Marmalade is a male creamsicle cat. His dog sister, Maple, recently gave birth to a litter of puppies. You might think the young cat would shy away from the new puppies. The opposite is true. Marmalade has decided that puppies need a dad, and he is stepping into that role. As cat Dad to at least six puppies, Marmalade rules the roost. @maplemoo1 Marmalade couldn’t wait for his puppies to grow up & play with him. I love seeing how gentle he was when they were so delicate & the gradual switch up when they finally start playing with him. & yet it’s still so far from how he played with Maple (mum) #marmalade #puppy #catanddog #cockerspaniels #showcockerspaniel #showcockerspaniels #growingup #kittenandpuppy #bestfriends #uncle #unclemarms #cockerspaniel #kitten #puppies #maple ♬ Hey There Delilah – Sahar Marmalade supervises feeding time, ensuring all the pups have enough to eat. After meals, naps are a must, with the cat lying near the pups in case they awaken. Then it’s bath time, followed by playtime. Marmalade takes an active interest in everything the little puppies do throughout the day. The responsible cat Dad helps bathe the puppies and comforts them. Watching the puppies grow, the cat Dad adjusts to his changing role. As they wean to solid food, he keeps a watchful eye. When the humans decide to play, Marmalade ensures they don’t play too rough with his little charges. The puppies move to supervised outside play as they grow, and the cat stays beside them. Image from TikTok. Marmalade is gentle as the puppies learn to roughhouse, even though they will soon be bigger than him. The cat tolerates his puppies, even as they begin the “chew everything” phase, and try to eat his face. Playing with dogs is not new to this cat. He is accustomed to sparring with the puppies’ mom, Maple. Marmalade grew up under the gentle care of Maple, so it seems the cat is repaying the favor by helping her raise her puppies. @maplemoo1 Not sure who wins this round #maple #marmalade #cockerspaniel #showcockerspaniel #cockerspaniel#kittenanddog #dogandcat #spaniel #playfight #round1 #tomcat #prepregnancy #workingcocker #joules ♬ Rocky (Main Theme) – The Intermezzo Orchestra Watching Maple and Marmalade co-parent these puppies is beautiful. When the cat has the puppies, it gives Mom Maple a chance to rest. Please share. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Cat Appoints Himself “Dad” To Adorable Litter Of Puppies appeared first on InspireMore.

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If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. A puff piece in the Times built around an interview with Bill Gates revealed that the Microsoft co-founder and lately vaccines, digital IDs, etc. “warrior” harbors negative feelings toward Elon Musk, but also social media as such. It seems that governments and elites that feel the same way will always be able to count on Gates for support, including him hinting at what they should do about the “problem” of Musk, and social networking. The implication from what Gates said during the interview is that they should act against, or censor Musk because of his political views, publicly expressed on X. Not in so many words, but Gates here backs the UK government and the press that’s in its corner, who has been lambasting Musk as a “billionaire bully” who interferes in the country’s affairs – because he has opinions on issues such as the grooming gangs scandal. The doting interviewer describes Gates as “responsible” and on a mission to “save lives” (as opposed to how the Times sees Musk) – and Gates agreed. “I’m ultra-different. It’s really insane that he can destabilize the political situations in countries. I think in the US foreigners aren’t allowed to give money; other countries maybe should adopt safeguards to make sure super-rich foreigners aren’t distorting their elections,” he said. That was “super-rich” coming from Gates, considering how much his foundation interferes in societies, particularly in developing countries, from agriculture and vaccination, to pushing the so-called Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI). Gates then makes a dig at Musk’s many high profile businesses to share that he cannot understand why Musk would care about wide-scale child sexual exploitation. Why is he “obsessing about this grooming story in the UK. I’m like, what?,” said Gates, the supposed altruistic “life saver.” He also slammed Musk for “promoting right wing” and “populist stirring” such as when he voices support for Germany’s opposition AfD party, that’s under heavy pressure from the establishment in that country but also from the EU. Regarding social media, Gates describes it as a “problem” and then “thinks of the children” but also about “misinformation” to justify that stance – although his wording is different as he accuses the platforms of allowing “crazy non-factual things to achieve critical mass.” Once again, Gates would like to see government action against the things he dislikes, and is “disappointed” that allegedly neither the government nor tech companies are/have not been doing anything about “fixing or improving” the situation. He’s “thinking of the children” once again here (just not so much about those who were the victims of UK’s grooming gangs and the censorship around it). “This approach isn’t going to be very good. Take vaccine misinformation: that could get dangerous. Children can die of measles,” said Gates. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Bill Gates Suggests Governments Should Act Against Elon Musk for Political Posts, Calls for Regulation of Social Media appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Intelligence Community Directive 406 was signed in the dying days of the Biden Administration – on January 16 – essentially, yet another part in a recent big drive, pushed particularly strongly during the recent WEF meetings in Davos, to promote “public-private” partnerships. The directive, as Ken Klippenstein reports signed by the then director of national intelligence, was focused on encouraging US intelligence agencies to “partner” with those privately owned corporations that already have troves of data at their disposal – such as, for example, tech corporations behind social platforms, but also those developing AI. A new administration has taken over in the US, and as of this time, it remains unclear how or if it intends to implement and use these newly introduced powers. The order’s key provisions are to facilitate how spy agencies can use both data and expertise that corporations have. The misgivings about this particular policy view have to do with how vast both these categories have become, and how they have fueled financial success of tech companies, and therefore their role. It could also be read as one last ditch effort to compromise the credibility of Big Tech, and put a question mark over some new trends, involving a number of these corporations openly turning against their “tormentors” of many years, and embracing the new administration. And, if the order were to be carried out by that new administration, it would see intelligence agencies going “all in” to create – or deepen – their work with the said companies, including by employing “risk acceptance” as a part of prioritizing National Security Entity (NSE) engagements. This comes down to the US intelligence apparatus supposedly relaxing its own security restrictions in order to advance such “partnerships.” The document details how this should happen, one thing being “expanding the use of one-time read-ins” which would do away with previously established security clearance protocols when the need is identified for private individuals to be “briefed” by US spy agencies. Observers note that the directive is murky in terms of what specific kind of “engagement and cooperation” it seeks to promote, but, Ken Klippenstein writes, “their target clearly includes the appistocracy who attended President Trump’s inauguration last week.” Klippenstein’s take is that the government needs Big Tech more than is the case the other way around. The Trump administration’s moves, specifically around how the directive is carried out, will shed light on that point. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Intelligence Community Directive 406 Expands US Spy Agencies’ Ties with Big Tech appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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