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I am a nature photographer from beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada. For the last 3 years I’ve had a couple of different foxes visit me, but just one has been there the entire time, and that is my good buddy Zorro the Fox.

Zorro has made my backyard his home for the last 3 winters, visiting me daily

He shows up during the day and nap for hours, sometimes on the ground, sometimes inside the playpen!

He is a very handsome fox, and I’m thankful he trusts me enough to get close to capture his good side

He visits me year round, but he shows up the most during the winter, usually curled up and trying to forget about the snow surrounding him

He reminds me of a cat more than a dog. He likes to walk along the fence surrounding my yard to get from one garden shed to the other

Every now and again he will get up and act like a goofball, showing a fun and playful side to his personality. I was catching snowflakes on my tongue with him this day

And sometimes he likes to bring over friends, which I don’t mind at all. As long as they tidy up after themselves

But for the most part, he just likes to lounge around and catch some Z’s.

His favorite thing in the world is to stretch out in the sun

What a handsome fella!

Yawn!

Is it feasible that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will run for president? Yes. Of the United States, this country? Yes. Would you vote for him if he did? These are questions you have to start thinking about now, because The Rock is thinking about it.

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While a lot of questions remain about the legislative effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, one reporter’s attempts to get answers from Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price landed him in police custody.

The Hill reports that Dan Heyman, a reporter for Public News Service, was arrested Tuesday afternoon after he attempted to question Secy. Price inside the West Virginia State Capitol.

Heyman, who was released on a $5,000 bail later in the day, said during a press conference that he was arrested by Capitol police for simply doing his job.

The reporter says he was trying to ask Price if the American Health Care Act — now in the hands of the Senate — would consider domestic violence a pre-existing condition.

After asking Price the question several times, Heyman, who says he was wearing a press badge and identified himself as a reporter, was approached by Capitol police and arrested.

A video posted by Heyman’s employer shows the reporter flanked by two Capitol police officers, each holding one of his arms. The short video ends with Heyman and his escorts entering the Capitol police offices.

A criminal complaint filed by Capitol police notes that the reporter was arrested for causing a disturbance to Secy. Price and special counsel to the president, Kellyanne Conway, by “aggressively breaching” the agents around the Cabinet member, The Hill reports.

Prior to his arrest, the complaint states, “agents were forced to remove [Heyman] a couple of times from the area.”

Despite this, Heyman said that he was never given any warning from agents that he was in the wrong place to be asking questions.

“First time I’ve ever been arrested for asking a question. First time I’ve ever heard of someone getting arrested for asking a question,” said Heyman, who was still in disbelief about the situation.

“It’s dreadful. This is my job, this is what I’m supposed to do,” he said. “I’m supposed to find out if someone is going to be affected by this healthcare law.”

Donald Trump’s mood leading up to—and following—his firing of James Comey was about as childish and unstable as Saturday Night Live will inevitably play it, Politico’s Josh Dawsey reports. Before:

He had grown enraged by the Russia investigation, two advisers said, frustrated by his inability to control the mushrooming narrative around Russia. He repeatedly asked aides why the Russia investigation wouldn’t disappear and demanded they speak out for him. He would sometimes scream at television clips about the probe, one adviser said.

And after: 

By Tuesday evening, the president was watching the coverage of his decision and frustrated no one was on TV defending him, a White House official said. He wanted surrogates out there beating the drum.

That’s what happens when you make massive national news without preparing your staff. They end up scrambling to get on top of the story.

Instead, advisers were attacking each other for not realizing the gravity of the situation as events blew up. "How are you not defending your position for three solid hours on TV?" the White House aide said.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer reportedly wound up hiding behind a hedge and then insisting that reporters turn off lights as he spoke to them briefly to ensure that he wasn’t being caught on video.

Setting aside the layers of frightening corruption the Comey firing suggests, the level of incompetence in this White House is also pretty scary.

More than 100 members of Congress—including a few Republicans—have responded to President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey by calling for an independent investigation or a special prosecutor to look into Russian meddling in the 2016 elections and possible collusion with Trump campaign associates. Comey was in charge of the Russia investigation, and now Trump will have the opportunity to choose his replacement—a situation that presents an obvious conflict of interest.

Among those calling for an independent probe are at least three Republicans—Sen. John McCain of Arizona, Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, and Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Florida—as well as nearly every senior Democrat in the House and Senate, including Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the vice chair of the Senate intelligence committee, and Sen. Pat Leahy of Vermont, the second-ranking Democrat on the judiciary committee.

Here are some of the notable reactions to Comey's firing:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.):

"I have long called for a special congressional committee to investigate Russia's interference in the 2016 election. The president's decision to remove the FBI Director only confirms the need and the urgency of such a committee."

Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.):

"Today’s extraordinary decision raises many questions all of which must be answered. Congress and the American people need a transparent explanation as to how this decision was reached and why it was executed at this time. It is critical that the FBI can continue all of its pending work with independence and integrity – especially the investigation into the Russian government’s efforts to influence our last election and undermine American democracy. Today I reiterate the need for Congress to establish a Select Committee with full investigatory powers to thoroughly examine this matter."

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.):

My staff and I are reviewing legislation to establish an independent commission on Russia. The second paragraph of this letter is bizarre. https://t.co/wXeDtVIQiP

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 9, 2017

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY):

First Pres Trump fired Sally Yates, then Preet Bharara. Now #Comey. Doesn't seem like an accident. We must have a special prosecutor.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 9, 2017

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chair of the Senate intelligence committee:

.@POTUS firing #FBIDirector Comey in the middle of his investigation into the Trump campaign demands the appointment of a Special Counsel.

— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) May 10, 2017

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), ranking member of the House select intelligence committee:

Firing of Comey tainted by extraordinary conflict of interest. Independent prosecutor must be appointed to restore any public confidence. pic.twitter.com/m5fSJ3LpiG

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) May 9, 2017

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.):

We need a real, independent prosecutor who @realDonaldTrump can't fire, Sessions can't intimidate, & Congress can't muzzle. We need it now.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) May 9, 2017

Rep. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii):

The arguments against establishing a Special Prosecutor were weak in the first place. They have now evaporated.

— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) May 9, 2017

We are in a full-fledged constitutional crisis.

— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) May 9, 2017

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY):

We need answers. Now. #Comey pic.twitter.com/XvsxTgrYx6

— Sean Patrick Maloney (@RepSeanMaloney) May 10, 2017

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas):

President Trump's firing of Director Comey is extremely suspicious and raises questions of obstruction. pic.twitter.com/EmSyHFnpBq

— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) May 9, 2017

Meanwhile, a number of other congressional Republicans downplayed the news of Comey's firing:

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine):

U.S. Senator Susan Collins’ Statement on Director Comey#mepolitics https://t.co/LHCcbPJMsb pic.twitter.com/xNUeGvENlv

— Sen. Susan Collins (@SenatorCollins) May 10, 2017

Some took shots at their Democratic colleagues:

Ds were against Comey before they were for him.

— JohnCornyn (@JohnCornyn) May 10, 2017

Or ignored the news altogether:

Recently we've seen record salmon returns, and I believe that with innovative technology, dams and fish can coexist. https://t.co/2EBq1og8g3

— CathyMcMorrisRodgers (@cathymcmorris) May 9, 2017

madelinestarr:

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Poe “Bad Jokes” Dameron

kylo: now I can read your mind  poe: [multiple plays of ‘what’s new pussycat’ interspersed with one ‘it’s not unusual’]

yeahiwasintheshit:

Fuuucccckkkkkk

When Berlin Police officers in Germany received a call this week from a local hospital, they were surprised they were asked to save a… hamster! Apparently, the critter was lost or abandoned. The poor little fellow would cower alone in a nearby bush, so the hospital staff decided to call for help. Fortunately, the police officers took the mission of saving the hamster seriously, and came to the rescue.

Police received a call from a local hospital and got surprised they were asked to save an abandoned hamster

Image credits: Polizei Berlin‏

Apparently, the critter would cower alone in a nearby bush and needed help

Image credits: Polizei Berlin‏

They named him Sir Henry and took him to the police station where he immediately felt at home

Image credits: Polizei Berlin‏

One of the policemen adopted the tiny fellow and now he is part of the Berlin Police team!

Image credits: Polizei Berlin‏

Someone even did a drawing of the cutest addition to Berlin Police inspired by the story

Image credits: Hanyuu

Here’s a bit of good news to help you contend with most of the bad: Chelsea Manning will be released from prison sometime next week, just five months after former President Obama commuted her prison sentence in one of the final acts of his presidency.

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viralthings:

I find your lack of treats disturbing

dailyb99gifs:

I got stopped by a cop last night. Stopped for what? Stopped for walking.

micdotcom:

micdotcom:

Trump campaign deletes “Muslim ban” statement from website

• Trump’s team deleted his now infamous statement calling for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the U.S. from his campaign site on Monday, around a year-and-a-half after the statement was published.
  
• The deletion appears to have come minutes after White House press secretary Sean Spicer was asked about it at his daily press briefing. 
• Spicer told reporters he was “not aware” of the contents of the campaign website. The URL to the statement still exists, however the text of the statement is gone when a user clicks through. Read more (5/8/17)

Update: Trump’s campaign website has deleted everything before January 2017

• On Monday, reporters found Trump’s campaign website disappeared his now infamous pledge to ban Muslim immigrantsto the United States.
  
• But it turns out that it wasn’t just the Muslim ban statement that went AWOL from Trump’s campaign website: Every statement prior to January 2017 has disappeared from Trump’s campaign website.
  
• Gone, too, are the statements, announcements, endorsements and ads from the campaign — including Trump’s plan to combat the opioid crisis. Read more (5/9/17 10 AM)

oh well i guess that means none of those things matter any more because thats how things work

By Cody Johnston  Published: May 07th, 2017 

micdotcom:

Jimmy Kimmel “apologizes” to critics for saying kids should have health care

The world can’t get enough of openly speculating about Richard Simmons’s well-being, and he’s getting sick of it. People reports that Simmons plans on suing Radar Online, the National Enquirer, and both rags’ parent company, American Media Inc., for “a hurtful campaign of defamations and privacy invasions” in their…

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anactofcaprise:

tami-taylors-hair:

That shit is wild to me though. ‘This doesn’t benefit me personally, so why should I pay taxes for it?’
The VA doesn’t benefit me, so fuck those 25 year olds with traumatic brain injuries. Medicare doesn’t help me out, so grandpa can get bent. I don’t watch Sesame Street, so PBS? Fuck em.

Like, listen you putrid chuckleheads, we’re trying to have a fucking society here, and part of that is taking care of your fellow fucking human beings. Paying taxes for things you might not use is part of that. And if you view that as theft, you’re a dumb shit who can go live on your own in the tundra and see how well you do.

What she said.

gummyboots:

Four rich fathers go golfing.

One of them stays behind to pay the bill and the other three proceed to the first hole. While golfing, the three fathers start bragging about their sons.

The first father says, “I am very proud of my son Arthur; he is my pride and joy. He started working at a very successful company at the bottom of the barrel and now he is at the top!  He became so rich that he gave his best friend a top of the line Mercedes Benz for his birthday.”

The second fathers says, “My son Ivan is also my pride and joy, I am very proud of him. He went to flight school to become a pilot and managed to become a partner in the company where he now owns the majority of the assets. He became so rich that he gave his best friend a brand new jet for his birthday.”

The third father says, “Well, well, well - congratulations! My son, Ludwig, is also my pride and joy and is also very rich. He became an engineer. He started his own construction company and became very successful and a multimillionaire. He built a mansion especially for his best friend.”

Then the fourth father catches up and they ask him how his son is doing.

The fourth father replies, “Oh, my son Alfred is gay and he makes a living dancing as a stripper at a nightclub.”

The three friends shake their heads and say, “What a shame, you must be so unhappy! How tragic.”

The fourth father replies with a bright smile, “Oh no, I am not ashamed at all! Alfred is my son and I love him just as well; he’s my pride and joy. And he is much loved by his friends too. Did you know that his birthday just passed and the other day he received a Mercedes Benz, a brand new jet and a huge mansion from his three suitors?”

He shouldn't have had to do this again. Three years ago, John Oliver's epic net neutrality campaign helped convince the FCC that, yeah, the people really care about this. A lot. Millions of them. That helped give us strong Title II open internet rules to keep the flow of information and entertainment free and open. With popular vote loser Donald Trump and his lackey Ajit Pai (former Verizon lawyer) at the head of the Federal Communications Commission, we have to fucking do it all over again. Oliver got a great start this weekend.

The "Last Week Tonight" host ripped the chairman's proposals and then directed viewers to visit a website with the name gofccyourself.com. That site takes users directly to a page where they can file comments to the FCC on net neutrality.

After the new address was unveiled, the FCC’s website went down, presumably because of the high volume of traffic resulting from the show. As of Monday morning, the website was still operating more slowly than usual. [...]

Oliver challenged Pai and telecommunications companies that argue net neutrality would inhibit broadband investment, noting comments Verizon made to its investors.

“Maybe the best way to gauge Title II’s impact is to listen to what cable companies told their own investors, to who they are legally obligated to tell the truth,” Oliver said before quoting a Verizon executive, who said on an earnings call in 2014 that net neutrality “does not influence the way we invest.”

Daily Kos, along with our intrepid allies in keeping the internet free and open, have created a petition site where we'll collect all of your comments to submit to the FCC, so that you don't have to fight with their constantly crashing website. This round of comments goes through May 11, and the FCC will have its first vote on May 18. So get your comments in!

Sign here, and add your comments, to keep a free an open internet under strong Title II rules.

A version of this piece originally appeared in Issues in Science and Technology.

Mother’s Day is this Sunday, and it isn’t a happy celebration for everyone. Whether your relationship with your mom isn’t great, your mother has passed away, or you’ve struggled with having kids, Mother’s Day can be a painful reminder of what you’ve gone through. If you’re dreading this particular holiday, we’d like…

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wait is 5! = 120 an actual math thing i just reblogged it bc i sincerely believe that yelling a number makes it bigger 

An exclamation point after a number means factorial. Five factorial is 5 times 4 times 3 times 2 times 1. Three factorial is 3 times 2 times 1, etc.

But the more exclamation points after a number, the less big it is, a double factorial is every other number, so 6!! is 6 times 4 times 2, which is less than 6!, So yelling a number makes it bigger, but yelling louder makes it smaller again

it’s because you scared it

I genuinely love this post

Why would you yell at the numbers?

imaginarycircus:

“Yesterday, we reported that a passel of grotesque Dickensian caricatures gathered in the House of Representatives to vote, by a margin of 217-213, to let poor people die and to punish women for the blasphemy of having a vagina, effectively putting some 24 million Americans at the perpetual risk of poverty should they fall victim to accident or debilitating disease—a monstrous display of selfishness that, by their own admission, many of them performed solely out of adherence to partisan dogma and unabashed spite, and a ghoulish, symbolic bloodletting ritual that they then commemorated by drinking Bud Light. However, we have now learned that they did not, in fact, drink Bud Light.

We hereby offer this retraction.

Amid the rush to report on the passage of a bill that removes mandates to insure people with pre-existing conditions—which now includes everything from alcoholism to sexual assault—essentially defunds Planned Parenthood, and rolls back Medicaid protections for low-income families, and cover the celebration that President Trump had subsequently organized in the Rose Garden so that he and his fellow gloating jackasses could laugh at all the people whose wellbeing they’d put into jeopardy, just to prove that they’re big, strong boys, many writers—ourselves unfortunately included—seized upon sightings reported from inside the Capitol of a cart laden with Bud Light, and we irresponsibly repeated it.

We assumed, incorrectly, that this Bud Light was intended to be the cheap swill that would briefly douse the taste of brimstone licking the throats of these pasty wraiths as they boarded a bus headed toward their feast of bones, where they would cackle over their selfish destruction of millions of lives while slapping each other on the back, the utter hollowness inside creating a reverberating, tympanic sound that was barely discernible over their thick-tongued clucking about all the blood money they would reap and the aluminum crush of beer cans against skulls.

However, it turns out the Bud Light wasn’t actually for them.

In this era of “fake news,” it’s more important than ever to not let unverified rumor or libelous insinuation get in the way of the facts of the matter, which is that a bunch of soulless, greedy, waterlogged copies of Atlas Shrugged stuffed inside ugly suits stood around the White House yesterday, laughing and jacking each other off about how they’d successfully sentenced so many of their constituents to die just so they and their cronies could get a huge tax break, but while doing so, they most definitely did not drink Bud Light.

We regret the error.”

AV Club retraction is a thing of beauty and a joy forever

my friends who have dogs: this is my beautiful son he is not very smart but hes such a good kind boy
my friends who have cats: this is my terrible daughter she is very soft and has tiny beans
my friends who have birds: this is the wretched foul gremlin who lives in my house and screams very loud. i love her

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Games make us happy because they are hard work that we choose for ourselves, and it turns out almost nothing makes us happier than good, hard work.

 We don’t normally think of games as hard work. After all, we play games, and we’ve been taught to think of play as the very opposite of work. But nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, as Brian Sutton-Smith, a leading psychologist of play once said, “The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.”

When we’re depressed, according to the clinical definition, we suffer two things: a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity. If we were to reverse these two traits we’d get something like this: an optimistic sense of our own capabilities and an invigorating rush of activity. There’s no clinical psychological term that describes this positive condition. But it’s a perfect description of the emotional state of gameplay. A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.

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Reality is Broken, by Jane McGonigal

This book is fantastic and well worth reading even if you only play games and aren’t interested in making them. It’s about how games make us better and how they can change the world, by making it more gamelike and thus more motivating and rewarding. 

You can also watch her TED talk about the same subject here!

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Jane Mcgonigal is awesome.

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Attack ads hit Republicans who voted for Trumpcare: “How could you do this do us?”

• Two dozen vulnerable House Republicans who voted for the American Health Care Act were hit with devastating attack ads on Monday. 
• The ad asks each member, “How could you do this do us?” after laying out the possible negative consequences of the bill.
  
• One of the members targeted is Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), whose district voted for Hillary Clinton by a five-point margin in 2016. Read more (5/8/17)

Republicans think having some mythical ‘access’ to healthcare is the same as having healthcare, and if you can’t afford it, it’s because you choose not to.

Of every 100,000 Americans, 451 of us will get cancer in a given year. But that varies depending on where you live: some counties have higher cancer rates than others. And those rates match up pretty well with this map of environmental quality, which you should check out now—because it may be the last of its kind.

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