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Does what it says on the tin. Smac McCreanor (previously) vs. Darwin the parrot.Bonus! 2 minutes of dancing chicks and chickens

From four years ago, Seth Meyers can't resist the call of the Florida Man joke (4 1/2 minutes).

What is Dead Butt Syndrome? NYT: "After a long workday at your desk or hours in a car, it's normal to feel a little stiff. It may just be that your hip flexors and lower back are tight. But you could also be experiencing a potentially debilitating condition called gluteal amnesia, or dead butt syndrome...""'The name sounds silly, but the side effects are serious,"...

OK Computer but everything is my voice [youtube]. shonkywonkydonkey covers all of Radiohead's album OK Computer just by recording and processing his own voice.I like this version as much as the original.

What's Hidden Inside Planets? (interview with Sabine Stanley) and What if Fungi Win? (interview with Arturo Casadevall) are open access titles launched at Project MUSE in the past few years. Miscellany of the South Seas: A Chinese Scholar's Chronicle of Shipwreck and Travel through 1830s Vietnam is a remarkable shipwreck narrative there too. The "Deities, Spirits, and Clergy" chapter in A Ming Confucian's World...

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is terminating the supply-and-confidence agreement his party made with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's Liberal government.The move does not necessarily mean an imminent election. The confidence and supply agreement had been set to last until June 2025.

The idea that Mercadona might be a prime location for meeting potential partners was first popularised by Vivy Lin, a TV personality who shared a video on TikTok. According to Lin, many people head to Mercadona between 7 pm and 8 pm with more than just grocery shopping on their minds... They're hoping to find love in the aisles.La rebelión de los amantes del...

Deer gather at Adelaide's doorstep. Feral deer are increasingly being seen by bushwalkers and gardeners in the Mitcham Hills in Adelaide, where it is estimated about 300 exist around Brown Hill Creek and Crafers West. An eradication program is underway to rid South Australia of an estimated 40,000 deer state-wide.

Sperm whales are extra­ordinarily intelligent animals with deep family traditions and the ability to communicate across oceans with sonic clicks. But when Rowan Jacobsen had a close encounter with one in the Caribbean, he saw a creature far stranger than he'd ever imagined. Rowan Jacobsen at Outside Online.

You may remember Salad Mug being posted here to MF (checks watch)...a few years ago. That was episode 1 (part 1) of Dynamo Dream, a (sporadically updated) episodic film? series? created by user IanHubert and posted to youtube. Part 2 of episode 1 has just been uploaded: Prepare for Execution. In all, there are now four short films in the series.If you haven't seen...

I think Wikipedia is great. I spend tons of time on it. I especially like to read about history, because it allows me to quickly jump into obscure details about anything, without the need to scout for specialized literature that might be super hard to find. But one question always creeps in the back of my mind: am I reading something as fair as...

Marvellous surprise as rare endangered coastal emu eggs found in New South Wales state forest. A New South Wales Forestry Corporation employee has stumbled across a nest of eggs belonging to the endangered coastal emu during a routine pre-harvest inspection.

I'm not saying that art has to involve tedium. What I'm saying is that art requires making choices at every scale; the countless small-scale choices made during implementation are just as important to the final product as the few large-scale choices made during the conception. It is a mistake to equate "large-scale" with "important" when it comes to the choices made when creating art;...

While labor's net assets have risen 225% since 2010, membership has declined by 1.8 million workers. According to the latest Gallup poll, approval of unions is at the highest level since the 1960s, yet only one-tenth of one percent of workers in the private sector got the chance to vote for a union.

Matt Bernstein has a podcast. This one is good. Yes, I just linked to an entire youtube channel, but a bit fruity is also available on spotify and anywhere you like to get your podcasts.Some episodes I've liked: JK Rowling's Spiral Into Madness, with guest ContraPoints Amber Heard & The Myth of the Perfect Victim, with Kat Tenbarge (NBC) The Mom Who Invented Gender...

A generator that will make images for a word you give it using landsat imagery! Each letter gets its own picture, labeled with its location, and the collage can be downloaded.

The high that most adult weed smokers remember from their teenage years is most likely one produced by "mids," as in, middle-tier weed. In the pre-legalization era, unless you had a connection with access to top-shelf strains such as Purple Haze and Sour Diesel, you probably had to settle for mids (or, one step down, "reggie," as in regular weed) most of the time....

Rescued Baby Walrus Requires Round the Clock Care. From thatgoodnewsgirl on YouTube. Her tagline, "I'm Jen and I post something positive every day." Many cute additional links provided.stray narwhal adopted by beluga whale pod may soon have "narluga" babies (it is rare but it is a thing!) City officials have unexpected response to ducklings being threatened in Alabama park Ben Afquack the duck gets...

It's your Monday free thread, and also the first week of September! The heat of summer is beginning to ease in the north, marking the beginning of meteorological Autumn, while the cold of winter will be lifting soon in the south as meteorological Spring begins. Kids are back to school in countries with long summer vacations. How are you preparing for the seasonal change...

Father of Labor Day was Black lawmaker from Cleveland. The first Black person elected to office in Cleveland. The second African-American elected to the Ohio House of Representatives. The first African-American elected to the Ohio Senate. As a state representative from Cleveland's Glenville neighborhood, he introduced the 1890 bill that made Labor Day a state holiday, four years before the US Congress established the...