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Doing homework with my son.

Son: So now I am supposed to use that formula to figure out how many minutes there are in one year.
Dr.Maddkap: H-how many … (sweating)
Son: What? It’s how many minutes are in a year.
Dr.M: (nods, gritting teeth)
Son: Dad what? You use the fraction to-
Dr.M: (leaping up and singing) FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED MINUTES
Son: O.O
Mrs.M: (from the other room) Daddy was a theatre kid.
Dr.M: (panting)

🐟 Animal #174 🐻‍❄️
I figured it out in 6 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 6.7

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🐪 Animal #173 🦉
I figured it out in 2 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6.7

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This is an article that took a lot of strength to write and I might take it down again. But I felt like it is an article that is very necessary right now. bastianallgeier.com/notes/gran

🐈 Animal #171 🦜
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6.8

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yesterday i learned about lesbian chess. it's just like regular chess, except for two critical differences:

1. the king is replaced by a second queen
2. instead of checkmating the king, the win condition is *capturing every last one of your opponent's pieces*

so it's both a far more aggressive game and one with a totally different set of strategic considerations for e.g. when to make a sacrifice or hold a strong piece back

🐏 Animal #169 🐝
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 7 | Avg. Guesses: 6.8

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🫏 Animal #168 🦥
I figured it out in 6 guesses!
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🔥 6 | Avg. Guesses: 6.8

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re: metazooa spoilers for 167 

@efi its not really a latin mistake, accipitrinae is a subfamily of accipitridae, just the wrong one

re: metazooa spoilers for 167 

@efi the answer was in Accipitridae but the game said it was in Accipitrinae (a subfamily that includes a different set of species). like i said, a subtle mistake but one that cost me a number of guesses

I just discovered phanpy.social/ , and this is the most excited I've been about a Mastodon web client since that one that looked like Google+. And this time I'm actually excited about useful things, specifically:

- thread support that often displays the thread inline on my timeline and always comes with a very prominent indicator that I'm seeing something from a thread

- an optional "boosts carousel" that separates boosts into their own timeline-goes-sideways chunks every so often

re: metazooa spoilers for 167 

@efi true, but when you're using it as the clues for your puzzle guessy game it's kind of important to get it correct

oh sure, when generations of ancient humans feed animals and teach them useful tasks it's called "domestication", but when *i* do it it's called "trespassing" and i'm made to "leave the zoo" by "force"

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i am upset about this one because the taxonomy is subtly but objectively incorrect

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🪰 Animal #167 🐍
I figured it out in 9 guesses!
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🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 6.8

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fun pronoun hack: singular singular they. insist on "they was", "they is"

if i were to charge for tarot readings, how would you want them to be delivered to you

if i were to charge for tarot readings, how would you want them to be delivered to you

🦊 Animal #166 🐎
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 6.8

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