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247. Fish That Scrutinize; Fish That Rubberneck

247. Fish That Scrutinize; Fish That Rubberneck

Update: 2024-07-15
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  • Paleo animators.

  • Malaysia as a vacation destination.

  • Restaurants that are just in s guy's house.

  • The best whole fried catfish you've ever had.

  • Eating mixed whole livers.

  • Striving to get a B rating from the food safety inspectors because the A rating is too bougie.

  • Starch and grease.

  • The shape of the price to deliciousness correlation graph.

  • If you're here to buy cake, ring the doorbell.

  • You can talk to the cops or you can have cake. You can't have both.

  • Whether Americans can drink the water in Malaysia.

  • Being so desperate for fresh vegetables that you wash them with tap water.

  • Butterfly Pee Flour.

  • Jizz (birding)

  • The practice of just getting the vibe of a bird.

  • I don't know, it had the jizz of a bird.

  • Zooniverse.

  • Going through the still images on a nature webcam and trying to identify local animals.

  • Trying to tell the difference between a wood rat and a deer mouse.

  • Reclassifying all the animals in the world based not on their actual genetics or but based on what people think they are by looking at them.

  • Small, Brown and On the Ground.

  • Submitting a picture of a pair of brown wood owls to a bird study app and two hours later an angry ecologist is knocking on your tent to ask if you meant a spotted wood owl.

  • An extremely high-stress app.

  • Asking an albatross which of the twelve species is albatross it is.

  • Walking around in the woods until you spot a kiwi.

  • Major gaffes in interstellar communication that future aliens will be very confused about.

  • Massively synesthetic dog brains.

  • Receiving a sequence of bits and deciding to arrange them in a grid.

  • The other book with the spiders.

  • Humans interacting with a spider-based society.

  • Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

  • Expecting monkeys to become the dominant intelligent species on a terraformed planet seeded with Earth animals.

  • Adventuring into a dungeon built by the ancients and admiring the signage.

  • Opening an oil drum full of concrete and tubes and being like "where's the treasure that's supposed to be in here!"

  • Writing a song about how being near glowing cats is very dangerous.

  • Public serving meme songs.

  • Engineering earworms for the public good.

  • The Museum of Hawaiian Culture in Oahu.

  • Fish that watch. Fish that look.

  • Get those fish hungry.

  • It's just a lookin' fish.

  • Sleeping the lobes of your brain in shifts.

  • The lobes of your brain playing pranks on each other.

  • How can fish get some shuteye if they don't have eyelids??

  • How can fish rubberneck if they don't even have necks??

  • The Star Trek replicator except instead of materializing your food it prints a piece of paper with the words that you need to say to the tired-looking guy who then goes to cook your meal.

  • Ais krim.

  • What languages are hardest to spell in.

  • Are there four silent letters at the end, and if so which ones?

  • Cofftea.

  • Rolling all them bones.

  • Owning more sets of dice than you have played actual D&D sessions.

  • A big pile of dice rattling around in your phone.

  • Rolling the dice off of the table every single time.

  • A switch that goes ka-chonk.

  • Actively seeking out hobbies where you touch things.

  • Ways that continuous deployment sucks.

  • Text classifiers flagging your sexuality as photographic.

  • Image classifiers flagging your medical photos as pornographic.

  • Which photos encapsulate what you're trying to remember and discuss.

  • How to get your life off of a corporation's hard drive.

  • Unsearchable Tumblrs.

  • Get out there and jizz a bird!

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247. Fish That Scrutinize; Fish That Rubberneck

247. Fish That Scrutinize; Fish That Rubberneck

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