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Husky Karaoke
Surprisingly little bloodshed occurs š±š¶š»
Cats can be remarkably tolerant of babies, allowing the tiny humans to play with them and laugh at them. They will even
protect them. (Cats and babies previously)
"Her name is Batfink."
San Francisco's Officer Edith (previously) tweets
This is my dog. Her name is Batfink. Her named has evolved from Batfink to batfinger>fingers>fingerling potato>fangers>fang fang and forever onwards to more ridiculous names. Show me your pets and their name evolutions because we need a little respite.(Pet name evolution previously)
ZZZT CLANK ARF WREEK HISS
When puppies meet a robot they want to be friends. Contrast that to Maya the cat's more cautious approach. But a mess of kittens vs. BB-8 will not end well. Bonus: various pets vs. various machines. Extra bonus: okay, it's just an excuse to post Cat vs Printer - The Translation again. (h/t Miss Cellania)
Dogs stealing GoPro cameras
Fred Rogers was my real-life neighbor
Mr. Rogers was my actual neighbor. He was everything he was on TV and more. (Adam Eisenstat, Vox)
š¶ Hola, ç'est bon, ça va, konnichiwa, tu danses ce soir? š¶
For your happy, mellow, summer music needs, the latest video from Youngr: Lost in Translation [more inside]
Hopeful Summer - Love Songs Edition
Hi everyone! It's Isaac. You may remember me. I got engaged to my fiancée, Amy, a few months ago. It looked a little bit like this. That was a pretty spectacular moment in my life. And, so, I've been thinking about how all of that came to be. And I got a little bit inspired to make another video that might honor the relationships that made my life possible and what might come for Amy and I in the future. So I hope you enjoy it.[more inside]
a lost battalion of platonic conversationalists
What's more fun than watching huskies frolic and complain? Nothing, that's what: Exhibit 1 | Exhibit 2. And because no post is complete without cats*, here are some noisy cats [all videos contain howling and/or yowling].
*Not true. I'm just saying that to be nice.
*Not true. I'm just saying that to be nice.
This is about generating joy, and embodying joy
Meet the Subversive Sirens. These 5 women are bringing joy and inclusivity to synchronized swimming. The Subversive Sirens (Twitter) are committed to black liberation, equity in swimming/ aquatic arts, body positivity in athleticism & queer visibility. Check out short video interviews of the members and practice clips.
Okay guys š„ I'm over here, look š„ this way, here I š„ am, right here š„
Ever wonder what it's like to teach kindergarteners? Perhaps it's like teaching chicks about magnets.
Smooches!
The best on-screen kisses of 2018, according to Proma Khosla at Mashable. Rewatch some lovely kisses from your favorite tv shows and movies and get spoilers for a few you don't watch with utter sweetness. [more inside]
Sit. Stay. Smile!
The UK's Kennel Club has announced this year's winners of the Dog Photographer Of The Year contest (previously). There are new dogs, there are old dogs, there are friendly dogs. So many good dogs.
I would crash this ship to save my friend
Superfans The Sevateem (Twitter) have created The Caves, a lush, electro-indie-pop tribute to the classic 1984 Doctor Who story The Caves of Androzani. (Wikipedia) (Tardis Data Core). It's pay-what-you-want, with all profits donated to Doctors Without Borders.
Vanilla flavoring comes from *what*?
Lucy Cooke (previously) has a relatively new book, The Unexpected Truth About Animals. Here are some truths you may not be aware of.
Watching the World Cup in Tehran
We lefts the stadium with no loss, no victory, but plenty of indignation. Thousands of us walked out onto the street through a long dark tunnel, lost in the all-consuming blow of horns and chants of Iraa-a-a-n. The trumpet of God seemed to be calling out the Day of Judgment: Iran gave its best World Cup performance in recent history, and women were allowed inside Iranās largest stadium for the first time in decades. @Pedestrian writes about women and Iran's World Cup performance for Popula. [more inside]
Canon in KFC
TwoSet Violin are a pair of blokes from Brisbane who want to make classical music relevant to the modern generation through fun, humour and simplicity. Which explains the existence of Pachelbel's Canon in D performed on rubber chicken.
Psychology & Failure
You learn better from failure than from winning. [guardian] Learning from the team psychologist for England's football team. Alternately, just enjoy seeing the team in a pool on unicorn floats. [more inside]
"He's a perfect example of just a beautiful light that's on this planet"
Today on Little But Fierce, watch how baby boxer Stanley decided he was going to play with his huge foster brothers no matter what ā and slowly but surely grew up into a big, rowdy boy! You can keep up with Stanley Woodruff and his family on Facebook. [more inside]
As long as everybody's screamingā¦
It's National Ice Cream Month in the U.S., and Sunday is National Ice Cream Day!* Guess America's favorite ice cream flavor, then go find out where to get free ice cream this weekend! For a great party trick, make ice cream in a plastic bag!
*I know!
*I know!
Minnark is a cat who lives in Al Ain with his camel friends
Minnark is a cat who lives in Al Ain with his camel friends, Mr. Buzzer and Mr. Buzzer’s mom. Minnark goes for camel rides and traverses camel necks like a bridge. He gets lots of camel cuddles. When winter ends, he chomps off mom’s winter coat. Minnark and Mr. Buzzer enjoy each others’ tails. The camels’ food trough is a great place for cat & camel socializing. Sometimes Mr. Buzzer is a pest. One time this happened.
(All links are to twitter. Names are from google translate.) [more inside]
Dig Diaries
It's summer in the northern hemisphere, which means archaeologists are sharpening their trowels as they embark on fieldwork projects. Here's a few dig diaries to follow along:
The Ness of Brodgar is the site of a stunning complex of Neolithic buildings in the West Mainland of Orkney.
Newgrange Farm excavations are investigating a substantial feature discovered through geophysical investigation in 2015. It's the first excavation to take place at the site for 30 years.
Bamburgh Research Project is excavating within the walls of Bamburgh Castle, the site of the fortress palace of the Anglo-Saxon kings of Northumbria.
Waterloo Uncovered works with current and former service personnel, alongside archaeologists and students, and are currently excavating Hougoumont Farm at the battlefield at Waterloo.
This is for you
Modern Florida Man Odyssey
Helena Fitzgerald on how Magic Mike XXL both follows and transcends Joseph Campbellās traditional Heroās Journey: Campbellās hero appeals both to capitalism and to the misogyny built into our capitalist society and others like it. Magic Mike, on the other hand, is a story about men doing great things that manages to avoid all the traps of the great man narratives, and the specific ways in which it deviates from these narratives demonstrates exactly what is so useful and maybe even revolutionary about it... Magical Michael is but a simple furniture maker, trying to run a business, attempting to gain enough financial stability to provide healthcare to his one employee. But thenāāāhe hears the call.
"I fancied being the first to do something"
Fell runner Nicky Spinks is the first person to complete the double Ramsey Round, a brutal and technical 116 mile circuit of the hills and mountains above Fort William, Scotland, which includes 24 peaks, 23 of which are Munros. She competed the run in 55 hours and 56 minutes. [more inside]
A gif in your mouthā¦
Sparkling Water Research Lab
Bad Vodka
Travel In Style
French photographer and animator Nicolas Monterrat brings his surreal sense of humor to historical photos, paintings, and other borrowed imagery at Un gif dans ta gueuleā¦
Bad Vodka
Travel In Style
French photographer and animator Nicolas Monterrat brings his surreal sense of humor to historical photos, paintings, and other borrowed imagery at Un gif dans ta gueuleā¦
Some of y'all might get with this, and some of y'all won't, but listen
Let Me Clear My Wallet, a fun mix of DJ Kool and Super Mario Galaxy 2 tunes set to Super Mario Odyssey's release trailer, from prolific Youtube mashup artist BotanicSage. [SLYT]
Because of her, we can
It's NAIDOC week! This year's theme is Because of her we can!, celebrating Australian indigenous women and their achievements. [more inside]
No she doesn't fall off the bed
Dan Fowlks and his wife went out on a date and afterwards, while she took the babysitter home, he serenaded his ten-month-old daughter with Bobby Darrin's "Dream Lover." There was a followup video that addressed some concerns.
putting boning in a binder
THINGS I NEED TO FUCKING KNOW: Why every fuckin trans man or nb person I know who binds is like āoh binders are the worst, you canāt breathe in them, I know someone who broke a rib onceā. And meanwhile over in historical costuming, we are fucking eating, sleeping, swordfighting, riding horses, and feeling great in smooth-bodiced corsets. What if the secret to making a better binder is to add boning? What might be possible?
"Wheeeeeeeeeee!"
An inventive dad gives his daughter a roller coaster ride in the living room [laughter and shrieking]
Proud Dads
Dublin Bus proud dads āI know how hard it was for my son to come out to me, so I wanted to do something for Pride to show him that I am truly proud of him, not for being gay, or for coming out, but for being who he is. Before all this, I never felt that it was my place to go to Pride, but Iāve realised it really is, because I am proud.ā
It's not a trick. It's an illusion!
#WhatTheFluffChallenge is an adorable Twitter hashtag: humans do a disappearing trick for their pets, mostly dogs. Results are usually amusing and sometimes poignant. Here's a compilation of some of the better ones [overly-chipper sountrack] and here's one on dog logic in general.
"We will change the world, starting from the very beginning."
Parent coaching, and specifically, home visiting, is not new. The most famous study, which took place in Jamaica in the 1970s, showed that well-trained home visitors supporting poor mothers with weekly visits for two years led to big improvements in childrenās cognition, behavior, and future earnings. One group of infants in that program who received coaching in their earliest years earned 25% more than a control group more than 20 years later. But Brazilās ambition is audacious.
An Underground Atlas of the District of Columbia
DC has many tunnels, only some of which are on fire. Using historical maps and the DC Public Library's newspaper archive, local history buff Elliot Carter will take you on a (ongoing) survey of the District's underground domain. [more inside]
A Push for Gender 'X'
For more than a century Massachusetts has required drivers to have state-issued licenses before getting behind the wheel, and for much of that time it has asked recipients to declare their gender as either male or female, M or F. Now, at the urging of a teenager from the MetroWest region, the state is considering giving motorists a third option: X. [more inside]
bring them together
Since 2011, Butches and Babies (not to be confused with baby butches) has been compiling photos.
Itās not at all easy to march through the world shattering gender norms at every turn. So when a butch holds a small child, relatively unaffected by gender (in a cognitive/behavioral sense), it is a simultaneous exchange of healing and freedom. Maybe I think about this too much, but thatās what I see. Every single time. I see hope and a new world.[more inside]
your move, sir
So you have all this cheese lying around, and you don't fancy eating it. Or maybe, if you're in the US, you're facing down the largest cheese stockpile in a century. What can you do?
Suggestions include paint, plastics, jewelry, glue, fabric, and so much more. Turns out cheese is pretty useful after all. [more inside]
Students raise £1500 to send "jolliest" cleaner to Jamaica
Students raise money to send cleaner and his wife to Jamaica to visit family. "He is the epitome of happiness," one student said. The gift included a note saying, "You have brightened many of our days and we want you to know that we love and appreciate you." Herman has worked at Bristol University as part of the cleaning staff for 12 years. In terms of the positivity that so many students praise him for, Herman told Newsbeat it's important to keep away "negative vibes...I know that these students are studying. You don't want any negative vibes around them."
"He will be grumpy for a while but we're being cruel to be kind."
'World's fattest hedgehog' placed on diet and exercise regime. "Arbuckle" is a pretty good name, but it can't hold a candle to "Mr Piggywinkle," who was put on a strict diet in 2016. (Hedgehogs previously)
Under Amsterdam
Amsterdam drained a canal and put everything they found online, piece by piece, chronologically, and you can see it all, from guns to [more inside]
The first thing the vet said was, "He's going to be a big boy!"
Minecrafting YouTuber and documentary maker Mumbo Jumbo presents a serious documentary about Minecrafting Youtuber Grian and his cats, Maui and Pearl. (SLYT).
New National Near Earth Object Preparedness Plan Released in the US
In planetary defense news, a new National Near Earth Object Preparedness Plan has been released in the United States. [more inside]
Quietly, by hand
Need 8 minutes to calm down? Watch a short, quiet, idyllic video of Li Zikai building a cat-shaped brick-and-clay oven from scratch. (slfb video) [more inside]
TeacherTube
TeacherTube is a free resource for educators, students and parents to share and watch instructional videos. Launched in 2007 as a YouTube alternative that is "a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners," the site is now home to over a million user-generated videos on dozens of topics, many of which are used as teaching tools in schools and libraries across the United States. [more inside]
I call myself DJ Switch because I switch on people's happiness
10 year-old Erica Tandoh is a young DJ taking Ghana by storm āDeejaying is my passion but I want to be a gynaecologist because I want to help women,ā she said in an interview with Nairobi News. A couple more clips of her here.
Meanwhile In Canada
The @MeanwhileInCana Twitter account covers all things Canadian, often with a light touch (unless it's indigenous injustice or oil sands exploitation). Today it's highlighting ACTUAL HEADLINES FROM CANADIAN NEWSPAPERS. [more inside]
āHot Dog Water is the NEW coconut water!ā
Someone Sold Hot Dog Water for $28 at a Festival [Teen Vogue] ā literal bottles of water containing a single hot dog each ā which were sold at the Car Free Day festival in Vancouver. [more inside]
Military Vet Mom MJ Hegar Is Running for Congress in Texas's District 31
And she might just break the internet with the most persuasive political campaign ad ever created. (SLYT)
It's not a diversity experiment.
In the City of South Fultonās justice system, black women hold all the reins. The city is the first city in American history where every criminal justice department head is an African American woman. [more inside]
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