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I saw some weird ass conspiracy video thing today of like 'we were never meant to have access to yeast, that was cultivated in a lab and it harms us' bullshit and I was like well first off there's no such thing as 'meant to' and second of all um? the long history of acquiring yeast from beer foam stretching so far back ??????

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I love a house that <text not found>'s me back

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i know this isn't the reguar theme of this blog but i need to share it somewhere because today someone called my local fire department because they found

a horse

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I love talking about the biggest or best thing “this side of the Mississippi” because like hey buddy I can make the best peach cobbler in this half of the continent but god only knows what peach secrets they have over on the other coast. I’m not messing with that.

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I fully understand that it's more useful this way because most people have no intuition for the mass or volume of aerosols, but it's still funny as hell that the nutritional information of non-stick cooking spray is listed in terms of calories per second.

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All animals are either Beasts or Creatures. This is usually consistent for a given species, but not always; for example, most dogs are Beasts and most cats are Creatures, but occasionally one will encounter a cat who is clearly a Beast, or dog who's an absolute Creature.

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The boy has two modes: "hang out four feet away", and "melt onto human's face"

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when you’ve honed the fine art of perfectly-timed reblogging of something aimed at one specific mutual and they immediately like it

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My father-in-law has two cats. One of them is regular cat smart, and the other is Trying His Best But Struggles. Some examples of his Struggles:

stepping on a bug lightly enough that he didn't kill it, then getting scared when he moved his paw and the bug flew away

laying down on his own tail and then shifting around grumpily because he was Uncomfortable and clearly couldn't figure out why

licking a wire toy so repeatedly that my FIL had to put it away because he was worried that this boy would cut his tongue open

getting absolutely soaked every time he tries to drink from the sink, because he doesn't know how to approach the stream of water without sticking his entire head through it first

But today... today was a Struggle beyond all other.

As that last point indicates, one of his favorite spots to be is in a sink. It doesn't seem to matter which one, as long as he's in one. He purrs up a storm, scent marks everything, and LOVES getting petted while he does so. My wife and I are cat-sitting, so I had the honor of giving him his Sink Pets this morning.

All was well, until he got so into contorting himself and scent marking everything that he pushed his head behind the cold water handle and accidentally turned the sink on.

It scared the SHIT out of him.

As soon as the tiny dribble of water exited the tap, he poofed his tail up, meowed angrily, and absolutely BOLTED out of the bathroom, meowing and yelling all the way. He first ran to the window, presumably to figure out what Terrible Threat had caused the sink to turn on, and then ran away AGAIN to hide in my wife's childhood bedroom. Where he stayed for the next HOUR, in case the Evil Sink Water would try to find him.

He is so very dumb. I love him.

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This was news from thee newscast here (Tagesschau) so the article is only in German but here my favourite parts:

- for a long time the only reason they knew the worm existed were the traces it left on the corals it ate, no one ever saw it

- until one day they found a one point five metre long part of the worm that was still wiggling

- only the part was missing the head, and the corals continued to be eaten, so apparently the worm just got rid of its bum and continued on like normal

- DNA tests of the bum could not determine its species, only that it is in some way related to the bobbit worm (also called eunice aphroditois), so this might be an entirely new species

- the worm is called 'Phantom'

- they installed cameras for four days, but didn't manage to capture the worm, after removing the cameras the worm continued eating the corals - right where the cameras had been

- the guy who positioned the camera said to that 'Lots of material, sadly extremly little worm, as in neither a long nor the short worm. We haven't seen anything.'

- now they have installed a camera again and a popular german news channel is streaming the whole night so that everyone can search for Phantom:

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In a study published today in Scientific Reports, UNSW Sydney researchers found that the underwater songs of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) in Antarctica share structural similarities with the nursery rhymes often sung by humans to their young. "Leopard seal songs have a surprisingly structured temporal pattern," says Lucinda Chambers, a UNSW Ph.D. candidate and lead author of the study.

Continue Reading.

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Breakfast acquired! Caffeine will have to wait til my wife wakes up

It is 8:30 and I'm already four bandaids in

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It is 8:30 and I'm already four bandaids in

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which lenox spice village house are you living in? i'm tarragon

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I briefly entertained doing something with the traditional anniversary gift list but based on the track record it'll have to be a massive mixed media in year 47 or something

@shardreach and I have not been married super long, but we do have a well-established anniversary tradition

Aka forgetting about it until we show up at my parents' for what we think is a normal visit and then realizing when they bring out an unexpectedly fancy dinner