Topic Lords

247. Fish That Scrutinize; Fish That Rubberneck


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Lords:

  • Alex
  • Shannon
  • Topics:

    • The less you spend on food, the better it tastes
    • The jizz of a bird
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_(birding)
      • The Cosmic Call
        • https://blog.plover.com/2024/04/15/
        • Line Fishing by Daniel Kahaulelio
          • https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/rWuOwlpV.png
          • How to order coffee in Malaysia
            • https://kopi.guide/
            • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6mv7VY8YLA
            • Dice, and physically rolling them
              • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.com.tann.dice
              • Microtopics:

                • 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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