America’s best license plate design.

Nevermind the measurement. How are you going to use the branch?

TL;DR: The DNC admits, in soft language, that they have nothing to offer the American electorate aside from “At least we aren’t Trump.” They are toothless and have no counter to anything the Republicans throw at them. They have no plan to revamp the party in any significant way to become relevant again. They admit that Republicans are simply better at politics.

They have plainly admitted the obvious.

CNN has report highlights here for people who don’t want to waste time reading the whole 192-page report:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/politics/dnc-autopsy-takeaways-vis

as an addition or complement to it.

Our public school district offers a hybrid home school program for this. You can do core subjects at home, and then the kids attend a branch campus for classroom-based electives like music or robotics. It’s really sweet.

Our kids have done a mix of public, private, and home school depending on where we have lived and their individual needs. We are fortunate to have this level of flexibility.

Most challenging: It’s just a ton of work. Doing it well is a full-time job, which is of course why the world has professional teachers.

Most rewarding: Watching the kids really get into certain topics. There is a level of flexibility you can’t get in a large group, and your kid can move at their own speed. So if they decide they’re super into some topic they can quickly finish the other required work for the day and then have time to dive deeper into their topic of interest. I came home yesterday to find that my preteens spent the afternoon composing original music for percussion ensembles, and it’s actually good.

Edit: I know home schooling isn’t popular here on Lemmy. There are definitely people who abuse it to the detriment of their kids. But there are good reasons to do it, too: maybe your kid has special needs that school can’t accommodate, maybe your kid is being harassed, maybe your kid is significantly ahead/behind their grade level and sees school as a pointless waste of time, etc. And you can get plenty of social interaction with sports, clubs, or just playing with other kids in the neighborhood. It does not have to be a solitary activity, and should not be.

Middle picture brought back memories of Internet days of yore.

Clever of the author to put their Patreon in a spot unlikely to be cropped.

I don’t have a comprehensive collection, unfortunately. If you Google around you can find partial collections on sites like this:

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/addams_charles.htm

I’m thinking of buying a book of his comics to share with my kids.

I woke up to a lovely rainstorm this morning and thought of this classic.

Fun fact: The disease is named for Lyme, Connecticut, USA. That’s where it was first identified as a unique condition.

It’s common enough in the northeast and north-central US that my public schools taught everyone basic prevention and symptoms as part of the regular curriculum.

Walk under the edge of an awning or roof, where the runoff is coming down.

Metal in a CT machine = bad image

Metal (particularly ferromagnetic metal) in an MRI machine = injured patient

Check out the stapler bouncing around near the beginning of this video: https://youtu.be/6BBx8BwLhqg

And I say heeeyyy-yey-yey-yey-yey!

French FORAD/OPFOR blue flecktarn is the sexiest camo. Practicality be damned.

Whatever, just don’t bring back UCP.

What?

It’s the worst ski year I’ve seen. My last day out I was dodging twigs and mud some spots. One small resort in my region completely closed for a few days last week due to lack of snow. It feels like early April out there, not early February.

I am a banana!