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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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    2 days ago

    I knew reading this would be difficult. Tucker sounded like he was such a special boy. I feel so lucky when kitties are as affectionate as Tucker. They give you pure joy and only ask for things you’re more than happy to give them.

    I lost my 19 year old best friend on August 10, 2024. She had a mast cell tumor on her right paw, near her thumb. The tumor was removed and I was lucky to have 2 extra years with her. I held her on the day she was born, bottle fed her, and held her when she passed from my life.

    I haven’t been able to find the courage to bring another one into my life. But it’s probably time.

    Tucker will be in your heart forever right next to Kiki. Bookee is in mine purring so hard that she squeaks.


  • They found that Hawaiians share the most Polynesian ancestry with people on Easter Island, followed by people on Mangareva, an island nearly 3,000 kilometers west of Easter Island. Though no one had connected these distant dots previously, it makes sense that an ultravoyaging culture capable of reaching Easter Island from Mangareva would be the one to then settle Hawaii, Ioannidis said. (An earlier study by the researchers found that members of the same ultravoyaging population also reached South America and came in contact with Native Americans.)

    The team also conducted a more detailed genomic analysis of people from Tahiti, the island for which they had the most genomes. By comparing identity-by-descent segments within the population, they could estimate the size and date of the founding generation — a group of approximately 800 people who arrived on the island about 34 generations ago, around the year 1070. (The population estimate is of a single generation of reproductive age and doesn’t include children and elders they may have brought along.)