currently obsessed with the chonky orange cat who lives around the physics building at UC Davis, who not only has a department webpage and a Wikipedia page, but also has a RateMyProfessor page with 331 ratings for his course Loaf 101.

[independentpen@mas.to]

@dan @sharon @amanda You know what's funny, I was once hired by a lawyer to "fix" the fact that he didn't have a Wikipedia page (while his two business partners did). This is how I became a Wikipedia editor. After researching his "issue" and Wikipedia's editorial rules I came to the conclusion that he ... basically wasn't important enough. Which I then had to tell him.

I love that Cheeto has surpassed this man.

[independentpen@mas.to]

@ids1024 @dan It's hard to get tenure. Sounds like he's on the track!

[prl@hachyderm.io]

@sharon @amanda @dan
Greetings to Cheeto from Oxford, a city of many noted academic cats...

College cats of Oxford

Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics. The grey ball of fluff with the steely eyes proved so popular that we got repeated requests for

Oxford Clarion (oxfordclarion.uk)

[clintjayio83@mastodon.radio]

@dan @sharon @amanda "Schroedinger's Nap"

[cambikelanes@better.boston]

@dan @sharon @amanda

Thanks for sharing! Remy the Harvard cat was cheated though. No Wikipedia article and there was even a course about him. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/maybe-its-remys-world-and-the-rest-of-us-just-live-in-it/

Then, while trying to find the above article I leaned tor the first time about Sarah the Harvard cat from the 1930s! Check out her hat! https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/12/1/sarah-the-cat-retrospection/

[djtoebeans@mendeddrum.org]

@dan

This just led me to discover that there's a whole list of individual #cats on Wikipedia. This is the internet we deserve.

List of individual cats - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[jimv@union.place]

@dan @sharon @amanda We have several well-loved feral cats at UC Davis, but Cheeto is by far the most famous (and chill). I always look for him when I walk by the Physics building, in case he needs any scritches.

#UCDavis

[nosirrahsec@infosec.exchange]

@dan @sharon @amanda look at that phoenix on his chest! O. M. F. G.

[perigee@rage.love]

@dan @sharon @amanda @bright_helpings For me, an outsider, Cheeto is giving Boothby.

[tellington@eldritch.cafe]

@PeacefulEdna

[wumargaret@ack.nerdfight.online]

@dan @anguinea @sharon @amanda Whoever gave him an awful is going straight to hell.