I’ve substituted sesame seeds for tahini in hummus before, toasting them and then blitzing them in the blender before adding the other ingredients. I always make my hummus in a blender so it’s fluffy and smooth. But with squash you might need a food processor instead, and it might not puree the sesame seeds enough.

They start small, and get big like that if they’re undisturbed. Show up in lawns sometimes too. Taste sour, in a nice way.

Now he can grow up to be a SPICY butterfly!

Give it a shot! Your city needs people like you.

Nothing wrong with “suddenly.” I probably should have used it in my previous comment. It’s just that sometimes you want to say “all of a sudden.” Especially at storytime. The extra time helps build the suspense. “Suddenly” is more sudden in that it just jumps in there. With “all of a sudden,” the subject isn’t ready but the listeners are.

“of the sudden” (1570) actually predates “of a sudden” (Shakespeare) according to my OED as squinted at through the nifty magnifying glass. But it’s been considered obsolete for a long time despite having all of a sudden experienced a resurgence.

(Note, I modernized the spellings of “sudden” rather than try to switch focus back and forth)

Upvoted and agreed, not least because I just learned that “all of the sudden,” while at present a nonstandard variant of “all of a sudden,” has valid history.

And of course it doesn’t matter in this casual context!

But in formal writing, in this era, using “a” will avoid distracting the reader from your main point.

It’s great that you’re helping your native plants stand against the invasives, they’re like the schoolyard bullies of the backyard.

It’s great that you’re helping your native plants stand against the invasives, they’re like the schoolyard bullies of the backyard.

Aha. But that sounds correctable… So not having any people assigned to checking on railroads and making sure the system recognizes them as railroads would be due to miserliness on the part of Tesla then… And might also say something about why some Teslas have been known to drive into bodies of water (or children, but that’s probably a different instance of miserliness)

I’m pretty sure Tesla self-drive does a lot of stupid things you never would, too. That’s why they want you at the wheel, paying attention and ready to correct it in an instant! (Which defeats the whole benefit of self-drive mode imho, but whatever)

The fact that they can avoid all responsibilities and blame you for their errors is of course the other reason.

Since the story has 3 separate incidents where “the driver let their Tesla turn left onto some railroad tracks” I’m going to posit:

Teslas on self-drive mode will turn left onto railroad tracks unless forcibly restrained.

Prove me wrong, Tesla

Cool, if it’s also Art Nouveau.

I hate to be a nitpicker but…

Amber bot is shit at poetry.

The idea of an onion as a metaphor for heartlessness is intriguing, because it’s layers all the way down, but there’s no poetry in the approach.

Any two socks that feel comfortable together on your feet are a pair. Not so different in thickness that they make you walk in circles, though. Color variety is a plus. Did you know you can buy packs of deliberately unmatched but coordinating socks? For girls with style!

You need some Quakehold Museum Putty. The cats will appreciate being able to scratch their faces on the scratching tree you got them, without being startled by the noisy mess.

If you think you need a phone, it should be a burner.

I’ve read that police (I’m not sure if that includes LAPD) have started using video from Waymo cameras in their investigations, same as they use CCTV from shops etc.

So that might be one reason to burn them, especially if they were seen to have been sent into the protest area not for passengers but for reconnaissance.

Or maybe it’s just because they don’t fight back.

Invincible and adorable!