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Bird Droid | Tiny Toadlets | Octo-Synthetics

Bird Droid | Tiny Toadlets | Octo-Synthetics

Issue #230

Steve Burgess
November 08, 2025

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Clickables

🦜 R2D2 may have been a bird — must listen

🕸️ Get stuck in the world’s largest spider web (~1k sq. ft.)

🕷️ or is it 800k ft.? cuz, you know…spiders

🐳 Latch on — POV video of sucker fish riding a humpback

🐸 Toad + live birth = toadlets

🤖 Is that jellyfish spying on me?

📏 How to convert to metric (xkcd)

🐙 Win hide-and-go-seek w/ synthetic octopus camouflage

🍂 Why leaves turn red, sort of (Short Wave podcast)

😃 Clickbait: GOAT cloned their pet dog

st3v on site

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Steve made this with ChatGPT

Last week I drew st3v chatting with NEO about not knowing it doesn’t know how to fold laundry. This week I asked chatGPT to draw my drawing.

How did it do?!

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