Some cats are just so damn cool.

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Octopus playing Now You See Me, Now You Don't: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

FUN FACT: He advised Queen Elizabeth to pardon her son 3 years, 5 months & 12 days after she passed away. Please add "UNINFORMED" to my list. Thank you for your attention to this embarrassing matter.

Congratulations, you have discovered the happiest owl ☺️ all curses are now lifted

Teen Jacobin sounds like an April Fool’s joke they accidentally posted early

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... via @wiswell.bsky.social I identify as neither ace nor aro, but I rarely enjoy reading either erotica or romance but am always seeking good stories about friendship.

#birdoftheday? Here’s #lookingatyou kid! Fire-throated Hummingbird, Paraíso Quetzal, Costa Rica

Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."

On this Scavenger Sunday, we have a fence post.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Are you guys aware that ICE is funded through September 2029? That’s why a partial government shut down won’t affect them and why they’ll now be doing domestic terrorism at airports. None of this stuff is legitimate. It’s all illegal and unconstitutional. Don’t ever get confused about it.

open.substack.com/pub/danieldr... Thanks, @dandrezner.bsky.social, for your clarity.

Let’s stop softening the language. The pregnant detainees in the Texas ICE camp are children. They are not “young women.” They are minors. If pregnancies occurred while they were detained, every ICE officer must be investigated for child sexual assault. These children must be freed.

🔥 Whale Shark gliding through Bioluminescent Algae looks like its floating through space. By Mike Nulty

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This goes back to my favorite Hobby Horse: in Tolkien, the fear of death is the root cause of most humans’ turns to evil. Númenor fell when even the extra long lives given to them wasn’t enough. The ringwriaths were kings who chose Not Dying over actually Living.

Expelled Oberlin Chabad rabbi says he ‘made a mistake’ with explicit social media chats forward.com/fast-forward...

Framing the Iran war as "for Israel" is intellectually lazy and ignores a lot of what we know about the Trump's decision-making. At best, it indulges in nativism. And, let's be honest, writing this without acknowledging how this narrative is being used by bigots and neo-Nazis is... a choice.

This is my favorite opening paragraph in a long time. It fills me with hope.

imagining the meeting where someone was like goal number one is to find a trendier, more whimsical term for attempted murder

Fun ways of saying “be quiet” that I’ve heard in five different countries: 1. Shut your Camembert box (France) 2. Shut your pie hole (US) 3. Hold your slipper (Austria) 4. Save your breath to cool your porridge (Scotland) 5. If you don’t shut up, I’ll climb into your mouth and shit myself (Hungary)

Iran is trolling Trump again. Hard. This is what happens when global politics becomes reality TV.

For the day that's in it, here's a paper answering the question on everyone's mind: what language did St Patrick swear in? More precisely, it discusses the exclamation "mo debroth!" attributed to him, claimed by some to be of Brythonic origin, but plausibly Irish too. www.jstor.org/stable/20787...

America first is letting foreign companies come into the US to mine copper?

The BBC News uk current reporting;

Please call your MOC and end the grift. MAGA is terrified of the women vote. They are trying to stop you from voting by adding an expensive poll tax. #SaveActIsPayToVote

Congratulations to @wiswell.bsky.social for Nebula nominations! (Heartiest recommendations from me for WEARING THE LION and PHANTOM VIEW, both.) And may all health issues resolve speedily and completely.

@chucktingle.bsky.social , could you please do something with this? Trump: “We’re hitting them very hard…We’re pounding an area that has very much to do with the straight. We are pounding that coast. We are pounding it. Like, really pounding it hard.”

"Your Honor, I ask the court -- does this sound like the kind of man who would force himself on an innocent child?"

here's one for Christian readings of the conquest narrrative too; by @ddelgadovive.bsky.social via @theradr.bsky.social www.lifeisasacredtext.com/joshua/

Nedra Glover Tawwab is essential reading, and this is an especially good example. open.substack.com/pub/nedrataw...?

A very happy St. Gertrude's Day to you all 🐈‍⬛

Under Kansas law, he must use the women's bathroom or be subjected to criminal charges in government owned buildings or $1000 vigilante lawsuits in public spaces. I think everyone can understand why this is absurd and causes more problems than it was ever intended to fix.

www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try... Unexpected risks of gambling

There is so very very much to learn about the origins and history of US citizenship and migration and that in turn shapes the grim, bad originalism deployed to strip it. @unlawfulentries.bsky.social is a must-listen and a must-read in advance of the birthright citizenship arguments in two weeks.

Most people live like the pandemic never happened, but some of us never fully got our lives back. For 5 years, I’ve lived with Long Covid in the form of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). There are millions around the world like me. Today is #LongCovidAwareness Day. Help spread the word!