cat and fish working their last braincells together--but I have none left after trying to figure out a ven diagram and morse code AAAA that was fun though 🥰 Here's a snap I secretly took of us while merm was getting her stream started #HanyaLIVE#

What started as a #cat-and-fish# encounter turned into an unexpected friendship! A curious cat reaches out its paw to greet a fish in the water. Who says the food chain has to get in the way of friendship? What do you think they're talking about? #cute# 🐈🐟

Even cat food in America is poison New Lab Test Investigation into cat food sold in America tested 62 brands, covering 100 products and found: - 99% contained lead - 94% contained arsenic - 96% contained cadmium - Dry food had about 3c the lead of wet or air-dried food - Fish and seafood formulas had about 18x the mercury of other dry foods - Fish and seafood formulas had about 28x among wet foods only - Nearly half of fish products ranked in the high-mercury group. No poultry product did - Fish formulas also had about 2.5x the cadmium - Glyphosate (weed killer) was detected in 37% of products - The plasticizer DEHP was found in 48 of 100 products, canned and pouched products had about 5x as much as bagged products List of brands that were tested: • Purina (Cat Chow, Friskies, One, Pro Plan, Fancy Feast) • Acana • American Journey • Applaws • BIXBI (Liberty and Rawbble) • Blue Buffalo (Tastefuls and Wilderness) • Boss Cat • Carna4 • Chicken Soup for the Soul • Diamond Naturals • Dr. Marty’s (Nature’s Feast) • Fancy Feast (Purina) • Fresh is Best • Freshpet • Friskies (Purina) • Fromm • Fussie Cat • Go! Solutions • Grandma Lucy’s • Green Juju • Hill’s Science Diet • The Honest Kitchen • I and Love and You • Iams • Instinct • Kirkland Signature • McLovin’s • Merrick • Meow Mix • Natural & Delicious (N&D) • Natural Pet Food Group • Nature’s Advantage • Nulo • Nutrish • Open Farm • Optimal • Orijen • PawTree • Primal • Purpose • Quest (Go Raw) • Redbarn • Reveal • Royal Canin • Sheba • Smallbatch • Smalls • The Simple Food Project • Solid Gold • Special Kitty (Walmart) • Stella & Chewy’s • Tiki Cat • Vital Essentials • Wellness • Weruva • Whole Hearted • Whole Life • Ziwi Peak Lab testing was done by The Clean Label Project, a Colorado nonprofit that tests consumer products and sells a purity certification

The Cat Who Survived Three Sinkings Unsinkable Sam began as the mascot of the German battleship Bismarck, and after she sank in 1941 he was fished from the Atlantic, adopted by the destroyer HMS Cossack — which was then torpedoed — and finally served on HMS Ark Royal, which was torpedoed too. He survived all three sinkings and retired to a sailors' home in Belfast.

My cat Pretzel has stolen exactly one item of laundry from every single machine at the laundromat below my apartment for the past two years, and the owner, Mr. Choi, has started keeping a lost-and-found bin specifically labeled "PRETZEL'S." "He got a onesie today," Mr. Choi told me, holding up tiny striped pajamas like evidence. "Baby's mother came back for it twice already. Very upset." "I'll bring it back," I said, mortified, for probably the fortieth time. "No, no," he said, waving me off. "People come back for the bin now. It's good for business. Everybody knows Pretzel's bin, everybody checks it even if they didn't lose anything, buys a coffee while they look." I didn't believe that until I actually watched it happen…. a woman searching for a missing sock, not finding it, buying a candy bar from the vending machine out of what I can only describe as guilty loyalty to the establishment that had housed her sock's kidnapper. "He's basically an employee," Mr. Choi said, entirely serious, sliding him half a fish cake under the folding table. The baby's mother came in a third time last week. Mr. Choi handed her the onesie before she even asked, already smiling. "Pretzel says sorry," he told her. She laughed, actually laughed, tension gone completely, and bought two coffees on her way out. Pretzel was already back at it an hour later, dragging a single striped sock toward his corner like a job he'd never once considered optional.

I can imagine an app that automatically pays a supplier once an order arrives, even when the funds are spread across different networks. If the order is salted fish, Baster, my chubby orange cat, would happily inspect it. The box would barely reach the door before he approved delivery. A single fish would probably buy his professional opinion. The app could use one account across networks, read a price feed to calculate payment, and check delivery through a Web2 API, a connection to the courier’s system. Automation would release payment under agreed conditions, while privacy features would protect invoice details and customer information from public access. This is an app I’m imagining from the capabilities described in @RialoHQ design. Bringing them together could reduce the work of connecting separate services and make the whole payment process easier to run. To me, full integration is both Rialo advantage and its biggest security test. Incorrect delivery data could trigger payment. A permission error could expose private information. Retrying after an interruption could cause a duplicate payment. Testing needs to cover the entire process. If you used an app like this, which step would you still want to approve yourself?