Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

Came across an interesting hypothesis. A journal from 1849 (but the hypothesis appears in many places) suggests that Cinderella’s slippers were not made of glass but were essentially UGG boots. In French, the words vair and verre sound the same, plus there is the tale of Rhodopis, recorded by Strabo in his “Geography” about a Greek girl who married the king of Egypt – this tale is considered one of the earliest versions of “Cinderella” – and it specifically features sandals, with no mention of what they are made from, but definitely no glass. It’s hard, of course, to imagine how one might accidentally drop an UGG boot on a staircase, yet as we see, she managed it.

As if this tree needed to be poisonous

Tricolor

look who is sitting on my shoulder!

I wonder why there are still no ad generators in the style of the channel where the ad is intended to be placed? After all, it’s possible to train AI on the channel’s content and embed ads within real news or analytics, making it seem as though they were authored by the channel. Plus, such a generator could operate in fully automatic mode, scanning similar channels and creating ads on the fly.

Searching online how a camera on a tree knows it’s me. Surely there’s an RFID integrated in the helmet that spills my guts.

Choosing a restaurant to eat at, and here underfoot all sorts are getting in the way

Nadia is impressed: she just ate onion jam.

I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t find a drafting triangle for sale under the word ‘triangle’

Obviously, because it’s not a triangle, but a square

Captain Obvious

For those who miss their garden and vegetable patch. Picked cherries and blueberries at the farm. Photos and details in Nadya’s post