Orion Scribner @frameacloud@dragon.style

@icarus Cool!

@rey

Did people ever fax pizza orders?

People try to grow palm trees in Seattle in order to pretend they've brought a vacation home with them, but palm trees in this London-like climate zone don't do anything other than project a pitiful Dickensian waif energy.

@windyorigami

Yeah, the bats just need to sign up for 23andMe.

@squeakypancakes

This made me realize that Forever 21 was always a vampire fashion brand.

@Felthry

The fun part about that division is that the megabats and microbats might not even be related to each other. Their similarity could be convergent evolution. We don't know, because there's no record of what bats evolved from. Bats just pop up in the fossil record all of a sudden, already fully formed and perfect, like Minerva, or like space invaders.

@mawr @troodon

Oh cool!! Your very own emoji!

@troodon @mawr

Huh? If there's another post in this thread, I don't have access to it.

@salameleon

Damn, that's just what I should do with these, too. So far I generally haven't had the guts to do so.

"Are you male or female?" is phrased as a yes or no question. Leaving it blank is the appropriate way to say "No!"

@windyorigami

divine iconography from an Egyptian tomb

Funny thing when I got my new ID card. The DOL asked me if anything on it should change. I said yeah, I'd grown a little taller since my first ID as a teenager, or maybe I just hadn't measured it perfectly last time. So they updated my height on my new ID. They just... did it! They didn't check me with a ruler, or ask for a letter from a doctor confirming my height, or anything!

@porsupah

Walnuts are fruits with exoskeletons.

@Goldkin

What a cool and sensible idea!

@salameleon

Autumn in Colorado is just when you flicker the switch really fast between summer and winter.

@packbat

Out of context, this chart can be mistaken for a matrix full of a lot of frantic yelling, protesting, and adult content warnings.

@thephooka

Wow... your studio is more your style than I could have imagined! ✨

I like how you're using your skull as a headphone rest. I might have to do that with mine.

@squeakypancakes

Man, Calvin & Hobbes was so next-level. It didn't have to be so much what it was, but it very much was what it was, anyway, just for the sake of meeting its own ideals and integrity, and that made it better than anything else cared to be.

@dergn

Yeah, exactly! Like that!

I don't know if it's a universal thing, or a neurodiversity thing, or a thing that has to do with the relationships and emotions of the persons in question, or a woo-woo energy thing, or what.

It does sound similar to what experts at tai chi are supposed to be able to do on purpose: to use their chi to make others lose their balance and fall down just by touching them. I wonder.

I was just dreaming about a museum displaying a Japanese scroll satirically yet accurately depicting the criminal court trial process, each step methodically played out by frogs and insects, chronologically from top to bottom, resulting in the execution of a beetle. I wonder if I was remembering a real painting I had seen somewhere? I know there were a lot of woodblock prints with similar subjects, sort of like a goth Richard Scarry.

Does anybody else get that thing where, if you touch someone-- regardless of whether you put your hand on their shoulder, or they put their hand on your shoulder-- you get an unpleasant sensation of kinesthetic feedback, a lot like the full-body thump that you get when you're riding an elevator that lurches near its stop?