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I try not to use GPS if I don't need to. I'm pretty good at remembering how to get places based on landmarks, and can usually figure out how to get to new places knowing how roads are laid out, and using the sun for cardinal directions.

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Paper maps. Calling someone on the phone for directions relative to a major highway. Asking for directions at a gas station. Printing out MapQuest directions. Remembering how to get places without needing a map every time.

I wonder if GameFreak is gonna sue over trademark infringement

What a Jos. A Broni might look like

guy wearing a cheap My Little Pony patterned suit

you might have to get a cost comparison before filling out the request

Stargate SG-1. The first like 4 episodes are rough, but the rest of the first several seasons are great. It gets bogged down in its own Lore around 2005, and then ends on a cliffhanger after a serialized last season.

🦇 Murphy @mjosmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I played about 50 levels, this is my first Picross type game. It's pretty good! I like how it slowly forces you to use more/new strategies.

🦇 Murphy @mjosmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

good to know I've made a savvy investment choice by hiding my retirement savings under my mattress

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🦇 Murphy @mjosmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gooey crunchy is a sensory nightmare in everything but peanut butter

He'a a fan of Sendero Luminoso, his opinion is meaningless

Florida: "Actually officer I'm traveling in a conveyance, not driving livestock License"

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Like r/whatsthisbug. Photo of a brown dot taken from 6 feet away, using phone camera, no zoom, without checking the focus.

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Real pet owners know this should be a dental floss dispenser

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Telescoping generations - Wikipedia

This kind of reproduction exists in parthenogenic insects. So if your elves can reproduce clonally too, it could work

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do you want stories about trouble with people attending the outreach, or can conflict with other outreach organizers be included?

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In his Conversation, Stefan Schuster tells us about archer fish, which hunt prey above the surface by squirting jets of water to knock them down and predict precisely where the morsel will land to intercept it before other fish arrive doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

An archerfish (Toxotes chatareus) squirting a jet of water. Photo credit: Schuster Lab, Bayreuth University.

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It's funny that Tolkien predicts Goths

Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 05/10/2026

If you don't have many-to-many relationships, a Sankey diagram is probably a good choice. Though it might be difficult to display if you have lots of mergers.

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wait... but... those are fusulinids??? Like, zillions of them. I need this bench.

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wow. that's some bullshit. i'd say, "what centrist would vote for a nut like Bolsonaro over Lula in the runoff", but well. you know where i live.

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Oh! Quickly looking at University of Kansas' geology department site, it seems like it! I think the stone benches are all local rock, and the local rocks are fossil-bearing limestone and shale.

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You hear the dreaded words: "Mr. Lupine, party of 14"

Other than lots of butterflies, there wasn't much new at the gardens this weekend. I *did* see a juvenile mantis, though!

gray praying mantis trying to blend in against a gray concrete bench

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Return what was stolen? The slab?

I think this is part of the reason why I prefer Nintendo games? The difficulty is usually a bit less to accommodate younger and older players than most AAA stuff.

I don't really mind difficult strategy games, but as soon as something requires twitchy reflexes or memorizing 5 patterns per enemy I'm out. Mina the Hollower was only enjoyable because I could use accessibility settings on bosses.

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This illustration was in a book for kids aged 6-8!