New Mexico is the only state to have a “state smell”

A bunch of grade school kids said that roasting green chile should be our state smell so their teacher had them write our state Congress and in a shocking display they all came together, wrote the bill, and passed it in a matter of weeks

That’s an amazing name btw. Like cartoon thug amazing.

My favorite bit of trivia is this, and if you already know it, I find it’s always great to hear it again. As a child in rural France, Andre the Giant was too big to fit on the little country school bus. So his neighbor, Samuel Becket!!!, would take Andre to school in his pick-up truck!

The reason that magnolia flowers are more rigid and less soft compared to other flowers is because magnolia trees belong to one of the earliest lineages of flowering plants, and predate bees. They evolved to be pollinated by beetles, and still are

Lorenzo Music, who was the voice for Garfield on TV, volunteered at a suicide hotline. Distressed callers would get distracted because the person they were talking to sounded like Garfield.

This effort is more important than every AI data center set to suck the life out of your community.

I love me some garlic, rosemary and wine.

Believing the bourgeois state will magically become socialist without open conflict is idealism (wishful thinking as a worldview)

I am, sadly, tileless, though I will now keep an eye out and snap a pic if I come across any lovely specimens.