What I saw on the web on 2020.9.8

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1. Turns out eyeballs in donkey noses are terrifying.
   by ExistencelsPainWasTaken
   https://imgur.com/gallery/qSfAgAA
   I actually think they're kinda goofy-lookin'
   via someone on FB
   
   
2. Manatee Crash Testh
   by Squirrel Country
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcx3dBi6q_c
   sound on for this one
   via boing
   
   
3. Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
   by Charlie Stross
   http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/09/the-year-of-the-conspiracy.html
   if Charlie were to branch into conspiracy thrillers
   via rss
   
   
4. What David Graeber Noticed
   by Nathan J. Robinson
   https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/09/what-david-graeber-noticed
   a piece on the values that Graeber put forth in his work
   via ran prieur
   
   
5. Overthinking Overthinking
   by David R. MacIver
   https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/overthinking-overthinking
   to be kept in mind for the net time someone tells me I'm overthinking something
   via rss
   
   
6. Irregular Webcomic 4337
   by David Morgan-Mar
   https://www.irregularwebcomic.net/4337.html
   A bunch of silly puns leading into discussions about infinte sets, convergent series, and topology, which doesn't mention the horrible way in which Hausdorff died.
   via rss
   
   
7. Underwater Flamingo Feeding
   by San Diego Zoo
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1BF2XqboOo
   in case you've always wondered what was going on under the water when flamingos feed
   via boing
   
   
8. the Tolkien Sarcasm Page
   by O. Sharp
   http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/tolksarc.htm
   silly Tolkien humour from the Elder Days of the internet
   via memory
   
   
9. Why is /r/anime_titties called /r/anime_titties?
   by /u/asdasasdass321
   https://www.reddit.com/r/A_Tmeta/comments/iegua1/why_is_ranime_titties_called_ranime_titties/
   You might not expect a subreddit with a name like that to be about world politics. And yet, here we are.
   via reddit