what in the world kind of pig cat eats like this pic.twitter.com/q1LojIN6bY

 Luke in Philadelphia (@tramL116) June 13, 2020

Does this cat eating kibble remind you of a certain seventies' kiddie game?

This reminds me of a past cat of mine, Sunny. I rescued the polydactyl runt from a restaurant's dumpster one winter. Once she was settled in, she soon starting eating more than her share. But that wasn't the crazy part. She would lie down next to her food bowl, stick her big paw in the dry food and bring it to her face one piece at a time. This was a long time ago, otherwise I'd have a hundred videos to share.

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Emily aka Angsty X tried to teach her 8-year old how to use Photoshop. She figured that the best way to do this was to introduce her to a few simple manipulation techniques, and let her daughter instruct her on how to change them (it takes a little while to get the hang of that magic wand tool).

They decided to start with band t-shirts, because mom wears a lot of them.  There was one shirt that Emily used to wear more often, but she told her daughter that she didn't like one of the people on it anymore. So her daughter said, "Well, just don't put him on it!"

And thus it began.

Emily's daughter didn't understand why her mom was laughing so hard. Frankly, I don't, either, because Emily's daughter is clearly a genius, as demonstrated by the other shirts that she designed.

Emily decided to turn these into actual t-shirts, which you can find on Teepublic for the time being, with all proceeds going to the Okra Project to support mental health work for black trans men and women; they've already raised around $100! Read the rest

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"I'm asking you to help him, I'm asking you to help me." — George Floyd's brother Philonise Floyd calls for UN probe into police brutality in U.S.

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“What we’re talking about here, it’s not the front page of the New York Times. It’s 'Tucker Carlson Tonight,' which is a commentary show,” Fox News lawyer argued, defending lawsuit from Karen McDougal

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From Imperator Cuts, The Nice Guys meets Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. No surprise, but I bet I'd prefer this to the original. Read the rest

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We’ve all had the dream at some point. You walk to center stage, ax in hand...and you shred. Thousands of adoring fans drink in every note from your six-stringed hammer of the gods — and the applause and adulation is deafening.

The life of a guitar hero and rock idol has been a dream of every red-blooded American male dating back to the 50s. Even if you’ve now passed beyond your rock star admiration years, playing the guitar is still a great pastime, from the ability to play music to the creative outlet to just its positive effects on mental health. 

The training in The Complete Guitar Master Class Bundle may not make you into the next Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix, but it’s a fabulous means of improving your manual dexterity, soothing your active mind and impressing the hell out of a crowd at your next party.

This collection includes seven courses that can unleash your inner musician, helping you learn patterns, chords, riffs, playing techniques, and more.

The training kicks off with The Professional Guitar Master Class, a four-part, interactive, step-by-step, all HD video course including everything you need to play with complete confidence and control in any genre of music. As you get to know the instrument, understand music theory, and discover your own unique sound, you’ll be surprised how quickly you can transform from novice to competent, maybe even good, guitar player.

But that’s just the start. Guitar: Master The Guitar Fretboard in 6 Easy Steps firms up simple guitar playing in about an hour; while Guitar: Start Playing Solo Guitar the Simple Way explores how to master the solo guitar technique that can have you improvising with other musicians. Read the rest

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Prosecutor: Officers stood on Rayshard Brooks' shoulder, kicked him while he lay on the ground struggling for life.

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The president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, is hospitalized with COVID-19 and is receiving treatment for lung problems associated with the disease, said Honduran health officials on Wednesday -- one day after the Central American president's coronavirus diagnosis was revealed.

While his condition is serious enough to require specialized medical care in a military hospital, including receiving medicines via intravenous drip, the president is generally in good heath, Francis Contreras, a spokesman for Honduran health agency SINAGER, told reporters outside the hospital.

When Hernandez announced his positive diagnosis late on Tuesday in a televised speech, he said his symptoms were mild and he was feeling better, adding that while his doctors recommended rest, he would work remotely and through his aides.

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• Trump did not know Britain was a nuclear power, asked if Finland was part of Russia, Bolton writes. • Intelligence briefings were a waste of time, “since much of the time was spent listening to Trump, rather than Trump listening to the briefers.” • During Trump’s 2018 meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to John Bolton's book, Sec State Mike Pompeo slipped Bolton a little note dissing the president: “He is so full of shit.”

Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton's new book says the House impeachment inquiry should have investigated Donald Trump not only for abusing his political power in Ukraine, but for other instances when Trump intervened in law enforcement matters for personal gain.

The Justice Department is suing Bolton to block release of the book.

Bolton says in his new book that the House in its impeachment inquiry should have investigated Trump not just on Ukraine but for a variety of instances when he sought to intervene in law enforcement matters for political reasons. https://t.co/bJmVSIWhI1

 Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) June 17, 2020

During Trump’s 2018 meeting with Kim Jong-un, Pompeo slipped Bolton a note disparaging the president, saying, “He is so full of shit.” Pompeo later said the North Korea diplomacy had "zero probability of success."

 Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) June 17, 2020

Trump didn’t seem to know that Britain was a nuclear power and asked if Finland were part of Russia, Bolton writes. Intelligence briefings were a waste of time “since much of the time was spent listening to Trump, rather than Trump listening to the briefers.”

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Accent expert Amy Walker evaluates British accents by American actors in Maleficent, Ocean's Thirteen, The Iron Lady, Mrs. Doubtfire, Bridget Jones' Baby, The Parent Trap, Shakespeare in Love, and Imagine Me & You.

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Black Sabbath is selling a Black Lives Matter T-shirt inspired by the band's iconic logo.

100% OF THE NET PROCEEDS WILL BENEFIT BLACK LIVES MATTER GLOBAL NETWORK FOUNDATION, INC.

In support of Black Lives Matter, an official t-shirt themed after Black Sabbath’s iconic Master Of Reality album cover is now available.

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KCRW Radio station sent a microphone to David Lynch to improve the audio of his wonderful daily weather reports. In this video, he shows a wood stand and a protective box he made for it.

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I don't know how effective this Trump ad will be against Trump's cult followers, who don't care how "weak, shaky, unfit" he is as long as he continues to embrace an ideology of hatred against non-whites.

From The Week:

This new ad delivers the deepest gut punch yet. Titled "#TrumpIsNotWell," it features a montage of Trump seemingly struggling with drinking a glass of water and walking down a ramp, as well as footage of him going up the stairs to Air Force One with what appears to be toilet paper under his shoe. The narrator calls Trump "shaky" and "weak," and says White House reporters should be covering Trump's "secretive midnight run to Walter Reed Medical Center." It's clear to everyone, the ad concludes, that now is the time "we talk about this: Trump is not well."

Some people have argued that because Trump has mocked a disabled reporter and calls former Vice President Joe Biden "Sleepy Joe," frequently intimating he is cognitively impaired, Trump's own health is fair game and people should speculate away. Rebecca Cokley, director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the liberal Center for American Progress, disagrees. In an op-ed for The Washington Post published Tuesday, Cokley wrote that when people who do not have medical degrees diagnose Trump with various health issues, it hurts those who are actually disabled.

See other Lincoln Project ads here:

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The 130-year-old Aunt Jemima brand is coming to an end, says Quaker Oats, which said “We recognize Aunt Jemima’s origins are based on a racial stereotype."

From NBC News:

Aunt Jemima is “a retrograde image of Black womanhood on store shelves," Rich'e Richardson, an associate professor at Cornell University, told the “TODAY” show on Wednesday. “It’s an image that harkens back to the antebellum plantation ... Aunt Jemima is that kind of stereotype that is premised on this idea of Black inferiority and otherness.”

“It is urgent to expunge our public spaces of a lot of these symbols that for some people are triggering and represent terror and abuse," Richardson said.

In a 2015 piece for The New York Times, Richardson wrote that the inspiration for the brand's name came from a minstrel song, “Old Aunt Jemima,” in which white actors in blackface mocked and derided Black people.

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There are times when I get tired of all of the major sites and apps that make up a lot of the seen Internet. Sadly, I was born too late to experience the wonder of Geocities and intricate handmade websites run by just a single person. But, on some evenings, I still search for those smaller websites that no one else normally sees. I find the wonder of coming across hidden blogs and pages really fun.

It was a night like this when I stumbled across John Cartan’s writing about the Starmaze last year, and I quickly became fascinated. Unlike every other corner of the web, Cartan’s website wasn’t trying to sell me a useless product or tell me about news I’ve already heard a dozen times. It was instead a series of journal-like recordings about some strange discovery that he called the Starmaze. 

It started with a game he had come across on a computer years ago that involved a square divided into nine sections where each section could be turned on or off. The game began with the middle section of the grid turned on, and the outer eight sections turned off. Clicking one of the sections would turn on/off other parts of the grid in a predictable way, but you could only click the sections that were already turned on. The goal was to click the sections in a way to end up with the outer eight squares turned on, and the innermost square turned off.

Being interested in games myself, this sounded familiar to me immediately. Read the rest

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More than 116,000 people have died so far from coronavirus in the United States, and according to a model from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington,  the country is on course for another 85,000 deaths by October 1. The primary cause for the increase in deaths, according to the study, is due to "rising mobility and premature relaxation of social distancing in some states are the main reasons."

From CBS News:

"What's underlying that is two factors: The steady rise in contact rates, steady rise in mobility, and the likely continued relaxation of mandates over the course of the summer. Combined with the increasingly clear signal that seasonality is important," [IHME Director Dr. Christopher Murray] said.

According to the IHME, "Higher mobility means higher transmission and more infections at the beginning of the expected second wave" in the fall.

As COVID-19 cases continue to decline in New York, once the epicenter of the nation's outbreak, new hotspots are emerging in states across the South and West. Some health experts say we could be seeing the impact of reopening too early.

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Want to see more of this? Fans of the various Star Trek series have been using FaceApp, the popular smart phone facial editing software, to alter the faces (and gender expression) of popular Star Trek characters.

You can see many more on the Star Trek Shitposting Facebook group.

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