Most microwaves can be silenced. I figured out how to shut mine up but several hours later my roommate unmuted it, I guess some people like the obnoxious noises.

The rebel symbol from Star Wars has been heavily featured in the anti-ICE movement here in Minnesota, look up the rebel loon. Your suggestion is subtle enough that those who know will probably get it and those who don’t will probably just think OP is a nerd.

I’ve once made the mistake of stepping into an anime con game room on Sunday that gave out free samples of Axe body spray. You just end up with Axe + heinous body odor. I’m not sure it’s worse, but it’s not better.

I wonder how many of those folks grew up under an authoritarian parenting style too?

A lot of wildlife rehabs don’t deal with the non-endangered or threatened birds. Several years ago a friend of mine found an injured bird of some sort and we called around trying to find help for it but all of the local rehabbers said if it wasn’t a bald eagle they couldn’t help. So because most vultures aren’t endangered afaik, they just die and probably nobody is keeping track.

Funky cheese, relevant username

Space shuttle launches. I’ve seen basically every one that’s happened in my lifetime since I grew up like 30 miles from Cape Canaveral, we’d watch the initial launch on TV then run outside to watch the shuttle rise over the trees in the yard. The solid rocket boosters glow and you could see them separate and fall back down.

The first time I drove out to the coast to watch as an adult my friend and I were sitting along the intracoastal and some dolphins came up to say hi while we were waiting.

My mom had a manager who didn’t have fingerprints. When the bank they worked at implemented fingerprint login on the computers it caused a few problems.

Teleroboxer was kinda cool too, I played it briefly on the 3ds but I didn’t really want to spend the time to get decent at it.

GE sells LED bulbs that come with a remote, nothing smart about them, I can dim them or turn them off entirely with the remote that lives on my bedside table.

When you both have IBS but want to spend more time together.

Earlier today I found out that old spice makes a lavender scented deodorant for men. It’s light and pleasantly subtle

Nah, piloswine is actually prepared for winter.

Good news, yesterday it hit 40, everything melted, and today it’s all frozen for proper Minnesota winter next week where we’re supposed to be getting sub zero temps! I’ve never been this thrilled for shitty cold freeze thaw cycles.

The photographer is apparently Christopher Katzarov with the Canadian press, according to what I saw on Reddit. (I live in Minneapolis, Reddit is kinda a necessary evil right now.)

Also found this one on a stock image site, seems to be same event and same photographer.

Four hours later, I just checked and it’s still up lol. Nobody say anything.

I’ve seen a few people with talons like this in Florida but most places it’s not practical or socially acceptable to wear flip flops for all occasions and year round. You’re not getting those things in normal shoes.

Is Malta that unheard of? I’ve got a path to EU citizenship and I’m working on it. Maybe it’s just Minnesota in winter influencing me but Malta is one of the first places I want to check out to maybe move to. On paper they’ve got some of the best legal protections for trans people on the planet (although I’m aware it’s partly pinkwashing for political corruption). And their cycling infrastructure apparently isn’t great…