On hot summer's day some years back I marinaded some chicken for a BBQ, filled the empty chicken boxes with water & put them outside my house with a "thirsty dogs" sign
That night, the old lady downstairs phoned
Wizzy, her pooch, who'd drank some water, was ill
“Did you wash the chicken containers very thoroughly?” the old lady asked
“Of course,” I said
I’d given them a good rinse. That was all
I didn’t get much sleep that night & in the morning I lay in bed listening out for Wizzy’s usual barks from the garden
But Wizzy was silent.
What if I’d not only inadvertently poisoned Wizzy, but ALL the dogs that had stopped off for a drink
If would only be a matter of time before someone worked it out
I could already see the local newspaper headlines
But luckily, Wizzy was fine & I learned an important lesson.
The idea of this “Hot Dog Stop” was for thirsty dogs coming from the park on the hottest day of the year (33°C) to have a drink of water
Pretty straightforward you’d have thought...but one-year-old French Bulldog, Buddy, had ideas of his own!!! @dog_rates
To understand why thirsty Buddy decided not to drink any of the water👆 but instead to munch on some scraps of chalk instead, this thread👇 offers an explanation
According to this scientific chart (via @infobeautiful), French Bulldogs are “inexplicably overrated” @dog_rates
2/. Journalists, MPs & human rights activists were selected as targets for surveillance by authoritarian regimes
#Pegasus is the spyware developed, marketed & licensed to govts around the world by the Israeli company NSO Group. @citizenlab#PegasusProject
3/. In the months before he died & a year after his murder, people associated with Jamal Khashoggi, were selected for potential surveillance by clients of NSO
Hungary’s far-right govt is suspected of hacking phones of journalists & targeting owners
Gil Scott/Heron’s stand-up was very funny & always ‘political’
“When I went to see “Jaws”, I identified with the shark. Jaws was the home team. He was in the water. This is where sharks are known to be. You go to the beach, he goes to the supermarket.”
1/. Charlottesville's Jackson Monument was erected 100 years ago in 1921
The erection of the statue coincided with a growth of the KKK
Lynchings were commonplace
In 2017, protests against removing the statue sparked a deadly far-right rally
Today it’s finally being taken down
2/. “The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly & quietly & invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams” (Maya Angelou)
Last month, marked the centenary of the Tulsa massacre in Greenwood