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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In 12 days, that fluffy seal's mom will slide into the ocean and never come back. The pup won't even be able to swim yet.

The clock starts the moment it's born. 24 pounds, no fat under that fluffy white fur, exposed on the ice. Mom has 12 days to turn this thing into a survivor.

Her milk is around 50% fat. For comparison: cow's milk has 4%, human breast milk has 3 to 5%, heavy cream is around 36%. She is basically feeding her baby liquid butter.

And the baby drinks. Nearly 8 pounds of this stuff every day. In 12 days it more than triples in weight, going from a 24-pound newborn to an 80-pound blubber tank. Almost half its body is now pure fat. That is more body fat than most adult humans carry, packed onto a 12-day-old.

Mom does not feed this from food. She feeds it from her own body. She loses about 7 pounds a day, almost all of it pouring straight into the milk. By day 12 she has lost roughly a third of her body weight.

Then she's done. She slides off the ice into the sea and never comes back.

The pup is suddenly alone in a freezing nursery of thousands of newly abandoned pups. It still can't swim or hunt. So it just sits there for six weeks, slowly burning through the fat its mother just gave it. Half its body weight is gone before hunger finally pushes it into the water for its first hunt. It has to figure out everything from scratch, alone, on the first try.

Hooded seals do all this in 4 days flat. Their milk is 60% fat, the most concentrated ever measured in any mammal.

The fluffy white fur you see in the video is called lanugo. It soaks up sunlight and traps heat to keep the pup warm before its body fat builds up. It vanishes in about 3 weeks. Canada banned the hunting of these white pups in 1987 after worldwide protests and an EU ban wiped out the market.

That adorable seal getting toweled off is right in the middle of one of the most extreme childhoods on Earth. 12 days of feast, 6 weeks of starvation, then straight into the open ocean to learn everything alone.

[Will @will_yum_x]

Chudai 🔥

[alex bronzini-vender @alexbronzini]

US college admissions are dumb and insane, but I gain a little faith in the system every time I hear one of these stories. If admissions officers can see past a flawless academic record and identify someone who will sue them over a rejection, something is working

[Sophia ❣️ @KeruboSk]

When I was little, our neighbor used to “randomly” drop off food at our house. Like full meals… not leftovers. I thought she just liked cooking too much or something. Every time she came by, she’d joke like “oops, made too much again.”
I used to get excited because it meant we were eating good that night.
A few years ago I mentioned it to my mom, laughing about how extra our neighbor was back then.
My mom got quiet for a second and then said, “She knew.”
Turns out there were weeks we barely had anything in the house. My mom was trying to hold everything together and thought she was hiding it well.
But our neighbor noticed. And instead of making it awkward or saying anything, she just pretended it was an accident… over and over again.
All those “oops” meals?
She was feeding us on purpose.

[meowmoon @mikasamybae1]

JJK fans must’ve saved a continent in their past lives

[rick doces @rickdoces]

Honestly? Work.

[daily aang @aangdaily]

People need to understand that the majority of airbenders don��t live in the temples, they’re nomads, so they’re constantly traveling and moving around. The temples act more like retirement homes & daycares for airbenders

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Rep. Maggie Goodlander brought the receipts.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Universal Music is selling $1.4 billion in Spotify shares. It paid nothing for them. Spotify handed the shares over in 2008 just for letting Spotify play music, and the deal was set up so almost none of that money would ever reach the artists who made the music. Taylor Swift's 2018 contract changed that.

Back in 2008, Spotify was a small Swedish startup that needed songs to play. The big record labels had the songs. They had no reason to hand them over cheap, so the two sides cut a deal. Spotify gave them shares. The labels gave Spotify the right to play their music. Universal walked away with 5%. That stake later grew to 7% when Universal bought EMI and rolled EMI's 2% into its own. Then it drifted back to 3% as Spotify took on more investors and shrank everyone's slice. At today's prices, 3% of Spotify is worth about $2.7 billion. Universal sat on those shares for 18 years and never sold a single one. Until yesterday.

Most artists never see royalty money. When a label signs you, it pays you an advance to live on while you make the album. It also covers your studio time, your music videos, your marketing, your tour. All of those costs go on a tab. The label keeps every dollar your music earns until you clear that tab. Berklee, the music school in Boston, says as many as 96% of major-label artists never earn enough to clear it. They stay in the red their entire careers.

Sony moved first in 2018. It sold half its Spotify shares for $768 million and paid $250 million directly to its artists in cash, no matter how much each one still owed. Warner followed a few months later. It sold all of its Spotify shares for $504 million and said $126 million would go to its artists too. Warner played it differently. Most of that money went to pay down what those artists already owed, instead of putting fresh cash in their pockets.

Taylor Swift was negotiating her own deal with Universal that same year. She refused to sign unless Universal put the Sony version of the rule in her contract. Cash to artists, no matter what they owed. She wrote at the time that the clause "meant more to me than any other deal point." Universal had said publicly in March 2018 it would share Spotify money with artists. But it had not put the cash-not-credit rule in writing. Swift's contract, signed eight months later, did.

Universal is finally selling. Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash are about to land in artists' bank accounts, including artists who have spent years or decades in the red and would otherwise get nothing from a sale like this.

Most of those artists have never met Taylor Swift. All of them benefit from a single line she insisted on eight years ago.

[ғᴜᴊᴏʜᴀɴ ʟᴇɪʙᴇʀᴛ 💞🍨💒 @femme_seme]

golden kamuy will provide salient commentary on the plight of the ainu ppl emphasizing how much their culture needs to be preserved in the face of imperialistic forces one second & then u flip the page & all of a sudden ur flashbanged with a double spread of tanigaki doing this

[Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸 @TaraSetmayer]

This should be front page news. EVERYWHERE