This is a video from an Istanbul Metro station in Turkey where a commuter finds a cat sleeping atop the metro card scanner, and has to scan her card underneath the feline in order to activate the turnstile. Now that is a quality metro employee, and I hope they pay that cat in only the very Fanciest of Feasts. Like in a crystal goblet and ringing it with a fork to announce supper is ready and everything.

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This is a bar graph visualization detailing the most popular social networks from 2003 – 2022, measured by monthly active users worldwide. Remember 2006? Back when MySpace was king and Twitter was just being born. Things sure have changed, haven’t they? For the worse, just to be clear.

Both the top and bottom half of the image have the same number of dots, but the ones on top appear to disappear unless you’re looking at them. This is an example of a Hermann grid illusion, an optical illusion first documented by Ludimar Hermann in 1870. According to SharpBrains, “the illusion results from retinal cells adjusting the brightness of an image by adjusting the intensity of the light signal in many small sections, which allows you to see a wide range of both bright and dark details in the same image.” I don’t like it. I don’t like my eyes playing tricks on me. Or my friends playing tricks on me, so if you’re hiding around the corner ready to smack me in the face with a plate of shaving cream, you can forget about ever celebrating our one year friendiversary.

This is a video edit created by Cinefix reimagining a trailer for Monty Python and the Holy Grail as an intense drama, with far less jocularity than the original. Actually no jocularity — you probably won’t laugh a single time. I suppose it’s a lot like this website in that regard.

Because dream it, and, provided you’re making enough Youtube money, you can achieve it, this is a video of The Q constructing and riding a bicycle with tires made out of 60 tennis balls. I bet dogs love chasing him! It looks like it rides surprisingly well (and never needs air added for the life of the balls), and I wonder why bicycle makers have never offered tennis balls wheels (tennis bwheels) in the past. Or made wheels triangular. Or just stop beating around the bush and make hoverbikes already. This was supposed to be the future!

Seen here with his treasure horde like a dragon atop its pile of gold, this is a video highlighting the life of 13-year old Scruff, a border collie who collects plastic trash for recycling. Well, originally he picked up plastic trash to play with and discard, but after a meeting with Captain Planet his owners realized it would be better to actually recycle all the trash he picks up, which is what they’ve started doing. He collected over 1,000 plastic bottles in the beginning of the year alone, earning him the nickname “the eco-dog” in his hometown of Nuneaton, England. My dogs? They do not pick up plastic trash, but they can eat rabbit poop while I plead with them not to with the very best of them. Equal but different — that’s the lie I tell myself while dodging kisses.