Miss Rabbit's Resume

NASA's podcast being named Houston We Have A Podcast is so funny

The easiest way to open an antiques shop is to buy a normal shop and wait.

@Dr_TheHistories Sounds like Simon was a liability!

For as long as humans have sailed, rats have followed. They gnawed through rope and rigging, contaminated food stores, spread plague, and moved freely through the dark holds of wooden ships where no sailor wanted to reach. The solution was obvious to anyone who had ever watched a cat work. By the time the ancient Egyptians were trading across the Mediterranean, cats were already traveling with them, brought aboard not as pets but as working animals with a job to do. The practice spread from there to Greece, Rome, and eventually every seafaring civilization that followed. But somewhere along the long centuries of maritime life, the practical became mystical. Sailors were among the most superstitious people in the ancient and medieval world, and it was not difficult to believe that an animal as observant and inscrutable as a cat was doing something more than hunting. The belief system that grew around ship’s cats was elaborate and specific. A cat that approached a sailor on deck was a sign of good fortune. One that came halfway and then turned back was an omen of disaster. If a cat fell overboard, intentionally or not, it was understood that a violent storm would follow, and if the ship somehow survived, nine years of misfortune still awaited. Throwing one over was essentially considered an act of deliberate self-destruction. Cats were also believed to carry weather knowledge that humans simply lacked. If a cat licked its fur against the grain, a hailstorm was coming. If it sneezed, rain. If it became unusually restless and wild, wind was on the way. These were not random beliefs. Cats are genuinely sensitive to changes in atmospheric pressure, and sailors who observed them closely enough over years at sea may have noticed real correlations between feline behavior and shifting weather. Superstition and practical observation had quietly merged into the same tradition. Some of the most striking ship’s cat stories come from the 20th century. A cat named Simon served aboard the British warship HMS Amethyst during the 1949 Yangtze Incident, when the ship came under sustained Chinese Communist fire and was trapped for three months on a hostile river. Simon kept hunting rats throughout the siege, visited wounded sailors in the medical bay, and was credited with maintaining crew morale through one of the Royal Navy’s most harrowing postwar ordeals. He was formally awarded the Dickin Medal, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. Then there was Oscar, who survived the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck, was rescued by a British destroyer, survived the sinking of that ship too, and then survived the sinking of HMS Ark Royal shortly after. He was eventually retired to shore duty in Gibraltar with six theoretical lives remaining, and spent his final years at a home for sailors in Belfast.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #drthehistories

@poorlycatdraw Purrrrrrrrfect!

another year, another medieval cat cake

Creative games in Japan helping elderly residents stay active and engaged

If I was on Artemis I’d choose the seat that would make me slightly further from Earth than the other astronauts during the moon orbit, but I wouldn’t mention it until the press conference.

Sensational that the last vestiges of duty to the British Empire means going out into your garden to check whether a large, geriatric reptile is dead or not,

How boomers will "hand over the reins" to younger generations

@CountBinface A scumbag of...

What is the collective noun for a group of c***s?

@RaminNasibov There are some people: Santa, the tooth fairy and Banksy who are just better off unseen. Why spoil the fun!

I love that Banksy's identity was revealed and we all just ignored it.

Town cryers should be reintroduced, but for telling everyone what bin night it is.

@DeborahMeaden Scary

Anyone vaguely surprised?

@LukeEpplin We used to have "cumcubers"!

It's impossible to be in a bad mood when you have a two-year-old who's practicing saying the word "cucumber."

One of the most hilarious jokes the universe ever played on humans: stupidity and intelligence are not on the same axis. It is therefore possible to be both a rarefied genius and a fucking idiot.

Why am I tearing up this is so cute 😭

Johan, from the stables

This sea lion's a very polite sea lion. It’s a simple fish tax to make sure nothing “happens” with your business 🦭😁

sometimes, if you are lucky, there will be a tree outside your bedroom window, it’s important that you romanticise that tree as much as possible.

@Mollyploofkins Has he got tiny feet as well as tiny hands?

TBH this looks painful