Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for...

• The coconut octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, a tool-using invertebrate. It's also one of two octopus species known to walk bipedally.
• Hopepunk (c.f. Denethor in Lord of the Rings is now a metaphor for doomscrolling, and "Bread and Butter and Hope" by Robert Reich.)
• Getting the melody for m's new song transcribed. (Figuring out the chords is another matter. It might be in Cmin, but are those grace-notes quarter-tones?) (No; it needed quite a lot of proofreading this afternoon.)
• A mastodon thread that starts out "I'm on the server floor of a "highly secure data center with 24/7/365 surveillance, direct access control and robust perimeter security".
  An actual duck just walked by. 🦆