Simon Tantham’s puzzles

Löve Solitaire

Hole Down

Gridland is less casual, but I enjoy it. Turn off the music at first opportunity tho.

Vector Pinball

Just posted this this morning, so I’ll just copy paste here

I had a friend break up with me. We got really close pretty quickly (by my frigid standards for sure), and spent a ton of time together. We shared hobbies and did a load of work. Aside from one or two little quirks, the relationship was fantastic.

And then idk. It just got super fucking toxic. I’m sure I’m at fault somewhere in there, but for the majority it just felt like my friend was going off the deep end and there was nothing I was allowed to say during any conversation that wouldn’t end up in paragraphs of a text later. I spent almost an entire year of wondering what I was doing wrong, of what I could do to help… just anything.

And then I was told Christmas eve that they couldn’t handle it any more and they ghosted.

We ended up having a conversation a few months later but I was basically told I had no emotional value to them anymore. Talk about a punch to the gut.

So yeah. Fucking painful as hell. And I still don’t understand what happened, and I assume I never will. My now partner has been friends with this ex friend since childhood, so I’m concerned about future get togethers. But what can you do

Make sure your dog knows they’re loved and wanted. The calmness that helps provide helps a lot when you’re training.

Also please socialize your dog. Dog parks can be very scary for a puppy, so it’s important to try to ease into the socializing. Maybe by other puppy meet ups or if you have friends with dogs.

Not all of these companies pay hourly. Check the contracts and see if you can ask a worker who actually works there.

My ex got duped into one of these for roof repairs, but it was a commission only job that sounded great on paper but was absolutely awful

I’m in the same boat. I have a medium -big dog and I’ve had him for a third of my life. He is my most precious friend and I absolutely treasure him.

But I’m never getting another dog. Not because he’s going to break my heart when he leaves, but because of how much work and money goes into owning a dog.

Come do it yourself, you coward.

I will! Thank you!

I think something like My Hero Academia and The Office would be pretty funny.

Show me the really mundane side of superheroes. The “Jenna, please file these by tomorrow” but Jenna is 12’ tall. I think Dispatch comes close, but I want a whole ridiculous show. No heroics. Or even an isekai but in an office or normal job. Some mega powerful reincarnated whoever just needs to make some money.

Feels like that’d be funny.

Kinda wild how relatively boring a map is when there’s no evident tectonics

Oh good call. I’ll try this for sure

Ride the Lightning by Metallica

My dad liked to occasionally play his records or CDs as loud as he could. He’d say he was trying to break the windows.

I remember being young and being absolutely terrified of the intro to a Rob Zombie album where it’s a young girl talking all creepy. Used to run away and hold over my ears lol.

Aglio e olio is one of the most famous pasta dishes for a reason.

Always at my job.

My manager is a micromanager and I don’t mesh well with a lot of the ways we do things. So I’ll try to start a project to make things better for me and I’ll mention it or ask if I should continue when we meet. Every single time I get told no after some very fake deliberating from my manager.

I really really need to learn to keep my mouth shut and just do the thing that’s going to help me

I don’t have nearly enough or strong enough words to say how much she means to me. But she’s just so incredible. She’s so strong and so kind and compassionate. Her laugh gives me butterflies and I absolutely adore how much she loves to cuddle or just hold my hand.

Gah! I’m so lucky <3

Woah! Nope. Just wanted to hear people being happy. :)

I’ve always been really into clouds, so I get distracted fairly often.

But I think it’s really awesome to just look outside. I feel like people aren’t as keen to just absorb the world around them or to be curious about all that’s around us.

I stopped my partner on a walk recently to listen to the bees in the freshly blooming tree we were under. She said she never would have noticed.

I’ve gotten that same answer from others when I’ve said that I love walking through neighborhoods and smelling when someone is doing laundry. It just smells really good and it makes me feel good.

https://lemmy.world/c/weird_art

https://programming.dev/c/show_and_tell

https://reddthat.com/c/doohickeycorporation

https://lemmy.today/c/cool_rocks

The Surinam Toad is entirely aquatic. ┐⁠(⁠ ⁠∵⁠ ⁠)⁠┌

Editing to add: I looked up images of this creature and DO NOT DO THAT. Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew

I feel like turtles can be partially to fully aquatic, but tortoises are land based only

I threw some tables in a comment a few above yours if you’d like to take a peek