Oh yeah, for sure. It’s still good for you as are most vegetables, and tasty to boot, but I’ve experienced too many people treat anemia with a spinach rich diet (my family carries the thalacemia genes) so I try to point it out where possible to help inform others.

It’s actually nothing special in terms of iron content - about the same as most other vegetables. Its an old urban legend that it’s high in Iron and a deeper academic rabbit whole than you might expect - it is high in vitamin A though.

For the cowbird this is normal. Cowbirds are brood parasites, it’s snuck in whilst the robin was away and laid it’s egg for the robin to raise. If the robin is smart enough to notice what’s happened they will often still raise it anyway, as the adult cowbird will be keeping an eye on the host nest and will destroy the other eggs if the robin rejects it.

I find it really interesting that Quake wasn’t in there already - that game was a technological marvel, Carmack worked some serious black magic to get that running as well as it did on 1996 hardware. It made everything else that was out looked old and busted in comparison.

It’s been pretty dry in my area, we haven’t had a proper rain for few weeks. It does worry me.

Weird way to say you want to work in the coal mines.

A man so abhorrent his wife and family wants nothing to do with him.

Most things look pretty bad and gross when you zoom in on them close enough.

There’s a great podcast called “Kill James Bond” that posits the theory that every time a spoof comes out it scared the studios so much that they had to reboot it.

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