It’s true, at least there’s a great backlog to explore. We can always be nostalgic for AI-less nostalgia…

I’m a big fan of a vodka Paloma!

4 parts grapefruit vodka

2 parts soda or a sparkling water.

1 part lime juice

optional - agave or simple syrup to taste.

You can rim the glass with salt and garnish with lime, serve over ice! You can also add various chopped fruits or other juices for a nice visual/taste mixup, like that cranberry.

Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds

Maybe the monkey can be a little less of a dick, for science?!

I’m only having the most basic of vodka margaritas, but I’m pretending it’s extra haunted.

“Wow, this half developed feature is so interesting, here’s a list of improvements that should be made to make it fun!” are 3/4s of the comments on that thread.

‘Proud’ owner of a 300i, still waiting on that ‘Rework’ from 2014 2018 ???.

“I mean, it’s one plant label, Michael. How much could it cost, $100?”

HANDS OFF ME LEAVES, I NEED ME ✨ＬＥＡＦ　ＭＯＬＤ✨

That’s a pretty good question. I 💯 agree that it can fall into authoritarian colonial bullshit, and in fact that’s probably what I was thinking of in terms of ‘defining’ vs ‘advancing’. I’ll invoke the case of the ‘Sad Puppies’, a bunch of lame ass white men who were super mad that the Hugos were overwhelmingly going to ‘not white men’ (read: interesting BIPOC voices everyone loves and gasp…women?!).

I would probably claim the Sad Puppies tried to define culture.

The rest of the attendees advanced it by telling them to fuck right off.

I’m based in the Pacific Northwest, so here’s a few of my favorites in the region.

Seattle

Swanson’s is the normal recommendation, they are pretty cool. If maybe a little pricey.

RIP City People’s…

Tacoma

Calendula Farm & Earthworks is worth a visit! They have a good selection of native plants.

Portland Ave Nursery. This is in Tacoma! I’ve bought a few trees from them! It’s definitely got a good vibe.

Portland

One Green World is my current mail order choice for bare roots. They are in Portland, OR. I’ve visited the retail location down there, it’s a good way to spend some time!

Snohomish

Flower World is also very neat and very dangerous (for my wallet).

Garden cleanup continues! I’m doing the boring bits of tidying/repairing my cheapo greenhouse from last year. I’ll be putting some more onions in the ground just to have greens.