@ihorner Holy bus, the Mercury Program jokes... you are an amazing international treasure. :D
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Velociraptor_Restoration.png this raptor picture has the same sort of feeling to it as the Untitled Goose
see i'm glad i've found mastodon, land of the furries and furry-adjacent, so i can say this and everyone will get what i mean:
as a society we need to recognize that head scritches tap into a deep and powerful source of happy that i personally theorize is leftover from "monkey brain say social grooming good, ook", but basically, we should normalize scritching someone's scalp/playing with their hair/etc. as a good casual loving touch like snuggling
thank you for coming to my ted talk,
Seattle Area: Do you need a very cheap (manual transmission) car in good condition?
It's a 1995 Honda Accord DX, 5 speed manual. In amazing condition for 200,000 miles, just had its timing belt replaced.
This car has been worked hard but very lovingly cared for.
Its biggest issue: it was rear-ended and the trunk doesn't close properly (but doesn't seem to leak). Second worst: the windows squeak when you roll them down.
Clean title, has a solid 100k miles left in it.
Asking ~$800.
#PersephoneDays is a term coined by farmer Eliot Coleman, and it refers to days where you have fewer than 10 hours of daylight. Nearly all plants stop growing during this colder-darker time period.
Looking that up for #Seattle I just discovered our last day with 10 hours of daylight was today, Oct 31, 2019, and we won't get back to 10 hours of daylight until Feb 10, 2020.
Time to put the garden to bed.
This was not the proper year, and the Game shall not be played.
The gate stands closed.
But next year.... ah, next year the Full Moon falls upon Halloween night.
Next year is the year of the Game.
We have a 96 Subaru Legacy that won't turn over. The starter spins but never catches. Shop didn't see anything wrong with the flywheel or the solenoid, said it might be a computer problem but that these computers don't just break down. Pulling fuses didn't fix it either.
We can't easily afford repairs and don't know how to fix it ourselves beyond what we've already tried.
Help me, Mastodon, you're my only hope.
Boosts appreciated.
-Katie
Took the dog out for a walk. Was escorted back by three crows, quite obvious about it. When I got home I put out like ten peanuts on the porch. Which brought the Jays as I was putting them out.
There followed an immediate competition for how many peanuts you could stuff in your crop/beak.
The crows won handily
Rare coastal dragoness, often found by sunny sea cliffs. Nonbinary but fairly femme-leaning. If you're under 18 don't follow.