The Squirrels Have Snapped — and the Sun’s Shooting Back
Your daily dose of natural disasters and amazing phenomena for October 21, 2025...
🐿 California Squirrels Go Full Predator Mode
In Briones Regional Park, California, ground squirrels — the nut-eating kind — are now hunting small animals.
Drought and scarcity have turned the cute fuzzballs into opportunistic carnivores.
They’ve even been seen rubbing rattlesnake skin on themselves to mask their scent.
Nature’s getting creative — and mildly terrifying…
🐢 Green Sea Turtles Level Up
From endangered to least concern.
Seriously, that’s not a downgrade — that’s a miracle.
One of the few headlines that doesn’t make me want to live in a bunker…
📺 Warner Bros. Discovery For Sale
Because billionaires haven’t collected all the media companies yet.
Countdown to either Saudi Arabia or Elon Musk buying Bugs Bunny…
🧨 Japan Elects Its Margaret Thatcher
Sanae Takaichi — the country’s first female leader — is a hardliner conservative.
Word is Thatcher looks like a pacifist next to her…
🧬 Meet Your Ancient Cousin
“This is what a Neanderthal looked like.”
Cool — I’ve seen people like this at Walmart.
Also: Super Mario with 130,000 years of backstory…
🌋 Remnants of Proto-Earth Found
MIT scientists found potassium isotope anomalies in ancient rocks — traces of a “lost world” that predated the Moon-forming impact 4.5 billion years ago.
Yes, parts of the original proto-Earth are still inside us.
Deep, huh?
🛏 AWS Crash Melts $2,000 Smart Beds
During the AWS outage, smart beds overheated and locked upright.
Nothing says “tech utopia” like being trapped in your internet-connected mattress… LOL!
Meanwhile, Amazon’s robot army is coming for you… Leaked docs show Amazon plans to replace 600,000 U.S. workers with robots by 2027. They say it’ll save customers money — actually, it just makes Amazon 30¢ richer per item.
Efficiency = fewer humans, bigger yachts…
👻 Cambodia Accuses Thailand of “Ghost Warfare”
Thailand allegedly blasting ghostly broadcasts along the border — psychological ops with a paranormal twist.
Bring back the good ol’ Vietnam War tactics, huh?
🕶 Arctic Sunglasses — 4,000 Years Old
People above the Arctic Circle invented snow goggles millennia ago.
Turns out, ancient brains were just as advanced — minus the Wi-Fi addiction.
Timeless style, zero microplastics…
🐦 Birds of a Feather Scream Together
Over 20 bird species across 4 continents share the same “whining” alarm call when parasites threaten their nests.
Evolution says: teamwork makes the scream work…
🏺 Tutankhamun’s Tomb Cracking Apart
Archaeologists warn that King Tut’s tomb — humanity’s most famous burial site — is at risk of collapse.
Humidity, cracks, fungi — ancient curse DLC unlocked…
🏀 Bureaucratic Madness: Boy Banned From Boys’ Team
A teen was told to join the girls’ basketball team because of a birth certificate typo.
They’ve literally created a rule so rigid it breaks reality.
Malicious compliance mode: activated…
💥 Mystery Booms Shake Cambridge, NZ
Residents in Cambridge (Waikato) are jolted awake by unexplained explosions.
No reports, no cause, no explanation — just nightly skyquakes.
New Zealand joins the global boom map…
☀ HYDROGEN TRACER FIRE — Solar Madness
Magnetic fields on the Sun casually held a trillion kilograms of hydrogen 50,000 km above the surface — glowing like WWII tracer fire.
Basically, the Sun just flexed on us again…
REMINDER: Comet Lemmon’s closest approach to Earth is happening tonight! only 0.6 AU away. The comet is about as bright as a 4th magnitude star, making it a borderline naked-eye object that looks terrific through small telescopes.
Look northwest after sunset:
Enjoy the sky show!
It’s also the 11th birthday of my son… And we had a beautiful day!
🎁 Curiosity Fuel: Apocalypse Picks of the Day
🧯 “Solar Flare Survival Kit” – Because one CME away from chaos…
🧠 “Smart Bed, Dumb Idea” – Because Good Night, Sleep Tight...
🐿 “Squirrel Starter Pack” – Protein bars + multitool for the new food chain…
📚 “Ancient Knowledge Library” – Read before Tut’s tomb collapses…
🐦 “Bird Decoder Device” – Bird call detector for impending doom alerts…
💀 OUTRO
That’s enough apocalypse for one day.
Back tomorrow with fresh chaos, smarter squirrels, and dumber tech.
Stay weird. 🧲
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Happy birthday to your son. Hope it was a very special day. Time flies. Enjoy each moment 💜
Greetings, i lived by briones park. I used to pick allot of chantrel mushrooms there and go to the archery range.
Wildlife adapts for their needs. Happy birthday to your son.! Thanks for the interesting articles you find.