brooke @brooke@awoo.space

@fireh9lly I’ll try it out. Thank you, neighbor!

@plsburydoughboy Yes. Since that incident, I sometimes think we shld say “cw your _current events_” (rather than “your politics”), b/c “your politics” may be thought to include “your race/gender/class/intersectional identities & concerns”. I gather that many poc new to Mastodon are (rightly) _really_ suspicious of calls to “cw politics”, whereas what’s almost always meant is “current events”.

@cassolotl@cybre.space A favored prop for teachers, librarians, and Watchers everywhere!

@fireh9lly They’re only a very few patches, small, the same one each year.

@fireh9lly Sometimes normal-looking, sometimes dry/white like dead skin (never peely). Never red except from scratching. It’s like a deep-in itch that runs deep like a little straight root.

@fireh9lly I’m up! Arid-season mid-winter chronic dry-skin patches that itch even after u moisturize? Also called “dad’s old-man skin” (at least in our house).

@cassolotl@cybre.space Not a bad opportunity tho for the peer-over-your-glasses-at-offender move.

@vahnj Yeah, I’d assumed it was until I just now went and looked at the list.

Still feels cozy tho!

@Gargron “hypocoristicon” is also a good word to google in this regard. “Tommy,” “Maggie,” “horsey,” “ducky.”

@tomharris Semi-mathematical guess: 1 in 3? But I think I’m imaging that all chords are fixed at one end to a corner of the triangle.

@modernmodron I’m afraid it might be a mortar and pestle maybe?

@bea Thank you

@raccoon Not sure what my favorite thing about starting chess in my late 30s was, but having my a** handed me by platoons of middle-school children wasn’t it.

@plsburydoughboy Every now & then I mean to tell u my Mr. Rogers story. I was taping it daily so my kid could watch it after day care. I was in some dissertation-writing emotional bankruptcy where I couldn’t face the project for weeks, & couldn’t talk about it w/ anyone. While it taped one day, Fred Rogers looked at the camera after Make Believe, & said “Making believe is fun. But you never know what you can really do, until you really try to do it.” I wrote for months on that.