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Yes?

My whole life is a lie!

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The 2002 film El Crimen de Padre Amaro did a lot of the heavy lifting on turning me around on keeping pregnancy termination legal. I saw it in the theater because I was with a bunch of Hispanophones and that was the only film playing in Spanish at the time. It was so powerful. It’s the kind of movie you only watch once, though.

Games are such a valuable medium for education and creativity. Why throw out the good with the bad? Yes, some games are brainrot, but on average I’d prefer my kids be doing something interactive like games over something purely consumptive like watching video.

There’s no substitute for parents bring involved and sharing their kids’ media diet.

An image post is one thing, but image replies are over the line.

The song “I Could Never Be Your Woman” by White Town.

I think probably because I wasn’t yet comfortable with my own sexuality.

Please don’t. Text is preferred.

Keep making weird art, just like the last three decades.

With you on the toenails, but I just go get a proper pedicure.

New user. Build up your subscription list across instances, don’t rely only on local communities.

Probably about forty minutes then baste and tent with foil and put back in for another forty.

Why would I care what temperature it is when I’m sleeping? I’m asleep.

That aside, 60 winter and 73 summer.

three times:

1. rats - tore out two walls and a ceiling looking for their ingress. Found the hole, sealed it, took advantage of the situation to insulate and refinish the room, no problems since.

2. mice - set traps while improving home infra. Raised shelves, removed things acting at mouse ladders, started keeping grains in sealed, hard-sided containers. Went around the outside of the house removing clutter and harboring plants, planted herbs that repel rodents instead. Sprayed essential oils for several weeks as a deterrent, and placed a few permanent traps as check for effectiveness. No mice in the years since.

3. water roaches - boiled or threw out the items they seemed attracted to, used chemical scent obliterators on any adjacent surfaces. Placed pet-safe gel poison behind all the furniture in the kitchen. No problems since.

The joys of a fixer-upper home.

The ongoing pests are flies and birds. This summer I’ll be exposing and reinsulating the vent area above the finished attic and replacing the damaged louvers that the birds have nested in. The flies seem to crawl straight through the window sashes, though, no idea how to solve that one.

Brazil nuts aren’t nuts! They’re fruit seeds. The fruit is the size of a cannonball.

Cutting someone slack doesn’t mean letting them go on behaving badly, it means understanding they need help to behave better.

Nah, I’d go for books and music.

Unfortunately, I really only taught myself how to count, the days of the week, and the months of the year.

Replying opened the spoiler for me, but:

1. English (native)
2. Spanish (school)
3. Esperanto (self-taught)
4. Latin (university)

I can also count to five in German, and I used to know 1-10 in Swahili, but now only remember that “moja means one”

texts that say “when will you be home?”