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@SamaHoole OT -- Related to your theme of traditional animals solving current problems. I saw a post about the ongoing tick infestation in the USA, and how chickens solve the problem by eating all the ticks. Fascinating if true!

Anne Hathaway, in 2014, was filming Interstellar in Iceland. Hathaway had been vegan, by that point, for several years. She had announced the diet publicly. She had defended it in interviews. She had built part of her public image around it. Her husband Adam Shulman had supported it through every dinner. In Reykjavik, during a break in filming, she went to a Michelin-starred restaurant with Shulman and her co-star Matt Damon. Damon told the chef to choose the meal for the table. The plates arrived. Salmon. Hathaway, in her own retelling to Tatler, asked sheepishly: "Is your fish local?" The waiter replied: "Do you see that fjord?" She ate the salmon. The phrase she used, afterwards, was that her brain felt like "a computer rebooting." She felt better the next day. She has not returned to veganism since, except briefly for a film role in 2022, which lasted three weeks before she turned to Shulman one morning and said: "I need a burger." Anne Hathaway has access to the best nutritionists in the world. She has the discipline of a working actress who can starve herself for parts and gain weight for others. She has the resources to source any plant-based ingredient on the planet, at any time, in any quantity. She also has a nervous system. The nervous system did the talking. On a piece of salmon, in a Reykjavik restaurant, on a Tuesday in 2014, it rebooted. The metaphor, in the literal medical sense, is almost accurate. The brain is approximately 60% fat. The fat it prefers, structurally, is the long-chain omega-3 found in oily fish. The fjord was full of it. Her bloodstream, prior to that dinner, had been running on flax. The system came back online with the salmon. She has not gone back.

Good list from RMN.

@kevin_smith45 I'm not MAGA or anything!!!

These Spencer Pratt videos keep getting better and better

@BostonTea84 Classic. He's lucky they didn't bust him up while they were at it. Dipshit.

Nie mogę przestać tego oglądać 😅 Koreański influencer przyleciał do Francji, aby zrobić strima i zadać kłam prawackim mitom, że niby francuskie miasta są niebezpieczne z powodu obecności w nich afrykańskich imigrantów. Ledwo co wysiadł z taryfy i od razu został zaatakowany przez grupę murzynów. Przeszedł dosłownie kilkaset metrów. Dostał lepe na ryj, stracił buta i ukradli mu statyw. "Nie, proszę, proszę, nie róbcie tego! Proszę, nie!" I to wszystko w środku dnia na otwartej ulicy.

@cimmerian_v Good haul.

All of this for $20 at an estate sale — people, especially the children of boomers, are profoundly stupid.

@Keir_Starmer Time to resign, get out.

I’ll always champion peaceful protest. But the Unite the Kingdom march organisers are peddling hatred and division. We’ve already blocked visas for far-right agitators who want to come here to spew their extremist views. They don't speak for the decent, fair, respectful Britain I know.

@plomoterap30 Why are such people in Japan at all? They never had African slaves.

En Japón ya no aguantan más a esta gente

Go get it. FREE. Cool video too. I already have a copy, but so many books in the queue ... But get the Kindle and boost the man's numbers.

@tomvangrieken Where are the cops? Find and arrest this person.

Vreselijke beelden opnieuw. Allochtoon tuig slaat een weerloze jongeman meermaals vol in het gezicht. Waarom blijven de politieke verantwoordelijken wegkijken? Het Vlaams Belang staat wél aan de kant van het slachtoffer en wil dat jonge criminelen keihard worden aangepakt en uit onze samenleving worden verwijderd!

@UAPReportingCnt Put the War Pigs out of business! A Black Sabbath reference was not what I expected today, but OK!

🚨 Rep. Tim Burchett says access to possible UFO evidence was BLOCKED by the Intelligence Community. “If someone can pierce the veil of government and block access to Congress… who the hell is in control?”

@baltic_dan Prayed a Memorare for your Dad and his family.

I’m learning a lot of new things this week. For example, my dad dying creates within me the saddest feeling I’ve ever had

@AmericanGwyn Which one to read first!

In 1936, American Readers were asked to make a very important choice:

@CollinRugg Celebrating diversity, New York style.

NEW: Repeat offender and Broadway dancer shoves a 76-year-old retired teacher down New York City subway stairs, killing him. 32-year-old Rhamell Burke was seen grinning in court after allegedly carrying out the horrific murder. The victim, Ross Falzone, was a social worker for children with special needs. He was rushed to the hospital and died from a head injury. According to the New York Post, Burke was in court just five hours after the incident for a completely unrelated assault. He was able to walk free because no one recognized him. Burke has since been arrested and was seen smiling in court.

@gay_lumberjack Ds are loyal like dogs. Ds are crooked and want the game to continue. Ds are stupid and believe all the "racism" talk. Ds cheat. Still, I hope he wins.

Why do so many people who are rooting for Spencer Pratt still predict he won’t win? Is Karen Bass really that baked in?

@cwik_greg EXCELLENT

Got these $1 each at a church yard sale

@realMattKParker Great haul.

killed time thrifting before an appointment this morning how did I do

@cairoasmith Guessing without checking: An American in Paris The Red Shoes Vertigo Meet Me in St. Louis

Actual Technicolor.

I know it's been a long time since we had it, but, in case you forgot, Technicolor does not look like that. Like, at all.

@OdenKate I liked 2666, which is rough in spots, but epic in scope.

Playful and acute with undercurrents of dark history, a beautiful little read that makes me curious for more Bolaño.

@txjudo @EYakoby Fingers crossed.

@Contarini_425 @EYakoby He’s going to win.

Vivek Ramaswamy won every single county in Ohio.

@txjudo @EYakoby Well, he's the GOP candidate now. I expect 2026 to be a bad year for the GOP. I hope he can pull it off. To lose Ohio would be a disaster.

@Contarini_425 @EYakoby Just curious. I liked him as a presidential candidate.