Reading research speculating that mushrooms evolved to produce the hallucinogen psilocybin to ward off insects. They state: "They crawled shorter distances, spent less time moving overall and showed more erratic turning behaviour. [... they] were slower and less coordinated.” Can confirm.

"Teen Boy Grows a Tooth Between Eyelid and Eyebrow" I stg, sometimes it seems like the Simulation in which we are clearly "living" is just fucking with us, to see if we'll finally say enough is enough.

Spangram first #Strands #693 “The straight and narrow” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

Here's a useful search prompt: How to end all services associated with Jeff Bezos

It's not much, but I'm giving up Amazon Prime, which I've had since it was first avaliable, because Jeff #Bezos is a #Trump ass-kissing, kowtowing, news-censoring piece of shit. I spend (NOT figuratively) thousand of dollars on Amazon. That ends.

Unfortunately, not every joke about parched testicles is going to is going to land safely.

A rule-bender? #squaredle squaredle.com 01/25: 67/67 words (+2 bonus words) 🎯 Perfect accuracy 🔥 Solve streak: 563

#Connections Puzzle #959 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 99/99 Uniqueness 1 in 156

#stack320 5/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ⏱️ 3m 0s 🔥 streak: 29 🥈 #stackdownsilverteam puzzlist.com/stackdown

"Do dryer balls actually work? Yes, if you treat them like reusable dryer sheets" This absurd. First of all, I wouldn't have any idea how to use mine like that. Secondly, they misspelled "drier".

#wordle1681 Plodding along to a 4. #Wordle 1,681 4/6* 🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The easiest way to stymie the Left and garner Indendent/Moderate support for #ICE would be to investigate, try, and convict the killers of Goode and Pritti, denounce them as "bad apples who don't represent ICE". But that won't happen. Because that's not what #Trump wants. He wants terror.

#squaredle squaredle.com 01/24: 43/43 words (+1 bonus word) 🎯 Perfect accuracy 🔥 Solve streak: 562

#stack319 5/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ⏱️ 5m 4s 🔥 streak: 28 🥈 #stackdownsilverteam puzzlist.com/stackdown

#wordle1680 2 was an atypical guess for me. So was 3. Don't gotta always be math-y, y'know. #Wordle 1,680 3/6* ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Mostly,, my cats just sit around looking inexplicably arrogant, carefully ignoring anything I say, such "Come here, you idiot", etc. But, I've learned to predict what they're about to do, so when they're on the verge of doing something, I annoy them by telling them to do exactly that.

The patriots in #Minnesota have it right: The fascist, racist, jackbooted, murderous violent #ICE thugs do their vile shit at the pleasure of the monsters in the #Trump administration, and the chief monster, Trump. And the only thing that fuck cares about is money and the market.

Hoo boy; they weren't lying about 4.5 stars of difficulty. #squaredle squaredle.com 01/23: 55/55 words (+11 bonus words) 🎯 Perfect accuracy 🔥 Solve streak: 561

#stack318 5/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ⏱️ 2m 0s 🔥 streak: 27 🥈 #stackdownsilverteam puzzlist.com/stackdown

It's a peculiar truth that most people, when they say "literally", literally don't mean "literally."

Got purple first only because I kept track of the other groups before committing any guesses. #Connections Puzzle #957 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Skill 98/99 Uniqueness 1 in 845

Spangram first. Funny how sometimes it just jumps up and waves "Here I am!" #Strands #691 “None the wiser” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵

#wordle1679 No comment until tomorrow. #Wordle 1,679 4/6* ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟨🟩⬛⬛🟨 🟨🟩🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

"US withdraws from the World Health Organization" Fuck #Trump, fuck #RFKJr, fuck #BillCassidy.

#squaredle squaredle.com/weekly 01/19 (Member Weekly Puzzle): 113/113 words 🎯 Perfect accuracy

#waffle #waffle1463 5/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 635 🧑‍🎤 #wafflesuperstar wafflegame.net

Did you ever have a dream in which you knew someone - knew her well - and upon awkening, couldn't recall ever having met that person, or anything else about her?

#Connections Puzzle #956 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 99/99 Uniqueness 1 in 236

#stack317 5/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ⏱️ 3m 27s 🔥 streak: 26 🥈 #stackdownsilverteam puzzlist.com/stackdown

#Wordle1678 Well. That was a bit odd. 2 was a just a wag - it's tiresome to be overly algorithmic. But the result was a little mystifying. At first. #Wordle 1,678 3/6* ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It's the oddest thing. I'm back to running 4 to 5 miles a day. I left weights. I don't and have never thought of myself as athletic. Wtf. Totally delusional thinking.

#waffle #waffle1462 5/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 634 🧑‍🎤 #wafflesuperstar wafflegame.net

This song kinda speaks to me ;) youtu.be/LGrMIWYHNfs

"Sunscreens made from ground-up wood reach an SPF of over 180" Finally. The last impediment to colonizing the Planet Mercury has been overcome.

To my great disappointment, this is not a playfully titled article alluding to Donald #Trump.

OK - that was pretty quick, if I do so myself. #stack316 5/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ⏱️ 1m 0s 🔥 streak: 25 🥈 #stackdownsilverteam puzzlist.com/stackdown

Spangram first #Strands #689 “That's not very polite” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

#wordle1677 Totally fair - no complaint. They're not gonna all be 2s and 3s. #Wordle 1,677 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#squaredle squaredle.com 01/20: 34/34 words (+2 bonus words) 🎯 Perfect accuracy 🔥 Solve streak: 558

#waffle #waffle1461 5/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 633 🧑‍🎤 #wafflesuperstar wafflegame.net

My most personally useful change in the last decade or so: I've reframed my own thinking, moving from an "I can't; I could" framework, to an "I didn't, I did" model, based on the idea that we are what we do, not what we think we could do.

Context matters. The phrase "Everything is under control" either reassures or terrifies.

#Connections Puzzle #954 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Skill 95/99 Uniqueness 1 in 249

Spangram first #Strands #688 “Sneak-ing around” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

#stack315 5/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ⏱️ 1m 50s 🔥 streak: 24 🏆 #stackdownelite puzzlist.com/stackdown

#wordle1676 Well that took a whole 12 seconds or so. #Wordle 1,676 3/6* 🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I just saw a headline saying "Cows are smarter than you thought", and friends, if anyone ever asks you what the phrase "Damning with faint praise" means, just refer them to that headline.

I don't know about you, but if I were the Nobel Prize Committee, I'd give man-baby-oaf Donald #Trump the #NobelPeacePrize for SURE, after that letter he sent to #Norway explaining his adult protection garments were in a twist and why his #Greenland gooning was actually their fault.

Well...you fucks who create AI Slop have ruined all animal videos; now I assume they're all garbage.