Wasn’t there a whole ad campaign disabusing us of the term “Smokey the Bear” in favor of “Smokey Bear”, or am I just drunk?

He bears a striking resemblance to our cat, Jude, right down to the nose freckle.

SrGrafo comics are one thing I miss from Reddit. He had a good thing going there.

He got the cat, the job, and a new haircut. Win win win.

Google Lens says it’s Dead Man’s Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha). I guess it’s possible. It seems to really live up to the polymorpha part of it’s name in images.

Ah, I see. I thought you needed a subscription or at least an account for that. I’ve never seen it because I never created an NYT account.

I guess I’m the Wordle bot on most days, only because there usually isn’t a thread posted when I do the puzzle in the morning. If the thread looks different, it’s because my piefed instance is down for a while and I’m posting from my lemmy alt.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 16th 2026 (Hard), in less than 21 minutes
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#travle #1249 +1 (2 hints)
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Not my best.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 15th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 22 minutes
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I’ve never seen Trump look happier.

Malicious compliance incoming.

Yo dawg, I hear ya like mornin’ tea in your car. Now your car is teabagged in the mornin’ while you havin’ your mornin’ tea.

“I need $5000 to get a lobster high as fuck.”

“Why?”

“Science.”

I tried to resist. I really, really did.

TIL Saddam Hussein is a lactose fermenter.

I wonder what he had to say after two Democratic state senators in Minnesota were murdered. And after Paul Pelosi was nearly murdered, for that matter.