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TikTok’s Favorite Emu Is Sick With Bird Flu And Experts Were Alarmed At How The Owner Handled The Outbreak Zoonotic outbreak. Bird deaths. Little quarantine. Much cuddling. Still Tik-Tokking. (Previously, where the final comment links to a thread about Taylor Blake and how white (and non-black) lesbians appropriates black lesbian terminology)
posted by cendawanita at 10:57 PM PST - 75 comments

For one trio of brothers raised in Oxnard, there was no use in asking for permission to make their comics. They didn't need it. With all the trademarks of an '80s punk mentality, Mario, Jaime and Gilbert began sharing their work on their own... Fans quickly followed, and their fervor remained steady, as did the brothers' creative output. "Love & Rockets," the brothers' ongoing series — now helmed by Gilbert and Jaime — is celebrating its 40th anniversary. And in celebration an hourlong documentary [more inside]
posted by ShooBoo at 7:14 PM PST - 11 comments

Hair-straightening chemical products linked to increased uterine cancer risk in new study. Ongoing research previously suggested that hair straightening chemicals are associated with an increased risk of certain hormone-related cancers, including breast and ovarian cancers, and now, a new study links use of hair straightening products with an increased risk of uterine cancer. Black women may be more affected due to higher use of the products, the researchers noted.
posted by tiny frying pan at 6:23 PM PST - 10 comments

An echidna is unexpectedly found at an inner city train station. A wedge-tailed eagle hitches a boat ride to shore after being fished out of the ocean. An endangered bird travels hundreds of kilometres looking for love, and ends up falling for his own reflection.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 4:17 PM PST - 7 comments

The folks at WordTips have dissected our foul mouthed tweeting to figure out what swear word is most popular in each state. [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum at 1:44 PM PST - 53 comments

"A while ago I made an addon for myself. It was essentially a tab FIFO [First In, First Out]. It would only allow 10 tabs to be open at a time. If an 11th tab was created, the least recently activated tab would be closed." Throttle Tabs is a Firefox browser extension (an add-on) by Eitan Isaacson to help manage open tabs. "I decided to add an 'overflow' feature which is essentially tab purgatory. Instead of having the addon auto-close the tab, it hides it. .... The overflow can be capped too so it can permanently discard old tabs after a given limit." Source code.
posted by brainwane at 1:35 PM PST - 38 comments

I HEAR THE BLUES A-KILLIN' (or: Frasier Meets Columbo), a 16-page comic by Joe Chouinard.
posted by Pope Guilty at 1:23 PM PST - 18 comments

Galen Weston Jr has got your back during these financial tough times by price freezing the popular No Name brand products his stores carry. Galen Weston Jr, a true man of the people with his many many vacation homes and inherited wealth, wants you to know that he feels your pain in trying to feed your families. [more inside]
posted by Kitteh at 10:25 AM PST - 30 comments

The US spends more on health care administration than comparable nations. One estimate, based on 2021 data from the OECD, finds that the US spends $1,055 per capita on health care administrative costs—by far the highest amount on a list of twelve OECD nations plus the US. The next highest is Germany at $306 per capita.
posted by spamandkimchi at 9:51 AM PST - 42 comments

Air Canada's newest safety video is heralded as showcasing Canada's natural beauty, creatively fulfilling the need to share flight safety information without ever showing the inside of an aircraft, and following in the footsteps of other airlines' novel approaches to security briefings. [more inside]
posted by narcissus_and_ambrosia at 8:50 AM PST - 26 comments

The Problem of Marjorie Taylor Greene (NYT gift link, archive.org) What the rise of the far-right Congresswoman means for the House, the GOP, and the nation. Adapted from Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost its Mind, out today.
posted by box at 5:00 AM PST - 68 comments

Free peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser [more inside]
posted by aniola at 12:38 AM PST - 20 comments

Jim Keller on AI Generated Software - "It won't be that long until you start looking at all the software that has ten years of legacy in it and go 'Why would I want old software? Why wouldn't I want software that was generated this week?'. And there are a whole bunch of really interesting changes that come with that."[0,1] [more inside]
posted by kliuless at 12:21 AM PST - 76 comments