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The Whippet #160: Make a fish expert angry today
Listen, I have bad news about Interpol and being an Interpol agent; hunting down international jewel thieves in an exhilarating game of cat-and-mouse.
The Whippet #159: The gem in the robe
Cybernetic and gubernatorial share the same root, so you get a DALL-E-generated image of a cybernetic governor
The Whippet #158: Jackdaw Democracy
Sooty black with silver cape and a smoky opal iris. A municipal inspector of kerbs, with a wide-legged gait, as though its bootlaces had come undone.
The Whippet #157: Rat snakes, strong snakes, wine snakes, germ snakes
A 19th C woman whose Wikipedia page includes the headings Authenticated feats of strength and Authenticated feats of heroism...
The (mini) Whippet #156: Do not panic!
Hello! A brief one this fortnight: Sharks smell in stereo You know how humans can tell what direction sounds are coming from because our ears hear sounds a split second apart, so they can triangulate distance between the two? And it's automatic, you just 'know' that the sound is coming
The Whippet #155: Do spiders dream of electric flies?
Stale-bread soup, nepotism for your nep-hews, should you punch a lion in the face?, spiders have dreams, study suggests!
The Whippet #154: Refuge in audacity
There ought to be a word like "landmarks" but for time. Life events that you use to determine when other things happened. Chronomarks.
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