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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com

Fingers are just really long toes. Pleasant dreams

aug 26, 2025, 2:11 am • 7 0

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myfewcentsworth @todddixon.bsky.social

Unfortunately I don’t have enough DNA from my ancestral past to make my big toes opposable so they don’t match the fingers in my case. 🤷‍♂️

aug 26, 2025, 4:48 am • 1 0 • view
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🏳️‍⚧️ "Critical Kate” Willært @katewillaert.bsky.social

There is no substance simultaneously more comical and disturbing to imagine intelligent life being made of than meat.

aug 26, 2025, 2:33 am • 4 0 • view
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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com

Yeah, why is meat so gross haha

aug 26, 2025, 11:57 am • 1 0 • view
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Jonathan Chapman @urzasrage.bsky.social

Really just tentacles with bones

aug 26, 2025, 12:05 pm • 1 0 • view
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DW Hartman @dwhartman.bsky.social

I never stub them on anything, and therefore they cannot be toes. They are simply not frustrating enough.

aug 26, 2025, 2:42 am • 1 0 • view
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Douglas Vautour @douglasvautour.bsky.social

Now I’m thinking about how much creepier Salad Toes would have been. Thank you.

aug 26, 2025, 2:24 am • 1 0 • view
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cleide sem calcinha @cyberpedreiro.bsky.social

counterpoint: toes are really short fingers that's why in Portuguese they're called "fingers of the feet"

aug 26, 2025, 3:27 am • 1 0 • view
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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com

this is also true

aug 26, 2025, 11:56 am • 1 0 • view
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S. Goodpaster @sgoodpaster.bsky.social

One more fun fact. Are horse legs just fingers? From the perspective of evolutionary and developmental biologists, a horse’s hoof is literally a giant middle finger.

Diagram of a horse's lower leg and hoof bones, labeled with anatomical terms including metacarpal, phalanx, carpal bones, radius, and ulna. This is compared to the bones in the human hand, shown to the right of the hoof.
aug 26, 2025, 3:00 am • 3 0 • view
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Kenji Yamauchi @kenji182.bsky.social

In Portuguese we call toes “feet fingers”

aug 26, 2025, 12:14 pm • 1 0 • view