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@Chrishallbeck This genuinely happens all the time these days when reading something on actual paper…

@slothdude @Chrishallbeck and I have the urge to long-press words in paper books to learn the definition.

@Chrishallbeck Happened to me the last time I read a dead-tree book. I swiped the lower right corner to turn the page.

Won't happen again as most books these days are set in smaller font type I have difficulty reading. So it's eBooks from now on. It's also saving on my bookshelf space.

@Chrishallbeck
this isn't entirely unfounded I think doing the pinching method could get more light into your eye meaning that you could maybe see it more clearly

but the theoretical benefits of this would not be enough to identify the bird

@Chrishallbeck @bigzaphod This is going to be a quaint comic a few decades from now when humans have this feature augmented into their eyeballs. 😂

@Chrishallbeck at my first full time job using a computer (1995!) I was really in the zone when I seriously had the urge to scratch my noise using the on-screen mouse pointer.

@Chrishallbeck To be fair, I tried scrolling a piece of paper more often than I‘d like to admit 🫣

@Chrishallbeck
True confession: I once actually did the finger pinchy-zoom thing to a snapshot I was holding in my hand.

@Chrishallbeck That's only supposed to work on birthdays. A pinch to grow an inch.

@Chrishallbeck Hey Mr. Bird, I'm crushing your head!