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Chut @ferret.ing · 18/09/2026

Does YouTube kids include the deliberately bizarre attention grabbing ads like this? Because I feel like it's unavoidable that we will be remembering them way longer than the thing they advertised

Intentionally absurd ai ad showing a father holding his adult daughter while he kneels on her boyfriend, a bald bearded man in a pink night dress, skating him down a huge cactus above the clouds

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Chut @ferret.ing · 14/09/2026

Andy Burnham has responded to the letter:

Meme of an emoji with closed eyes, text above "I pretend I do not see it"

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Chut @ferret.ing · 29/08/2026

if i won the lottery there would be signs

a a stylised art-deco sculpture of a weasel, made of transparent glass. Made by Cogneville and Rene Goro

source: https://1930.fr/shop/cogneville-and-rene-goro-rare-glass-sculpture-weasel/

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Chut @ferret.ing · 17/08/2026

Another example

Comparison of Kansas city from 1893 and today, showing vast numbers of buildings demolished and tramlines removed for wider roads

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Chut @ferret.ing · 14/08/2026

not a fake plane, embraer legacy 600

photo of the interior of an embraer legacy 600 business jet with the same reclining seats as the photo

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Chut @ferret.ing · 14/08/2026

I have a theory that the UK has compact cars turned into a van to fill the same niche, since it rains more. As supplementary evidence we turned the corsa into a van, south africa had the same car turned into a ute

A white 2000-2006 Vauxhall corsa van, a compact 3 door car with solid panels where the back windows would go

South African Opel Corsa utility, a 2 door light pickup based on the same small car

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Chut @ferret.ing · 26/07/2026

I have a crazy idea, what if there were four pubs with 25% more customers and one large vacant building

Piers said he hadn’t been able to increase trade at his pub since taking over because of the lack of parking space in the area, something he described as “a pain in the backside”. He feared business would only decrease for all five pubs if the car park was to be built on.

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Chut @ferret.ing · 29/06/2026

It doesn't change your point, conflation is not accurate or rational but I think over half are zionist. About 45% of Jews live in Israel and almost universally support its existence, about 40% of Jews live in the united states of which over a third believed netanyahu was doing a good job in 2020

Table of data from pew research center's "Jewish Americans in 2020" with title "Four-in-ten U.S. Jews give Netanyahu excellent or good ratings for his leadership

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/05/11/u-s-jews-connections-with-and-attitudes-toward-israel/

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Chut @ferret.ing · 07/06/2026

This is increasingly not true, labour costs in china are increasing so fast that the UN body tracking the data reports growth figures with and without china. It's lower than the extremely wealthy countries but already around 4x India and above the global median

Graph of average annual global real monthly wage growth, 2006-2024, from the 2024 ILO global flagship report at URL https://www.ilo.org/sites/default/files/2024-11/GWR-2024_Layout_E_RGB_Web.pdf

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Chut @ferret.ing · 22/05/2026

Monocrystalline*, basically something like this which is made by pulling very carefully and precisely out of a vat of the pure molten material, and then somehow etching/doping the stuff to have the correct characteristics. It's kind of fun how much the modern world relies on rare Mysterious crystals

A highly reflective silvery cylinder of silicon, known as a "boule"

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Chut @ferret.ing · 26/04/2026

The leader of that bloc, Yair Golan, thinks bds is antisemitic and said this a week into the war. He has supported humanitarian aid more recently but this is the guy you would get every time a Palestinian fights back.

“First of all, close all the electricity switches to Gaza. I think that in this battle, it is forbidden to allow a humanitarian effort. We need to say to them: listen, until the [captives] are released, from our side, you can die from starvation. It’s totally legitimate.”

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Chut @ferret.ing · 25/04/2026

It's because buyers will pay for you to make it harder to see by making the front grill flat and high, they want it like this and they won't buy it otherwise. This image is before the truck gets lifted and it's already worse than the real truck

Diagram comparing the eyeline of drivers for various popular pickups and other vehicles

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Chut @ferret.ing · 12/04/2026

Putting it on the list with the English civil war army that, when facing a guy with marital issues, made flags saying "come out you cuckold" and depicting him as an animal hiding in a barrel www.gettysburgflag.com/blog/come-ou...

1600s Battle flag, red, with red and white edge trim, depicting a dog hiding in a barrel with the words "COME OUT YOU CUCKOLD" in an archaic font

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Chut @ferret.ing · 08/04/2026

is it possible to be more shape? probably not

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Chut @ferret.ing · 29/03/2026

He was balding in like 2000, so definitely had at least one round of hair transplants

Peter thiel and Elon musk next to a computer. Both of them look evil for some reason

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Chut @ferret.ing · 12/03/2026

their mouths are just big enough to steal an egg

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Chut @ferret.ing · 21/02/2026

excuse me mustelids are not rats

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Chut @ferret.ing · 16/02/2026

Ask her lawyer, who specialises in getting domestic violence and DUI cases thrown out. This is the first case he specifically mentions

FELONY OFFENSE CASE

Client was arrested and charged for felony assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury while facing years in prison. After a great amount of litigation, client was convicted of a misdemeanor and received 30 days of community service.

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Chut @ferret.ing · 15/01/2026

it was registered by an independent running for congress in florida, two days ago. you can type a URL into a site like who.is and see the registration information, which doesn't always tell you who registered it (the middle man company like godaddy can withhold it) but did so here

contact information

Registrant contact

Name: markdavisforcongress.com donate

address: Parrish, Florida, US

email: mark dot davis@markdavisforcongress dot com

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Chut @ferret.ing · 15/01/2026

could i interest you in a similar car made of wood

1966 morgan 4/4 race car, available elsewhere road legal

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Chut @ferret.ing · 15/01/2026

not only is this book apparently full of vintage pictures of cute baby badgers being rehabbed, but the author had fluffy assistants. at this time badgers were mostly treated like pests, but this guy established a nature reserve for them 🥹

a photograph from the book showing the author bottle-feeding a baby badger while two gentle dogs watch

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Chut @ferret.ing · 02/10/2025

we have images going back decades for this region, which gave us this timelapse in 2018. each of these dots is a star, the brightest ones much larger than our sun. The fastest among them is S4714 at 8% of the speed of light at apoapsis.

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Chut @ferret.ing · 23/08/2025

The US army officer who decided helicopters should be named after indigenous tribes (AH64 Apache, UH-60 Black Hawk, etc) was from an army family. His father was an officer in the 6th cavalry on the Pine Ridge campaign, the ethnic cleansing operation that resulted in the Wounded Knee massacre.

Apache. Lakota. Chinook. Iroquois.

These are not only Native American tribes that once fought for their land against the U.S. military. They are also the names of U.S. Army helicopters.

The convention of naming choppers after America’s Indigenous people is believed to date back to 1947. Army General Hamilton Howze reportedly wasn’t thrilled with Hoverfly and Dragonfly — the names of the first two Army helicopters — and ordered some changes.

“He wanted to name them after something that was fast-moving, militarily strong and had some kind of connection to American military history,” says David Silbey, a military historian at Cornell University. “And he thought of the Native American warriors of the 19th century — the Apache, the Lakota and all those folks. And so, he started that tradition of naming Army helicopters after Native American tribes.”

https://www.voanews.com/a/why-us-army-helicopters-are-named-after-native-americans/7467057.html

Howze, Robert Lee (1864–1926).Robert Lee Howze, winner of the Medal of Honor, son of Capt. James A. and Amanda Hamilton (Brown) Howze, was born at Overton, Rusk County, Texas, on August 22, 1864. After graduating from Hubbard College in 1883, he was admitted to the United States Military Academy and upon graduation was commissioned a second lieutenant in the cavalry. Howze's first assignment was to the Sixth Cavalry at Fort Wingate, New Mexico. He was awarded the Medal of Honor on July 25, 1891, for gallantry in a campaign to quell an uprising of Sioux Indians in South Dakota in January of that year. He married Anne Chiffelle Hawkins, daughter of Gen. Hamilton S. Hawkins, on February 24, 1897.

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/howze-robert-lee

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Chut @ferret.ing · 26/07/2025

It's in the founding platform of Netanyahu's party Likud, The very first paragraph. Most of Israel's leaders from founding to the 2000s were murderous terrorists and the ones since would have if they'd been adults that long ago. www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/original-par...

A screenshot of the first paragraph of Likud's platform

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Chut @ferret.ing · 23/07/2025

I had no idea we had the technology to take detailed images of objects this far away.

Pictures taken over time of the surface of a red giant star

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Chut @ferret.ing · 23/07/2025

imagine you're a peasant in 1220, asked to haul rocks to Paris with your donkey, and when you arrive you find out this is what they're used for

19th century diagram of the flying buttresses of Notre dame de Paris, as they would appear in 1220-1230. Ornate stone columns support a complex web of differently shaped stone arches, all transferring the load of the roof

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Chut @ferret.ing · 18/07/2025

This is how I feel about all mustelids and I hope they say this about my furaffinity in 14000 years

and the final figure, a softly curving depiction of a weasel. It is the weasel that is, to date, a unique piece of artwork for the Palaeolithic period.

Weasel Paleolithic Cave Art Paintings Niaux France Archaeology

By studying the weasel, Jean Clottes was able to determine that it had been created in 10 bold and faultless strokes; it was clearly the work of an experienced artist.

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Chut @ferret.ing · 20/05/2025

I spent years trying to tell people this would happen if we rewarded Starmer's lack of principles by handing him the keys to the country. I have given up on anything beyond looking after the struggling people in my life because every path to a better world has been blocked by Starmer's 2024 victory

https://x.com/AChutneyFerret/status/1620072351504400386

https://x.com/AChutneyFerret/status/1644458750386765824

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Chut @ferret.ing · 20/05/2025

my constituency has a decent green MP ( former MEP @elliechowns.bsky.social) but get cancelled out nationally by Starmer and his backers. If right wing labour were as competent as they are cynical we wouldn't be in this horrific position, people are DESPERATE for a functioning, funded public sector

a happy wrestler representing the Green party projection of 7 seats, while a wrestler with Reform's 309 seats stands menacingly behind him

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Chut @ferret.ing · 19/05/2025

some of these have a beautifully weird arm on top for the light!

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Chut @ferret.ing · 16/05/2025

Milk floats have mostly ceased operating but they were a common form of EV in the UK for decades

A photo of a "milk float", a battery powered neighbourhood delivery vehicle for fresh milk

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Chut @ferret.ing · 18/04/2025

www.dictionary.com/browse/pastry 😂😂😂 how do you not know what pastry is

British

pastry

/ ˈpeɪstrɪ /
noun

a dough of flour, water, shortening, and sometimes other ingredients
baked foods, such as tarts, made with this dough
an individual cake or pastry pie

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Chut @ferret.ing · 30/03/2025

Yeah if this drone was a bomb the guy would be fine

A screenshot from the quoted video showing a drone tangled in netting about arms length from the occupant

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Chut @ferret.ing · 25/02/2025

There's a third explanation...

Simpson's character Mr Burns is shown how many pathogens are trying to enter his body, preventing any of them from doing so

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Chut @ferret.ing · 04/02/2025

how is this a real animal

an american pine marten standing on its hind legs with snow-dusted front paws and a curious expression

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Chut @ferret.ing · 06/12/2024

you don't get to build and lobby for this system of healthcare for decades and then shrug and blame the other capitalist for also being a capitalist. This hot potato blame game you want us to charitably play is the exact plausible deniability they hide behind www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobb...

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Chut @ferret.ing · 03/12/2024

If you use a google device with Gemini, every interaction is sent to google to be read in full by a human. Google tell you that if it bothers you, you shouldn't share private information with your own device. support.google.com/gemini/answe...

To help with quality and improve our products (such as generative machine learning models that power Gemini Apps), human reviewers read, annotate and process your Gemini Apps conversations. We take steps to protect your privacy as part of this process. This includes disconnecting your conversations with Gemini Apps from your Google Account before reviewers see or annotate them. Please don't enter confidential information in your conversations, or any data you wouldn't want a reviewer to see or Google to use to improve our products, services and machine learning technologies.

Conversations that have been reviewed or annotated by human reviewers (and related data like your language, device type, location info or feedback) are not deleted when you delete your Gemini Apps activity because they are kept separately and are not connected to your Google Account. Instead, they are retained for up to three years

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Chut @ferret.ing · 15/09/2024

Every time I see someone on the English language side of zionism pretend Israel assigns any value to Palestinian civilian life I can't not think about the murder of Bashir Hajji. He did everything they wanted and they still executed him after using him for propaganda

A screenshot of the preface to https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-army-kills-elderly-taking-pr-photo-safe-corridor

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Chut @ferret.ing · 10/09/2024

Just encountered the concept of a "mild hybrid" car for the first time. What makes it "hybrid"? It recovers part of the energy when you brake, and stores it in a tiny battery. The estimated fossil fuel economy for this estate is worse than my 12 year old car's actual mpg

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Chut @ferret.ing · 25/07/2024

Austrailian english is such a weird language. in British english we call these "paws"

"Fox Footy (stylised as FOX FOOTY) is an Australian rules football subscription television channel dedicated to screening Australian rules football matches and related programming. It is owned by Fox Sports Australia operated out of its Melbourne " - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Footy

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Chut @ferret.ing · 24/05/2024

he is the director of an venture capital firm with over £75,000,000 in equity. There's nothing in these documents explaining how he and his wife have so much wealth (links in alt text)

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13357221/filing-history

https://democracy.islington.gov.uk/mgDeclarationSubmission.aspx?UID=469&HID=751&FID=0&HPID=10267167

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Chut @ferret.ing · 08/04/2024

has anyone ever met a neurotypical mustelid appreciator

A European pine marten stands on top of a lichen covered boulder in a field of ferns. Photographer not known

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