Lords:
* Alex
* Shannon
Topics:
* The less you spend on food, the better it tastes
* The jizz of a bird
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_(birding)
* The Cosmic Call
* https://blog.plover.com/2024/04/15/
* Line Fishing by Daniel Kahaulelio
* https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/rWuOwlpV.png
* How to order coffee in Malaysia
* https://kopi.guide/
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6mv7VY8YLA
* Dice, and physically rolling them
* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.com.tann.dice
Microtopics:
* Paleo animators.
* Malaysia as a vacation destination.
* Restaurants that are just in s guy's house.
* The best whole fried catfish you've ever had.
* Eating mixed whole livers.
* Striving to get a B rating from the food safety inspectors because the A rating is too bougie.
* Starch and grease.
* The shape of the price to deliciousness correlation graph.
* If you're here to buy cake, ring the doorbell.
* You can talk to the cops or you can have cake. You can't have both.
* Whether Americans can drink the water in Malaysia.
* Being so desperate for fresh vegetables that you wash them with tap water.
* Butterfly Pee Flour.
* Jizz (birding)
* The practice of just getting the vibe of a bird.
* I don't know, it had the jizz of a bird.
* Zooniverse.
* Going through the still images on a nature webcam and trying to identify local animals.
* Trying to tell the difference between a wood rat and a deer mouse.
* Reclassifying all the animals in the world based not on their actual genetics or but based on what people think they are by looking at them.
* Small, Brown and On the Ground.
* Submitting a picture of a pair of brown wood owls to a bird study app and two hours later an angry ecologist is knocking on your tent to ask if you meant a spotted wood owl.
* An extremely high-stress app.
* Asking an albatross which of the twelve species is albatross it is.
* Walking around in the woods until you spot a kiwi.
* Major gaffes in interstellar communication that future aliens will be very confused about.
* Massively synesthetic dog brains.
* Receiving a sequence of bits and deciding to arrange them in a grid.
* The other book with the spiders.
* Humans interacting with a spider-based society.
* Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
* Expecting monkeys to become the dominant intelligent species on a terraformed planet seeded with Earth animals.
* Adventuring into a dungeon built by the ancients and admiring the signage.
* Opening an oil drum full of concrete and tubes and being like "where's the treasure that's supposed to be in here!"
* Writing a song about how being near glowing cats is very dangerous.
* Public serving meme songs.
* Engineering earworms for the public good.
* The Museum of Hawaiian Culture in Oahu.
* Fish that watch. Fish that look.
* Get those fish hungry.
* It's just a lookin' fish.
* Sleeping the lobes of your brain in shifts.
* The lobes of your brain playing pranks on each other.
* How can fish get some shuteye if they don't have eyelids??
* How can fish rubberneck if they don't even have necks??
* The Star Trek replicator except instead of materializing your food it prints a piece of paper with the words that you need to say to the tired-looking guy who then goes to cook your meal.
* Ais krim.
* What languages are hardest to spell in.
* Are there four silent letters at the end, and if so which ones?
* Cofftea.
* Rolling all them bones.
* Owning more sets of dice than you have played actual D&D sessions.
* A big pile of dice rattling around in your phone.
* Rolling the dice off of the table every single time.
* A switch that goes ka-chonk.
* Actively seeking out hobbies where you touch things.
* Ways that continuous deployment sucks.
* Text classifiers flagging your sexuality as photographic.
* Image classifiers flagging your medical photos as pornographic.
* Which photos encapsulate what you're trying to remember and discuss.
* How to get your life off of a corporation's hard drive.
* Unsearchable Tumblrs.
* Get out there and jizz a bird!
