Charlotte 猫 Awoo Fide @confusedcharlot@awoo.space

Read a transcript of the You’re Wrong About podcast about Koko the gorilla and how the humans around her projected speciesist, racist, ableist, and unscientific narratives onto her, trying to teach her to communicate like a human instead of respecting how she communicated on her own terms

Also all the Deaf human researchers working with her got fired when they tried to point out that something was up

https://rottenindenmark.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/YWA-Koko-the-Gorilla-Transcript.pdf

This is a scraper that shows exactly what new votes have come in, what the margin was for them, and what the margin needs to be for remaining votes for the state to flip.

https://alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.html

If you're stressed, you can pet me 🙂

TIL "Musical anhedonia, also known formally as specific musical anhedonia, is a neurological condition involving an individual's incapacity to enjoy listening to music."

I know someone who can't stand listening to any kind of music (of any genre or artist) at all and I couldn't understand how that's possible

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_anhedonia

the "file formats wiki", which explains file formats, used to be hosted on wikia. but then wikia rebranded itself to "fandom", so it's now the official wiki of the file formats fandom

here is a vintage mood i feel will be enjoyed here:

a scowling vincent price holding many cats

Fucking hell, the Raspberry Pi Foundation just launched a Pi 4 in a keyboard form factor. O.o

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400/

this is 100% the face that every dog makes when you shout "WHAT DO YOU HAVE?? DROP IT!!"