B's Music Shop has announced the Meowdulator ($199.99) which is a guitar effects pedal that meows and purrs (0:24 Instagram video).

Some videos from B's Music Shop: They finally did it. A cat guitar pedal that meows(7:42) The Meowdulator: World's First Guitar Cat Synthesizer by B's Music Shop & Cusack Music (12:24) (Via BoingBoing)

The Guardian: Like the fictional pamphlet from Bridgerton, Eliza Haywood's The Parrot, published in 1746 (here in archive.org) , has a distinctive, mocking voice that punches up and "speaks truth to power". Now, a new book will republish Haywood's funny, subversive periodical, which she wrote from the perspective of an angry green parrot, and seek to raise awareness of her groundbreaking work. A prolific anti-racist, proto-feminist writer, Haywood used her transgressive newsletter to expose 18th-century hypocrisies about race and gender. It was published weekly over nine issues.

More on Eliza Haywood: • Naming, Shaming, Reclaiming: The "Incomparable" Eliza Haywood (The Jane Austen Society of North America) • Goodreads • Archive.org's collection of her works • A master's thesis by Emily Kathryn Booth: Eliza Haywood's Feigning Femmes Fatale: Desirous and Deceptive Women in "Fantomina," Love in Excess, and The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless.

Slate: [W]e spoke to Maggie McCart, an administrative assistant at an Illinois university, who suffers from an extremely rare disease called prosopometamorphopsia, which inflicts patients with a variety of wild hallucinations when they look at someone's face. (archive)

The Guardian (2021): "Mother charged with deepfake plot against daughter's cheerleading rivals". The Guardian (2024): "She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all"