Welcome to the end of the “work” week: it’s Friday, April 11, 2025, and National Cheese Fondue Day. Here’s Martha Stewart preparing one. It’s not hard, and very tasty.
It’s also Barbershop Quartet Day, International Louie Louie Day (Richard Berry, the song’s writer, was born on this day in 1935), National Poutine Day (in Canada), and National Dive Bar Day (much beloved by Anthony Bourdain). Here’s Richard Berry, who had a huge hit with his song, but didn’t make much from it as he signed away the rights in 1959, before the Kingsmen made their famous recording:
Posting will be light today as yesterday I had to to go downtown to get measured (or whatever they do) for a cataract operation. After I cooled my heels for an hour in the waiting room, it I went through a measuring process that took about 10 minutes. I’ll have the operation this summer. Ah, the wages of age. . . .
Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this day by consulting the April 11 Wikipedia page.
Da Nooz:
Nooz will be scant today as I spent several hours cooling my heels, getting my corneas measured, and getting answers to questions about cataract surgery. I will probably have it in August. Otherwise, all is well, and regular Nooz will resume tomorrow. I doubt there will be much on national politics today, and anyway it’s all bad.
*There was a big jump in the market yesterday as Trump paused some tariffs, but of course the markets are really unstable, and yesterday they dropped “bigly” (as Trump would say).
U.S. stocks fell sharply Thursday, as investors sort through a global economic outlook that remains uncertain despite drastic improvements over the past 24 hours.
The declines accelerated after the White House said the tariffs imposed on China by President Trump in his second term add up to 145%, not the 125% it previously indicated. Stocks then pared those losses in afternoon trading.
The Nasdaq Composite, which posted its biggest gain in more than two decades on Wednesday, recently traded about 4.7% lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 1,200 points, or about 3%.
Bank stocks and tech shares were hit hard, retracing some of Wednesday’s epic gains. Wall Street’s fear gauge, the CBOE Volatility Index, was rising though far below levels of earlier this week. Gold was up 3% in a sign of rising anxiety and on track for a new record on a most-active futures basis.
Global markets soared overnight, catching up with Wednesday’s epic tariff-pause rally in New York. But there was an undertone of skepticism: While the worst may have been avoided, tariffs are still likely to weigh on growth and boost inflation. Betting markets still call a recession even money, for whatever that’s worth.
Wall Street parsed the latest consumer-price index, which showed inflation slowing more than expected, to a 2.4% annual rate. Prices for shorter-dated Treasurys rallied, pushing down yields, following the CPI data.
On Thursday, the European Union said it will suspend its first wave of retaliatory duties against the U.S. for 90 days to focus on negotiations after the Trump administration’s pause.
Trump’s reciprocal tariffs on nearly 100 nations took effect Wednesday. Later, as he paused the levies on other nations, Trump said he had raised China’s import tax in response to its retaliatory measures.
The man is insane, I tell you. These Trumpian tariffs accomplish nothing except destabilize the world economy. I’m still worried about a recession, but I’m also torn because a recession would be the best thing to happen to get a lot of Democrats elected during the midterm and, perhaps, in 2028.
*And this morning I read that China has really escalated the tariff wars, raising the tariff of American goods to a huge 125%.
China responded to President Trump’s tariffs on Friday, raising its own tariffs on American goods to 125 percent, as the world’s two biggest economies extended a fast-moving tit-for-tat that has seen the cost of trade soar and fueled concerns over a global recession.
The announcement came after Trump administration officials clarified that China was now facing a minimum tariff rate of 145 percent on all exports to the United States. China said its new tariffs, which raise the tax on American imports from 84 percent, would take effect on Saturday.
Stock markets shuddered in response to the latest salvo in the trade war, which came after markets in Asia closed. Stocks in Germany, whose export-driven economy is exposed to global tensions, dropped more than 1 percent. U.S. stocks were set to open about half a percent lower.
*The Daily Princetonian reports that when former Israeli Prime Minister spoke at the school on Monday, there was extensive disruption of his talk by pro-Palestinian protestors—disruption that, according to the WSJ, is against University rules. What did Princeton do about these violations? Almost nothing.
From TDP:
A walkout, a fire alarm, and a group singing the Israeli national anthem.
A speaker event with former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday was interrupted at various points, with approximately 20 protesters walking out of the event, an extended disruption by an individual who does not appear to have an affiliation with Princeton in the middle, a subsequent fire alarm interruption, singing by the event’s attendees at the end, and yelling between protesters and event attendees in the courtyard after.
The off-the-record event, which was hosted by the Center of Jewish Life (CJL) and co-sponsored by the School of Public and International Affairs, the Program in Judaic Studies, Scharf Family Chabad House of Princeton, and the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, was held in McCosh 10. Rabbi Gil Steinlauf ’91, the director of the CJL, moderated the discussion. Approximately 200 students, faculty, and other community members were in attendance.
Outside the building, about 200 pro-Palestine protesters chanted, screamed and banged on drums in a display of their dissatisfaction at the decision to host the former Israeli prime minister. The chants of protestors outside were audible inside the lecture hall throughout the talk, and reached as far as Firestone Library and the Architecture Building.
Steinlauf welcomed former Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett to the stage shortly after 7:30 p.m. Before declaring that the event was off-the-record, Steinlauf briefly read through Princeton’s regulations on free speech and warned that disrupters would be removed from the event and may face sanctions.
After 20 minutes, about 20 demonstrators stood up and began chanting “Naftali Bennett, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.” They promptly walked out of the room to join the protest outside, followed out of the lecture hall by a free speech coordinator, a University staff member charged with enforcing regulations around protests. Outside, they were greeted with cheers from the demonstrators gathered in the courtyard.
A few minutes after, Sayel Kayed, a man sitting near the front, stood and began shouting at Bennett, quoting civilian death tolls in Gaza: “15,000 children killed, what do you say to that?” Kayed does not appear to have any connection to Princeton, and posted about the disruption on his Instagram.
Kayed — accompanied by a second individual videoing the disruption — continued shouting at Bennett for two minutes before he walked out, followed by Public Safety (PSafe) officers, a free speech coordinator, and Dean Jarrett Fisher, who often handles free speech-related events. Much of the audience applauded as Bennett delivered a rebuttal to Kayed.
“Instead of whining for the past 80 years and building your own future, you have focused on killing the Jews. It’s time the Palestinians stopped whining,” Bennett said, according to a video of the exchange posted on social media.
The WSJ wants punishment, and I agree. Rules that aren’t enforced are not rules at all.
Mr. Eisgruber’s statement in response was a reasonable start. “I am appalled at reports of antisemitic language directed by demonstrators at members of our community,” he said. “Such behavior is reprehensible and intolerable. The University is investigating and will pursue disciplinary measures as appropriate.” At least one disrupter inside the hall “was not a member of our community and we are taking action against him.” Mr. Eisgruber added that he’d expressed his “regrets personally to Mr. Bennett and thanked him for visiting.”
But how about some academic suspensions? Princeton’s rules of conduct, drawing from the University of Chicago’s statement on free speech, say students “may not obstruct or otherwise interfere with the freedom of others to express views they reject.” Who pulled the fire alarm? Who was yelling antisemitic taunts at Jewish students? If they were students, why would Princeton want them?
Mr. Trump has halted federal grants to Princeton, and Monday’s disruption might be looped into the discussion between the school and Trump Administration. The best move for Princeton would be to do a swift investigation, impose real consequences under its disciplinary authority, and make the outcome public. That’s true regardless of the federal money, but colleges could learn a few things from Mr. Trump about deterrence.
*In contrast, Stanford took pretty hard action against its own protesters, charging some of them with felonies:
A dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators who were arrested at Stanford University last year after they occupied and allegedly caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to a campus building are now facing charges.
The twelve people, current and former Stanford students, have been charged with felony vandalism and felony conspiracy to trespass, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday in a news release.
Those charged range in age from 19 to 32, the DA’s office said. They will be arraigned later this month at the Hall of Justice in San Jose.
A student journalist, who was arrested with the protesters but was not accused of participating in the vandalism, was not charged.
The Stanford takeover began around dawn on June 5, 2024, the last day of spring classes at the university in California’s Silicon Valley. Some protesters barricaded themselves inside the building, which houses the university president’s office. Others linked arms outside, The Stanford Daily reported at the time. The group chanted “Palestine will be free, we will free Palestine.”
The takeover ended three hours later.
Prosecutors accuse the demonstrators of spray-painting on the building, breaking windows and furniture, disabling security cameras and splattering a red liquid described as fake blood on items throughout the building. Damages were estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to prosecutors.
Cellphones belonging to those arrested showed communications about the planning of the operation, including a “do-it-yourself occupation guide,” prosecutors said.
Given what the Trump administration is doing to those who get arrested and aren’t American citizens, I expect things will be quieter on our campus this year. Again, I favor free speech, but those who break the rules about the time, place, and manner in which it’s implemented should be punished.
*Canadian universities mostly lack the policy of institutional neutrality (i.e., the “Kalven Principles”) that about two dozen American universities have. But some faculty at the University of British Columbia are suing their school for making political statements, at least some of which have no relevance to the mission of the university (the only statements that “neutral” schools should be making. Apparently UBC has espoused a policy of neutrality, but is violating it right and left. From the CBC News:
A group of professors and a graduate student are taking the University of British Columbia to court to stop the school from engaging in “political activity,” which they claim limits academic freedom and violates legislation requiring it to be non-political.
The petition filed in B.C. Supreme Court Monday says the school is breaching the University Act through the use of Indigenous land acknowledgements, promotion of equity and inclusion initiatives and by taking positions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A section of the act requires universities to be both non-sectarian and non-political, but the group claims UBC is engaging in activities that violate the legislation.
. . .The petitioners, which include philosophy professor Andrew Irvine, English professor Michael Treschow and others, claim the university should be prohibited from declaring it is on “unceded Indigenous” land.
“The use of the term ‘unceded’ is inherently political,” the petition says. “The declaration that land is unceded is often considered synonymous or closely affiliated in meaning with the assertion that the territory of Canada is ‘stolen land’ and that the speaker, at least to some degree, and in this respect, does not recognize Canada as a lawful or legitimate state.”
That may sound trivial, but there are other issues:
The petitioners also claim the university has taken “nakedly political” stands on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through resolutions passed by the senate at UBC Okanagan and the faculty of creative and critical studies condemning Israel’s actions in Gaza.
They claim that job applicants are required to adhere to and believe in the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion and acknowledge “that individuals, institutions and societies are inherently patriarchal, colonialist and racist.”
“To impose (equity, diversity and inclusion) hiring requirements is to require faculty applicants to expressly commit to a set of specific political beliefs as a condition of employment,” the document says.
. . . The petitioners want the court to order the university to stop declaring it’s on unceded Indigenous land, from making statements on the morality or lawfulness of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and from requiring job applicants to declare support for “diversity, equity and inclusion doctrines.”
We’ll see if Canada puts its money where its rules are. If they can take sides on the Gaza war, they can take sides on any political or ideological issues. And yes, the doctrinaire version of DEI to which one must pay fealty to get a job is a form of coerced speech and should be eliminated.
Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili is helping with the planting:
Andrzej: What are you doing?Hili: I’m pollinating strawberries.
Ja: Co ty robisz?Hili: Zapylam truskawki.
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From Stash Krod. What is this sign trying to say? Beware of flying cats?
From Jesus of the Day:
Reposted on Facebook:
From JKR. This makes sense only if you know the backstory (see it at The Scotsman). An excerpt:
NHS Fife has made a legal bid to ban the public watching from virtually watching the rest of the employment tribunal centred around a dispute over a trans doctor.
The health board has asked the judge overseeing the case to remove public access to the online livestream and restrict access to journalists only when the tribunal restarts in July.
NHS Fife said the first stage of the tribunal was marred by “technical issues and interruptions” from the public watching online, which caused “significant delays”.
It has also asked for an online group called Tribunal Tweets to be banned from posting live social media updates on the case due to several “inaccuracies”.
The tribunal case has been brought forward by nurse Sandie Peggie, who was suspended by NHS Fife after objecting to sharing a changing room with a trans doctor.
. . . Separately Ms Peggie is facing disciplinary action from NHS Fife for misconduct and for compromising patient safety by refusing to work effectively with Dr Beth Upton.
Yep, you get into trouble if you’re a biological woman who doesn’t want to share a changing room with a trans-identified male. Rowling thinks the NHS doesn’t want the male doctor to be seen by the public:
Presumably because it will be easier to pretend a large, trans-identified natal male belongs in women’s changing rooms if the public can’t see what he looks like. https://t.co/e5lLIrxThP
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 10, 2025
From Malcolm. I’d sure rather play balloonball with a kitty than go out!
“Sorry I got plans”
The plans: pic.twitter.com/VOAX0Tz6iA
— Posts Of Cats (@PostsOfCats) March 30, 2025
From Bryan. Remember this visualization of a black hole?
🎊6th anniversary of the first image of a #blackhole seen by humanity!
🌀M87* is a supermassive black hole located at the center of the elliptical galaxy M87. The @ehtelescope , with ALMA participation, managed to obtain the first image of this black hole. pic.twitter.com/eTCPYkbpBs— ALMA Observatory📡 (@almaobs) April 10, 2025
From my feed: Big Fun!
Nobody has ever had as much fun at a party as these two are having at this party 😆pic.twitter.com/tJbsDsIvgM
— Interesting things (@awkwardgoogle) April 9, 2025
From my BlueHair site. This really IS a Daily Fail! The only proper response is, “No, they haven’t!”
Scientists have brought back the dire wolf after 12,000 years of extinction. 🤯 #direwolf #animals #extinction #science
From the Auschwitz Memorial, one that I retweeted:
Gassed to death upon arriving at Auschwitz. Had she lived, today would be her 90th birthday.
— Jerry Coyne (@evolutionistrue.bsky.social) 2025-04-11T10:07:34.120Z
Two posts from Dr. Cobb. First, NO FOREIGN IDEAS! (viz., Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Ideas
— Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) 2025-04-10T16:30:19.763Z
. . . and colorful baby scallops:
Colorful babies#invertebrates
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse. … Increasing prosperity tends to breed indifference and to corrupt moral soundness. Glaring inequalities in condition create discontent and strain the democratic relation. The vicious are the willing, and the ignorant are unconscious instruments of political artifice. Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. … The peril of this nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope! -Charles Evans Hughes, jurist and statesman (11 Apr 1862-1948)
Great thought for today.
I can’t wait until the yahoos see how much it is going to cost them to celebrate on July 4th this year.
The Japanese sign says “look out for cats suddenly emerging. “ . Kind of like, “deer crossing for the next two miles”. I guess they have a lot of (stray?) cats in that area wandering about.
Good luck with your cataract surgery. The results can be amazingly good. My new eye (done two weeks ago) is much sharper than my old one. It does take a few days to reach optimal sharpness though. Don’t be discouraged by minor defects. low contrast, etc the first day or two.
I have not had this malady (yet), but 10-12 friends and wife have with similar reports as Lou. ALL successful results.
I had cataract surgery a few years ago and have been generally pleased with the results. However I was told that I would no longer need glasses but that wasn’t quite true. It was true that I did not need glasses for distance but I could no longer see close objects clearly and could no longer read books. I tried using reading glasses but that was a hassle because it is surprising how often you need to switch from distance to close viewing. I ended up getting bifocals with plain glass for distance.
Similar experience here. I had been near-sighted most of my life. After cataract surgery I could now see at a distance, but not up close.
I find using reading glasses on a chain works well.
When I had the cataract surgery (2014 I think), I accepted the ophthalmologist/surgeon’s suggestion that she use implant lenses with focussing power not quite to provide perfect vision at infinity, but with +1.0 diopter adjustment, to make reading easier. It did help!
Yes, that’s expected. The artificial lenses can’t focus. There are types that have extended focus depth though. That helps a lot. But there are some that have such extreme depth of focus that they produce haloes. Best not to go overboard.
I had cataract operations on both eyes about eighteen months ago, at age 80. The result was spectacular (pun intended). I can now read a car number plate at 40 metres; the legal requirement for driving is 20 metres. I can read in bright light without glasses. At my follow-up test my optician remarked that he has seen a marked improvement in the results in the last two years, so I guess that the technology is continually improving.
In the UK, under the NHS, the whole business cost me nothing at the point of delivery.
I also had cataract surgery 3 years ago, with excellent results. They did one eye at a time, so I had only one new lens for a few weeks. The change in the COLOR I was seeing was startling – looking at a sink or toilet with the new lens, it appeared brilliant white, while with the old eye it was a dingy tan.
The actual ICE post doesn’t have “Ideas” it has “Intellectual Property”
https://x.com/ICEgov/status/1910449654275199074/photo/1
Yeah, that’s a fake post. The scallops post is almost fake. They don’t say it but they imply that these are natural. They are dyed. IMO, deliberate omission of information to understand what you’re seeing is a form of lying.
Too bad all the replies to that post on BS fully believe that it’s true.
Leaving out all profanity, which is difficult, also yesterday Junior Kennedy (JrK) came out saying that single-antigen vaccines don’t work, tanking Moderna and NovaVax stocks. Hello? What do you think the COVID vaccines are, both mRNA- (Pfizer & Moderna) and protein- (NovaVax) based types, as well as the Shingrix vaccine vs. Shingles. Deliberations on approving next year’s versions of the COVID and flu vaccines have been delayed.
These vaccines are a triumph of molecular biology and biochemistry. HHS needs to be run preferably by a competent MD/PhD or if not that then one or the other, not an attorney, especially one that’s an anti-vaxx loon.
Also more anti-vax or misleading stuff from RFK Jr (the Atlantic magazine):
https://archive.ph/bMegg
Just when you think Trump is the biggliest grifter on the planet… in walks RFK and says “Hold my beer”.
Thx for the reference Frau K.
As I’ve noted here – RFK is the most dangerous American we have in our national strategic reserve of idiots.
D.A.
NYC
Regarding Naftali Bennett’s speaking engagement at Princeton, I read about the disruptions, and it’s good to know that Princeton’s president Eisgruber will be conducting an investigation.
But what was security like during the event? Bennett’s visit was obviously going to be a lighting rod for protest, so why couldn’t Princeton’s security contingent stop the protesters from disrupting the event at the start? Why couldn’t they have been escorted out and, in the case of the protestor who was not affiliated with Princeton—who presumably didn’t have a Princeton ID—why wasn’t he arrested for trespassing? I don’t understand why there couldn’t be a more proactive position taken by the administration. I’m sure that there were constraints, but I’d like to know why incidents like these can’t be prevented or squelched immediately when they start. Squelching them immediately would have a deterrent effect, no?
In other UBC news, they have reopened many of their graduate program applications for September admission of Americans. Apparently there are lots of students who want to flee the Orange Menace and will pay international tuition rates in order to come live in what Leslie called our little utopia.
What are they fleeing? The inchoate vision of President Trump or the more concrete fear of being expelled for misconduct at American universities that have smelled Trump’s coffee?
Be sure to soak the foreigners for all you can, to make them worth the trouble they’ll cause you.
My own university is following suit. Yes it’s about getting those sweet, sweet international fees. But it also seems to be about rescuing fellow progressives from Trump. At least that’s how it seems given we didn’t throw open the doors to American conservatives after Obama and Biden were elected (tho to be fair nobody could cross the border in November 2020).
Sorry Canada – we’re evidently not sending you our best people. 🙂
And it isn’t like there is a shortage at your end of tantrumy girls who aren’t doing well emotionally and shouting River to Sea at YOUR unis. Concordia and some in Toronto are more insane than Gaza these days.
Why don’t these activists flee there? To Gaza? Or Tehran? No skin in the game I say!
D.A.
NYC
Flying Japanese cats:
Literally says: “Be careful of jumping/running (out into the road) cats” – but you need the context. Japanese roads are festooned by signs like “Kids playing – careful” or “Don’t speed, kids crossing!” admonishing speedsters.
Local neighborhood associations (“Cho-kai”) can put up signs there in a way they can’t in the west – so every local complaint gets ACTION!
Presumably …. some cats were run over so the local Citizens Committee, no doubt in a melee of polite rage.. compromised on a sign like this. The artwork is unusual though.
I’m not saying that is the case here, but in my experience of living there as a young man before I came to the US and speaking Japanese – I’m triangulating what probably happened.
And I know cats rarely fly. Pigs however…
D.A.
NYC
(formerly of Tokyo)
Best of luck with your surgery. Getting cataract surgery was like liberation day for me. I’d been totally dependent on glasses since 7yo and couldn’t tolerate contacts. Thick, heavy lenses sitting on my nose all day. Ugh!
Reading glasses can be a pain to keep track of, so I have 6 pair sitting around the house, and a couple in the car.
I will have slightly more respect (which isn’t hard since I have zero today) for the antisemites protesting at the universities if they continue to protest when there are known consequences that could include felony convictions, such as Stanford is indicating.
Tariffs are a tax paid ultimately paid by the end consumer, as are other business taxes. I’m very pro free-trade and see tariffs as raising prices on the consumer and increasing tension between countries. However, it does look like Trump is using them as a lever to negotiate with US trading partners rather than as a long-term tax, with the possible exception of Chy-Na, but I wouldn’t bet against that one being greatly reduced or going away either. We changed most of our suppliers from China-based to Vietnam-based a few years ago, so it looks like we will be OK provided President Cuong sucks up to Trump sufficiently.
The Canada tariff situation is interesting. On one hand I read that Canada did not impose a 300% tariff on dairy products, but on closer inspection, I’ve learned that there is an > 200% tariff rate for US dairy products exceeding the allowable quota of goods coming into Canada, but because the quantity was below the allowed quantity, the tariffs were not triggered. Of course not – the price wouldn’t be competitive, so no US company is going to push beyond the barrier! Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman told told CBS News the dairy tariffs are in place to “protect our farmers and families.” Also, the allowable quantities for US dairy products are below what other countries are allowed to import before restrictive tariffs are imposed. So I feel like I’m being gaslit. Still 100% against tariffs on goods coming into the US, but spotting holes in some of the stories about them.
Prior to recent Trump actions, there were almost no tariffs between Canada and the US. A handful of products had tariffs, due to local conditions.
Canada has a weird way of doing dairy: farmers have to apply for a quota. It’s far from a free market locally and hence the tariffs. The dairy farmers don’t want the competition.
The US has a tariff on softwood lumber, the major product of my province, BC. It’s related to (I think) differing rates that companies are charged on what they log.
In Canada most logging is on public land, in the US, it’s on private land. US loggers insist on a tariff.
So softwood lumber has been excluded from all free trade agreements. We still export quite a bit anyway.
I had cataract surgery last year. A smooth and painless procedure. My eyesight is multiple times better. Life-transforming.
Sorry Canada – we’re evidently not sending you our best people. 🙂
And it isn’t like there is a shortage at your end of tantrumy girls who aren’t doing well emotionally and shouting River to Sea at YOUR unis. Concordia and some in Toronto are more insane than Gaza these days.
Why don’t these activists flee there? To Gaza? Or Tehran? No skin in the game I say!
D.A.
NYC
When I was facing cataract surgery 18 months ago, I was faced with a bewildering array of lens choices, whose pros and cons were not adequately explained by the surgeon. After doing a lot of personal investigation, I eventually opted for the traditional “distance only” lenses. To my surprise, they also improved my near vision to the point at which I can now even use my cell phone without glasses.
The “latest and greatest” lenses have downsides that need to be considered carefully before choosing them.
Good luck!
I hope your cataract surgery goes well, Jerry. I have cataracts, and I’m almost blind in my right eye. I am waiting for an appointment from the hospital to have the right eye done and the left a few weeks later. I’m looking forward to not having to wear glasses after the operation. I am 70 and worn glasses since I was around 12 so I will be a new man. All the best.
https://x.com/Evolutionistrue/status/1910667636368621999 ✨🐱✨
https://x.com/kanban_bot/status/1905826555739132172 🇯🇵🐱⚠️
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHypzrtOXoT/ 🇯🇵🐱⚠️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dnai%2C_Yamagata 🗾
This “cat sign” seems to be in Shonai, Japan. 🐈🐈⬛🐈
The purpose is to prevent “cat traffic accidents.” 🚙⚠️