The strong law of small numbers strikes again!

Sentient, spacefaring bees, according to the article! Not what I was expecting but still, sounds pretty intriguing!

Yeah, cryptobiotic crust! I’ve seen it in the Sonoran desert. It doesn’t look like much, I think if I hadn’t been warned ahead of time not to step on it I might have just done it without thinking. Given that just footprints can take on the order of decades to heal I think a dune buggy ban makes sense in areas where it grows.

I’m still surprised to learn about the microbes in the Atacama: it’s the driest place on earth, and I would have expected the salt deposits to make it even harder for anything to live there. Yknow what they say I guess: “Life, uh, finds a way.”

Some pretty interesting ideas. I was unaware that anything was living in the Atacama salt deposits, which certainly lends some credence to the idea that something could be pulling moisture out of the air on Mars, thin as it is.

Report 'em too, if you’re not already! It helps the mods and the admin team find them so that site-wide bans can be issued.

Ooh, good suggestion, I’ll give it a try!

Totally agreed, but I was also surprised not to see raisins on your list! They’re great cooked right along with the oats: they’ll soak up a little water (or milk if you do it that way) and plump back up a bit, and they make for delicious bites. I also usually make steel-cut oats in a rice cooker – they don’t come out quite as delicious with quick oats because they don’t get as much opportunity to suck up water, but they’re still good.

If you have a USB stick you’re not using you can install Mint on it and boot directly from the USB drive without modifying your actual OS, and see how you like it! The same is true of many other linux distributions if you’d like to explore, but Mint was my own first foray into linux and I think it’s a comfy distro to start off with. I think you’ll be shocked by how snappy it can be on a lower spec machine like that, even running from a USB stick.

I ran an intro game of Lancer for some local friends of mine! It was fun, although I should know by now that a one shot is never a one-shot, especially for players who are new to a system.

Also continued my game of Shadowrun I’ve set in Denver. Had some really interesting character moments that arose from one of the players forgetting that they should have told their in-game family they were going to be away overnight (and me forgetting to have their in-game SO call them to check in…). Advanced the plot right up to just before where I’m planning on introducing the main storyline to the players, very excited for the next time we get to play!

lmao me too actually, since posting this I decided to give it a go this past weekend. Not very far in yet, but I’m really enjoying it so far!

I’ve been watching a lot of her videos lately! I found the one on Gell-Mann amnesia to be really interesting and linked it here the other day; maybe a good one for a next watch if you haven’t picked yet.

I’ve also heard great things about Crosscode. I haven’t started it yet (mainly because I’m worried about what it will do to my already flagging productivity), but from what I’ve heard about it, it sounds like it’d fit the bill quite well!

I really enjoyed Death’s Door, which is frequently compared with Tunic. That might be one to check out!

You might also be interested in Supergiant’s older games: Bastion and Transistor. They’re the team behind Hades, but those older games don’t have the same rogue-like elements that Hades does. (They also both have absolutely phenomenal soundtracks by Daren Korb!)

You might also like Divine Divinity (the 21 year old predecessor to the popular Divinity: Original Sin).

They look delicious! A home-grown tomato is, in my experience, always much tastier than anything you can buy in a store these days. I love to snack on some fresh cherry tomatoes with nothing but a little bit of salt whenever I’m at my parents’ place during the right season for them. (And they’ll be the first thing I plant when I’m in a permanent enough place to have my own garden.)

Carolina vinegar based pulled pork

Is that related to mustard based bbq? Mustard based is my favorite ♥

Despite being tossed together, this has a really coherent color scheme! It looks very intentional.

I’m personally a big fan of pineapple, if you’re looking for something a little different next week. (And of course it goes really well with fresh coconut, but that can be tricky to get depending on season and location.)

Haha I was just coming here to @ you about this, but you beat me too it!

They should show up in Subscribed, I think. They do for me. Although it did take a little while after I first added them, for some reason. Maybe give it a day and see if non-local posts start showing up in your Subscribed then?

Wow that’s a wild story! It newly evolved in the 70s, went extinct in the 90s, and then seeds from some plants that grew in windowsill pots were used to bring it back!

That’s nuts!

(Well, seeds, but yknow)

Yeah! The availability of freeze-dried fruits makes it really easy (although they do suck up humidity from the air over time after you grind them, so you’ll want to eat the cake within a couple days 😉)

I added an imgur link! It doesn’t seem to show a preview in the community feed, but for now that’s okay.