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icanhascheezburger_feedAnd you know that at this point in the week there is no more hiding the fact that you are burnt out. So we figured it would be just the right time to share with you this collection of hissterical cat photos fresh from their pawrents' photo albums. Because while a good and funny cat meme can go a long way to lifting the spirits of almost any cat lover. The intimacy of getting to see such hilarious moments from the private collections of cat pawrents creates a far funnier feline photo.
So take a deep breath, let your sadness and sorrow go, and start scrolling through these hilarious cat pics to replace those emotions with some pawsitivity. What's the worst that could happen? You smile a little and make everyone at the office think you are a big old softie?
icanhascheezburger_feedYou know how there are those funny signs with warnings that obviously come from a unique incident carried out by some sort of unique idiot? Well, this story is the feline equivalent of that. A tale of a cat who decides to play hide and seek with the sole intention of getting under his cat mom's skin by hiding under the house. A pitiful prank that almost resulted in the pawrent risking life and limb to check if the idiot cat had gotten stuck on the roof.
Now sure you might be right in thinking that such a story sounds familiar, and there is one that does compare - the boy who cried wolf. And while it is true that this cat child will not be believed the next time that something like this happens, in the original story there is nothing about the boy rubbing it in the town's people's faces that there was no wolf…
flo_neljaarstechnica_science_feedVery few people alive today have seen the Appalachian forests as they existed a century ago. Even as state and national parks preserved ever more of the ecosystem, fungal pathogens from Asia nearly wiped out one of the dominant species of these forests, the American chestnut, killing an estimated 3 billion trees. While new saplings continue to sprout from the stumps of the former trees, the fungus persists, killing them before they can seed a new generation.
But thanks in part to trees planted in areas where the two fungi don't grow well, the American chestnut isn't extinct. And efforts to revive it in its native range have continued, despite the long generation times needed to breed resistant trees. In Thursday's issue of Science, researchers describe their efforts to apply modern genomic techniques and exhaustive testing to identify the best route to restoring chestnuts to their native range.
While the American chestnut is functionally extinct—it's no longer a participant in the ecosystems it once dominated—it's most certainly not extinct. Two Asian fungi that have killed it off in its native range; one causes chestnut blight, while a less common pathogen causes a root rot disease. Both prefer warmer, humid environments and persist there because they can grow asymptomatically on distantly related trees, such as oaks. Still, chestnuts planted outside the species' original range—primarily in drier areas of western North America—have continued to thrive.
arstechnica_science_feedAn elephant's trunk is a marvelous thing, flexible enough to bend and stretch as it forages for food, but also stiff enough to grasp and maneuver even delicate objects like peanuts or a tortilla chip. That's because the trunk is highly sensitive when it comes to sensing touch. Scientists have determined that the whiskers lining the trunk are crucial for that sensitivity thanks to their unique structure, amounting to a kind of innate "material intelligence, according to a new paper published in the journal Science.
As previously reported, there is a long history of studying whiskers (vibrissae) in mammals. Rats, cats, tree squirrels, manatees, harbor seals, sea otters, pole cats, shrews, tammar wallabies, sea lions, and naked mole-rats all share strikingly similar basic whisker anatomies, according to various prior studies. Among other potential applications, such research could one day enable scientists to build artificial whiskers as tactile sensors in robotics, as well as learn more about human touch.
Whiskers are much more complex than one might think, both in structure and function. Rats, for instance, have about 30 large whiskers and dozens of smaller ones, part of a complex “scanning sensorimotor system” that enables the rat to perform such diverse tasks as texture analysis, active touch for path finding, pattern recognition, and object location, just by scanning the terrain with its whiskers.
ineffablecabbage posting in halfamoonbrithistorianThe other night on the Olympic broadcast[^1], US figure skater Amber Glenn said in an interview that she is a huge fan of Magic: the Gathering and also that she is queer. So of course I had to make a custom Magic card of her!
[^1] For those of you in the US who are streaming on Peacock, it was during the women's free skate section of the team competition.
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icanhascheezburger_feedBut what does it really mean? Well, we're here to explain in meowing details. Don't worry, fellow feline fanatics, you're in good hands. Hands that have gone through every piece of cat content the internet has to offer to this date. We're about to let you in on a cautiously kept secret: meowing that energy up for the day is easy when you have feline funnies at your side. When you scroll through cat memes, that cat energy sips right into you, like a soft meow when your cat companion is making biscuits on your chest.
But really, now, what is meowing up the energy for the day? It's all about walking around with cat confidence, it's about letting yourself recharge with cat comfort and coziness, it's all about laughing like a cat meowing for no reason at all in the middle of the night like you must hear the song of their people right at that moment. Meowing up that energy means to make it like a cat - with purride, pawreciousness, and a whole lot of hissterical humor. That's the cat way, that's the way to meow up that energy, like every person probably needs today.
icanhascheezburger_feedWe're constantly told that the Cat Distribution System sends the cats in need to the right human, the one who will give them all the love they deserve and all the protection they need. In some cases, though, the situation is reversed, but with the same wholesome result - a human might be in need of a cat. Cats love their humans, and some people simply need a little more floofy friendship in their lives. In this case, the CDS sends a can in need to a person who's also in need. But what we learn from this one cat pawrent below is that the CDS takes requests.
Just requesting a cat doesn't usually work. But apparently, there's a certain condition in which a person's wish for a cat can come true in a very short amount of time. That is, if you ask it from your soul cat who has passed over the rainbow bridge to the other side. A woman who raised a cat for 19 years(!) made just one wish - bring me another cat, if you will, I will take him in. And so, her new cat came to be.
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snopes_feedoursin"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker:
London is being used as the backdrop for inaccurate viral videos that reach enormous audiences around the world by playing into the worst stereotypes about the capital.
Last summer, the man says, he found himself sitting in his car, analysing trends on TikTok. His day job was conducting viewings for an estate agency but he was trying to come up with an idea for a viral video account that could be run as a money-making side-hustle.
“I was thinking of unique videos I can do for people,” he says on the tape.
That’s when he had a brainwave: “Hate brings views.”
At that time protests outside asylum hotels were spreading across the country. The man says he noticed “far-right people” were among the most engaged on TikTok. They were easy to rile up: “They hate such videos of illegal migrants. I was like, why not?”
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The TikToker appears to have no concept of the potential real-world impact of his uploads, instead considering everything in terms of view counts and pieces of content.
He had originally found he could make money through posting videos on TikTok but 'TikTok immediately deleted his account because he was just stealing other people’s videos and reposting them'.
There seems to be just a total disconnect going on in the guy's mind (or he's just ethically vacuous) and generally he does not appear the sharpest blade in the drawer:
Despite fostering online hatred, the man recorded.... insists he doesn’t personally share the views expressed on his TikTok account. Instead, he suggests his fake anti-migrant house tour videos were just a way to game the algorithm, build an audience, and hopefully make money.
baffled. He can’t understand how London Centric traced his anonymous hate-filled London TikTok account back to his employer by geolocating the wheelie bins in his videos.
“I thought no one’s gonna notice that,” he says. “Why would someone?”
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