spudnik

The only place on earth that Venus Flytraps grow naturally is within a narrow range along the coast of the southern US. They aren't from the Amazon, or Borneo, or any place exotic like a rain forest. They only grow in a bare sandy patch of geography about an hour north of Myrtle Beach

A lot of people from Star Trek TNG were involved in making it. Once I heard that, it clicked that this is basically a really good extended TNG episode where they don't leave the ship

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings_Cutoff

I wrote a previous comment on this, but pretty much this exact same thing happened, and it caused the Donner Party. The real life guy was somehow even dumber than Zapp Branigan, and later helped establish the famous colony of ex-confederates in Brazil.

Tyvm!

*Spit(fire)

waters near Malta

Not that closer proximity would make this any more legitimate, but Malta is so fucking far away!

reading these random descriptions of what Hexbear is like made by the most incurious and uncritical bozos lengthily farting into their hands and typing it up

I don't mind a few of these, but I feel like sometimes it's over half the taglines I get. I crave more willing oneself into a lizard style taglines

Edit: I have an ax to grind about this as a topic, not trying to direct this at you enjoying them generally

shivers

Checking in again at the start of the month to say: I've been nicotine free for five months. Once again, it's about the only improvement I've been able to consistently hold on to. But by god I've actually quit smoking, I think I'm finally confident to say. Here's to next month, and half a year!

If it counts, my pick is railway artillery guns. They're super impractical and inaccurate, and extremely vulnerable to being attacked and disabled. They use way too many resources for the impact they have. But on the other hand I absolutely understand why they were built, because man has always wondered: "what if we just make the gun bigger?"

Also featured on this album as well apparently