#ICYMI @justthezooofus.bsky.social’s @elksneedle.bsky.social and I discuss what our favorite animal exhibits are at our favorite zoos on See Jurassic Right! Watch on YouTube, listen wherever you get your podcasts. youtu.be/lZekVGPLnR0

Cheetahs are my favorite big cat because they remind me so much of Penny Lane, but this one’s got Wendy’s blep. 🥹🥹🥹 #ICYMI Listen to @elksneedle.bsky.social from @justthezooofus.bsky.social and I chat about our time at the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park on See Jurassic Right!

one of my biggest scifi/fantasy pet peeves: made-up cuss words that are written like the author did a "find & replace all" & just swapped "fuck" for some otherwise benign word. I get why they do it but im sorry it's soooo cringe to me

A fun bit we've been doing is saying "this time will be different" while we do the same exact thing we've done, regretted, and sworn never to do again at least a dozen times before. When it turns out exactly the same way, the punchline of the bit is saying "next time will be different"

On this week’s See Jurassic Right, we chat with @justthezooofus.bsky.social cohost, @elksneedle.bsky.social, about animal conservation, what makes a great animal exhibit, the joy of the San Diego Safari Park, and so much more. youtu.be/lZekVGPLnR0

oh you're real mature and intellectual science communicator huh? let's see you cite a paper from "PNAS" out loud

If I had eliza thornberry powers but only for 10 seconds I would take my cat's head in my hands and say that he would stop throwing up all his breakfast if he ate slower, & then he would tell me to stop picking him up and flipping him over like a baby & then I would say no and my time would be up

hot take perhaps but I have yet to read a book that was more than 600 pages long that had any business being that damn long

children of strife comes out on my birthday its the best gift I could have asked for thank you based @aptshadow.bsky.social 🙏🥹❤️

when the fantasy novel explains every characters outfit in painstaking detail like they're not all just wearing standard issue ren faire fits

When dropping my kid off at preschool it'd take me like 10 minutes to leave because each kid just kept talking to me. UNTIL I realized that at literally any point you can just wave and say "ok, bye!" & they'll say bye and leave. They have a dismiss dialogue option

I'm currently reading three books and in all three of them have crows are central to the plot. This was unintentional and unexpected but welcome

Last week Finley asked me what Sonic the hedgehog's feet look like & today he asked me if Guy Fieri is real

how come in sonic the hedgehog only the girl characters have to wear clothes

if you ever need ideas for kids activities just go on a zoo's social media page and look at the enrichment they give to their animals. a bunch of objects frozen in a block of ice or a large box full of leaves will probably do the trick in either scenario

Was reading reviews for a novel and I saw a lot of reviewers say "I'm not smart enough for this book" to excuse the author's insufferably pretentious prose. IMO the writer's job is to communicate, if the prose is so purple that it impedes comprehension, it's a failing of the author, not the reader

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

you're laughing? the dow is over 50000 and you're laughing?

My 5-year-old asked me if he could run faster than a T. rex & I said no & he said "actually I can because they are dead so they can't run"

Thought I found a cute new anime to watch. Noticed glaringly obvious AI generated backgrounds in the first 2 minutes. Immediately turned it off

the lion does not concern herself with the laundry care tag instructions

I tried the old "the doctor was his mom" riddle on my 11 year old & his immediate answer was "he had two dads. They are gay ☝️🏳️‍🌈"

"grilled cheese only takes like 2 minutes you dont need to set a timer" maybe YOU don't. I'm built different. I've burnt more grilled cheeses than you've ever even made

"marriage is the hardest thing you'll ever do" skill issue sorry try using comms & optimizing your team comp

yeah ok tough guy say that to me on my personal account not my professional one & see what happens

If anyone ever needs a comically short USB-C cable just let me know because apparently every item I've ever purchased came with one so I have about 200,000 of them. just peeled a banana and there was a tiny USB-C cable in there

trying to google whether you can actually flush wet wipes feels like one of those "one of us always lies the other always tells the truth" riddles

trial and error? i hardly know er

Mostly stupid podcasts that cater to left leaning very online men, but not chapo, oddly, but I've recently got into @justthezooofus.bsky.social because I think they're hit the nail on the head when it comes to banter, something many nature podcasts fail at.

ANOTHER RECRUIT TO CHILDREN OF TIME NATION LETS GOOOO 🗣🗣🗣

Phew

It's caramelizing one onion, Michael, how long could it take? Ten minutes?

People with kids in school: is homework less common now than it used to be? I used to have daily or weekly homework in nearly every class, but my 6th grader has had probably between 5 - 10 homework assignments his entire life. Every teacher he's had doesn't assign homework. Is this widespread?

@justthezooofus.bsky.social I loved your kinkajou episode! I volunteer at a sanctuary known for wildcats that cares for other carnivorans, including kinks. On our aggression scale (for safety protocols), they are rated the same as tigers. Thanks for so clearly explaining why they make awful pets!

Went back to the gym 3 times this week after being too unwell to go for two whole months I CAN do hard things

Happy Halloween!

have to physically distance myself from my husband until ive recovered from wisdom tooth removal because he keeps making me laugh and it hurts my mouth

me after the dentist didn't let me take my wisdom teeth home

I have 3 fewer teeth today than I did yesterday. At this rate by the end of the 2025 I will have -181 teeth

OK I'm dunepilled

So I help @elksneedle.bsky.social edit her other show Spellbound & Gagged, and we recorded an episode together where we discuss Dark Patterns in Video Games! It's super fascinating and I'm real proud of it so give it a listen! spellboundandgagged.buzzsprout.com/2079612/epis...

wait a second

Remembered that im an adult with my own money

saw a lady at safeway loading her groceries into a suitcase & she said it was easier to roll them into her house that way. incredible minds walk among us every day

My entire career. I started a podcast as a hobby with no media experience, no connections, just a mic and some free time. Built an audience, met collaborators and made friends purely through social media. Now science communication is my actual job that I get paid to do

fuck it we ball

not sick anymore so I have to go back to the gym. devastating

website: "one sec we just have to make sure you're a human!" me: "ok sure that makes sense, don't want those tricky bots sneaking around pretending to be humans" website: "great thanks! here's that article you asked for (which you are about to realize is obviously ai-generated with a fake author)" 😐

The project 2025 thing is like how toddlers will hide just their face and go "I'm not heeere!" & you're like "i can see you. You're right there" & they're like "no I'm nooot" & then they jump out like "Ha! I tricked you! I WAS right here!" Like yall weren't making direct eye contact the entire time