on the roof of the Regenstein Library

The good news is that exercise isn’t good for losing fat anyway!

It’s all about diet.

April 4! But, uh, of AD 1917, so not that recently.

I agree that Argentina could be improved. Maybe make it five stripes instead of three? Just add a bar of white at the top and also the bottom. The red symbol in the middle is great, but maybe we need more than one, let’s make it four in a horizontal row. Since there are more now they’ve got a be a little smaller and therefore also simpler, something recognizable but cool like a brewer’s star.

Oops, just made the Chicago flag again. Unbeatable.

• Angola 🇦🇴

• Albania 🇦🇱

• Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬

• Kiribati 🇰🇮

• South Africa 🇿🇦

• Portugal 🇵🇹

• Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I agree these are good, the others were not though. I’d like to add to consideration:

• Argentina 🇦🇷

• Canada 🇨🇦

• Japan 🇯🇵

In particular, Argentina is, if not the best national flag, at least my personal favorite.

Yes, when discussing pay. I said flat out “I need to be making X/week, is that realistic here?” Got that job, working it now. I don’t have time to mess around.

This is a sales job, though.

ZZT!

This is the game that got Tim Sweeney the cash he needed to develop Jill of the Jungle and then go off of that success to bring Epic (Epic Megagames at the time) into the successful company it became. But I don’t care about that because I never played Unreal or Fortnite.

ZZT came with its own editing software. Not just so you could place pieces around the board and make mazes or whatever, it contained a fairly robust scripting language you could use to make all sorts of things way beyond the scope of the original game the editor came with. Whole online communities grew up around creating and sharing these homemade games, first on BBSes and then on AoL fora and eventually on a dedicated website that’s still around. Because the game/editor were distributed as shareware, there was almost no barrier to entry, and we were all just churning with ideas about how to break the engine and push the bounds of the software, of gameplay, and if narrative convention.

It was one of the most creative and community-focused times of my life, and fostered my lifelong passion for game design, something I still do as a hobby.

spinach crêpes

I met her just before May Day in 2009. Two days later we were going steady. Three months after that, engaged. A year after we met I moved in with her and a year after she proposed we were married. Well, church married.

We were protesting for marriage equality and refused to file a marriage certificate until it was the law of the land; but we had kids before that happened and then we got busy and we didn’t actually get around to that part until the pandemic lockdowns. So ten years after we got married we turned in our marriage license.

because seven ate nine

Gonna be a “Hells No” from me, dawg.

I’d be down for an @mods that messaged all mods, though, which is what I thought you were asking about at first.

I’m told that I do.

I just reach back there. I have these crazy things on my arm called “elbows”.

Things I’m used to talking about in Spanish I usually think about in Spanish, if that makes sense.

Join a local mutual support network. Buy used furniture. Bike everywhere. Go vegetarian. Give mix CDs or handmade crafts as presents.

Reddit might still have more content, but it’s been overwhelmed by noise. Lemmy might have less, but I don’t have to sift to find it.

Doing those things didn’t make you and bad person.

Being a bad person made you do those things.

Change the person that you are, and you won’t have more of these regrets in the future.

Believe you me, I’ve been trying for years. Tribalism runs too deep in the human condition for there to be any obvious fix.

It’s not paranoia, I put on a white shirt two hours ago and it’s already stained.

Not from within the “comment reply” action, sadly.