Malcolm McKenzie

I’m not saying our last cat was big, but here he is on Google Earth.

Fascinating long read, incredibly well written and structured. Pedants will particularly enjoy point 5.4

This. It's this.

A railway company in Japan once ran out of money to pay a stationmaster. So they gave the job to the cat who lived outside the station. She wore a custom made hat, worked for cat food, and saved the entire line. Her name was Tama. She was a calico cat who had spent her days sitting near the entrance of Kishi Station in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, greeting passengers anyway. When the company destaffed the station in 2006 to cut costs, the president visited to discuss what to do about the stray cats living nearby. He looked into Tama's eyes and later said they conveyed a sense of purpose as strong as any of his employees. He made her stationmaster. Within a month passenger numbers rose by seventeen percent. People began travelling from across Japan just to see her. Tourists arrived from other countries. A French documentary crew came to film her. The station was eventually rebuilt in the shape of a cat's face. In her eight years as stationmaster Tama contributed an estimated one billion yen to the local economy. She was promoted four times. She eventually held the title of Honorary President of the railway. The only female in a senior position in the entire company. When she passed away in 2015 over three thousand people attended her funeral. She was given the posthumous title Honorary Eternal Stationmaster and enshrined at a nearby Shinto shrine as a goddess. The position of stationmaster at Kishi Station is still held by a cat today.

Aside of everything else, it’d be worth reminding Americans that their gas prices are already half of Europeans’ already.

Rewatching The Pitt, of course.

@IamCarrieagain @charlubby Isn’t it just!

@charlubby @fourhourtarget That is so creepy

i don’t like this painting in my hotel

@ABridgen What are you trying to achieve by posting this right now? Genuine and legitimate question.

The risk of aseptic Meningitis after the MMR vaccine. The link is to the full scientific paper. It was published in the Lancet in 1993. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

@PicturesFoIder Love how our man kept it together until New York and then the fourth wall was not just broken but smashed through with a sledgehammer.

And I thought I was dumb

Generally I’m not a fan of what Elon Musk did to Twitter, however the addition of Community Notes has been an exceptionally Good Thing and should be acknowledged as such.

@GalacTR0N She is the singular reason I stopped watching.

fiona bruce is awful. why am i watching this ??? #bbcqt

They say a picture can say a 1000 words. Bravo The Economist. They have summed it up perfectly.

Aida calls when you’re on the third day of AL

Trump says Cuba is a beautiful island especially for tourism and that he, Trump, will have the honour of ‘taking’ that island. It’s now in blackout resulting from his oil embargo resulting in a war crime punishing 11 million innocent civilians.

@SouthDallasFood Some people surveyed here and on this clip need to go to jail.

I held my breath the whole time

Americans, your tax dollars are paying for illegal chemical warfare. Cameraman: @aliezzedine7

@SimplyPaul Wgat?! Bet they open with RADAR… [grumbles off]

@fourhourtarget Two friends hit it in 3 🤷

Not my best work. #Wordle 1,731 5/6 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

As Richard Osman, yes?

@cwebbonline Proper Gilead shit right there. Wow.

JFC! The right already stripped abortion rights from millions of women. Contraception is next. Project 2025 made the agenda clear. This was never about saving babies. It’s about control, pushing women back into submission and forcing more births. Now the same people tied to that playbook are running the government.