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If escaping data dogs in Japan are fiction, an escaped toxic cat is real. Sadly, it appears a cat got into a large vat of hexavalent chromium used in a metal plating factory – and it wandering around.

I’ll just leave this here

https://x.com/Haze2K1/status/1923083019822174390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1923083019822174390%7Ctwgr%5E50ea48afa9ef726c0453eefc09ead4f243697311%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomshardware.com%2Fpc-components%2Fgpus%2Fintel-arcade-machine-showcases-a-nuc-extreme-with-arc-a770-gpu

OFFLAIN has a channel where he tells 2-3 sentence ‘scary stories’. They’re not all safe for work, and some are very odd – but they have become the source of a lot of memes.

My favorite is the kitty clip – which is right at 4:01

“Oh! That’s a good kitty”, I say as I pet on kitty.
“No. I’m evil kitty”, says evil kitty.

Nasa’s Artemis team came to PAX to talk about the Artemis I unmanned flight around the moon in 2022.

Here they talk about that and about the challenges of space exploration, Artemis II, and how game tech/techniques has been helping exploration. Artemis II: Gaming the Future of Space Exploration

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2552912863?t=07h00m44s

Penny-arcade expo resources

• List of public PAX parties: https://www.sidequesting.com/2025/07/the-ultimate-pax-west-2025-party-list-your-guide-to-all-the-parties-and-events/
• Seattle Indies: https://six.seattleindies.org/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/PAX/