fish @fishfush@mathstodon.xyz

Please don't throw us in the briar patch, Facebook.

Maximinus Thrax is a strong contender here, though. Absolutely sounds like an old friend of Zaphod Beeblebrox.

Mt Buffalo today, with Friday's rain topping up the waterfalls.

They called it a day after Romulus Augustulus because they knew they'd never find an emperor with a sillier name.

'angling for' vs 'fishing for'

There's a common fallacy that runs:
1. a and b are not equal
2. a and b should be equal
∴ b should be changed to the present value of a

Autogolpe sounds like a brand of slurpee sold in German service stations.

Wait - Charybdis was on the Sicilian side of the strait and Scylla was on the Calabrian side? I'm sure the ancient Greeks did this just to mess with me.

rail geyser theorem

Hearing that animal crossing is big at the moment. Excited that history has finally vindicated Doctor Moreau.

Didn't like spooky action at a distance.

Florentine quarantine: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n04/erin-maglaque/inclined-to-putrefaction

I'm open to not cutting off my nose, but only if you can suggest an alternative that'll spite my face even more.

A decent economic system wouldn't force us to choose between the lives of old people and the livelihoods of young people.

And yet a Pole has never held the swede vault world record. Really makes you think.

blue is the violet
red is the rose
sets, unlike doors,
can be open *and* closed

Stupendemys Geographicus would have been a fantastic name for a centurion in an Asterix book.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51485011

Three-quarters of the way through a le Carré movie. Looking forward to the circus mole appearing and doing some tricks.

Or, equivalently, 104% halfgrains.

We did that, right?