From Werling Wildlife Rehabilitation:

Foxes are officially the chaos demons of the animal kingdom.

You are fast asleep. Suddenly, outside your window, it sounds like a Victorian ghost is being actively banished to the shadow realm. It's just your friendly neighborhood fox, who wanted to celebrate finding a fun new thing to steal. Left your shoes on the porch? They will take exactly one of your favorite sneakers and bury it under a bush three blocks away.

The most frustrating part about foxes causing problems is their facial expression. A dog looks guilty when it rips up a pillow. A fox looks like it just successfully audited your taxes and found a loophole that forces you to give them more chicken nuggets. They are entirely fueled by spite, fluff, and audacity.

Don't believe that smile: that's the look they give you right before they pounce on your face teeth-first.

And that is why our domestic red fox is named Chaos. We love him dearly... but then again, we thrive on chaos.

We do not recommend foxes as pets. They require special permits, inspections from state agencies, specialized diets, and a strong desire to have your things stolen, peed on, shredded, and buried.

Of course, it's almost invariably the opposite. 😄
I.e., ST TOS stole the idea and used it in the engineering room, most commonly.

Many more examples of these control rooms here:
https://kottke.org/26/10/so-many-amazing-control-rooms

Florida’s current dengue outbreak appears to be the largest in several decades in the continental United States.

State health officials reported this week that more than 250 locally acquired cases of the mosquito-borne disease have been tallied so far this year. The vast majority of them were in Hillsborough County, home to Tampa.

Federal health officials say their data on dengue outbreaks is limited. But available information from state health departments and medical journals suggests the Florida outbreak marks the most cases in a calendar year for any state since at least the 1940s.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/43373451

For months, the Trump administration pursued a question that had been central to claims about the 2020 election: could foreign actors have hacked American voting machines and changed the result

https://realnarrativenews.com/editorial/voting-machine-investigation-foreign-hacking-reuters-findings/

President Donald Trump said Friday that he feels “badly” for the seven men accused of gang-raping a young woman at Cornell University, as well as the Ivy League school, the local DA and university police after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed state Attorney General Letitia James to investigate them all over the allegations and their handling.

James successfully prosecuted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records, a felony, in a case which ended months before Trump was re-elected in 2024. The president spoke to reporters before departing the White House for Mobile, Alabama and was asked by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy about the upstate New York case being handed to his nemesis.

"Well, Letitia James is a corrupt person. She's totally corrupt and I can't imagine it. I feel badly for whoever she's looking at because they won't get a fair shake,” said Trump.

The alleged rape case shocked Americans after it was publicly revealed in a new lawsuit filed by Jane Doe, the unnamed accuser, against the university over its handling of her 2024 gang rape complaint involving seven members of a fraternity, who, according to her suit and since-revealed text exchanges, discussed the incident in a larger group chat with other fraternity members. The 101-page civil complaint was filed Sept. 14 and alleges the assault occurred in October 2024 at Cornell’s Chi Phi fraternity house in Ithaca, New York.

The comments Friday afternoon were Trump’s second remarks about the Cornell situation, and his second without offering any empathy for the unnamed victim. The lawsuit alleges that she suffered shocking sexual abuse over the course of several hours at the fraternity house after what was initially a consensual encounter with two of the frat members while she was drunk.

Liberals will lie to you and tell you to "just vote in the primary," but in reality they simply don't care about trans rights and do not believe there is ever a right time to challenge transphobic Democrats.

First primary: the transphobes hide their colors so you can't vote against them.

First general election: the snakes reveal their colors, but you can't vote against the traitors because "blue no matter who." They tell you to just vote in the next primary.

Second primary: the same people who tell you now "save it for the primary" shift their tune to "we can't give up an incumbent seat in a purple district!"

Trans people can see through these bad-faith lies. Yet of course, mansplaining trolls will be sure to breathlessly explain "lesser of two evil" math, as if that's not an argument we haven't heard a thousand times and already rejected due to its obvious flaws. There's never a shortage of arrogant cis people who think they know more about trans issues than actual trans people.

Liberals want your votes, not your voices. Be a good little minority and sit down. Shut up. Support the party. You owe the party your support. The party owes you nothing.

Would
I mean, if there ever was a station just for me, it's this one lol

For months, the Trump administration pursued a question that had been central to claims about the 2020 election: could foreign actors have hacked American voting machines and changed the result

https://realnarrativenews.com/editorial/voting-machine-investigation-foreign-hacking-reuters-findings/

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is rolling over to Trump and his acolytes in the state, rather than stand up for editorial independence.

The Alabama legislature passed a bill in late March requiring all state and local entities to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” in line with one of the many executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office. The legislation does not set forth penalties for noncompliance, but its sponsor, state Rep. David Standridge, called it “an opportunity to make a patriotic statement” on the House floor in January. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Trump ally, signed the bill into law.

Birmingham public radio station WBHM told its listeners in a letter from Will Dahlberg, the station’s executive director and general manager, that due to the law, which took effect October 1, the University of Alabama at Birmingham is forcing it to use the legislature’s preferred language in its reporting.

Airlines have condemned government plans to stop them charging parents to sit beside their children, warning that the changes threaten the ability to profit from making a three-year-old cry.

Comic by @ahdok@ttrpg.network

Ahdok's website

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For months, the Trump administration pursued a question that had been central to claims about the 2020 election: could foreign actors have hacked American voting machines and changed the result

https://realnarrativenews.com/editorial/voting-machine-investigation-foreign-hacking-reuters-findings/

Hi, I made a post about how I have a chance to study for a semester in Budapest, Hungary and it sounds really cool, but there is one other option and thought I'd ask just so I don't dismiss it immediately: Reykjavík, Iceland. I also know next to nothing about Iceland, whether it's safe for students, if it's welcoming, if it's a good place for an American to study at, so might as well ask about it as well. It also sounds fascinating admittedly

Few studies survey men who have remained undetected after engaging in acts of sexual aggression against women. Most survey women who were targets of sexual aggression or else survey men who consent to being identified. Using anonymous surveys of 2,689 U.S. and Canadian men (18–34 years), we aimed to assess rates of self-reported sexual aggression, reports of strategy effectiveness at forcing known reluctant women into sex, and men’s views of the circumstances, motivations, and positive and negative outcomes.

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Overall, 95.1% reported having recently used at least one of the strategies to get a woman to have sex who they knew did not want sex and had not consented. Most of these occasions (65%) resulted in successfully forcing the woman into sex.

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For those working to prevent sexual aggression, our findings suggest men’s efforts to force women into sex are far more common than previously captured via self-reports and in fact help to resolve the discrepancy with women’s higher rates of reporting being forced into sex relative to men’s rates of forcing sex.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52642812