thorn I was in Kyoto for one day last December and I swear that outside of the train station I saw barely a handful of other tourists. I had been anxious about whether it would be no fun to visit - I hadn't been to Kyoto since the mid 1990s, which was truly a different world. But it seemed like it really isn't that hard to avoid the crowds if your interests are a little outside the mainstream.

@Rachel_Thorn that is very interesting, thank you! an answer to a question that I never would have imagined had such a deep answer, if that makes sense

@scoutie @mika @jezebelkat this is a very long-standing website by a reliable source https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control/toxic-and-non-toxic-plants

@takosix ugh, that is awful, but can't they give her more nose food then? better nose food? it's not fair to blame her, she's suffering enough

@takosix nurse should be in trouble for not keeping her fed!😤

@zoomar Guess I better stock up on Capybara in a Peanut before prices go up 😥

@takosix condolences but I confess I might have wanted to do the same. I understand the principle but the gut reaction is too strong

@Rachel_Thorn I see they are charging extra for that one, as it deserves
(please don't tell me it's just because it's bigger than the others😂 )

@jezebelkat I still have a first gen SE that I use as a backup that seems to be updating OK, so they seem to support stuff for a pretty long time? I've had that so long, I feel like a mini12 might outlive me (or, like, civilization😬 ) at this point