Your morning coffee will be extra funny with this dash of laughs.

There's nothing worse than a Monday morning… But as much as we want to hate it, it's here, and there's nothing we can do about it. The good thing is that we have memes, and they can totally help us improve our mood, and maybe our day, too! Memes were created by someone on the Internet who thought that creating portable, small jokes and sharing them online were the key to making someone happy… and that idea was a total hit! Without a doubt, these funny laughs are here, and they know how to make us feel a bit better when we need it the most.

Before you feel discouraged and hesitate about going to work, remember this: you get to have another weekend in a couple of days! Isn't that a good feeling? I'm convinced that I can't enjoy the weekend if I don't struggle through the week first. Well, maybe struggle is not the word, but you get what I'm saying… Is like old people said: "There's good, because there's bad", and that can be applied to weekdays and weekends. 

Besides this whole rumble, which I'm not sure is even making sense, I think we should learn to love our Mondays. Yes, it's hard to get up early again and to commute to work… but it also means a fresh start. Fresh start to what? That thing you've been postponing. If you were wanting to pick up running, poetry, writing, cycling, pottery… this is your sign to go do it, or to maybe schedule that first appointment that will get you started. 

That last thing I said must be the best advice I've ever given… let's take Mondays and add something that will make you love it! For me, I started incorporating a group meditation every evening, and every Monday I'm counting the minutes until I get to do it! But meanwhile, enjoy these memes that are here to add some fun and laughter to this Monday… you won't regret adding some extra spice to your coffee!

Dopamine hits come in all different forms, so let this one be from meowlarious cats. 

Cat memes are great because they're so simple, yet hilarious. We don't expect them to get us out of a funk, but they manage it anyway. There's something so purrfect about the combination of cats and dopamine. On the surface, it seems like they wouldn't be related, but they are. These small bursts of joy give us more than a dopamine hit, it gives us a reason to love. We love our cats like we love a partner, a friend, or even ourselves. Never underestimate the adoration, devotion, love, and connection you can have with your cat, and don't let anyone tell you it's silly. It's a deeply emotional experience that should be respected and cherished. And even if it doesn't seem related, flag football is also one of those things that boosts our dopamine receptors, and feels akin to the affect of cats. 

Dopamine is the brain saying, "that felt good, let's do it again!" It's released when you accomplish something, experience pleasure, or even anticipate a reward (which is why it's attached to motivation as well). In flag football and cats, they both show us the light, thrilling enjoyment of something. Cats operate on their own mysterious flow. They're surprisingly good at delivering the same little dopamine boosts that we get in flag football. They both carry a certain athleticism too. Cats love to run, jump, play, and pounce around as if they were playing flag football. So enjoy anything that gives you that dopamine rush, especially cast. 

It's impossible to see a tiny set of cat toe beans and not immediately want to squish them.

Cat paws are already ridiculously cute, but the little beans underneath really seal the deal. Pink ones, black ones, spotted ones, a completely random assortment on the same paw, we'll take them all. Some cats even have little tufts of fur growing between their toes, just in case their feet weren't adorable enough already.

Unfortunately, the kitty attached to those beans may not be nearly as excited about them as you are. Plenty of cats will happily show off their paws right up until you try to touch one. Suddenly, that foot is gone. Tucked under the belly, pulled against their chest, or used to smack away the hand that dared approach the precious beans.

This is why sleeping cats provide some of the finest bean-viewing opportunities. A kitty passed out on their back with all four paws in the air? Jackpot. A paw dangling over the edge of the couch with the beans facing you? Get the camera. You never know how long you have before they wake up and put those things away.

And kitten beans are somehow even cuter. Everything is so tiny that it barely looks real. Those itty-bitty paws can still carry a kitten through some serious zoomies, launch them onto furniture, climb up places they have no business being, and occasionally smack their siblings right in the face.

We also have to appreciate cats who casually stretch their paws and spread all their little toes apart. Look at all those beans! That's the kind of content we're here for.

If your camera roll contains an unreasonable number of close-ups of your cat's feet, we completely understand.

It's happening; we're becoming dependent on robots. Little by little, they started taking up more and more space in our lives, and we've delegated tasks we used to do with our brains

Brains love reducing effort, and when you have an incredibly quick way of producing any reasoning, redaction, or calculation, you will most likely end up reverting to it for pretty much everything.

The problem is that if we don't use our brains anymore, they will become stunted. We will become poorer at creating text, slower at math, and less bright at finding answers.

We're already seeing the effects of AI usage in our daily lives. We go out on the streets, and many signs are AI-made; many 'pictures' of people are not actually people, and we're increasingly dependent on it for any daily answers we might need.

We have to remember AI still makes mistakes and invents sources, even though it will soon be more developed. We definitely have to keep an eye on the rapid, huge effect it is having on learning, socialization, and people's minds in general.

It would be great if it were mostly used for practical tasks and to make our jobs easier, but many people are using it as a confidant, as a replacement for a friend, a therapist, or even a lover. Do we really prefer a condescending 'relationship' with an LLM that isn't actually thinking over a real-life relationship? Is the world going that way?

We have to keep an eye on what people working in tech are saying about these fast-evolving models, because many declarations are very alarming. I hope we can, as a society, use the tool wisely and that it doesn't completely take over our lives or stunt our human capacity for learning, socializing, loving and even listening.

The Cat Distribution System didn't send one cat this time. It dropped off an entire family of five.

Reddit user Momoreau has been a cat pawrent for 25 years, but they definitely weren't expecting their partner to discover a feral mama raising four tiny kittens in an overgrown corner of their condo's backyard. The babies, three boys and one girl, are estimated to be around 4 weeks old, which means they still need plenty of time with mama.

Momoreau contacted local rescues right away, but most are already overwhelmed. So for now, the little family has a backyard caretaker making sure mama gets food twice a day and always has fresh water. She's still cautious around people, but she seems to be getting more comfortable. On the first day, mama carried one of her kittens away, possibly thinking it was time to find a new spot. After a couple of days of meals and having her space respected, she brought the baby back. We'll take that as a pretty big vote of confidence.

There's already a plan for all five cats too. Once the kittens are old enough, Momoreau has a foster situation lined up and even a few trusted people who may be interested in adopting them. They'll also work on socializing the babies while they're still young. Mama will eventually be trapped with help from experienced rescue friends, vaccinated, spayed, and returned to her community.

Right now, the main mission is keeping everyone comfortable through Tennessee's 90°F-plus summer weather. The family is currently shaded beneath brush along a privacy fence, but Momoreau wants to offer mama a protected shelter for storms and rain without disturbing her nest.

Not a bad setup for four tiny kittens whose mama happened to choose the right backyard.

Cats are the silliest creatures, and their absolutely bonkers sleeping positions are the purring proof of it.

We always knew cats are weird, but they somehow, in a completely meowgical way, find more and more ways to prove it to us every day. It's not just about the way they stop mid-zoomies to lick their hind leg, and not even about how they can legit stare at a blank wall for 30 minutes. It's not even about how they'll meow profusely about a leaf that is flying way too close to the window, or the strange ekekek sound they make whenever they see a bird. Cats are, in all their being, the weirdest creatures on this planet.

And we don't just claim this, it's not a statement that comes from nowhere. We even asked you at some point to send us the derpiest pictures of your cats - and the I Can Has Cheezburger totally delivered. All ya'll's cats are super weird. But it's not just your cats. Here are some more examples: Do you remember the cat who brings his human toilet-soaked toys as gifts? Well, you remember this weird creature now. And what about the kind of single-brain-celled orange cat who won the Weirdlympics in the eyes of the online feline family? Here's a reminder, then.

So it's really no wonder, with this mountain of evidence, that cats also sleep like the weirdest creatures ever. We're not sure you're ready for this, but here they are - the weirdest nappers you've ever seen.

Since when is denial a good business strategy?

There comes a time in the career of every employee who knows their worth has no choice but to walk away from a job. Perhaps they get an opportunity elsewhere that they would be foolish to refuse, or things simply got so bad at their workplace that unemployment actually felt like a better alternative. Whatever the scenario, there is almost always a good reason behind somebody putting their livelihood at risk in a way such as this.

Almost all companies will expect an employee who is leaving of their own accord to give them a notice period before they go. Ultimately, though, this is more a courtesy to the former employer than something that is an absolute necessity if someone wants to leave their job. Also, the awkward thing about giving notice is the chance that a manager or HR department might not meet it with the response that an employee hopes for. This can make the already difficult process of quitting a job into a greater ordeal than it needs to be. When you leave a role, you want to be focused on your professional future, not the hang-ups of the past.

A homeowner was blamed for disrupting his neighbor's pool party, which he knew nothing about, while mowing his sizable rural property at the usual time.

Some homeowners do their yard work like clockwork. Out early, at the same time every weekend. A well-practiced weekend ritual. Mow the lawns, trim the hedges back, prune the trees. Then take care of whatever other routine maintenance needs handling.

Noises from this general maintenance of neighbors doing general maintenance of their homes are to be expected. You might hope not too early, not too often, and not for too long, but that's not always a fair expectation to set. Some things just need to be done.

At least, this is what you mutter under your breath as your neighbor starts up his new battery-powered leaf blower yet again in a futile effort to render every square inch of his property spotless.

This is one of the many reasons why you shouldn't let your cats outside unsupervised.

If you're a cat owner, you know that cats would be apex predators if evolution had taken them on a slightly different path. Turns out they enjoy relaxing in a nice sunbeam more than hunting, but if they had to, they could and would hunt. Despite being lazy and adorable, cats are actually incredible hunters, with some of the fastest reflexes in the whole animal kingdom. In case you're curious how fast, a cat can react anywhere from 0 to 70 milliseconds after something happens (that's 0- 0.07 s). For reference, it takes you 0.1 seconds to blink.

However, just because cats are excellently equipped hunters doesn't mean that they're safe from being hunted themselves. Cats have many natural predators in the wild. Large canines (wolves, coyotes), bigger cat species (cougars, bobcats, mountain lions, etc.), and birds of prey all think that your feline would make a purrfect meal for them. This is why we say it's not safe for your cats to roam around outside unsupervised, among many other reasons.

You may think to yourself, "Well, that would certainly never happen to my cat/kitten," but think again! It happened to the stray kitten below, and if not for their neighbor's daughter intervening, that kitten would be a hawk's breakfast instead of looking for their furrever home.

It all occurred in Birmingham, Alabama, where Lucy, the neighbor's daughter, thought she was witnessing a hawk swoop in on a squirrel for their morning meal, but realized it was actually a smol grey kitten. She was able to save the kitten and take him to the vet, then to Woof Ave Rescue so he could get adopted. 

Cats may be stereotypically lucky with 9 or so lives, and they may be pawsitively ameowzing hunters, but they're still better off living in your comfy homes and hunting your hair ties or fake mice. 

It's an inheritance, not the lottery. 

Making plans based on the assumption that you will receive money when a family member passes away is extremely tacky. Firstly, because that money is not yours. It was someone else who decided to leave it to you once they are gone. They are allowed to change their mind, leave it to somebody else, or fully spend it before that day comes. Secondly, this is a family member, a loved one. The fact that someone they love is plotting to do things when they are gone with their assets seems evil. You want that person to live, supposedly, not them to pass away only so you can have their money. Do you even love them, or do you just want their money?

A person is allowed to leave whatever they want to whoever they want. They can pick and choose what they want to leave for who, in their eys, deserves it. In this story, we get a grandma who decided to divide her inheritance as she pleased. She didn't want to leave everything to be divided equally by her grandchildren. She wanted to leave more to some grandchildren than to others. And you know what? She has every right to do so! If you feel like this is unfair in any way, get over it! She had the right to pick and choose as she pleased.

So now we have this big family feud over money that is not only tacky but also so evil. They are fighting for money when somebody they loved, their grandma, has just passed away. Why wouñd yopu do that? Why would you judge what a person decides to do with HER money? It was her money that made her entitled to decide to do whatever she wanted with it. And no one, NO ONE, has a right to be upset over this. It's life. Accept it! And inheritance is a gift, not an expectation. Stop expecting people to give you things that you don't deserve! Do with YOUR money whatever you want, but expect nothing from everyone else's. 

If work only counts when you're at the office, why should you spend even a minute working while you're out?

Not that long ago, in an era when cell phones didn't exist and you couldn't reach out to other people at a moment's notice, there was a clear separation between your work life and your personal life. As long as you were not physically at the office, it was really tough to contact you and have you work after hours. The job stayed at the office, and once you were out, you were free to pursue your personal life without being bothered with work. Everything could wait until 9 AM on your next workday.

These days, however, availability is much more accessible and therefore is expected. Since your boss, coworkers, and clients often have access to your personal phone number, and your smartphone is conveniently connected to your email, Slack, and any other work channel, getting in touch with you even after you leave work at 5 PM is not a problem. This means that it has become an expectation for employees to be available for work-related issues even after they have clocked out for the day, which also directly leads to an incredibly uneven work-life balance.

The employees in the story below were used to this balance, mainly because they were only expected to be at the office for two days a week. When you can work from anywhere, you accept the blurred lines of work hours in favor of the flexibility in your work location. However, when a new CTO decided to remove that flexibility and demand a strict 9-to-5 schedule from the office only, employees decided to bring the good ol' days' style back into fashion: If they are expected to only work from the office for five days a week, they will no longer make themselves available for work issues after they leave the office at the end of each day. Any problem that might arise after 5 PM can wait until the next morning.

So, when a major crisis with a client arose after 5 PM on a Friday, there was not a single employee ready to tackle the issue until Monday at 9 AM. When the CTO heard what (didn't) go down over the weekend, he had to face the repercussions of his own rules…

Retroactive family charge

There is a distinction between a gift and a debt. A gift produces an asymmetry. A genuine gift produces an asymmetry; you can't immediately 'give back' or repay, and that's part of what makes it genuine. It's not something you're expected to pay for.

This father, although, inverted that mechanism by retroactively saying: 'You owe me'. Many times, although it misses the point of gifting, a gift comes with a subterranean sense of debt; the thing is, that it shouldn't be explicit, otherwise it becomes a quid pro quo, a simple economic exchange.

The important thing here is the surprise. That is what makes it fishy. If he had told his son and daughter-in-law they were going to pay for the whole thing, they could've just declined. And of course it wasn't an accident. We're talking about adults who know their way around money.

This retroactive charge sounds more like an unelaborated emotional charge coming in the form of a financial one than simple miscommunication. The father's attitude, apart from being very immature, is very inconsiderate of the obviously different financial situation of his daughter-in-law.

It is a really poor way to maintain authority; the father gets to determine what counts as generosity and what doesn't, and you have no say in what you want to participate in. You were forced into that economic agreement.

You are not included; you are paying for a service I provided. This type of generosity is persecutory; it creates a demand, and anyone should try to escape deals like this. But this deal wasn't even disclosed from the start. I really think it is the boyfriend's responsibility to talk about it with his father and leave his girlfriend out of it; after all, he is the one who has issues with his authority.

We are not the ones who adopt our cats. It's our cats who adopt us. 

This is ancient knowledge at this point. A fact so inarguable that no one even tries to argue it anymore. Cats adopt their humans, not the other way around. If you are a cat owner, then you know this. Cats find us everywhere and everywhere. We can be on a walk when we get adopted, just going through our day-to-day lives when a cat waltzes into it and changes everything. We could get adopted while getting coffee, right there, in that Starbucks line. We could have a cat walk straight into our home, just like that, and refuse to leave. Even if you are someone who walked into a shelter and got your cat there, you know that as you were walking around and "choosing", you felt a special sort of connection with one cat - only one - and that is the cat that you went home with. 

We call this phenomenon the CDS - when a meowgical system distributes the right cat to the right human. Whether you will be adopted or not does not depend on you, and the couple in today's story knew that. That's the thing. This is knowledge that common people, who do not spend all day on cat internet, don't know. So, when these people get adopted by a cat out of nowhere, they are surprised, shocked, telling their story to everyone as if it's something that has never happened to anyone else. But we know. We are aware that a new cat will be given to us solely when we are deemed worthy by the CDS. The couple in this story were one of us. They knew that all they had to do was to put their desire for a cat out into the universe. Once that was done, the CDS would do the rest. They agreed that they would only adopt a cat if that cat came to them, that they would not go looking. And just like that, a single day after making their request, the CDS sent the cutest kitten their way. 

'I will take my business elsewhere'. Do so! Nobody cares. 

I hate entitled customers, but these are also able to be divided into categories. There are the ones whose entitlement makes them scream. Then the ones that start mistreating with heavy insults towards the poor employee. There are also the ones that refuse to leave, no matter if security is escorting them out. And then we have this customer. He started yelling from the moment he was told 'no'. Then he said my favorite phrase: 'I will take my business elsewhere'. What a saying! It's almost magical. It just gives you, as a customer service employee, all the information you need to know about the customer, and that is that they do not deserve your time. Never, ever respond trying to help them, unless you really have to for store policies. They do not deserve anything after that. Only answers that apply as a response after that phrase are 'GO!'. You want to take your business elsewhere? Do so! Nobody is going to stop you. Just do it!

I do not think that this kind of customer will ever change. They have their mind set on entitlement to a point where there is no return. So it's pointless to spend time trying to explain to someone that their attitude is wrong. It's important to me to clarify it, just in case someone would see a point in listening to me and what I have to say. But, realistically, nobody will ever change just because they are told by a stranger online that they should be like that. Their entitlement blinds them to the point that they justify their actions, even though deep down they do know that what they are doing is wrong. They know this is no way to treat an employee, and they also know that they wouldn't have liked to be treated that what if they were the ones who were working at the front desk of that hotel. If you do work in customer service, you will be able to testify that these people do this over and over. They don't change. And you will also be able to say that you wouldn't treat ANYBODY ever like this. But that is what customer service is like sometimes. And there is nothing left to do about it. 
 

Get ready for another purrfect collection of the best cat Tweets of the week! 

Oh, Monday. Starting a new week is always the worst moment of the week. Yes, yes, we know that with a new week come new opportunities, new chances to improve ourselves, to be productive, to do the things that we love to do. But you know when else we can do those things? On the weekend. The only thing that makes Monday different is us going out and making the moneys at work. And the only reason that truly matters is so that we can spoil our cats the way that they are meant to be spoiled. 

That's why we make sure to start every Monday as pawsitively as possible, and for us, that means starting the meowrning with a whole bunch of purrfect cat memes. And these are not just any memes. Every single week, first thing in the morning, right as we start the new workweek, we bring you the best of the best that cat Twitter has to offer. The most viral cat Tweets of the week - so that you don't miss anything impurrtant. 

Doing good deeds is something that has largely been forogten about in our modern society. Without the social structures to uphold it, most people let life slip them by without lifting a finger for the less fortunate. But you know what they say, good things come to good people, a fact that this new cat mom discovered when she went to drop off some clothes to be donated.

Upon reaching the donation bin she was confronted with a sight that no hooman should have to see. Two tiny kittens, barely moving and almost lifeless. Our rescuer immediately got to work getting her hands on a cat carrier and giving the tiny babies some much needed shade. But our rescuer was not like most. She knew that where you find 2 kittens, you often find more. And with a further search a third kitten was found cowering in the bushes. Could you imagine if he had been left there all alone?

From that bleak scene in the parking lot to the lavish life that these cats are now living at home there is a whole heap of a story waiting for you below. But we want to say that this is truly a shining example of what even just a little bit of do-gooding can bring to your life. Even if it simply means going somewhere that you'd never have visited otherwise. You never know what you might find there. And with that we leave you to enjoy this story and its heartwarming contents.
 

It is rather ironic that with so many people leaving their families claiming to be going to the store, that this feline family reunion story would begin in much the same way. But in this case there is at least a bittersweet ending to help make it all go down a little smoother. Ah, who are we kidding, the whole thing is wholesome as heck and one heck of a tail.

It was our rescuer's plea for feline related help that brought this story to our attention. In their post they told of their trip to the local 7/11 and the feline who followed them all the way to their car and leapt right in, as though to say 'Please take me home with you, I cannot live like this anymore.'. And with a plea like that what can you do other than simply say yes and take the kitty home. It is a rather delightful feeling being chosen by a cat child like that.

But with much regret, that which began as happiness and heartwarming sensations soon turned into a bittersweet goodbye when it came to light that this poor cat child had been missing for more than a year and had a fur family who had not given up hope of finding him once more. So while this rescuer did not get to keep the kitten she had so luckily found, she was instrumental in making sure that one less cat is needlessly left out on the streets. 
 

Laid-Off To Dreamland

Some of us can only dream of something like this ever happening to us. We dream not only of being given the opportunity to stop going to our boring jobs one lucky day, but also of being paid to do it. That's extremely luxurious. And also something to be celebrated.

If this employee had planned it, it wouldn't have come out this good. But sometimes, stars align, and things like this happen- not always, but they do.

Being laid off can be really stressful. If you have no savings, which is something that's becoming increasingly hard to have, you are forced to get a job as soon as possible, and that can be tricky and stressful in itself.  

You're running out of money, and you have to seem professional and easygoing, like you weren't worried about whether you'd be able to afford groceries the upcoming week.

At any rate, at risk of sounding too cliché, some of the best opportunities in our lives appear in the worst possible moments; at least in my life, it always happened like this. This doesn't mean it doesn't take any effort to be granted an opportunity; it just means that sometimes, even though we work hard, things don't seem to be going our way, but if we hang in there, they most likely will at some point.

This is one of those cases in which justice works, and time works in the good guy's favor. The fact that the good guy was well informed of his legal rights most certainly helped as well. Could you imagine keeping a straight face while you offer your employee the worst severance 'deal' ever and act as if what you're doing is totally contemplated by law? Life is wonderful.

Guys, I think I want to move countries…

Some animal rescues have obvious solutions. If a cat is stuck behind a fence, you open a gate. If a kitten has climbed too high, you find a ladder. But when a cat is stranded in a tree surrounded by water, there are no ordinary options. 

A tabby kitten is perched on a patch of branches rising above the water near a bridge. Everything around him is moving except the branch he has managed to hold onto, and he can't move without falling, so he sits there, helpless. People watching knew the water was too dangerous to cross, but they had to do something. The animal couldn't be left alone with nowhere safe to go. So the crowd figured out a way to reach him without putting anyone else at risk. 

Use a drone. 

Yes, that device people fly for photos was prepared for the rescue, carrying a line above the water while others helped pilot it from land. The drone serving as a tool for the rescue may be the surprising part, but it only worked because people cooperated. Everyone watched where the kitten was, and a piece of technology became useful to save a small life stranded in the water because they all decided the matter was worth their time and effort. 

Eventually, the kitten is brought safely away from the floodwater and back to the dry land. A later moment shows him indoors, creating a contrast between the quiet image of the safe animal and the danger he overcame outside. The cat, who had been clinging to whatever remained above the water, now has somewhere warm to rest. 

People involved in the kitten rescue are proof that there is hope in humanity. They saw an animal in trouble and found a solution together, even if none of them could promise the plan would work when they started it. They kept trying and made a drone with a line work. 

We all want to leave our day job, but we have to be realistic

Nobody directly told us it had to be like this, but in a way, we still complied. We went to school, we graduated relatively early, and then dived headfirst into corporate.

Before we even had time to consider if that's what we wanted to do, we were already working 9-to-5. There is no use in crying over spilled milk; we can't change the past. All we can do is avoid a dreadful, grey, corporate future.

It would be really easy if we all had a very clear calling from the get-go, but not all of us do. Some of us didn't have time to think about what we really wanted to do.

Still, having a well-paying job is something to be thankful for, because if you didn't have that but had a very clear calling instead, it wouldn't be as easy as it sounds to make enough money to sustain it.

If I were in this employee's shoes, I'd use the extra money I make from corporate to invest in anything I find pleasurable. I'd take my time to find my path in my free time, while I hold my stable income.

I trust that, at some point, after deep exploration, desire will come through and guide the way.

Of course, another alternative would be to simply invest in startups and look to retire early. The main issue is that it sounds boring, but well, if it's for the good money, so be it.

If you had to advise this young corporate employee: What would you do instead?