two hundred hundred hundred degrees

“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

my 11-year-old is justifiably proud of this joke

[ID: two cartoon drawings of a gender-neutral person wearing a hoodie striped in the colors of the nonbinary pride flag.

In the first, the speech bubble coming from the person's mouth says, "what do you call a nonbinary person's playlist?" In the second, they're holding up a cassette tape, and the speech bubble says, "a 'mxtape'"

Opalized crab claw fossil, a rare geological occurrence where organic material is replaced by precious opal.

The fossil dates back to the Cretaceous period, roughly 66 million years ago, when the area was covered by an inland sea.

It was found in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia, a region known for ideal conditions where silica-rich groundwater replaced the original exoskeleton.