Kid just made himself a Lego "cellphone," answered his first "call", then tapped the "end call" button in exasperation and said "it was a scam call"

hey

had this dream about a 2 way remote kissing device that lets you smooch a distant partner and it turns this is actually a real thing (except in my dream the device had a tongue too) https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/12/28/14105688/kissenger-message-kiss-app-device-abroad

Rediscovered this old story on "ultraconserved words" that have supposedly retained their meaning and pronunciation across languages for millennia: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/linguists-identify-15000-year-old-ultraconserved-words/2013/05/06/a02e3a14-b427-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html

And then this article from Language Log that casts some doubt on the flimsy theoretical framework behind the sensationalized story: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4612

Gary Larson's still got it:
https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/161/missionaries

weird how twitter has pretty much turned into an alternate tiktok frontend

#NASA JPL live #Perseverance #Mars landing clean feed if you don't want commentary and just want calm soothing audio from Mission Control: https://youtu.be/kPrbJ63qUc4

this r/wsb gamestop thing is gonna turn out like 4chan and scientology isn't it

"haha we stuck it to those cultists with the power of internet!" [laser eye glow] "TIME TO TURN THIS DEATH RAY ON MARGINALIZED PEOPLE"

I started watching Disenchantment and I think Vip and Vap are based on Akbar and Jeff, from earlier Matt Groening franchise Life In Hell

#cat is on #blåhaj again

back on my #BLÅHAJ

hey🎄

#blåhaj is good #cat bed

Just found a scratch and sniff book from 1983, it even still has some of the smells

So you know how the Joe Biden #AnimalCrossing island has fenced-off areas you can't really visit, meant to be viewed from a distance? If you enter the dream wearing a wetsuit, you can jump off the airport pier and swim around the island to get to at least some parts of those areas. Here's me behind the "White House" (museum adorned with custom panels)

I'd forgotten that US astronauts are still going up to Station on Soyuz, in this case Kate Rubins, the microbiologist who was first to sequence DNA in space: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2020/10/14/hatches-open-station-crew-expands-to-six-2/ .

This is her second trip to the ISS and she'll be on orbit from today till April 2021. I sure wouldn't mind being off Earth till next year.

Joe Biden, next day: "As president, I promise to reverse the Tick Tock ban, but we need to establish a democratic process of means-testing every Tick Tock user to make sure each one deserves to be on Tick Tock. Joe Biden."

So those weird unknown seeds being mailed to random people? At least one person planted them and then changed their mind and threw them out in the garbage with the soil, the two things you were not supposed to do
https://dcist.com/story/20/07/28/do-not-plant-mystery-seeds-mail-scam/