KittenBiscuits

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[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

DaisyDaisyGive me your answer do

I'm

so

crazyAll for theloveof you

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

https://www.vote411.org/

There are other similar websites that can walk you through registering to vote, but I like this one because they make it easy to find out what elections are coming up. Just put in your street address. No sign up required.

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Some people just don't have a Clue

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

I never thought about alternate materials for quilt batting. How interesting! I've been saving scrap fabric for a crochet rag rug and baskets.

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Have you tried this technique for joining shorter strips? I imagine it would be tedious to use this method to join long strands of yarn (pulling and pulling the other end through the loop to cinch the "knot"). But maybe would work ok with plarn?

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Omg, the joke just landed. I was wondering what the eff a teat owl was until I finally said it out loud.

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe this should go in no stupid questions, but I'm curious to hear the explanation too. Am I just outdated? I thought every good home first aid kit should have a bottle.

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 132 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I would do this to incentivize shoppers to take as many as possible. Like at a charity shop that needs to make room for a sizable donation or just to churn the shelves a little.

The sign is still pretty amusing tho.

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This sounds like a fun thought experiment. What are the cyberastrological signs?

"Oh, she's such a typical Myspace"

"I can't adult properly when AOL is in retrograde."

"I'm a Lemmy with Linux in the fourth house"

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Will Everclear freeze (in a typical home freezer)? Or does this require going out for dry ice?

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've heard that the authors using 2 initials + family name are usually women. As women used to struggle to get published if their name was obviously female.

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Infrared photography be weird like that

 

I'm keeping an eye out for it. We first saw it on our way out to dinner. And I didn't see it when we came back about an hour later. Hopefully mama found it and got it home. It was barely bigger than a softball. I already know of a rehabber collective that I will call if I do see it again.

 

Found it in my pool while I was getting it ready for summer. Rehomed it to the neighbor's pond where it will have lots of turtle friends.

 

Found him in the skimmer this morning. My hand must feel more cozy than the basket as he chose to take a nap once I picked him up. I carried him across the street to the wildlife refuge marshy area. Be free, little 🐢

 

BG was sponsoring the Atlanta Olympics that year, and some marketing person thought it would be a fun idea to put our home state on name badges as kind of a US ambassador-like gesture I guess for all the extra visitors the parks expected.

I don't know if we saw an increase in visitors that year. Williamsburg is like a 12 hour drive from Atlanta. But I did have one guy complain to me about the Italian food we sold in the cafeteria, that it was horrid, and his wife was Italian, and she couldn't eat this. Almost 30 years later and I still remember that guy. Why was he remotely expecting decent food at a theme park? I have no idea. And I still have Funiculì, Funiculà running through my head on occasion. Thanks BG.

 

It's just a handy place to put my phone down for a second. Or stash a pen or a credit card.

 
 

This came up in the rotation on the tv and it amused me. I tried asking it for a pattern but it was unresponsive 😂

 

Motorcycle-sized tuna fetches more than $1 million at Japan auction By Jay Ganglani, Lisako Neriki Ancheta and Chris Lau, CNN

Updated: 3:18 AM EST, Mon January 6, 2025

Source: CNN

A bluefin tuna about the size of a motorcycle has been sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at Japan’s most prestigious fish market, setting the second highest price on record during its new year auction.

 
 

Mom hung a mass produced art print on my bedroom wall when I was about 8. It's of a little girl holding her puppy.

oil painting titled Miss Bowles and her dog by Joshua Reynolds

Cute, right?

Thing is, this painting terrified me. And I was raised in the time where you just kind of swallowed any complaints and didn't bother mom or dad with kid foolishness.

Here is a copy of the thing I actually had hanging on my wall. This same frame. Probably came from Service Merchandise or some such.

larger crop of the same work of art

What in the everloving hell is lurking just over her shoulder?!?! To me it always looked like a skull wearing a hat on the side of his head, like a little old timey jaunty hat a clown would wear.

It's a wonder I got any sleep. I was too afraid to tell mom I hated it. I never considered that I possessed the agency to take it off my wall and hide it at the bottom of the closet.

I think of this cursed painting still.

Did you ever have something in your childhood that unnecessarily scared the bejeezus out of you?

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