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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

That photo costs about $17. The premium version, where the tiger’s head rests in your lap, goes for around $140. Selling these poses made Thailand’s Tiger Temple roughly $3 million a year, until police raided it in 2016 and pulled 40 dead tiger cubs out of a freezer.

Thailand has about 1,960 tigers locked in cages right now. Almost all of them are at places that sell tourist photos. The most recent Thai government count of wild tigers came back at 179 to 223. There are eight to ten times more tigers in the photo business than tigers out there hunting deer in the forest.

Police forced their way into the Tiger Temple in May 2016 and walked out with 137 live tigers. They also found 40 frozen cubs in a kitchen freezer. Twenty more cubs were floating in jars of preserving fluid. Authorities stopped a temple staff member trying to drive off the property with two whole tiger pelts, ten tiger fangs, and around 1,500 small good-luck charms made from tiger skin.

Speed breeding is what keeps the supply going. Mothers get their cubs taken at two to three weeks old. The females come back into heat much sooner and pop out another litter long before nature would let them. World Animal Protection investigators walked through Thai tiger parks and found half the cats they saw in cages smaller than a one-car garage. A wild tiger covers 10 to 20 miles in a single night.

Cubs work the photo line for a few months. They get passed from tourist to tourist hundreds of times a day. Most are declawed, which is exactly what it sounds like: amputating part of each toe so they cannot scratch a paying customer. Once a cub grows too big or starts pushing back, it is finished with the photo business and too expensive to feed.

The same animals start a second life as product. In 2007, Thailand signed an international treaty banning the sale of tiger parts. Other tiger countries signed too. Authorities still seized 641 tigers, dead or alive, in smuggling busts across Southeast Asia between 2000 and 2011. DNA tests traced 275 of those straight back to the same kind of farms that sell tourist photos. China and Vietnam are the destination, where the parts are sold as tiger bone wine, tiger skin rugs, and traditional medicine.

After the 2016 raid, the government took custody of all 147 rescued tigers. Eighty-six died within three years. Decades of speed breeding had inbred their bloodlines so badly that their immune systems were already gone by the time anyone tried to save them.

[valentine @valawakened]

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[Molly🎧🏳️‍🌈 @RasberryRazz]

France made this wastefulness illegal cause it’s cruel and only causes more waste issues. Any food market or restaurant over 400 square meters has to donate all their good unsold food to charities and are fined if they do anything like this. That law should be applied everywhere

[Mikerophone @MikerophoneNFL]

So basically, Fanatics excuse for poor jersey quality is that the Patriots/Seahawks were bad in 2024 💀

This doesn’t even touch on the terrible designs, the off center hats, the OUTRAGEOUS prices, and lack of options…

NFL fans need to push the league to dump these guys…

[Jared Forcucci @BuffaloJayFo89]

Joe Marino said it best on @LockedOnBills,

"The #Bills fired the Chef, but not the guy that buys the cheap groceries."

#BillsMafia

[No way Jose😎 @jjllcc7070]

So Rand Paul wants all of us to work to 70 before we draw SS but Congress can draw lifetime pensions and full medical after 5 years for working 9 months out of a year .Did I get that right?

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

Warren Buffetts’s solution to end the US government shut down:

"I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there’s a deficit of more than three percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election."

Do you agree with him?

[Starcade Media @StarcadeMediaKC]

#Chiefs record vs AFC West opponents over the past decade. #broncos #chargers #raiders

[FoundMyFitness Clips @fmfclips]

Taking 10 grams of creatine daily might elevate your brain's creatine stores twice as much compared to lower doses (2–4 grams)

While 5 grams per day saturates muscles, higher doses (~10 grams daily) allow creatine to "spill over" into the brain, bones, and immune system

Neuroimaging studies confirm this 10-gram dose significantly boosts brain energy, improving mitochondrial function in areas critical for mood, memory, and cognition

Under severe stress—like sleep deprivation—higher doses (25–30 grams) rapidly increase brain creatine and high-energy phosphates, reversing cognitive deficits and even enhancing brain function beyond normal rested levels

[Apple TV @AppleTV]

Eat up.

#Severance — Season finale Friday

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Hans Zimmer says it's 'stupid' the score for #Dune2 was disqualified from the #Oscars

"What am I supposed to do, take all the character themes from the first one and make new ones? ... but I didn't want to go and bitch about it"

[Nik Kut @rush_attack]

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[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Barstool Pizza Review - TinyBrickOven (Baltimore, MD)

[Marcus Mosher @Marcus_Mosher]

And yet..... 13 players have better odds to win DPOY on DraftKings.

It doesn't make ANY sense.

[Jesse Newell @jessenewell]

Via @NextGenStats: "Chiefs RT Jawaan Taylor did not allow a single pressure across 28 pass blocking matchups against Maxx Crosby (25 of 28 were one-on-one matchups). Crosby failed to generate a pressure on any of his 41 pass rushes, the most pass rushes without recording a pressure in a game this season. The last time Crosby was held without a pressure was Week 9, 2022."

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

We need Kevin Harlan on primetime games

[Quinn Nelson @SnazzyLabs]

Amazon is basically just expensive Temu at this point. Almost everything is white-labeled garbage.

[Dr. Rhonda Patrick @foundmyfitness]

Even a daily equivalent of one cup of blueberries can significantly enhance cognitive function.

Moreover, blueberries also lowered insulin and glucose levels, linking metabolic health directly to cognitive improvements.

Meta-analyses of many randomized-controlled studies show that blueberry consumption or supplementation with anthocyanins (flavonoids in blueberries) improves attention, psychomotor speed (fine motor skills, shorter reaction time), and memory immediately in the short term and in the long term.

My go-to smoothie: two cups of blueberries along with 3-4 kale leaves and avocado.

Systematic review of RCTs:
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[Metro Boomin @MetroBoomin]

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[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

ALL THE FEELS 🥹❤️