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icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2025-12-18 03:00 pmDesperate times call for desperate measures, and sometimes that means taking in your neighbor's cat instead of letting her stay cold. In the story here, the protagonist has seen her neighbor's "cat" come around to their home for the last 2 years. This poor cat has gotten pregnant several times, and the owners don't do anything. The protagonist has tried everything – to approach the neighbor, to take the cat herself. She claims that the little boy who lives there says his mom doesn't like when the cats are inside because they go to the bathroom everywhere. It's not a good excuse. It's their cat, they should train their cat to go to the bathroom in the litter box. Besides, the cat is probably going to the bathroom everywhere because she's starved for attention!
A cat acting up means that they need attention, not a punishment. When the neighbors try to take the cat, the real owners get upset and tell them they are stealing their cat. The neighbors let the cat go, but of course, the cat just shows up again and again to their home. They already have pets, and aren't prepared to have more, but they do what they can to help.
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adventdrabbles2025-12-18 06:19 pmmaraudersaffairbrithistorian) wrote2025-12-18 04:51 pmLast night I discovered that Kiiras had released a Christmas song, called "Kiirasmas." I don't think I'd objectively say it's a good song, but it's still fun to listen to.
A few years ago, I did a K-pop Christmas song Advent calendar. This morning, as I added "Kiirasmas" to my K-pop Christmas playlist, I realized that if I wanted to post the whole playlist one song a day, I'd have had to start back on October 15! ^^
After having to spend 40 minutes listening to the store playing Christmas music while I waited for the pharmacy to fill a prescription. I'd like to say: No matter how Christmas-adjacent some of its lyrics may be, "My Favorite Things" is not a Christmas song. I'm willing to get seriously injured on this hill. However, if it means that I'll hear "The Christmas Song" less often, I'm willing to act like it's a Christmas song.
bbcnewsworld_feed) wrote2025-12-18 11:54 pmbbcnewsworld_feed) wrote2025-12-18 11:46 pmbbcnewsworld_feed) wrote2025-12-18 11:43 pmbbcnewsworld_feed) wrote2025-12-18 09:55 pmbbcnewsworld_feed) wrote2025-12-18 08:29 pmbbcnewsworld_feed) wrote2025-12-18 08:17 pmbbcnewsworld_feed) wrote2025-12-18 01:24 pmnnozomi) wrote in guardian_learning2025-12-19 07:27 amtomlorenzo_feed) wrote2025-12-18 10:00 pm
Since this is the second one of the day, we only need one more before Christmas to officially call ’80s-style graphic sweaters a hot item once again. Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp stopped by Andy Cohen’s treehouse to model and updated (but only slightly) take on the classic look.
It’s cute! We have no problem with it. We don’t even mind the holes because it gives the classic Cosby sweater a bit more of a punk vibe to it. And of course, in this era of theme-dressing, it’s not unexpected to see a member of the cast working a retro look. We just wish he’d do something about that hair, and by that we mean fire the person who talked him into it.
[Photo Credit: Charles Sykes/Bravo]
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icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2025-12-18 01:00 pmWhile some cats are well known for their mild mannered behavior, most are better known for their spicy and, at times, downright outlawed behaviors. And seeing as we have gotten to that time of year when Santa gets out his naughty or nice list and checks it over thoroughly, we figured it would only be appropriate to go over some of the cat characters who have landed on Santa's naughty list this year. So that you, as parents, and purrhaps your cats, as the potential criminals to be, can get an idea of what kind of things can land you in hot water and in a whole load of trouble before you know it.
Because at the end of the year, no one wants to end up on the naughty list with a lump of coal waiting for them in their stocking…so take notes and be on your best behavior, and maybe your cat will too…
luzula) wrote2025-12-18 11:13 pmgaronne, which shook some stuff loose. Wrote 300 words. How about you? china_shop, garonne, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, chestnut_pod, trobadora, goddess47, cornerofmadness, sanguinity, tomlorenzo_feed) wrote2025-12-18 09:10 pm
This seems to be the week for Jessie Buckley to pose with a male co-star in casual wear, except this time, he’s the one in the sassy sweater and she’s the one coming off a little casual. She and her other Hamnet co-star Joe Alwyn stepped in front of the cameras for the London photo call.
JOE ALWYN IN MARNI
Well. That certainly is a lot. We appreciate it because he can sometimes come off bland if he doesn’t put a little work into his look. If nothing else, you can’t call a look like this generic. It reeks of the eighties, from the patterned sweater to the pleated pants, but everything feels a little more exagerrated. We can’t say we’re loving the knitwear combination. We can accept the pullover, but we think the cardigan looks like a Nana sweater. The shoes are awful.
JESSIE BUCKLEY
We don’t know. The red looks great on her, but if you’re going to the trouble of wearing heels, why sport what looks like workout gear over a flimsy skirt? The general style – casual, drapey, offbeat – suits her, but we don’t like any of the pieces.
They look like the annoying neighbors in a National Lampoon movie.
ABOUT THE MOVIE:
Synopsis: From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, HAMNET tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
Directed by: Chloé Zhao
Screenplay by: Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell
Based on the novel by: MAGGIE O’FARRELL
Producers: Liza Marshall, p.g.a., Pippa Harris, p.g.a., Nicolas Gonda, p.g.a., Sam Mendes, p.g.a., Steven Spielberg, p.g.a.
Executive Producers: Kristie Macosko Krieger, Chloé Zhao, Laurie Borg
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn
[Photo Credit: Ian West/PA Images/INSTARimages- Video Credit: Focus Features/YouTube]
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icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2025-12-18 12:00 pmQuite often, the lives of street cats get off to a more than tragic start. You never quite know the cards you are going to be dealt in life, but when you are born a stray, your starter pack of cards are going to be pretty dismal. And the feline hero of this story started with a hand that most people would have thrown in the trash and never looked back at. In fact, someone did do that to her.
But one day, when her rightful cat momma came along, everything began to change. And that which had started out as a Greek tragedy was becoming more and more like a Disney movie with each passing day. And with a whole lot of love and patience, after years of building up comfort and trust, the once scared cat began to feel and act warm towards its savior. A heartwarming and wholesome story to restore the faith of any feisty feline pawrent who is sure their sassy cat children will never cuddle them.
lifehacker_feed) wrote2025-12-18 09:00 pmEarlier this year, OpenAI announced ChatGPT apps. Not the ChatGPT app, mind you: That's been out for more than a couple years now. ChatGPT apps, on the other hand, are programs that work within ChatGPT. You can access them in any given conversation with ChatGPT—in fact, they may appear based on the context of the conversation.
These aren't necessarily apps that OpenAI builds itself, either; rather, you'll find options here based on apps you may use yourself. The initial batch of apps included with the feature's rollout included Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow—big apps you've likely used before.
While in a conversation with ChatGPT, you could ask the bot to help you book a flight to Paris via Expedia, find a particular listing through Zillow, or create a slide for a presentation with Canva. From OpenAI's perspective, this adds a host of additional functionality to ChatGPT the company couldn't offer itself. OpenAI doesn't need to build an apartment-hunting tool into ChatGPT; it can just pull in Zillow. It also doesn't escape me that the more apps that OpenAI folds into ChatGPT, the less likely it is you'll need to leave ChatGPT to do something in another app—but that's none of my business.
Speaking of more apps, the company plans to expand these apps overtime, as developers create ChatGPT-compatible extensions for their programs. That was part of yesterday's news: OpenAI is now letting developers submit apps to ChatGPT en masse. What's more, these apps will be hosted in an "app directory," though many online are taking to calling it an app store. (There's no payment necessary, however, so app directory might really be a more apt description.) You'll find this new app directory in the sidebar of ChatGPT, appropriately called "Apps."
Apps is apparently in beta, according to a label affixed to its title in ChatGPT. Here, you'll find a rotating slide featuring an ad for some of the service's biggest apps, like Canva and Zillow, and, below it, rows of apps to choose from. Right now, the apps are sorted into "Featured," "Lifestyle," and "Productivity," with no option that includes all the apps. (But they seem to be entirely split across Lifestyle and Productivity.) There are a lot of options here already. Some made headlines this week, like Photoshop and Apple Music, while others arrived more quietly, like Asana, Uber, and Target. It's not just traditional apps like Zillow or Spotify that are getting the app treatment here, either. OpenAI is also considering "connector" services, like Google Drive, as "apps."
You can click on any app in the directory to see what you can do with it. Slack, for example, says you can look up your chats and messages to summarize threads, generate recaps, and come up with responses. You can check on your Asana tasks to generate progress reports and status updates. Outlook says you can create "talking points" and generate follow-ups from your emails and calendar events. While there's a brief summary underneath each title, you'll need to click through to each service to see the full picture of what it actually offers.
Here are the apps I'm seeing at this time. Just note this might not be a complete list, especially as OpenAI continues to add more apps to the service:
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Express
Adobe Photoshop
Agentforce Sales
Aha!
Airtable
AllTrails
Amplitude
Apple Music
Asana
Atlassian Rovo
Azure Boards
Basecamp
Booking.com
Box
Canva
Clay
Cloudinary
Conductor
Coursera
Daloopa
DoorDash
Dropbox
Egnyte
Expedia
Figma
GitLab Issues
Google Drive
Help Scout
Hex
HighLevel
Hugging Face
Instacart
Intuit Credit Karma
Intuit Mailchimp
Intuit TurboTax
Khan Academy
Klaviyo
Linear
Lovable
LSEG
Monday.com
Morningstar
Netlify
Notion
OpenTable
Outlook Calendar
Outlook Email
Peloton
Pipedrive
PitchBook
Ramp
Replit
SharePoint
Slack
Spotify
Stripe
Target
Teams
Teamwork.com
TheFork
Thumbtack
Tripadvisor
Uber
Uber Eats
Vercel
Zillow
Zoho
Zoho Desk
Zoom
If you're an avid ChatGPT user and frequently switch between it and any of the apps on this list, there might be some utility here. Maybe coders will find the integration with Hugging Face and Lovable to be beneficial, while Photoshop users might take advantage of the AI image editing tools this integration provides. But I'm still left feeling like this is more gimmick than anything else: I don't need to connect my Slack to ChatGPT to generate follow-ups for me: I'm perfectly capable of responding to emails myself, and managing my own calendar, so no need to connect Outlook or another email client to the bot. Maybe a future update will sell me on connecting generative AI to all aspects of my work and personal life, but so far, I'm still not convinced.
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For some people, it just doesn’t feel like Christmas until you’re curled up by the fire, eating Christmas cookies, or hanging your favorite ornaments on the tree. For me, the holiday season doesn’t feel real until an overwhelming state of panic sets in and I’m feverishly typing “last-minute gift ideas” in the hours leading up to a Secret Santa exchange.
If you’re like me, you procrastinate at least one gift until the window for pre-Christmas delivery slips out of your grasp. Calm your panic—I’ve rounded up your top prospects for physically getting some wrapping paper around a gift in time for the holidays—even if your only option is going to the drug store. Here are gift ideas that are all under $30 (so long as you’re willing to get a little creative with it). Even when it’s the thought that counts, something is better than nothing.
Novelty kitchen equipment is a quirky holiday gift staple. Take these smiley face wooden cooking spoons, available for $19.80 that can arrive before Christmas. Or you could go for a double dip (or chips-and-dip!) bowl for $20.92. As a rule of thumb, searching for “quirky kitchen equipment” will turn up fun and surprisingly useful results.
In terms of last-minute shopping, an at-home popcorn popper is sure to be available in some form. Get in time for Christmas for $24.99 on Amazon now.
With a little more planning, you could have splurged on a candle that smells like Adam Driver. But you didn’t plan, and that's OK.
You can still snag this high-quality Lulu candle for $19.95. Candles are also reliable in-store options, but you want to avoid anything smelling cheap and weird. Look for trusted brands like Yankee, Boy Smells, Nest, or Diptyque (though this one tends to be on the more expensive side).
It's at-risk of becoming incredibly hack, but still, “We’re Not Really Strangers” is a crowd pleaser (as opposed to the simple shock value you get with something like “Cards Against Humanity”). The goal of this card game is to foster connection through harrowing personal revelations. The prompts on these cards will spark conversation and foster connections between friends old and new—just remember that to play fair, you have to be willing to dig deep. Get in time for Christmas for $25 on Amazon.
If you live somewhere that gets cold, it’s always a safe bet to lean into the holiday theme and gift something fuzzy, cozy, and warm. Gifts like this also fall into the realm of “things that would improve my quality of life but I never buy them for myself.” I sincerely recommend this wearable blanket hoodie for $24.99, or maybe some cloud socks for $11.45. Again, if you can head to a store to select these items in-person, you’ll be in better shape compared to praying for overnight shipping options.
Sure, mugs are a dangerously popular gift option. But you left shopping to the last possible minute, so it’s no time to be picky. And how about something to fill those mugs with? Even if the gift recipient isn’t a big tea or hot cocoa drinker, it’s a smart thing to have in the home for hosting guests during the holidays.
Go for an assortment of tea flavors for around $3 at Trader Joe’s (my favorites are the ginger turmeric and the harvest blend). Throw in a mug with a cute little squirrel hiding inside for $19.99. Gifting something that people can sip on is the perfect mix of charm and utility.
As I've written previously, sometimes your only option is the drug store. Head to Walgreens and round up an assortment:
Gift cards
Candles
Cosmetic bags
Therapeutic massager
Jewelry
Insulated mugs
Calendars or planners
Notebooks
Coffee/tea bundles
Wine and a corkscrew (depending on your state’s liquor laws)
Picture frames
Electronics, like ear buds or portable chargers
These items aren’t necessarily bad gifts, but many will be easily detected as a last-minute purchase. The success of drug store gifts will come down to the charm of the gift-giver and the chill factor of the recipient.
