Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

RT @orcoastaquarium
Introducing Noodles! Thanks to all who voted and suggested names.

Honorable mentions:
Tentacles (“tenta-kleez”)
Octomus Prime
Clifford the Big Red Octopus

These and others will be considered when we name future octopuses. In the meantime, you can see Noodles in our Octo Cave!

RT @TheOnion
New Journals Reveal Darwin’s Observations Began As Research For Finch-Based Fantasy Series https://bit.ly/3deBNlj

Are the TRYING to attract adventurers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warning_messages#Message

RT @qikipedia
Photographs of British Algae, thought to be the first book published with photographs, was published in 1844 by Anna Atkins. She was born in 1799.

RT @EoinHiggins_

RT @eeberquist
everyone's anti-godzilla until there's a 200,000 ton boat that can't be moved

RT @VoltaireLaFlare
what if they slice the boat and it’s cake

RT @Datagraver
Today the full bloom of the Cherry Blossom Flowering was announced for Kyoto. This day has been recorded since 812 in Kyoto. This year saw the earliest blossoming since record keeping.

RT @TheOnion
Breeze Plays Kick-Ass Riff On Wind Chimes https://bit.ly/3w1hjVJ

RT @PulpLibrarian
Before electric scooters there was... the 1954 Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle!

RT @JPMajor
Another of my favorite #Cassini observations: mile-high spikes (up to 2.5 km high) of icy material within long arcs at the edge of the B ring, created by embedded moonlets. Imaged on July 26, 2009.

RT @count3rmeasure
so .... this was almost another massacre, right? https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/26/us/atlanta-guns-supermarket-witness/index.html

RT @voguevivant
thinking about this library in the south of france

Has anyone else noticed that we've never seen Dogecoin and Doja Cat in the same room at the same time?

RT @ChristophMolnar

RT @ThePlanetaryGuy
All I'm saying is, if we hadn't cancelled the Jaeger program, we'd be out of this mess by now

RT @NanoRaptor
In the early days of personal computing, software was often distributed on 3.5" cassette tapes.

RT @not_a_heather
well behaved boats rarely make history

RT @BradJMurray
Every single time I go out for a walk in our grid-paper city the distance metric pisses me off. If I travel X distance one way, turn 90°, then Y distance that way, I have travelled distance X+Y. 1/x

Am I the only one shipping Ever Given and Boaty McBoatface?