Hello, weirdos, cat pawrents, and everyone in between. This heat is unbearable, right? It's like someone flipped a switch right when June ended, and just as July started the heat is growing like crazy. Yeah, we know, it's called summer. But it almost feels like our brains have melted, and are about to leak from our ears.
We wish we were like cats in summer. Enjoying a patch of sun, napping in it while the heat pets their fur. Watching the bright day outside with bliss, watching birds, bugs, and people walking down the street. Cats are so relaxed in summer, it makes us almost jealous. Almost. Because we know what summer is really about - brain melting and energy sweating. We just want to sit inside, where the AC is on and the heat is gone.
So, since you cannot do anything else, really, you might as well look at some weird cat memes. We all know this is all our minds are able to deal with now, in this heat.
Howdy and happy weekend, feline fam. We've got a spooky story for you on this purrfectly auspicious Sunday. Imagine you are a simple purrson who loves cats (so far, so good), and one of your coworkers asks you to check up on their cats for a few days while they're gone. You agree because you're a good purrson, and any chance to meet a new cat is a pawsitive opportunity. So you go over to their house to meet their cute cat, and you get bored, leading you to wander around their house.
They maybe have the occasional knick-knack here and odd item there, but everything seems purrfectly normal. That is, until you get to the basement. Upon arriving at the base of the stairs, you see a wooden board covered in strange symbols, looking like something out of a ritualistic ceremony. What could it be? Some people think it's the cat's recharging station, others think it's something more devious. Scroll down to see more hissterical comments below!
We have great friends, feline fam. They would do anything for us. Once, we got stuck on vacation and our cat sitter had to leave (not their fault, our flights were cancelled and our trip was extended an extra four days), so we frantically searched for someone to look after our purrecious fur babies in our absence. Our friends said yes without hesitation, and we told them to order whatever they wanted for food as we weren't sure what was even there anymore.
We didn't expect our friend to clean because they were doing us a favor. However, apparently not everyone is as pawsitively generous as we are. After this cat lover took 7 vacation days and drove 6 hours to watch his friends' newly adopted cat while they went away for free, they returned at the end and said they were disappointed in him for the way he left their apartment. He said he tidied up, but they didn't seem to think so. Read through the whole messy situation below!
There's 104 days of summer vacation And school comes along just to end it So the annual problem for our generation Is finding a good way to spennnnd it...
Tangent time: I once had a good friend who enjoyed eating actual sand. Turns out she was deficient in some essential mineral. Which was a relief, since we were about to take her to the lagoony bin.
It's a shore bet she would have loved this sand castle cake though:
Wow, that sucker is beautiful! (Specifically, the third one from the bottom.)
Whale, I hope you got your fill of beach-themed sweets (and puns) today. I'm sure you're clamoring for more, but that should tide you over for a while!
Happy Sunday!
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P.S. If you actually go to the beach, then clearly you need a mesh tote bag that's in such high demand they couldn't even get one for the photoshoot, and had to photoshop it in (badly) later:
Oh yeah, bad Photoshop is how you know it's good. Well, that, and the 2,000+ 5-star ratings. Turns out this thing is actually pretty awesome, and also comes in blue, gray, or white. Grab yours before the manufacturer tries to snatch it up for another photoshoot.
Gooood morning, cat people! It's Sunday, and that means that we have a whole entire day left to do the things that we love doing. To not thinking abut work. To not worry about dramas. To simply sit back, laugh at silly cat memes, and enjoy life the way that we want to. Because this is what life is all about, is it not? Enjoying the little things, making the best out of every meowment, and we certainly are about to make the best out of this Sunday morning.
Because what we have for you here are not just any funny cat memes. Like we do every single week, today, we brought you the best cat tweets of the week. The funniest, the most wholesome, the most ridiculous. Because this is what we want to be doing on a Sunday morning. Cats, tweets, smiles, and nothing in our lives to worry about. At least for the next five minutes,
Sunday is here. And goodness, we feel like we needed this day more than usual. We don't know what it is lately, but it really feels like time is flying by, like we are not keeping up. We need to rest. We deserve it. And we deserve to start our days with smiles and pawsitivity and nothing but those things. Of course, that's easier said than done when we are running around all day, trying to keep up, but on Sunday, it's actually something that is very easy to get done. All that you need is to start your day with some funny cat memes.
It really is that simple. Some cat memes first thing in the morning means starting the day with a smile. Silly cat memes right when you wake up means that you haven't looked at anything else, anything heavy, anything dramatic and difficult. Cat memes are a reminder of the good things that exist in the world, and we need it.
Here's a classic catastrophe brewing: this person's best friend's boyfriend is a chronic complainer who's already snarked about everything, including the location of a cookout at the cat owner's place. To make things trickier, he's allergic to cats, and the pawrent has two furry divas who hide when guests arrive. Despite the boyfriend visiting twice with no complaints, the best friend insists the cats be locked away all day to spare his sneezes.
This pawrent isn't having it, suggesting the boyfriend take allergy meds instead of putting the cats through the stress of isolation. It's a real cat-and-mouse game between making guests comfortable and protecting the well-being of beloved pets. Sure, the boyfriend's grumpy attitude might be rubbing fur the wrong way, but prioritizing the cats' comfort over a difficult guest seems totally pawsible.
At the end of the day, it's about respecting boundaries, especially when cats are involved. Sometimes standing firm is the best way to keep the peace and avoid turning the home into a feline fiasco.
There's a special kind of bond between a cat and their hooman… and it gets especially intense around 3 or 4 AM. If you're reading this while heavy-eyed and running on zero sleep because your feline friend decided this was the time to knock things off shelves, sprint around the house like a fuzzy lightning bolt, or demand snacks with a symphony of "MEOW!" - you are not alone.
Sleep-deprived cat pawrents everywhere know this struggle. The moment your head hits the pillow, your cat suddenly remembers they're a mighty nocturnal hunter with a full to-do list: yell at invisible ghosts, rearrange the furniture, practice opera in the hallway, or just stare at you until you wake up. Why? Because they can.
So, what's a tired hooman to do while their cat is mid-zoomies and their dreams are on pause? Scroll through some weirdly relatable and delightfully unhinged cat memes, of course. These feline funnies were practically made for 4 AM scrolling sessions. They're the purrfect companion for your late-night wake-up calls… right alongside the fluffy chaos gremlin currently sitting on your chest.
Howdy and happy weekend, feline fam. We've got a spooky story for you on this purrfectly auspicious Sunday. Imagine you are a simple purrson who loves cats (so far, so good), and one of your coworkers asks you to check up on their cats for a few days while they're gone. You agree because you're a good purrson, and any chance to meet a new cat is a pawsitive opportunity. So you go over to their house to meet their cute cat, and you get bored, leading you to wander around their house.
They maybe have the occasional knick-knack here and odd item there, but everything seems purrfectly normal. That is, until you get to the basement. Upon arriving at the base of the stairs, you see a wooden board covered in strange symbols, looking like something out of a ritualistic ceremony. What could it be? Some people think it's the cat's recharging station, others think it's something more devious. Scroll down to see more hissterical comments below!
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For this edition, I will warn that there are a couple titles related to tech and politics. One is fiction and the other is non-fiction. That may not be everyone’s bag right now. I also have a new mystery with a twist and Sarah popped in with a recommendation.
What recommendations have your received lately? Let us know in the comments!
Can You Solve the Murder
I’m personally really curious about this one and how the interactive elements work out.
“Follow leads, find clues, and interrogate suspects in this intricately crafted page-turner! Will you make the right calls and catch the culprit, or will they slip through your fingers?” —G. T. Karber, author of Murdle
One murder. Six suspects. One truth for YOU to uncover.
YOU are the lead detective and it’s your job to investigate the most mysterious crime of your career.
There’s been a murder at Elysium, a wellness retreat set in an English country manor. You arrive to find the body of a local businessman on the lawn – with a rose placed in his mouth. It appears he was stabbed with a gardening fork and fell to his death from the balcony above. You quickly realize that balcony can only be accessed through a locked door, the key is missing, and everyone in Elysium is now a suspect… Who did it and why? It’s up to you to figure it out.
YOU gather the evidence and examine the clues.
YOU choose who to interview next, and who to accuse as your prime suspect.
But remember that every decision YOU make has consequences – and some of them will prove fatal…
Do you have what it takes? Can YOU solve the murder? Put your sleuthing skills to the test!
This is a book I can’t stop thinking about and does a great job explaining the pervasiveness of AI.
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, revealing the perils and inequities of our growing reliance on automated decision-making
On the surface, a British poet, an UberEats courier in Pittsburgh, an Indian doctor, and a Chinese activist in exile have nothing in common. But they are in fact linked by a profound common experience—unexpected encounters with artificial intelligence. In Code Dependent, Murgia shows how automated systems are reshaping our lives all over the world, from technology that marks children as future criminals, to an app that is helping to give diagnoses to a remote tribal community.
AI has already infiltrated our day-to-day, through language-generating chatbots like ChatGPT and social media. But it’s also affecting us in more insidious ways. It touches everything from our interpersonal relationships, to our kids’ education, work, finances, public services, and even our human rights.
By highlighting the voices of ordinary people in places far removed from the cozy enclave of Silicon Valley, Code Dependent explores the impact of a set of powerful, flawed, and often-exploitative technologies on individuals, communities, and our wider society. Murgia exposes how AI can strip away our collective and individual sense of agency, and shatter our illusion of free will.
The ways in which algorithms and their effects are governed over the coming years will profoundly impact us all. Yet we can’t agree on a common path forward. We cannot decide what preferences and morals we want to encode in these entities—or what controls we may want to impose on them. And thus, we are collectively relinquishing our moral authority to machines.
In Code Dependent, Murgia not only sheds light on this chilling phenomenon, but also charts a path of resistance. AI is already changing what it means to be human, in ways large and small, and Murgia reveals what could happen if we fail to reclaim our humanity.
This was a recommendation Sarah wanted to pass on!
Sarah: Book some of y’all might like. It’s stories about bad ass nuns
Veteran reporter Jo Piazza profiles ten extraordinary nuns and the causes to which they have dedicated their lives—from an eighty-three-year-old Ironman champion to a brave sister who rescues victims of human trafficking
Meet Sister Simone Campbell, who traversed the United States challenging a Republican budget that threatened to severely undermine the well-being of poor Americans; Sister Megan Rice, who is willing to spend the rest of her life in prison if it helps eliminate nuclear weapons; and the inimitable Sister Jeannine Gramick, who is fighting for acceptance of gays and lesbians in the Catholic Church. During a time when American nuns are under attack from the very institution to which they pledge, these sisters offer inspiring, provocative counterstories that are sure to spark debate.
Overthrowing our popular perception of nuns as killjoy schoolmarms content to live in the annals of nostalgia, Piazza defines them instead as the most vigorous catalysts of change in an otherwise constricting patriarchy.
If you’re the kind of reader who likes to read sci-fi as a reflection of what our future may look like, one of my friends believes this book gets the most right in terms of where our country could be headed.
Read Infomocracy, the first book in Campbell Award finalist Malka Older’s groundbreaking cyberpunk political thriller series The Centenal Cycle, a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Series, and the novel NPR called “Kinetic and gripping.”
• A Locus Award Finalist for Best First Novel • The book The Huffington Post called “one of the greatest literary debuts in recent history” • One of Kirkus’ “Best Fiction of 2016” • One of The Washington Post’s “Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016” • One of Book Riot’s “Best Books of 2016 So Far”
It’s been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything’s on the line.
With power comes corruption. For Ken, this is his chance to do right by the idealistic Policy1st party and get a steady job in the big leagues. For Domaine, the election represents another staging ground in his ongoing struggle against the pax democratica. For Mishima, a dangerous Information operative, the whole situation is a puzzle: how do you keep the wheels running on the biggest political experiment of all time, when so many have so much to gain?
First off, you are still in your pajamas, and it is before 1pm, we commend you nonetheless, for Caturday is a day to embrace the lazy, to bathe in the sun, to reach for the snack and to cuddle up into a tiny little ball and pretend you are a kitty. But if you for some silly reason have decided to remove your pajamas and get dressed for the day, then we implore you to get your behind back into your bedroom and put those pajamas on post-haste.
For if we do not do our best to differentiate the weekend from the working week then what have we really achieved by not going to the office? So once you have your pajamas on, we will approve you to keep on scrolling and to enjoy this list of cozy cat memes, that has been designed exclusively for anyone who has the courage and creativity to still be in their pajamas after 1pm on a Caturday.
Greetings, fellow feline aficionados! If there's one undeniable truth about cats, it's that they are equal parts majestic and utterly ridiculous. These elegant creatures can go from regal rulers of the household to complete goofballs in the blink of an eye. These creatures are walking contradictions wrapped in fur. They strut around our homes like royalty, radiating superiority and self-importance. To them, they are flawless. Untouchable. Forever graceful and composed. But we, the humble hoomans who live in their service, know the truth.
We know that under that puffed-up chest and unbothered gaze lies a being of pure, unfiltered derp. These cats, our so-called dignified companions, are the same ones who sprint full speed into walls for no reason. The ones who get their heads stuck in tissue boxes and dramatically flop off furniture like they've just been betrayed. They are weird, loud, unpredictable, and endlessly entertaining, and we wouldn't have it any other way. While they might believe their every moment is picture-perfect, we've got the photos to prove otherwise. Thanks to our ever-watchful eyes and lightning-quick cameras, we've captured these glorious goofballs in all their unfiltered glory.
You haven't truly experienced pawrenthood until you've witnessed the glorious phenomenon known as airplane ears. It's that unmistakable sideways ear flattening that makes your feline look like they're about to taxi down a runway and we're here for every dramatic second.
Whether it's because you made a suspicious noise, introduced a new item into their territory (how dare you bring home a houseplant), or simply walked past them the wrong way, cats will deploy their in-flight mode with full cattitude. These whiskered wonders can turn even the most minor inconvenience into a furst class scandal.
No matter how miffed they look, it's absolutely hissterical. Paired with a puffed-up tail or a judgmental glare, airplane ears are a top-tier cat expression, right up there with loafing and the slow blink of royal approval.
So next time you see your kitty channeling their inner aircraft, just salute your pilot, give them a treat, and back away slowly. Airplane ears might signal a moment of feline drama, but they always land right back in your heart.
This son is facing a tough decision about the family cat who's lived with his dad for over 12 years. With his father moving overseas and unable to take her, he's torn between bringing the cat to his small apartment across the country, where she knows him but life is busy, or leaving her with the new family moving into her longtime home.
His place is familiar, but small and shared with a roommate, which might mean less attention. The new family is larger, with kids who seem ready to give her plenty of love and playtime. He worries about how she'll adjust, whether she'll handle leaving the home she's known or thrive in a livelier environment.
It's a tough call, but in the end, sometimes the best home isn't about the size of the space or even who feeds her. It's wherever she feels safe, loved, and cared for.
When the sun's blazing and the AC just isn't cutting it, these cool cats are turning to the true hero of summer: ice cream (or at least the cat-safe version). One lick at a time, they're serving serious popsipaw energy.
From slurping tuna-flavored ices to cautiously poking at a melting scoop with their toe beans, these kitties are here to chillax. Some delicately nibble like fancy little fluffballs at a five-star meowgurt bar, while others go full chaos mode, face-first into the frosty treat like it owes them rent.
And let's not forget the dramatic reaction. Wide eyes, scrunched noses, or that one judgmental glare that screams, "Too cold, hooman. Fix it." But even with brain freeze on the horizon, they keep going back for more.
It's hot out there, but these cats aren't sweating it. They're striking a purrfectly cool balance between melting and meowgical. Honestly? Same. Summer may be sizzlin', but with frozen fun and a frosty treat or two, these kitties are keeping it pawsitively chill.
Hey there, fellow cat pawrents! How's your Caturday treating you so far? More importantly, how's your cat doing? Are they already deep into the weekend vibe, snuggled up in their favorite nap spot and pretending the world doesn't exist? Because let's be honest - if there's one day made specifically for cats and cat lovers, it's Caturday. It's literally in the name.
If you haven't kicked off your Caturday cuddle session yet, consider this your sign. Go ahead and give your floof a little pspspsps, coax them over to the coziest corner, grab a blanket, and initiate the sacred Weekend Snuggle Ritual™.
Once you're all cozied up and the purring has commenced, it's time for the next level of feline joy: cat memes. Because what goes better with a sleepy, warm cat on your lap than a collection of wholesome, hilarious feline funnies? We gathered these just for you (and maybe for your cat too, if they're awake). But let's be honest - if they're napping, they've already mastered the true spirit of Caturday.
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