Jay Blanc @jayblanc@awoo.space

Ancient Lizard Brain: HAH! A loud noise startled you and you spilled all these wall pins onto the ground, what now smart guy?
Logic: Ahah, we have a strong magnet! Watch.

CHECK FAILURE

Volition: Well, maybe we meant to make an impossible to hold ball of spikes.

happy birthday @Nikon

@ghost_bird Ah, it looks like there was an English edition with that name. How odd, the stack of back issues in the scout hall must have been imports, or from when they were using the same name.

@ghost_bird "Cricket and Company" was the little comic in it (and also little appearances in the margins) about a Cricket and his insect friends.

I was just reminded of 'Cricket: The Magazine for Children'. The 'New Yorker' for under 18s who felt over 50. And source of all those adolescent feelings about that handsome Lion in a Jacket illustration who you think might be kinda hot, and now you're a Furry.

@spottyfox His full name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. Strange he doesn't use it.

@spottyfox Do you want to be a big cookie?

@spottyfox And Palmer.

Engaged in some guerrilla gardening by dropping a few native wildflower clay seed pellets around the road verges.

Ah, looks like my theory about part of what's actually going on with ODDTAXI (based entirely on a sneaky throw-away line in episode 1) is correct.

@porsupah Puppies!

@spottyfox When transporting used PS5s back from the future to scalp them on ebay, ensure you sell the right production batches during the right years to avoid attention from the Time Marketing Board.

Disappointed that Beastars took its good start and interesting setting, and descended into a 'might makes right' violent brutalist machismo fantasy. Characters turned quickly into cardboard cutouts of 'strong men of violence' tropes. Bleh.

"Lands Safely" and "Huge Explosion" do not belong in the same sentence. (fyi, from what I've seen it was already on fire while landing, hit the ground too hard, then exploded when the tanks ruptured.) https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/starship-sn10-test-spacex-elon-musk-mars-b1812028.html

Looking at various reporting on Space news, it seems we've changed what the words 'safe' and 'successful' mean.

It's also of note that evolution had a limited amount of materials from which it could create focusing lenses, and so vision *had* to exist in Water absorption's notch. (And also that pit based sensors exist on many animals to get basic directional IR sense, to show what evolution came up with without water based lenses.)

I remembered that I bought a massage chair. And that massage releases endorphins. And endorphins are good for combatting bouts of depression and anxiety. So I now feel about 20% better.

Having a rough mental health evening.