Three funny tumblr picture blogs found this week:
get out of there cat. you are not a head of lettuce. i cannot use you to make salad and you certainly will not taste good covered in ranch dressing.
It’s that time again… Time for UK students to get their A-Levels results and the newspapers to run sexy A-Levels pictures.
Finally, LOL Dutch people — which is not funny!
The perfect Daily Express cover.
“Labour is facing a deep crisis that threatens its survival as a party of power, Ed Milibandwill be warned, on Wednesday as he is told to avoid the “politics of protest” and to focus on establishing political credibility.” Better not rock the boat Ed, or your masters might get upset. Play the game using the proper rules and don’t get so uncouth as to actually take it seriously.
The humilation of the Yes campaign: an analysis of why the AV Yes campaign failed, from a supporter: “From the outset, the YES campaign was all about the tiny coterie of people who feel strongly about electoral reform. The emphasis was on these people “having fun†and being invited to comedy evenings. In email after email from the YES campaign, the quirky behaviour of this “producer set†was celebrated and the “consumer set†ignored. So, some bunch of local activists who had written the letters Y, E and S in big letters on a beach were hailed as creative geniuses. Others were highlighted for running a particularly successful street stall. From the point of view of any observer, it was all about “themâ€(the micro-percentage of constitutional reform obsessives) never about “us†(the people). None of this self-indulgent madness won a single vote for the YES side, but it probably lost thousands.” OUCH!
One example of why any political activist should stay away from Facebook. It has been very good at conning people into thinking Facebook is just like the Internet, but you’re at the mercy of an unsympathetic commercial entity that’d rather you’d Farmvilled. Real activists get their own servers.
Clearing out the weeks old tabs on my browser, here are two articles on the Bristol Stoke Croft riots from OpenDemocracy: an eyewitness account and an analysis of how the police and media spun it.
Read all your links? Then have a kitten as a treat:
What The Times thinks is important about the Egyptian revolution:
While the world has focused on the many troubles faced by humans during the 18-day uprising, the four-legged residents of Cairo have been left to fend for themselves. Many Egyptians, expats, and tourists have been forced by authorities to flee the country without their pets; zoos and pet shops were also abandoned. The chaos of the uprising put a tremendous strain on the nation’s largest animal rights organization, the Egyptian Society for Mercy to Animals (ESMA), of which Khalil serves as treasurer. “It’s very common to see stray cats and dogs on the street, but not for us to see [abandoned] Persians and Siamese,” she says.
Reminds me of that (apocryptic?) prewar newspaper headling: “Earthquake hits Japan: two Americans feared lost”. Taking care of stray cats and other animals is a noble cause, sure, but somewhat less important than what’s also been happening in Egypt this past month, no?
Do big cats like catnip? Signs points to yes.
Belgian snow leopard baby.