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I guess Twitter really needed a middle-aged trans man on the timeline today. Happy to oblige.

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Boy Band Cats

These Boy Band Cats are sassy! Remember in the late 1990s when a group of kittens got together to form the most awesome pop group of all time? Hiss2Purr is legendary and our set of Boy Band Cats celebrates them and the era. It features all four original members, including the charismatic leader in his fedora and the dorky one with frosted tips that wrote all the songs. Varying in height from 2-1/8" to 2-1/4" tall, this set of four soft vinyl figures will take you back to the days when a single meow could make your heart flutter.

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I understand the CEO of UnitedHealth was shot but has he considered losing weight? Because that would help resolve those symptoms.

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TIL that the reason lead levels in children’s blood have dropped 85% in the past thirty years is because of an unknown scientist who fought car companies to end leaded gasoline. He also removed it from paint, suggested its removal from pipes, and campaigned for the removal of lead solder from cans.

via ift.tt

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the japanese “-ne?” particle and the british slang term “innit” serve the same function

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There's a phenomenon in left-wing circles where initially reasonable statements and concepts get repeated ad nauseum until they not only lose their meaning but transform into deeply bigoted ideas.

The idea "there is no single white culture," is true because white is a concept created to describe the powerful position in Western societies. There are many different cultures, who's members are often white. But this idea became "white people have no culture" which is just not true, deeply dehumanizing, and harmful, especially to people who look white but experience marginalization because of their culture.

Another example might be cultural appropriation, which perhaps should be understood as a misrepresentation or exploitation of the cultural practices of another, especially where the person exploiting does so for personal gain, without acknowledgment. But now, people have basically transformed this into "when somebody does something from a culture they weren't raised in" or "when a particular race or ethnicity behaves in a way that's different from how they normally do" which promotes racial and cultural stereotypes and attempts to control the behaviors of people based on their race, ethnicity, and culture.

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UnitedHealthcare, the largest health insurance company in the US, is allegedly using a deeply flawed AI algorithm to override doctors' judgments and wrongfully deny critical health coverage to elderly patients. This has resulted in patients being kicked out of rehabilitation programs and care facilities far too early, forcing them to drain their life savings to obtain needed care that should be covered under their government-funded Medicare Advantage Plan.

It's not just flawed, it's flawed in UnitedHealthcare's favor.

That's not a flaw... that's fraud.

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Went to change my name with social security and they just... didn't do it. 🙃 I have to go back next week to do it again and they'd better actually do it this time.

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OKAY OKAY MY TURN TO SHARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE MYSTERY INCORPORATED CLIPS

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happy men's day everyoneeeee

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Haven’t eaten in a whole minute

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I've been trying to teach Ollie to play three-card monty using cat his kitty treats as a hidden prize

My discovery so far is that if all the cups are too close together when they stop then he will choose all of them

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taking stock meme phrases and translating them into Ye Olde English is literally top tier comedy

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One is not like the others