Videos of cows using tools are drawing attention back to a cult-favorite cow comic A recent study that shows how cows can use tools recalls the controversial 1982 cartoon from "The Far Side" comic strip called "Cow Tools."

A lot going on in the news, but if you want a small break, I talked with @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social about "Cow Tools" and cows using tools www.npr.org/2026/01/25/n...

Real ones [people who worked at All Things Considered between like 1995-2018] know

Video: Opinion | When Authoritarianism Looms, Old Friends Reunite David Brooks, Robert Siegel and E.J. Dionne Jr. take a temp check on Trump’s second term.

Did I hoot? Yes. Holler? Also yes

www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

(Not an entomologist, but had a humongous BFH nest in my yard last summer that was extremely cool looking and gave me 0 trouble)

Looks like a bald faced hornet to me, a chill bro among wasps

They should invent a kind of news that isn't bad

A messy-haired boy in an NPR t-shirt flexes his muscles and makes a determined face

❤️🖤💙

“Do atoms touch” was a recent winner at my house

A stand mixer on a kitchen counter, with label tape that reads “WHAT THE SKIB”

8yo has discovered the label maker

Incredible photo choice

In a child’s handwriting: “El efecto es que: mucho vacas [hacen] muchas muchas popo!”

Today in 2nd grade they learned what happened when cows were brought to Australia

@karencorday.bsky.social the Mr. Kennedy shout out!!!! 🥲

Happy New Year to everyone except my kid’s day camp that opened registration at 9am today

Why are the airport scanner machine footprints shaped like the soles of SHOES when you stand on them WITHOUT SHOES

Keys, wallet, air pods, chapstick, work ID, hand wipes, loose change, 2 masks, misc. pieces of paper, a commemorative squished penny from a museum, two sets of vampire fangs, a tiny toy basketball, a baggie of crayons, a broken Dum-Dum lollipop, a set of worry dolls and 1 Nerf bullet

Cleaned the old receipts and random rocks out of my purse and was left with this array of essentials

White VW Golf with DC vanity plate that says BASED

BASED

Gray and white cat wearing a cone of shame and glaring at the photographer

Coned and mad about it

Tried to get an action shot of the cat adorably licking my empty lunch plate but ended up with this

A gray cat sits on a folded blanket at the foot of a bed

Using portrait mode on your cat >>>

J’s friend: I like your vampire cape

J: it’s a cloak

A boy in a black cape with a red collar bares plastic Vampire fangs. Fake blood drips from the corners of his mouth.

Anyway, here’s Dracula

Screen shot of fitness app step count showing 14,846 steps today (Halloween)

My kid collected a lot of candy tonight

Thank you ❤️ <cries>

A set of black costume wings with grey details and rectangular spikes up the middle, meant to resemble the Ender Dragon from Minecraft

Please enjoy the Ender Dragon wings I fashioned out of a pair of bat wings from Etsy before my kid announced (on October 30th 😑) that actually he just wanted to wear a vampire cape from the costume bin

Our crime: saying he needs to do his 20 mins of reading before he plays chess on the iPad.

My son just yelled “you guys are treating me like a child!”

He’s 7, so….yes, we are?

A boy in skeleton pajamas suspends himself between hallway walls

Hello from Crabwalk Manor