The cables are extra long so they have plenty of slack, too.

That’s depressingly common in modern times.

It’s easier if you live near a city with lots of people, but going to meetup.com or similar will show you lots of communities that are eager to get more people involved.

It is always easier to stay home so sometimes I need to make myself go out and be social, but consistency is key. Showing up every week to a meetup will root you in a community more that once every couple months.

Find an IRL community that means something to you. You have to feel like you belong somewhere, and people need a support group to help when they’re down. You can’t feel happy if you’re lonely.

Make sure you look up a healthy diet for your bird; most parrots need fresh veggies daily. It can take some time to get them used to it, but it’s well worth the effort to have a healthy bird.

If it is a pellet/seed mix, you should likely change it out daily along with the water.

Thanks! It’s the Google photos version, but same idea.

People of Lemmy, what was the make of your first car and your elementary school’s name?

Jocund: cheerful and lighthearted.

From Romeo and Juliet:

Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day

Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

Archbishop Harold Holmes by Jack White

Don’t forget Mary Anning!

Anning searched for fossils in the area’s Blue Lias and Charmouth Mudstone cliffs, particularly during the winter months when landslides exposed new fossils that had to be collected quickly before they were lost to the sea. Her discoveries included the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton when she was twelve years old; the first two nearly complete plesiosaur skeletons; the first pterosaur skeleton located outside Germany; and fish fossils. Her observations played a key role in the discovery that coprolites, known as bezoar stones at the time, were fossilised faeces, and she also discovered that belemnite fossils contained fossilised ink sacs like those of modern cephalopods.

Anning struggled financially for much of her life. As a woman, she was not eligible to join the Geological Society of London, and she did not always receive full credit for her scientific contributions. However, her friend, geologist Henry De la Beche, who painted Duria Antiquior, the first widely circulated pictorial representation of a scene from prehistoric life derived from fossil reconstructions, based it largely on fossils Anning had found and sold prints of it for her benefit.

I’ve wondered why that line “this is where the fish lives” was in the script for literal decades now.

The Touch of Satan always stuck with me.

There’s a cafe near me that does a BLAT/americano combo lunch and it’s so good.

It’s defederated from .world, the largest Lemmy instance.

Poodles are the best dogs. So smart.

I think Rick Steves would fit in there, too.

Sagan also wrote that pot enhanced his experience of food, particularly potatoes, as well as music and sex.

I believe the kids today call this “based AF.”

If you’re never seen Columbo, you’re in for a treat.

I never found them as comfortable as a pair of good sandals like Birkenstocks or some sneakers.

They make a decent camp shoe though, since they’re extremely light and waterproof; I’ll clip them to my backpack so they don’t take up room inside.

That time they banned the word “fascist” was the closest to self-awarenes they get.