I’m in Minnesota, we do land acknowledgements here, and the longer initialism I often see is LGBTQIA2S+, but I’ve never seen the 2S getting the top billing. That said, I think I can speak for all (reasonable) Minnesotans when I say that we’re willing to do that when we become Canada’s newest province.

In the early 2000s my mother’s bank got hands free headsets. She was horrified at how many of her coworkers would answer the phone in the bathroom.

My brother was assigned that in school and we had it in the RV on a camping trip, so I picked it up and read it one evening. Both the info on citrus growing, and the violence, are things I still remember. Fucked up.

Was it assigned reading? Where did you go to school? I’ve always wondered if that book made it into reading lists anywhere outside of Florida.

I know that sometimes they are, but I don’t have much more info than that. I saw the Broadway version of Cats on PBS when I was a kid, weird show.

Didn’t the army corps of engineers fuck up lake Okeechobee for a while and basically kill it with ag runoff?

Wait, what? I can eat Jell-O again?

Oh. Wait. It’s Jell-O. Meh.

I have played quidditch, with the broom.

I spent more time trying not to trip over said broom than actually playing. And I’m somewhat athletic. It wasn’t great.

It’s because Texas is trying to ban books with the words butt and fart.

Mostly off topic, but I do appreciate that Caitlin Clark has made a lot of people actually care about one women’s sport that previously only pretended to care for the sake of being nasty to trans people.

Relevant XKCD

Funny enough, I stopped mixing up my left and right after I broke my arm roller blading (on another occasion I broke my arm while biking). I didn’t have a way to mentally keep track until the doctor set the arm slightly off with the bone bowing out a bit - it feels slightly different now, but visually you can’t tell.

I’d be more worried about their roofs after hurricane season this year. Getting repairs after a hurricane has always been awful, my house had blue tarps for six months after Charlie Francis and Jeanne and we were lucky because we had the money on hand to pay and didn’t have to wait for insurance to pay out.

Square grouper is a surprisingly common fish in Florida.

It’s likely a coincidence.

I blocked Ozma months ago, because seeing his posts did not spark joy and blocking him has improved my experience on Lemmy, and generally I think this is a good moderator decision. But I hadn’t commented because I mostly agree with the temporary ban and I wasn’t seeing his posts anyway.

Yeah, but they fucking glued the battery to the screen!

On that note, anyone know any good repair shops in the Twin Cities? My LG G8 needs a new battery.

Hey now, they’re better than Polk. Barely.

The pan flag is pink yellow and cyan, the trans flag is pink white and blue.

Nah, transgender peeps. There used to be a running joke in the trans community about trans women and pickles because spiro causes salt cravings.

Now make them pink white and blue for pride month.

The MyPillow ad along the bottom, lol.