snippets of good news in a very grim season

1: bolsonaro is not appearing in public as he is no longer able to wear trousers
2: when boats under attack blasted orcas with heavy metal* to dispel them, it only made them more rigorously disciplined and determined

*alleged playlist HERE

Links to all this good new is appresh

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i literally just googled my own sentences there but bcz i have loved you lo! these 20+ yrs jimmy the mod

i would personally enjoy not being able to wear trousers but not because god had stricken me for my sins

Looks like the Jair piece is a year old.

its news to me and that's all that counts

also this thread needs more GOOD NEWS SNIPPETS and fewer requests and commentary from ilxor elders

i give it a day max before someone posts bad news to spite the effort

no! NO!!

update: bolsonaro is now appearing in public without pants

I have shared the orca news with a few different people and they in turn have shared it. Am concerned the orcas are going to find out and there's going to be trouble.

In other animal-related good news, I read today that the four pet hippos left abandoned in Pablo Escobar's compound have spawned a herd of 170, and are now beginning to munch their way through the Columbian countryside. Good news for the hippos, in any event.

oh dip that is lovely hippo news, leaving aside the ecological and social implications

i am imagining people trying to shoo hippos out of their vegetable gardens: go on, git, ye varmints, and the hippos are all like it's not our fault that destiny has united us with your delicious tomatoes, munch munch

btw milky seas aka mareel are real and not just sailor hallucinations brought on by too much grog

i like the gradual reveal that every unlikely yarn that sailors spin eventually turns out to be pure science fact:
rogue waves ✅
giant squids battling with whales ✅
milky seas ✅

Not long to wait for evidence of mermaids luring gullible sailors to a watery grave.

The mermaids exited, they were just sexy walruses/seals/sea lions

I like that after more than half a century of deep sea ROVs and submersibles dropping into and witnessing, scanning and filming the mysteries of The Deep - with powerful 4k cameras these days, how this still really hasn't managed to make the abyssal realm that much less mysterious and terrifying, yet.

I love the theory that mermaids were manatees. Those sailors must have been real drunk to make that mistake lol.

And I think about Escobar's hippos at least once a month.

drunk/its been a while

For a second I thought you were talking about yourself and was a bit concerned.

pls

if i think about pablos hippos once a month its not in *that* way

lol I forgot what thread I'd opened so I didn't read it in response to my post. I thought you were just announcing being drunk at 10am on a Monday.

no one is using this thread as it shd be used tbh, tho deems routinely drunk and dreaming of hippos is good news in the snese of a funny image

Dog who survived 72 days in mountains after owner’s death is regaining weight and back on hiking trails

https://apnews.com/article/colorado-hiker-death-loyal-dog-survives-41f6392895462f029da3719453043a2c

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Iowa teen grew 7,000 pounds of veggies, then gave them all away

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/11/14/iowa-teen-farmer-donate-garden/

https://www.deccanherald.com/environment/wildlife/an-expedition-finds-a-lost-mammal-that-lays-eggs-and-a-shrimp-that-lives-in-trees-2765363

"It's a very weird creature," Davranoglou said, adding that it's able to leap three or four feet in the air to escape predators. "We were quite awe-struck, really."

"the quills of a hedgehog, the snout of an anteater and the feet of a mole,"

excellent assemblage imo

and further on in the sentence i learned that this was found in the cyclops mountains! mountains of cyclopes! i did not even know there was such a place. v excited to see this sentence through to its thrilling conclusion!

alright the sentence petered out boringly but further down the page we got

(monotremes) nurse their young with milk through pores in their skin, as they lack nipples, and possess snouts that sense movements and electrical currents in prey.

which may not be news to anyone else but which i will file away in my mental good news drawer regardless

tree-dwelling leeches

*hastily cancels ticket to cyclops mountains*

science has made vagina chips btw

treeshrimp.

science has made vagina chips btw

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new bottom surgery just dropped