Tracy Arm Fjord! Not that boring! Similes! American Tea! Octofeet! Steve! Tybalt reports in! Prose corner? Saja! The Forks! Happy birthday to the OG animal interest haver!

Comparisons:

https://pudding.cool/2026/05/similes/

Boring conversations:

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1123175

Sir David:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/david-attenborough-celebrates-his-100th-birthday/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TJaNDBI87s

Yaupon Tea:

https://catspringtea.com/blogs/yaupon/the-real-story-of-ilex-vomitoria-and-yaupons-name

Tsunami!:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/science/tsunami-landslide-alaska-climate-arctic.html

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Oops! All Kids! Popedrop! Smoking on the Whitehouse roof. Jesus Christ Frog. Your name in land. Believe? What are words? Tales of Typography. Clowncat. Thumbs up: An Investigation. What to do while making monsters.

Poperave:

https://youtu.be/XJuT27G5QEc?si=xiH2TKdc0xNNN1YO

Dead frog/Alive frog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPeehsXAr4

Your Name in Landsat:

https://science.nasa.gov/specials/your-name-in-landsat/

Fireball reporter:

https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo/report_intro/

Samurai Crab:

https://www.curiousspecies.com/my-species/samurai-crab

Sonja, Monstermaker:

http://www.sonsationalcreations.com

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Movie Bracket! Shakespeare nerds, this is your episode! Cuthulhu real. D'Artagnan: dead. Frogs: mini. Sky: synthed. Horseblood! Poetry corner! Chirps! Van Buren?!?! Warm spots in a cold universe.

Film Bracket:

https://lithub.com/and-the-best-literary-film-adaptation-of-the-last-50-years-is/

Shakespeare List:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/ng-interactive/2026/apr/22/every-shakespeare-play-ranked-lear-antony-cleopatra-hamlet

The Majestic Giant Octopus:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/kraken-fossils-show-enormous-intelligent-octopuses-were-top-predators-in-cretaceous-seas/

D'Artagnan:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2rew2dgzzo

The Frog Guy:

http://www.markscherz.com/

Skysynth:

http://skyviewer.app/skysynth

3I/Atlas:

https://www.space.com/astronomy/comets/interstellar-invader-comet-3i-atlas-formed-in-a-world-much-colder-than-the-solar-system

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Zeus Loose! Wild Spanish Horses! Wings: Good. The Lonely Lystrosaurus. I, Naturalist. Advice corner with Finlay. Bird mob! Mistletoe: Maligned. Lemon/Lemun. Sabotage! More tests! Risograph!

Zeus on the Loose:

https://youtu.be/-uHhzCTVV7E?si=KyWxh7XRxAnX04Al

Brand New Spanish Horses:

https://youtu.be/2puOUHPivH8?si=AXgpuZUfyDlngnUt

Why Birds:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/why-birds-were-the-only-dinosaurs-to-survive-earths-worst-day/

Egg Laying Mammals:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/250-million-year-old-fossil-proves-mammal-ancestors-laid-eggs/

Joe's iNaturalist:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=theoriginaljoefisher&verifiable=any

Pelican Spider:

https://youtu.be/N92b8_r-L8o?si=YixesdEKcTSwRVPD

Risotto Studios:

https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/risotto-riso-club-graphic-design-spotlight-080426

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Inge Lehmann forever. Spaceward tungstan shotgun! Worst Salt Lake? Poisonous confidence! We celebrate the horse girls. Breathing bees! The deepening mystery of the prototaxites. The sperm whale miracle! Negative ions: the real and the influenced. To the moon again, despite it all.

Inge Lehmann:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inge-lehmann-and-earths-deepest-secret/

Pulverize it!:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-a-bold-plan-to-pulverize-an-earth-bound-asteroid/

Great Arsenic Lake:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/utahs-great-salt-lake-may-be-hiding-a-massive-reservoir-of-fresh-water/

The occasionally confidant snake:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/these-snakes-steal-poison-from-their-prey-heres-how-they-know-they-have/

Prototaxites?:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-mysterious-407-million-year-old-fossil-may-represent-a-previously-unknown-branch-of-life-180988052/

Sprem Whale Birth:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/climate/sperm-whale-birth-assistance.html?searchResultPosition=2

The moon again:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-artemis-era-may-finally-solve-three-major-moon-mysteries/

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Simulation? He thrusts his fists and makes less posts and still insists this video roasts. Subscription fatigue. Green space, less crime. Palm trees defeated? Mid-tier cetaceans. I'r a bird, it's a plane, it's Steve. House Hippo. Catch you on the Aztec TL. Typewritten.

Dolphin and whales head back home:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12052-009-0135-2?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExUzk2SDNaVXc4bVducmY3M3NydGMGYXBwX2lkDzUxNDc3MTU2OTIyODA2MQABHuQQA2l_n4gONEVbzo5aLSxG-lYmro-q-jp_zL4uk522MMPT7WVPtxRwdCpu_aem_6lOuYrmxO35ox2o0ycDJKQ

Palm trees:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/29/los-angeles-palm-trees-dying

Philly green spaces:

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/greening-abandoned-lots-philly/

Simulation theory:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-072X/ae1e50

Less posts:

https://petapixel.com/2026/04/03/social-media-users-are-less-active-on-platforms-due-to-rise-of-short-form-video/

Less subs:

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/three-newsletters-for-the-price-of-1-5-independent-journalists-experiment-with-a-bundle/

Artemis tracker:

https://artemis-tracker.netlify.app

House Hippo

https://youtu.be/TijcoS8qHIE?si=HM5FfcJ83-AcRxLZ

Houe hippo felt:

https://imgur.com/a/homemade-house-hippo-iWoL3WZ

How to Pronounce the Aztec TL:

https://youtu.be/3j2m510Pp2o?si=ofrLkRgYYAeUSuIM

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Meteors! Lightning! Moon! Kitten! Poop! Purple! Dolphins! Descartes! Turkeys! Tinnitus! Newfoundland! Typos!

Meteors embiggening:

https://gizmodo.com/astronomers-say-recent-rash-of-meteor-sightings-warrants-serious-investigation-2000738638?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Crazy lightning article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/lightning-strike-survivors-body-mind/686057/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ-X29a3sQP9dT9t6OaO3vMk

Magnetic safe zone on the moon:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earths-magnetic-field-may-be-more-powerful-than-we-thought/

Purple isn't real:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70129575/purple-is-fake-science/

Saber toothed kitten:

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/16/nx-s1-5193845/35000-year-old-kitten-siberia-frozen?emci=dc70b4ec-05a6-ef11-88d0-6045bdd62db6&emdi=9ba28b99-4da8-ef11-88d0-6045bdd62db6&ceid=2410533

Bear Poop Beer:

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/28/bear-poop-beer-columbia-breakside

Enigmatic Cat Bird Research:

https://www.science.org/content/article/dolphins-make-peace-and-love-not-war-when-they-encounter-strangers

Typo exhibit:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/typos-have-plagued-us-for-centuries-just-ask-the-publishers-who-printed-the-seventh-commandment-as-thou-shalt-commit-adultery-in-1631-180988353/

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Sorry about Joe's Crappy Mic. It's not Rich's fault.

Coffee: Same. Moon: Mysterious. Kids: Fine. Phone: poems. Muppets: Good. Mummen: Shantz. Americans: Canadians. Moon: Safe. Horse: named. Cheese: riotous. Seizures: bad. Molly: guarded. Girl Scouts: innovating.

The Coffee Shop:

https://theconversation.com/indie-coffee-shops-are-meant-to-counter-corporate-behemoths-like-starbucks-so-why-do-they-all-look-the-same-275746?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Howtown Moon Video:

https://youtu.be/ghW7BEC0byg?si=v757Ea9dE9HBuB9U

Kids are Alright:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-kids-are-all-right/

Phone Poems:

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/poems-dictated-to-my-phone-mostly-while-waiting-in-my-car

Molly Guard:

https://unsung.aresluna.org/molly-guard-in-reverse/

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