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LA Times: Police say burning Tesla battery prevented them from saving driver in fatal crash (1/30/25)

"A 2025 Tesla Model Y was southbound on Madrona Avenue when, for unknown reasons, the electric car swerved to the right, collided with a traffic pole and caught fire with the driver trapped inside, authorities said. ...Officers tried to get into the vehicle to save the driver, but, β€œdue to the intensity of the flames and heat, they were unable to rescue the occupant,” the department said."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-30/tesla-battery-fire-fatal-crash-rescue

In Central and Eastern Europe there were numerous reasons why people might become vampires, often through no fault of their own. These could include having red hair (like Cain and Judas apparently had), being born with a caul or being born with teeth. Eating a sheep that had been killed by a wolf or having an animal, especially a cat, walk on your grave could also place you among the undead. For this reason, pets were often kept indoors during funerals. Vampirism could result from being born a seventh child or being born to a mother who neglected to put salt on her food. Having blue eyes in areas where brown eyes were more common - or vice versa - also boosted your chances of becoming a bloodsucker.

Bela Lugosi in vampire costume opening his cape in front of a blond woman in a purple dress.

A mosaic of five book covers: Jay Matterne; Every Living Thing; Eat, Poop, Die; Playing Possum; and Why Animals Talk

Ooh, histoplasmosis from bat guano fertilizer! First time I have seen a report of this here... Links to this study. ps. nothing to do with cannabis, everything to do with the bat guano.

https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/11/12/ofae711/7917418?login=false

NY Times article headline: Bat Feces Used to Fertilize Cannabis Is Linked to 2 Deaths Two men in Rochester, N.Y., died after being infected with a rare fungus found in bat feces, which is sometimes used as fertilizer, researchers wrote in a medical journal.

Dead in Long Beach, California. By Venita Blackburn.

You discover your only sibling dead in his apartment, but you don’t tell any family or friends he died, even his daughter, instead taking his phone and pretending to be him, alive, still living; meanwhile, various ghosts (of yourself?) from the past, as well as a future android (?), observe your deceptions, which of course can’t last long.

5 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈!

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Book cover with a 70s ish font and two ragged palm trees
Book cover with a 70s ish font and two ragged palm trees
Book cover with a 70s ish font and two ragged palm trees