4yo during morning cuddles with Mama. "Aren't you glad we're not butterflies?" ."I guess? Why?" ."Because butterflies die after laying their eggs, just like sockeye salmons. So then you couldn't snuggle your babies.".

the novelty wore off I'm ready to not feel sick anymore.

it's comforting in the hospital to lean into the objectification. the professionals flitting around your bed aren't primarily judging you as a person by your presentation and reactions, they're viewing you as a nesting doll of tubes and sacs of varying compositions they're fixing.

4yo: "those fish look like Magikarp"

I had no idea Tears of the Kingdom imported horses from BOTW. I had completely forgotten Glue

4yo is upset that his sister has more X chromosomes than him.

RT @bloodmajicks: problematic bed time gap relationship.

watching _Primitive Technology_ with kids-- more charcoal making!. 6yo is impressed by 800k views in a week, asks how much money that is, ~$500/day. 4yo wonders how the video footage lasted all this time since the stone age.

it is impossible to convince a child that a mechanical keyboard shimmering with rainbow lights is NOT a toy. they see truths we are blind to.

the existence of the sun belt suggests that deserts are generally habitable if you solve the logistical problems.

why do bedtime stories when you can discuss the pros and cons of exoskeletons until everyone falls asleep instead.

an underappreciated part of being a fixer-upper is granting your partner the satisfaction of succeeding.

vocab word of the day for parents: lant.

the number of people answering unknown numbers must have dropped 50% since 2015.

worst part of likes being hidden is having to guess who you're following that's polluting your feed by liking terrible tweets.

recovered daughter's corrupted Pokemon save game (56KB) with some help from Gemini 2.5 to scan the SD card (photorec didn't work). had to manually fix the offset logic (math is hard) and do some additional prompting to optimize speed but 99% there for one-off tasks is very nice!

me: *explaining antibiotics and the discovery of penicillin and their importance in treating infections on the Nth round of strep*.4yo: "I don't think it would be fun if you had a newborn baby and a cat bited him and then he died.".

baby that looks like you: aww, cute. child that acts like you: oh no.

trump could make the funniest trade if he realizes how much money denmark is making from ozempic.

every company should have a paid support option where you can pay $10 to guarantee an agent spends at least 15 minutes reading your case and trying to help you.