@Carcer that's cool, love their style! :)

@NautArch my buddy the psych prof had about five on line courses already. Three weeks ago he began converting his other classes to on line platform. He's now done. So he called me today: while his colleagues are scrambling to get their stuff rebuilt that way, he was home at noon, taking his nap. He called me at work to rub it in. 8^D

Friends do that, it made me laugh.

@Ash My girls and I are listening to Little House on the Prarie these nights. (We did Little House in the Big Woods back during the winter.) They're sympathizing with how Laura and Mary mostly have just each other to play with.

@nitsua60 Oh hey, Prairie Lotus came out earlier this month!

What's this?

It's a YA novel about a Chinese-Korean girl moving into the Dakota Territory from California, in the same time period as Little House. It's written by a Korean-American who grew up with the Little House books and her novel is in conversation with those books.

There's an interview with the author here.

@BESW Nice! Thank you.

@Ash Some of my favorites as a kid. And some of the few books I, a boy growing up in the US, read that had girls centered. =\

@curious [wave] Welcome!

@BESW Sounds interesting

@BESW heya!

Figured I'd check this place out instead of mindlessly scrolling all the same news sites every night :)

The struggle is real!

Yeah, my Twitter "muted words" function is getting a h*ck of a workout.

If you're in the USA, you can watch "Molly of Denali" online! Here's an Indian Country Today article about why it's so special.

I was talking with a friend about how our Twitter feeds can be full of panic and worry without a lot of balance, and we started sharing accounts that help us. I recommend Positive Whoniverse for anybody who enjoys Doctor Who.

Chris Evans as Golden Retrievers

Fonts in Use is an independent archive collecting examples of typography in the wild. Their twitter account is here.

If you're trying to use Twitter's "muted words" feature to curate your timeline, make sure that every word on the list is muted on all tweets, not just on tweets from people you don't follow. It's a checkbox in the settings for each muted word, so fixing it after you've muted a lot of words can be tedious.

Author/illustrator Ursula Vernon has a Twitter thread about how to start gardening.

Stacey Morrison shares a karakia mō te moe (prayer for sleep) that helps her anxious tamariki (children).

I was going to learn to play the accordion (using the "free hours" of not having to commute) but my SO is also remoting indefinitely so probably I won't be allowed to

More time on the piano I guess

I'm making good progress on Stoptime Rag despite my routine being a bit addled up by not having to leave for work in the morning

nice :)

Heads up: "Procreate for Android" is a virus scam.

If you want to try digital drawing on an Android device, try one of these:

@BESW "Procreate for Android" sounds like the plot of a sci-fi robot overlord dystopia

Also a virus scam, then.

One day left on the Humble Comics & Audiobook Bundle: Doctor Who. This bundle is bigger on the inside! And this time (lord) around we’ve bundled up Doctor Who comics AND audiobooks for you to enjoy. Read Doctor Who: The Road to the Thirteenth Doctor and Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Volume 3 - Conversion then listen to Doctor Who: Technophobia and Doctor Who: Time Reaver.

All of Theo Lorenz's print-at-home coloring books are now free!

Harry Needham is sharing his honours thesis for people to read: “A Story of Our People’s Triumph”: Histories of Survival, Autonomy, and Memory on Nauru, c. 1888-1992 (Google Drive link to a PDF)

Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit published today! It's a novel based on the excellent Goldie Vance comics!

@BESW Only Lorenz's Gumroad books are free; but you can find links to buy the others on Lorenz's own webpage, and I mean why wouldn't you be shelling out a few bucks for Unicorns Are Jerks and Fat Ladies in Spaaaaace?

Tomorrow, to get back into the art groove, I'm gonna use this paper cutout technique (Youtube tutorial for Procreate, works for most any digital drawing program) on one of Lorenz's coloring pages.

Then maybe I'll try it on a sunset I've been stuck on.

For warm cuddly news: our daughter and her husband (in the music business) are taking a break to just be creative. They sent the whole family a passle of cute pictures of our 6 month old grand daughter this morning. The Aaaaw, cute factor was turned up to 11.

@BESW That's funny =)

@BESW wait is the real app called 'procreate'

@KorvinStarmast very cute

Josh gad/amy adams/jennifer garner reading stories online for kids

twitter.com/nathanwpyle/status/1240019299613491200

@AncientSwordRage That will keep kids amused for perhaps part of a morning. Give them a large empty cardboard box or three to play with. Hours of fun. :)

fantastic

I am,... mostly just stuck at home not working

but I'm kinda ok with that too I guess

XD

@Ash :O Every so often someone comes up with a thing and you just immediately don't understand how you existed without it beforehand :D

@Ash And yays! :D I'm definitely much happier working from home

Dee Pennyway has made a Twitter thread of all their games, most of which still have community copies and can be played solo or work well online.

@Ash oh wow this is extremely great XD

"20 Must-Read Feel-Good Fantasies" by Nicole Hill for Book Riot.