In case you didn't see it elsewhere

There's a lot of newsblogging I could be doing right now, from commenting on how Drug Fraud's cut regulations on daycare (those regulations were there for child safety!) cut regulations on businesses (those regulations were there because otherwise businesses will work their employees to death) and cut protections on the Greenbelt (because lol fuck the environment) and is really bad at accounting (cutting Toronto city council to save money ended up costing the same amount because the councillors remaining after the cull had to hire more staff to, you know, do the job we used to elect people to do), but I'm pretty exhausted from living in a province run by a buffoon, so I'm going to just post a link to the one story that matters.

Actual headline:

‘Make better choices’: Endangered Hawaiian monk seals keep getting eels stuck up their noses and scientists want them to stop

Some choice excerpts:

“It’s just so shocking,” Claire Simeone, a veterinarian and monk seal expert based in Hawaii, told The Washington Post on Thursday. “It’s an animal that has another animal stuck up its nose.”

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“It was just like, ‘We found a seal with an eel stuck in its nose, do we have a protocol?’”

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“I struggle to think of an eel really wanting to force its way into a nose,” he said.

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“It almost does feel like one of those teenage trends that happen,” he said. “One juvenile seal did this very stupid thing and now the others are trying to mimic it.”

Anyway just go read the whole thing; it's all quite good.