Cute

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Movies Hollywood Changed For China

The market for Hollywood movies in China is so lucrative that Hollywood producers will change anything they want in order to get in theaters there. That can mean dropping references to ghosts, international crime, or politics. Oh, always drop the politics. In some cases, entirely new scenes were shot to make Chinese officials happy, as you'll see in this video from Looper. After all, only a limited number of American movies will be shown each year in China. (via the A.V. Club)

When?

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— 💙 JackieResister 💙 (@jackieresister.bsky.social) February 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM

When a billionaire was put in charge.

Small Town News

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Hedgehog's Home

This lovely stop-motion animation is rendered in luxurious fiber art. It's a cute story, too.

Winner of over 35 International Awards, Hedgehog's Home is an animated Film by Eva Cvijanović based on the classic story by Branko Ćopić, a writer from former Yugoslavia, Its a warm and universal tale that reminds us there truly is no place like home.

(via Nag on the Lake) 

Coffee Sign

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America's Time Zones

When you are very much used to something, it's hard to perceive how weird it is to outsiders. Most nations of the world are small enough to exist in only one time zone. And then there's China, which is very big and still only has one time zone, but that's a different story. Anyway, I live pretty close to a time zone border, and have always been conscious of how to calculate the time elsewhere. When living in Central Time, I got used to everything on TV being an hour earlier than it should. The lines between zones aren't straight, and the reasons why are inexplicable. But someone who has never had to deal with time zones may find them confusing. Laurence Brown of Lost in the Pond explains how he first encountered American time zones and what it took to get used to them. There's a 77-second skippable ad at 3:20.

Traffic Incident

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Switching Sides

Saturday Night Live went there and opened last night's show with that press appearance with President Zelenskyy. It was tragic in reality, but they had to throw Elon Musk into it to make it even more ridiculous. And now they have another famous alum to call in often the rest of this year.  

Cats Do Really Old Movies

The classics are the best. In this gallery, cats pay homage to the movies you know and love, even though they are decades old.

Whole Phrases Hidden in English Words

English is a language that's always evolving. Every day, we use words that weren't in existence 50 years ago. Then there are words that have been around a long time, but they've changed. One way the language has changed is by condensing sentences we use a lot down into one word. Lots of these words have a history that may be surprising to you. Linguist Arika Orent takes us on a tour of words that once were entire phrases, but became condensed with use. You might be saying something completely different from what you thought! (via Geeks Are Sexy)

Born to Run

I'm speed..🐕💨🦸🤯 pic.twitter.com/zeCO9XM40l

— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) February 27, 2025

(Thanks, WTM!)

Some Assembly Required

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After the Gold Rush

Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt perform on The Late Show with David Letterman in 1999.

Roommate

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Bear Removal

Joke's on you- it was a female bear. (via Bits and Pieces)

How Languages Die

We all know what a living language is- those are the ones we use. But languages eventually die out when people don't use them. The death of a language is a gradual process that goes from a lack of native speakers to no speakers to eventually an untranslatable mystery. We think of Latin as the epitome of a "dead" language because no one raises their children to speak Latin as their first language. Yet a lot of people can speak and understand it, and it is used in certain ways in religion and science, unlike, say, Sanskrit. Linguist Dr. Erica Brozovski takes us through the process of language death. (via Laughing Squid) 

Head Count

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Broken Traffic Light

In this dash cam video, we find that a light has gone wonky on the streets of Kemerovo, Russia. A passerby thinks he can give it a whack with a stick and maybe it will right itself. What could possibly go wrong? You'll have to watch the video to find out. Let's just say he makes things much worse. (via Tastefully Offensive)

Bullies in the White House

Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

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— Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) February 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM