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Aw. DawsonCat loved his Furminator too.

If you held a brush would he chew it? That was how I managed to keep my elderly cat Dawson's teeth going w while longer.

Trump’s top men afraid to step out of line wearing his favourite dress shoes George Grylls - Washington President Trump and members of his top team were wearing Florsheims at Davos in January. Next image › Pairing an oversized power suit with a long red tie, President Trump is famous for exporting the look of a 1980s Wall Street trader to the White House. Often he wears a baseball cap too. Now, facing murmurings of discontent in the Maga movement over his appetite for foreign wars, the spiralling cost of oil and a potentially damaging set of midterms later this year, Trump has cobbled together a sartorial solution to encourage Republican unity: a $145 pair of dress shoes. The president is giving pairs from his favourite brand to members of his administration, according to The Wall Street Journal. Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, JD Vance, the vice-president and Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, have all received a pair of Florsheim shoes in recent months. Others presented with the brand’s classic lace-ups include the Fox News host Sean Hannity, the senator Lindsey Graham and the Maga celebrity Tucker Carlson. Trump likes to open cabinet meetings with a check-up on how people are enjoying the “incredible” footwear. “Did you get the shoes?” he asks.

closeup of Marco Rubio's shoes which are clearly one or two sizes too big, with a gap at his heel

These men will all tell you they are alphas but they can't even pick their own shoes [Times]

Bet they thought of the pets as accessories rather than part of the family.

My in-laws managed to get their dogs out of Libya in February 2011. Not on the same flight as them, but not long after.

We have a backpack cat carrier in case we ever needed to move #SamCat with us in a hurry.

A lot of work in this. We’re so delighted

Also: the answer to the question “how did this debate become toxic (in Britain)” is usually “because these specific British media outlets set the terms of the debate, and they are holding all of the microphones, so they decide what’s acceptable and who is allowed to speak”.

First time my mum went to my dad's parents house she noticed my granddad had a party hat on. Seemed odd as there was no party.
"Why is he wearing that?" she asked my dad later.
"It's because he's so forgetful," said my dad. "My mum makes him wear it every time he's switched the immersion heater on."

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.

It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

jesus CHRIST.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sandy Sandilands in the desert? Who named him? JK Rowling?

bluesky being immediately negatively polarized into going with skeets because we were asked not to was the first sign that we were going to make it as a posting site

every true posting forum declares forever war against the mods

Fingers crossed for you 🤞

Someone I know stepped up to 12.5mg last week and said the “bleurgh” was overwhelming compared to 10mg.

Going to be a big summer for middle aged men with heat pumps and solar panels.

Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.

This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.

44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

Will do!

Now, you should get on with enjoying your trip 😎

Genuinely fab first season and when you can laugh ten times during the trailer you knowwww it’s going to be great.

Go is our usual petrol station of choice, but the BP station was 5p a litre cheaper today, so we went there instead. It was very busy, but thankfully the queues were short.

Despite what's happening in Iran and the Midddle East, I am confident that had two trans people done to a Labour, Tory or Reform MP what transphobes did to a Green MP, it would be front page news.

That's very kind of you.

What does it take for sharing? I don’t want to open you up to any of the internet weirdos lurking in the shadows.

The internet, on scientists: They're secretive gatekeepers, they hoard esoterica/the truth, they don't want anyone in their ivory tower little clubs

Actual scientists: LOOK, WE FOUND A 300 MILLION YEAR OLD FOSSILIZED CLOACCAL IMPRESSION AND THE VENT IS HORIZONTAL! PLZ READ MY 67-PAGE PAPER ABOUT IT

You have a knack for finding good spots to eat or visit, so I’m looking forward to updating my Malt map as you go.

Can’t it be both? ;)

Seriously tho, I visited Malta once, and loved it; so seeing the food, buildings, history and cats it great.

Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters Follow I don't wish we could abolish gender, I just wish it were less an identity and more of a hobby. So you'd get people who are like "Oh yeah, l'm a woman when I have the time," or "I'm a man but I'm not very good at it yet" along with the CrossFit gender types who are SUPER INTO IT

A friend just saw this in the wild and you know what? I stand by it

Never mind mute, I want to follow :)

Thirty-two experts find no evidence ADHD is being overdiagnosed

It’s a bit like how we didn’t ‘overfind’ more stars when telescopes were invented. Why has going after neurodivergent people become a national sport? www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

holy shit

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

The Eclegraph Log in Q News Iran crisis Sport Business Money See all News Iran war LIVE Latest updates LIvE Markets Expats fleeing Dubai abandon pets in scramble to leave Travel restrictions and costs force animal owners to take drastic action as Iran targets Gulf states Tr

Two points:

1. They’re not “expats” they’re “migrants.”

2. Them abandoning their pets will hopefully give each and every one of these people just a little bit of insight into the incredibly hard decisions refugees have to make when they’re fleeing war zones.

A trans person drawing on a statue with chalk got comment from the Home Secretary and coverage on TV and in all the main papers.

A female Green MP being harassed and abused in the street by transphobes gets nothing...

#JustProtectingWomen