Looking out my window at Venus and the crescent moon

[conuly]

The Wikipedia article on the motif of the star and crescent gave a lot more information than I'd expected, but I still don't know why it's so associated with Islam in the present day.

Speaking of symbols made literal, here is a snake saved from eating its own tail. I don't know anything about snakes, but this does look like a vet's office, so if the vet thinks that hand sanitizer is the way to go then it's probably the way to go. (Also, I strongly suspect most of the people in the comments talking about how hand sanitizer to make a snake not eat itself is animal abuse or that the fact that the snake did this is a clear sign of animal abuse don't actually know any more about snakes than I do. If they're right, it's not because they really know.)

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Caught on camera, capuchin monkeys kidnap howler monkey babies (From the article: "'We’ve all spent hours wracking our brains why they would do this,' said Goldsborough." Doesn't seem so strange to me, humans kidnap baby animals all the time)

Gone in seven seconds

Solving the mystery of a dinosaur mass grave at the 'River of Death'

‘Manu jumping’: The physics behind making humongous splashes in the pool

Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers

Can Pope Leo remain a U.S. citizen now that he’s a foreign head of state?

3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches

'We didn't see it as treason': The Russian couple who became informants for Ukraine

Behind Davos, Claims of a Toxic Workplace (Gosh, I'm just shocked)

US abandons police reform accords sought over deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor

Trump administration fined this low-income migrant $1.8 million

Comments

[used_songs]

EXCELLENT links collection!

[conuly]

I'll tell you, it's getting harder to dig out frivolous and fun links. All my newsletters are increasingly full of... well, news, and it's all so serious.

[spiralsheep]

So now I gotta delete all my searches for "how to murderate snoopers?"
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[conuly]

That’s why you gotta always use a VPN, and always from your least favorite coworkers computer.

[spiralsheep]

I suppose betraying senior colleagues to the Stasi is one method of working for promotion. Or I could regress to doing all my research in the library.... Wow, look at this whole shelf of popular novels about cop killers.*

* killers who're cops, obv, not the other kind

[conuly]

It's not the Stasi if it's murder, it's just the regular police. It's not wrong to frame your colleagues for murder, it's only bad if you're framing them for thoughtcrime.

[the_siobhan]

I've had a couple of snakes and one thing I can tell you is they are *really* dumb. Trying to eat their own tails is not remotely far-fetched.

[conuly]

Given that the human's hands were clearly communicating "Oh, yeah, this again" instead of "OMGWTF", I figured.