Eric Lechner

Planting seeds: “Just imagine the joy you would get by sharing these with the recipients while you’re still alive!”

@octodrone.bsky.social this pertains to your interests.

Detective Beans found prominently displayed at bookshop Santa Cruz

@exocomics.com happy to see Detective Beans in the wild at @bookshopsantacruz.bsky.social

In theaters in early July!

I understand homemade is a bit of a stretch, but how often do you get to make recipes with lye as an ingredient?

Frog Detective by @gracebruxner.bsky.social

It’s beautiful!

As always, on point with the alt text.

A small slice of burnt basque cheesecake. The interior is a creamy pale yellow and the top is golden brown in the center and darker towards the edge. It is sitting on a small brownish-grey plate, which is on a speckled countertop.

The cheesecake as extracted from the pan. The parchment sling has been flattened, with some bits of butter the edges stuck to it. The top is golden brown in the center and darker, almost burnt, brown closer to the edges. The top edge looks slightly broken towards the left side.

The cheesecake as it came out of the oven. It is in a small springform pan, which is mostly obscured by the parchment paper sling that extended past the pan. The cheesecake is puffed up on the edges and more sunken in the middle. The edges are dark brown and slightly cracked. The center is golden brown, smooth and a little shiny. The pan is on top of a steel wire mesh cooling rack, which is on top of a black glass-top stove.

Burnt basque cheesecake

Screenshot of a Duolingo friends feed entry to shame a friend for having used more than one streak freeze last week. It has a blue frozen Duolingo owl picture, and offers a reaction button that says “OUCH”.

Dear Duolingo, why on earth would I want to shame a friend for using the features of your product and then keeping on using it?

Ugh.

dark patterns should not be design ideas!

In retrospect slicing the corner of my fingernail off should have been avoided while making dinner. Or really at any time.

I wish that generated images were tagged in a filterable way.

to steam you only need to boil like an inch of water, enough to not boil dry in 12 minutes, not a lot of water! (And you could kick start that with your electric kettle.)

That said, I’m glad the instant pot is working out for you for your eggs

I did hard cooked eggs in the instant pot for a while and switched to 12min in a steamer over briskly boiling water, followed by a cold bath. It’s been super reliable and ease of peeling went way up (also true in the instant pot)

So we repost everything once an hour now?

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This order also wins some sort of speed record for a “click buy” -> “your order has shipped (with tracking number)” time of 17 minutes.

Four brightly colored bug-themed Valentine’s Day cards standing on a wooden desk. Top left: a green sweat bee and with text “u make me sweat” Top right: firefly and with text “u light up my life” Bottom left: fuzzy pink and yellow moth with text “are u a lamp? Because I wanna be around you” Bottom right: green mantis with text “You look good enough to eat”

I don’t remember the last time I sent anyone a valentine. I’m excited about these bug ones from @sarahmackattack.bsky.social. (My daughter already has plans to swipe a bunch of them.)

Can you migrate your US phone number to google voice?

When someone explained LLMs as autocorrect on steroids it all made sense.

Is that in addition to the “Tad’s concierge movie recommendation” podcast?

A closet of identical outfits was also the style approach for Jeff Goldblum in The Fly. You’re in good company.

Well, turning off replies, reposts and quote posts, the following feed really cleans up.

Green fake neon sign in store window reading “rustico Italian street food” below an old sign reading “Santa Cruz hotel Italian dinners cocktails”

I was happy they made the old sign true for a while. A short restaurant life, even for downtown.

The alt text is like a secret decoder ring. Thank you!

Thanks for dialing BUG FACTS. For facts about true bugs, press 1. For facts about all other bugs, press 2. For facts about your little sibling, hang up and call your mom, which you should do anyway just to say hi.

Results of an inaturalist search suggesting black mold and a pic with a squirrel (superfamily sarcoptoidea) as likely matches for the photo.

I checked inaturalist using your photo and a random location in the middle of Ireland and it suggested:

Though guineafowl was the top hit.

Inaturalist offers possibilities of western screech owl, northern saw-whet owl, gamble’s quail and a few others.

A chocolate tempering machine filled with chocolate in foreground, a board with English toffee ready for chocolate coating in background.

In progress chocolate coating. The toffee in front is covered in chocolate, the most recently dipped are glistening, while the earlier dipped pieces are more matte colored. A hand is holding dipping forks over the tempering machine. A little uncoated toffee in the background.

A wooden board with a grid of chocolate coated English toffee, 8 across, 10 rows. One row inexplicably has 9 across.

Toffee, before, during, after.