Sometimes you have to grow your own community… a smaller user base requires much more individual participation.

Be persistent ♡

I still dont know how links work.

Yup

And their Bodega cat.

He built his name on those two things. Literally. That’s been his brand since the 1980’s: shady businesses, inflated real estate deals, and beauty contests. His base voted him in because they liked what they saw and wanted more of it nationwide.

I like yr jurse, my friend.

Stick a sewing needle in it. Find one that fits inside with the spool of floss. I’ve carried one in my bag for decades at this point.

Or stash state secrets in her casket… Dig up her bones.

It’s based on a comic series, so the bones are good and the critics are all weenies. I ♡ crappy derivative action schlock.

Priest. I recommended it in a terrible movies thread. It’s Paul Bettany and Karl Urban in a cowboy/ronin/faith-based militia versus vampires film. Critics gave it 16% fresh.

… seriously. Look at this.

in no particular order:

The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor’s Heroic Search for the World’s First Miracle Drug

The Wave: In the Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean

Among the Thugs: The Experience, and the Seduction, of Crowd Violence

Anything by Mary Roach or Bill Bryson

*I love a good subtitle. Read Stephen Jay Gould, too. The Burgess Shale one in particular.

Bake something super easy.

Fudge and/or peppermint bark make great gifts and are both pretty easy to make for any skill level. Dress it up with a dollar store Christmas tin and bow for extra appeal.

three ingredient peppermint bark

fudge

I’m still mad about Kaos.

I leave it on in the background for my dog sometimes, in case the views help revive it.

This. He said the good thing… I don’t like the click bait.

I can only assume that the spirochetes in his brain are dying off, and all that’s left up there is cat food.

Reading through Platner’s many hundreds of anonymous comments, it’s hard to paint him as a secret white supremacist or far-right extremist of any kind. In fact, his posts more or less align with the persona he has presented to voters in the two months since he launched his campaign: a rough-around-the-edges military veteran and oyster farmer with a penchant for crude language and a passion for firearms and sustainable living who holds a variety of standard progressive views alongside some heterodox ones.

I did that with key west. Got one exit away and bailed. We ended up kayaking in mangroves instead. 10/10.

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

He lacks the warmth and depth