This is a video of a pet umbrella cockatoo carefully listening to its owner’s very impressive beatboxing before it joins in the fray with some synchronized head bobbing and wing waving. Clearly, that bird knows how to party. The birds around here? They just try to dive-bomb my apartment windows with poop. That is not my kind of party. The squirrels and raccoons around here, though — they know how to get down.

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Thanks to JustA, who is the partiest animal I know.

Gatsby, a rescue cat affectionately known as Galaxy Kitty (links to his Instagram with a million videos), is a tuxedo cat with vitiligo, an autoimmune disorder that causes patches of skin to lose their pigment, resulting in Gatsby’s galactic coloration. Gatsby and his sister (with normal coloration) were rescued together after their original owner passed away. What a beauty. I could lay under a glass coffee table and stare up at him all night.

@gatsbygalaxykitty Gatsby, my Galaxy Kitty, loves you all madly. ✨️🐈‍⬛❤️ Happy Friday, friends. #gatsbygalaxykitty #cats #ilovemycat #tiktokcat #tiktokcats #tuxedocatsoftiktok #tuxedocat #childlesscatlady #vitiligo #catsoftiktok #greatsong #thedoors #happyfriday ♬ original sound – gatsbygalaxykitty

Inspired by Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests, this is a video demonstration of Dutch game designer Giliam de Carpentier’s Carpentopod, a wooden coffee table that walks and can be remote controlled. Carpentopod, fetch me a beer! “Remote controlled, not voice controlled.” Riiiiight. *tossing empty can on floor* Well it could use a software upgrade.

Back in 2008, I wrote some software for fun to generate various optimized walking mechanisms. And when I also picked up some electronics and wood working skills in more recent years, I was able to turn one of these mechanisms into an actual wireless walking wooden coffee table: the Carpentopod.

The engineering, the woodworking — what a thing of beauty. All I can think about is how much my downstairs neighbors would absolutely love if I had one of these. Leaving passive-aggressive notes on my door seems to be like, their raison d’etre.

This is a video of a small flashmob performing Nirvana’s 1991 banger of bangers ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ at a European railway station. Obviously, the woman who requests the song at the beginning is in on the mob, but the rest of the travelers at the station were not. As far as these sorts of videos go, I did enjoy this one (although I could have done without all the text over the video), but I’m generally not a fan of flash mobs because they combine two things I can’t stand: suddenness, and large groups of people. I prefer slow alones.

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Thanks to my dad, who I remember bought ‘Nevermind’ when it came out in ’91.

These are two videos of the world’s first successful frontside and backside 2160s (six full rotations) on a snowboard. The backside (rotating clockwise if you’re riding with your left foot forward) 2160 was accomplished by Japanese teen snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara in 2023 (he was 16 at the time). The frontside was performed by Italian Ian Matteoli last year. Just look at all those spins! For reference, I broke my arm snowboarding attempting a measly 360 when I was 17. Then I rebroke it skateboarding the following spring trying to ollie over my recycling bin in the driveway. Thank God I’m not a carpenter! Get it? “Because you’re terrible with boards.” There’s no way I’d still have any fingers.

Because even a hundred wrongs don’t make a right, these are two videos of a man getting his truck towed in Brooklyn for parking in a tow zone, starting just after he tried driving his vehicle off the back of the tow arm. After that failed, he tries to fight the tow truck driver, then steals the tow truck, crashing into every car parked on the right side of the block, before making a turn and completely rolling his truck off the back of the tow. I’m sure Farmers has seen this before, they know a thing or two. The man, who fled the scene, has since been identified and arrested, and charged with second degree robbery, grand larceny auto, two counts of reckless endangerment, and 11 counts of property damage and leaving the scene of an accident, the penalty for which I hope is being forced to make an impossible jump over a volcano in his totaled Chevy.

@repodaddy82caddy RAGING REDNECK!😡😤🤬 #sunsetparkbrooklyn #newyorkcity #towtruck #repo #brooklyn #towlife ♬ original sound – repodaddy82caddy