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4 months ago

From the people who brought you Squid Facts, Horseshoe Crab is Calling

A business card sized piece of paper looks like an iPhone. It looks like the screen where someone is calling. A horseshoe crab is on the line for you.

This is stuck in a street pole

I don't know about you, but I need a little joy right now. Earlier this month, I was walking down the street in my neighborhood and I came upon this:

A business card sized piece of paper looks like an iPhone. It looks like the screen where someone is calling.Jesus is on the line for you.

This is stuck in a street pole

I was like "Wow. Ok. Yes I AM picking that up." I couldn't resist! What an enticing strategy!

I had to try it myself.

After kicking the idea around with a few friends, I landed on "Horseshoe Crab is calling", and we updated to the modern iOS. Maybe i should have kept the green and red, I'm not sure.

Who the hell wouldn't be intrigued by this?!

(P.S. shout out to Basic Barbie, another street artist in the city who is unapologetically femme in a predominantly male scene. We love Basic Barbie.)

The link on the bottom goes to a list of actionable things people can do to slow climate change. Very curious to see how many people visit the page.

A card held by sarah on a city street. The card is a conversation between you and a horseshoe crab. The horseshoe crab starts the conversation

HC: You good?
You: Lol what?

HC: We’re living through the 6th mass extinction! Lol
You: Are we?? Is this because of climate change?

HC: Uhh yeah! I’ve been through this 5 times before…first mass extinction event for you though, huh?
You: I guess.

HC: But you’re doing everything you can to stop climate change, right?
Right?
Hey you still there?
…humans?

If you would like the print file so you can get business cards printed yourself to pepper around your natural habitat, DM me. Happy to share.

One last talent show to save the rec center

Ok everybody here's the deal.

My science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist (you might know her, creator of the squid facts hotline and matcher of classrooms + scientists) has secured absolutely no grants to support general operations for 2025. But! We're selling advent calendars to fund our program! They absolutely rule. They can save our nonprofit asses. If we sell 5000, which I realize, is so many, we can fund our program for 2025. Then I can offer a bunch of programming for free. Running a nonprofit is a weird job.

Frog Facts advent calendars, with rainbow iridescent stickers on them, being held up by Sarah. there are 6 species of frogs, including bullfrogs, poison dart frogs, leopard frogs, and two kinds of tree frogs and even a sneaky toad under the water

Every day, counting down to frankly whatever you want (it's usually Christmas, but man, maybe you want to count down to Halloween, that's fine by me) scratch off the sparkly sparkly iridescence and reveal a fact about frogs! We have 24 top-notch frog facts here.

You should get one for every kid in your life, then get one for all the adults who still let themselves access joy in critters.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

hell yeah, the best squid scientist on this hellsite (@sarahmackattack) got to meet Elmo & some cute kids and teach some Science™!

SM: I hate to break it to you, Elmo. I think this shark might be able to eat you whole.

E: Oh, this is terrifying.