1) The bunny Olympics is definitely more my speed - especially if we had different species competing against one another. Also, an idea to help our pollinating friends, particularly in areas with record temperatures.

2) People have been playing around with AO3 stats after they offered a public data dump for fans to work with. I was intrigued by ( Read more... )

1) Bad Batch's "Devil's Deal" was the best episode of the season so far to me, so it was noticeable that the main characters had a cameo in this episode. That said, the previous episodes weren't so bad. ( Read more... )

1) Cat figures out its hammock, a horse has a cuddle post and another cat figures out what visitors do. Meanwhile cats remind us that basic things are the best.

2) Pillowfort is up and running again! It's great to have it back. Though only shut down about 3 months it certainly felt like a long time. I was also interested to see this post about ( Read more... )

I saw a news spot about the conclusion of Paramount's series of commercials advertising the transition happening to CBS All Access next month.

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What it reminded me of was the old WB commercials where before the start of each season there was a "party" sort of gathering of stars from all their shows, getting people excited for the return of old ( Read more... )

1) We should all hope to retire like this cat, though perhaps some friendships can only be made as kids. And we may be alone during the pandemic but perhaps not as alone as we'd like.

2) Some interesting developments in the news media. Direct texting journalists with questions and feedback seems feasible to me only if you don't get a lot of ( Read more... )

1) These days we all have an eye out for company, and some of us are challenging ourselves while others are getting nowhere fast , but we might look cool doing it.

2) Some excitement this week, we've made a big change in the living room. Mike's computer desk arrived sooner than we expected. So aside from assembling that, transferring all his ( Read more... )

1) In today's cuteness roundup, a mama cat who has, perhaps, had enough of new motherhood, a mama bear who is still on the job, and two cats who have had enough of isolation.

2) Over at Pillowfort there's a renewed push by active users to get Staff to make technical and, even more importantly, administrative changes to how communities are created ( Read more... )

1) The expressions on all three faces are priceless, almost like an owl version of The Office. Also, a stretching hedgehog and a cautious kitty.

2) Stayed up late last night reading Louise Penny's mystery novel "A Fatal Grace" though it was a mixed bag. ( Read more... )

1) Wow, Janelle Monae just killed it in the Oscars' opening number. I liked a number of things about the show, such as all the different Elsas singing (though I wished we'd heard more from them), and Maya Rudolph and Kirsten Wiig's little costume design medley. The way that many of the awards were scattered among different movies was also good to ( Read more... )

1) The OTW has asked fans to help get their letter to Verizon responded to. Click through to get more information. Please note the deadline for the content wipe is next weekend, so there's some urgency to this ( Read more... )