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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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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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Vera! Maya! Chickpeas! Danish doorbell! Trolls! Sad mice! Mad bear! Deep ocean! Uncle Bob! Big syringes!

Universe 25:
https://www.the-scientist.com/universe-25-experiment-69941

Librarians:
https://lithub.com/8-badass-librarians-we-need-to-celebrate-this-international-womens-day/

The 85% Rule:
https://medium.com/swlh/85-percent-rule-a4a9c80b96bf

Canadian KitKats:
https://www.narcity.com/why-kitkat-taste-different-in-canada-us-shocked-try-it

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Achoo! Cueiform O'Clock! Tortoise: Back. New weird guy. Executioner clown frog?! Four eyed opossums! Polar bears: leaving. Dog: not wolf. Where is the art?
New Weird Guy:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/nyregion/mickey-barreto-new-yorker-hotel-fraud.html?smid=bsky-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Come Back Tortoise:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/galapagos-tortoise-once-believed-extinct-is-now-roaming-free/
Super old language:
https://www.reuters.com/science/40000-year-old-german-artifacts-may-display-written-language-precursor-2026-02-24/
Please look at this art:
https://www.modernillustration.org
Yeti crab:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Galath%C3%A9e_y%C3%A9ti%2C_un_habitant_des_profondeurs_abyssales_%28Ifremer_00569-68091_-_25272%29.jpg
Hasselhoff Crab:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Close_up_of_Hoff_crab_carapace.jpg
https://deepseanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/press13-11crab.jpg
Crab pile:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Dense_mass_of_anomuran_crab_Kiwa_around_deep-sea_hydrothermal_vent.jpg/960px-Dense_mass_of_anomuran_crab_Kiwa_around_deep-sea_hydrothermal_vent.jpg
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