@MrGoat Alfred wants to know if YOU want more assistance when I'm pretty sure you just assisted HIM! 😄

I'm going to tell y'all because nobody told me...

Snakes don't have eyelids. They sleep with their eyes open.

Shai-Hulud doesn't usually have his head out of the sand when he's sleeping. I thought he was dead! No...just sleeping.

@AskTheDevil @NoahPaulLeGies Oh, Aqua Dragons would be a great name for a pirate metal band! Sadly, none of my dragons breathe fire. Not the shrimp, not the red and black snake. The snake does hide in a cave, though!

@holon42 The instructions that come with them don't include instructions for continued care that are really important - like aeration and how they need algae, so don't clean the tank. I learned a lot from YouTube videos and the Sea Monkey subreddit.

@NoahPaulLeGies I started my Sea Monkeys in March, then started Aqua Dragons in July. I got a LOT more hatching from the Aqua Dragons! I moved them all into the 1.5 gallon tank this month and now they're all just my shrimps.

Spent a big chunk of the morning figuring out how to make a gif from a video of my shrimp. Things that were super easy 10 years ago can become a challenge when you don't keep up with the tools. But I did it!

@rpardee My ex-husband would argue about this all night. He's wrong...but he'll still argue. I think a lot of why I left was I finally understood I could not make him a better man. He would have to do that himself.

@AskTheDevil I have doubts about how well everyone really understood "When they go low, we go high" because we seem to just be swinging back and forth between "We'll just let them walk on us and everyone will see we're good" and "Yeah, it's mean, but they deserve it".

@corlin I didn't like it at first when I moved to WI - that's just not what we did with tater tots in TX - but after having it a few times it became a winter favorite.

@GNious "Eve of Destruction" and "For What It's Worth".

@stratkitten Jimi Hendrix is ALL the elements! Like, in a tarot deck, he would be The Magician.

@redenigma I needed this today. My birthday is in a couple of weeks and I've felt myself getting into that "another year of being a disappointment to everyone" mental space. Maybe I am disappointing some people. But that's on them, not me.

@Kurtroedeger There was some desperately wheezing for air!

@AskTheDevil I have always tried to give people more information in a compassionate way, but it is so often taken as criticism. I thought I was just bad at communication. A therapist told me my communication is great and other people's insecurities are not my responsibility.

@Kurtroedeger I am using this later just to find out how hard my spouse laughs! 🤣

I just realized the week is most definitely NOT almost over.

Yesterday was two months long.

@Anouk Yeah, I'm going to guess George Washinton wouldn't agree with them on that.

"While men perform their social Duties faithfully, they do all that Society or the State can with propriety demand or expect; and remain responsible only to their Maker for the Religion or modes of faith which they may prefer or profess."

That was in his letter to the Quakers about them being welcome here.

Shai-Hulud has little desire to come out of the sand. African sand boas spend something like 95% of their life in the sand. He makes a big show of it when he does come out, though!