!! OMG, Happy Pride! The SideNote pod guys did an episode on the science and history of Gay Cruising !!

Mitch and Greg of ASAPScience‘s SideNote podcast just dropped an episode on gay cruising, tracing the practice from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics through Renaissance-era crackdowns to modern hookup apps. There’s also a genuinely wild 1970s sociological study in there, which found that many men seeking anonymous public encounters were otherwise living outwardly straight suburban lives.

The science portion makes the case that while same-sex behavior is common across the animal kingdom, cruising is a uniquely human response to social oppression and shame. Interesting! Check them out above!

!! OMG, this free app lets you ‘catch’ real neighbourhood cats like Pokémon !!

Someone made Pokémon Go but for cats you encounter on the street! CatchCat is a free app that launched in June 2026 and lets you photograph a real cat you spot in the wild, and then turns it into a collectible trading card complete with a generated name, rarity level, and stats.

A neighborhood tabby becomes a Rare. A particularly imperious-looking Persian becomes a Legendary, and so on!
There are approximately a million games about catching fictional creatures and zero (until now) about cataloguing the actual kitties that live behind your local dumpster.

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!! OMG, new data analysis says the New York Times stopped covering trans people and started covering “the trans debate”, real consequences followed !!

Civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo has published a data analysis of New York Times trans coverage, and the findings are getting a lot of attention. According to the analysis, something shifted editorially around 2022 — stories that had previously centered trans people’s lives and rights started giving way to a steadier diet of medical doubt and political conflict framing. GLAAD and other advocacy organizations say they saw this coming and have been raising the alarm for years.

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!! OMG, Brazilian Olympic gold gymnast Rebeca Andrade comes out by sharing a photo with her girlfriend on Insta !!

Brazil’s golden girl just made our hearts do a perfect 10! Rebeca Andrade, Olympic champion, Beyoncé collaborator, and the most decorated Brazilian gymnast in history, just came out over the weekend by posting a sweet photo with her girlfriend on Instagram.

The comments were flooded with love from fans around the world. We stan a champion who knows when to stick the dismount. HAPPY PRIDE! Find her post after the jump!

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