I like cats - I have three - but not being able to toss and turn sounds awful.

Is this the origin of “oh no, Mr Bill”? My mom used to say that all the time but only barely explained its beginnings and I guess I never looked it up.

Me.

Yesterday I went into a small town near my town (my town is absolutely tiny; the next town over is pretty small but also a college town).

There was a protest going on in the town square. There were a lot of really cool inflatable costumes because of that frog and EVERYONE was smiling and waving.

That’s fair, I feel like I could support the project either way.

TIL. That’s not what I would have guessed the H was. Thank you for the edification.

MAHA? I can guess what the H is, but I haven’t engineered that one before.

edit: That was supposed to be “encountered.”

Depressing endings are so rare in movies that I, personally, often enjoy them for the novelty if nothing else.

I don’t remember much of that movie, but an Aliens / Evil Dead crossover sounds like a lot of fun.

Well, certainly that was more information than I knew about it, thanks!

No, but I’m friends with them.

Apparently AQ-50 is an autism test. Now I feel called out.

This reminds me of that post about the woman going to the air defense museum for dates.

… What are flipper babies?

I thought this post was about the numbers and … Well, I like 16. It’s got a few neat math things going on. 19 is a prime, but doesn’t have much else going on for it.

edit: I was thinking that 16x3 was 38 and that 19x2 was 38, which would be interesting. However, 16x3 is 48, which I love, while 19x2 is indeed 38, which is still pretty cool. On the other hand, 64 is fun, while 57 is super duper boring.

Maybe my wife is right when she says I’m neurodivergent.

edit: This is pleasing to me.

The pipe weapons in 7 Days to Die are much like this, too.

Your words are kind and, for the most part, accurate. I will say the kid still has a tablet (in fact I can hear them watching it now while playing sorting games with fabric boxes). Initially we got them a Kindle due to the price, but pretty quickly I switched them to Android because, while I’d prefer them not to be locked into any ecosystem, if I have to choose one Android seems like the best option (and the Amazon variant possibly the worst).

I’ve toyed with the idea of getting them a used iPad so they could practice with most of what they’re likely to encounter, but I haven’t been able to justify it in my head.

That said… Having a kid interested and well versed in Linux sounds like an amazing thing to me.

Oh. I watched that show … Probably up to season two? … A while ago. (And enjoyed it! I had a very little kid at the time and baby Homelander metaphorically moved me.)

I’ve self diagnosed as face blind, so maybe that’s the issue here.

edit: This gif makes him look way less cute and way more scary than I remember. I remember him fiddling with his blanket and looking for parental support, not casting a terrifying and disappointed gaze.

That’s an actor? I thought he was a generic marine from a video game.

I got my then 5-year-old a laptop and put Linux on it for exactly this reason. So far they’ve only used it to play Minecraft (fortunately they didn’t like Roblox) but I figured this way it’s here when they are ready to learn.

They’ve just started getting good at reading, so I’m really excited to hopefully share some basic stuff with them soon.

I was enjoying it, too, until you reminded me of so the issues I had with xcode on my work laptop.

They get the idea. They can even explain it back to me (though they’re as likely to say that the money is for toys as they are to say, for example, food).

They just know what they’d prefer over me working.