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the penguins in a japanese zoo have *very* complex romantic lives

poly groupings, broken hearts, lots of side-eye and drams

so the zoo made a chart of it

item #5 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompson/a…

A large colorful chart entitled "Sumida penguins relationship Chart 2026". It shows tiny images of cartoons of perhaps 2 or three dozen Penguins together with a welter of colored lines illustrating relationships
A closeup of the chart showing Small round images of 7 Penguins with lines connecting them and describing their relationships. For example, there is a Penguin called "Ume" Who's described as “the type that Likes to take food back to her nest closed quotes and there is a multi directional arrow connecting her the arrow is labeled “married” with a heart, and it points to another Penguin named "Take", Who is described as "beefy and sweet." there is a blue arrow connecting Tako to another Penguin called "Kurama", and the arrow has a broken blue heart and the text reading "their romance seems to have run its course”.

Linkfest #46: "Curse Tablets", a Robot Cellist, and Why Geologists Always Die In Movies

Hello there! Time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, for which I sift through the endless vinyl-crates of the Internet, hunting for...
Clive Thompson (The Linkfest)
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