Thanks to social networks, we can see first-hand which are the favorite songs to win Eurovision 2023.
Eurovision 2023 is getting closer and closer. Specifically, it will be on May 13 when we will know the winner of the 67th edition of the festival, to be held in Liverpool. This year, 37 songs will fight for a place on the podium in Europe.
Here you will find songs and genres for all tastes: ballads, electronic, dance, boybands, flamenco, etc. As every year, Eurovision fans have ventured into social networks to choose their favorite candidates and have already begun to place bets. At the moment, there is one country that is starting to stand out from the rest: Sweden. However, a good Eurofan knows everything can change during the day of the performance.
What do the betting odds say about the top of Eurovision 2023?
Although nothing is certain, thanks to social networks, surveys and polls, we can know firsthand which are the favorite songs to win the contest. In fact, the Eaea of our Blanca Paloma is positioned as one of the favorites of Eurovision 2023.
However, this year we will see again an artist who already knows what it is to win at Eurovision: Loreen. After winning in 2012 with Euphoria, the singer will represent Sweden this year with Tattoo, a song that has become the favorite to win. As if that were not enough, the song also bears the signature of the same authors who in the past were in charge of Euphoria (Thomas G. Son and Peter Boström).
On the other hand we have Finland with their Cha Cha Cha. Käärijä has managed to catch the public’s attention and it is believed that this year, the Scandinavians could surprise with a great place in Liverpool. Ukraine, however, falls into the favorites: TVORCHI getting the country’s second consecutive win is looking like an increasingly distant possibility. But who knows if Heart of Steel can pull off a surprise?
During the celebration of Benidorm Fest 2023, the singer from Elche won her candidacy for Eurovision. Eaea combines bulería with lullaby and is a song full of symbolism and a lot of emotion. However, the most special of all is the tribute to her grandmother Carmen, one of the most important people in her life. So much so that during the Benidorm Fest, she appeared wearing a “hug” of bangs that represented the protection of her grandmother.
As of today, Eeae is one of the five favorite songs to win in the bookmakers. Blanca’s performance during the Barcelona Eurovision Party was so impressive that it allowed her to unseat the representative of Israel, Noa Kirel with Unicorn.
On the other hand, the United Kingdom has also bet big this year with its representative, Mae Muller. The BBC chose this London composer internally and she will compete in Eurvision with the pop song I Wrote a Song. Will she manage to beat the great position obtained by Sam Ryder’s SPACE MAN?
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Protecting all our personal information is really easy. And unlocking our iPhone in less than a second is even easier.
In recent years, we have become accustomed to using our iPhones for just about everything: communicating, working, entertainment, etc. For this reason, and considering the enormous amount of information they contain, it is essential that we make sure our device is properly protected and accessible only to us. This is where Face ID comes into play, Apple’s facial unlocking system that ensures security as well as convenience.
Face ID is a facial recognition system that allows us to unlock our iPhone, authenticate our identity to make purchases and access compatible applications, all in a fast and secure way. A technology that is available on the iPhone X and later.
How to set up Face ID
Before we start, we must verify that our iPhone is compatible with Face ID. As mentioned above, this feature is available on the iPhone X and later models. Beyond this, and to ensure that Face ID works properly, we need to make sure that our iPhone is updated with the latest version of iOS available. To do this, we go to Settings > General > Software Update and check if there are any updates available. If so, let’s install it.
Once we have checked the compatibility of our device and updated it, we can proceed to set up Face ID. To do this, follow these steps:
We open the Settings app on our iPhone or iPad.
Go to Face ID and passcode.
We enter the code of our iPhone, if we have not configured any we will be offered to create it.
Tap on Set up Face ID.
Now, when prompted, we place the device in front of the face and tap Start.
We place our face inside the frame and slowly move our head to complete the circle. We should look right and left and up and down.
After completing the circle we tap Continue.
We complete the second circle.
Touch OK.
How to customize Face ID functions
Once configured, we can customize Face ID functions according to our needs. Some of the options available include the ability to use Face ID to Unlock the iPhone, but also to make purchases in the iTunes Store and App Store, use it for the Wallet appand Apple Pay, to Autofill passwords and for Other apps.
In addition, we can Configure a secondary appearance, which will take us to the same process that we have just followed and where we can register a very different appearance to the one we usually have. The system also offers us to be able to use Face ID with mask, Require attention for Face ID with what is guaranteed not to unlock without us looking at the screen.
To finish, we can configure what we have access to with the iPhone or iPad locked. Options such as Today View and Search, Notification Center, Control Center, Widgets, Live Activities, Siri and others are available for us to enable or disable at will. All with the aim of being able to decide what will require us to unlock our iPhone or iPad with a glance before consulting.
Some tips for using Face ID
Face ID works really well. It is fast and recognizes us in almost any circumstance. However, a few tips are always useful to make it work even better. The most important thing is to make sure the cameras see us. Especially on the iPad, we may be covering the camera with our hand.
A case or considerable dirt can also affect its performance. It is also important that the angle at which our iPhone sees us is sufficient for it to recognize us. A distance of between two and three palms between the phone and our face is ideal.
If we still notice that the performance is not what it should, we can reset Face ID and configure it again. To do this, we go to Settings > Face ID and code > Reset Face ID and follow the steps we explained above to configure it again. Something, it must be said, that we should not do often, because the system is re-starting once configured, thus gaining in reliability and speed with use.
And by the way, Face ID does not depend on light, we can use it in absolute darkness.
Face ID is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding advantages offered by the iPhone. A feature that allows us to enjoy a much more secure and, above all, comfortable experience. Configuring and customizing Face ID on our device is really easy. Protecting all our personal information is really easy. And unlocking our iPhone in less than a second is even easier.
We have decided to tell you what has happened at Marvel in recent months, to make it much easier to catch up. Be careful, because curves are coming (and spoilers)
Reading comics is a hobby as beautiful as it is complicated (and expensive). Hundreds of issues come out every month. If you read superheroes, manga, indie comics, some French BD and Spanish comics you could spend the whole month between issues without having time to do anything else, but, for whatever reason, you also need to eat, hydrate, work and go outside to step on the grass. That’s why we’ve decided to tell you what’s been going on at Marvel in the last few months, to make catching up a lot easier. Watch out, because curves are coming (and spoilers if you’re a little behind on the American editions, you’ve been warned).
After Ben Reilly, Peter Parker’s clone, became Spider-Man for a while while the original was in the hospital (Peter ended up dying in his battle against the Sin Eater, but he’s better now), he ended up losing his memory and becoming Abyss, a supervillain who swears revenge against Peter. Typical Parker luck. Taking advantage of the juncture and clone friendship, the new villain allied with Madelyne Pryor, Jean Grey’s clone and current Goblin Queen.
During the battle, Abyss locked Peter and his allies in a replica of New York in Limbo until our hero surrendered and decided to return his memories in exchange for losing them himself. It didn’t happen, of course: with the help of the X-men, a demon-turned-version of Spider-Man named Rek-rap and Pryor herself after losing control of Limbo, Ben Reilly was locked up in the prisons of his dimension.
On the other hand, Mary Jane is married to a certain Paul and has a son, she gets along regularly with Peter and still nobody knows what exactly could have happened, what did Spiderman do to turn everyone against him. Right now we only know that Mary Jane and Peter were trapped in an alternate dimension: she sacrificed herself so he could get out: the return trip caused a near-nuclear explosion. Upon returning to the dimension where he left MJ stranded, where time passes faster and the days are weeks, he found that she had taken a new boyfriend and had two children. Still no more is known about this temporal gibberish, which is written, all things considered, regulinchi.
Oh, yeah: and Peter Parker now works for Norman Osborn, who no longer has Green Goblin powers (apparently). Just another day at Marvel.
The Fantastic Four
The 4F, Marvel‘s oldest group, has split up. No one quite knows why, but they’ve all decided to go their separate ways – even the Human Torch has been posing as a salesman named Jonathan Fairweather! However, when the time comes to reunite they discover that the Thing and Alice have turned into a giant stone dome.
Finally, it is discovered what happened to make them separate and before the stone dome: the whole block next to the Baxter Building disappeared by Reed Richards to appear a year later without them noticing anything. Among those who disappeared were the children of Ben and Alice who, for whatever reason, did not like the invention. After Sue, Ben, Reed and Johnny settled their differences and freed themselves from the dome, they went on a journey between dimensions with which they brought a bacterium that could cause global extinction by turning the water poisonous. They could have stayed put.
Iron Man
After an explosion ripped through his house and killed his neighbors, Tony Stark went back to drinking (and how). But he couldn’t relax too much: Feilong, one of his greatest enemies, wants him dead at any cost, not only literally… but also figuratively. Maybe that’s why he’s bought Stark Unlimited, discovered its secrets and set about creating Sentinels to wipe out mutants. Put down that scotch, Tony, it’s been sitting on you pretty good. Or at least take refuge in your new love… Emma Frost!
X-Men
Just to read the adventures of the X-Patrol in Krakoa you need a master’s degree. Over the last few years they have founded their own country, they have taken over Mars, they have discovered the secret of infinite resurrection. For once since their birth in the 60s, mutants are happy. Of course it’s all going to go down the drain at the next Hellfire Gala, because apparently we can’t allow these people to live peacefully.
Hulk
Okay. Believe it or not, after a fatal accident in El Paso, Bruce Banner has turned the Hulk into a galactic ship using his body as a form, Bruce Banner piloting and the Hulk’s rage as an engine. He finally arrived on a planet crawling with Hulks who promised him a home, but instead of staying, he let out a devil that lived inside him and had to be placated by Doctor Strange. Don’t worry: Bruce Banner is still alive and under control. Sort of. Personally, I’d rather read ‘The Immortal Hulk’ again.
Daredevil
The President of the United States is dead. Well, rather, he has been assassinated. By Daredevil. Reread those last three sentences before continuing and digest them: Daredevil, now married to Elektra, has taken over the power of The Fist, the organization that fights the ninjas of The Hand (the real architects of the assassination in question). To do so, he has freed a bunch of criminals with the intention of saving them from themselves, convinced of the futility of prison. With Elektra trapped by The Avengers and Matt Murdock being enemy number one, it doesn’t look like the best future for the Little Horned One. He’s come out of worse.
Doctor Strange
Stephen Strange died. But he’s better now. He lost his love, Clea. But she found him again, transformed into the new Sorceress Supreme. And now, after her hardest moment, she is back to her sanctum sanctorum as never before. Wong, meanwhile, has founded a new group of superheroes searching for the paranormal called WAND. Of course, happiness will be short-lived for Stranger. That’s all it takes.
Captain America
Right now there are two Captain Americas: Sam Wilson and Steve Rogers, with interconnected stories. To put it simply (as simple as it can be): Ian, Steve’s son from Dimension Z, has arrived on earth 616, becoming Sam’s partner. Meanwhile, Bucky the Winter Soldier, who intends to create a revolution with the help of an organization created by Arnim Zola, has betrayed Steve and is going to take Ian back to his original dimension using the White Wolf’s portal technology. Not even the AI would make it so complicated.
So, to avoid being caught, he’s unleashed a whole bunch of monsters from Dimension Z into ours… And, in the meantime, he’s started to psychologically torture Cap’s son. Oh, yes: the Black Widow has shown up to get everything she knows out of Bucky. Well, here we all are.
If you got stuck in the Mefistazo or in one of the many crossovers with the symbiotes, as you can see, there is still a lot to scratch: following the Marvel news is not just about watching the movies… Take note before everything changes again (this time, for real) forever!
Are you ready for a big dose of incredible images? You will amaze!
We’ve all been there: you are a bit sad or stressed and look for cute pictures online. Babies, cats, dogs… Suddenly, the world becomes sunshine, lollipops and rainbows everywhere. The reason, dear friends, is -as always- science. We are visual creatures and our brain is biased towards visual information, and humans love anything cute. Oxytocin and Dopamine are two of the most important hormones that trigger happiness and a positive emotional response, so whenever we see tiny things we find cute and attractive, our brain releases dopamine and makes us feel happy.
Are you ready? Because we’ve chosen 30 pictures that will melt the coldest heart out there.
1. Toy Story
“Ever since my niece saw Toy Story, she shouts “I’m leaving!” and then peeks at her room like this”, shared Reddit user u/finestjun. A really cute moment, that remains one of the most liked pictures in the forum, with users gushing about the little one’s imagination. “I can hardly wait until she watches Monsters INC.”, said one of the commenters. There’s nothing like the magic and innocence of children.
However, other user told another side of this cute moment: “Toy Story turned me into a little hoarding basket case. I was terrified of hurting my toys feelings so I would force myself to include every single toy during playtime!”, they shared.
2. Arnold’s BFFs
Arnold Schwarzenegger is an animal lover, and everyone knows that. If you follow him on social media, you may have had the chance to meet some of his little furry friends. However, there’s one that makes everyone go aww! and that’s Schnitzel. Look at her. Seriously, just look at her. So fluffy, so cute. Schwarzenegger himself wanted to share this cute pic of her friend in Reddit, for all to see.
“She’s the sweetest meatball. I got her for Christmas. She and Dutch are best friends. Lulu tried to trample her so we are working on their relationship”, he explained.
3. A True Reaction
My daughter’s reaction when holding her new baby sister. Much heavier than the dolls she practiced on!”, said Reddit user u/vassili_zaitsev about her eldest daughter’s reaction. Such a great picture that needs to be framed, if you ask us, but her dad may have a plan for it already. As he added later: “I’ll never let her forget it hahaha. This pic will haunt her for the rest of her days”.
When a new baby arrives, young children often feel excited, but it’s really important to give them plenty of attention and involve them in baby care.
4. Fluffy Surprises
As Mama duck laids her last eggs, she rarely leaves the nest. She rarely leaves the nest apart from short breaks to feed and stretch her legs. About 28 days later the eggs hatch together. The ducklings cannot survive without their mummy, and take 50-60 days before they fledge and become independent. So that might be why this Mama Duck goes every year and asks for help, with a pleasant fluffy surprise.
“Every year this mama duck brings her babies to my house and I help her take care of them. This morning I opened my door to 13 new peeping fluff balls.”, shared Reddit user u/ivereadthings.
5. A Frame For A King
Description and/or”Husband said he was going to make a bed frame. I thought it was for our new mattress…. It was for the cat”, shared Reddit user u/julcarls. Why is she surprised? If you have a cat at home, you are a mere servant. There’s a reason cat owners are sometimes referred to as “staff.” Cats have a way of burrowing in and taking over not only your heart, but your home too.
Your demotion probably started the day you adopted your cat, when (understandably) all focus switched to ensure your cat was settled, content and received all the best attention. In this case, the best bed frame ever.
6. The Sweater
Y’all. His name is Spaguetti. And he’s wearing a handmade sweater his owner made for him. Have you ever seen anything as cute as him? Seriously. Snake owners are weird people, but it seems sweaters for snakes are a thing. Snakes are ectothermic (cold-blooded) so they are unable to regulate their temperature, so it seems handmade sweaters are the option to go. “He just wiggles to the other end on his own”, shared his owner.
Spaguetti loves it, He probably finds it very safe, and maybe the fuzziness feels good, too. He might find it a fun little hiding sleeve, or he might actually find it comfortable. Adorable!
7. A New Friend
Your kid goes outside to play… And comes back with a new friend. And that friend has four legs and suspiciously resembles Bambi. Well, this happened to a little guy in Virginia who went to play and came back to the front door… with a very special new friend. His mum said that the 4-year-old talked to the young fawn and told him that he had cereal inside, so they came back home. His mum told him to take him back outside, so they ate some cereal and then he walked him outside.
So now we know two things: first, this little kid speaks deer: and second, the little fawn likes cereal -apart from his normal diet of leaves, twigs, fruits and nuts, grass, corn, alfalfa, and even lichens and other fungi.
8. The Photoshoot
Let’s be serious: could you look as glam and perfect as this kitty? We think no. Plus, cat photos are currently the most popular form of photography. It captures the pet’s personality, character, habits, and other memorable moments. What can we say about this cat, apart that he looks fabulous? The good side, the bad side; whatever side. We love this so hard. The derpy half smile is totally what makes this photo
By the way, according to a study by researchers from Pennsylvania State University and the University of Texas at Dallas, cats recognize other cats in pictures. They picked out other cats in pictures about 91 percent of the time.
9. Best Friends
They’re silly to watch and warm to snuggle with, but cats add so much more value to our lives than simply being the perfect subject for entertaining YouTube videos. Cats are rulers of their homes, but they also bring their humas all the love possible. Most of all, to children. Taking care of an animal shows children the direct results of their actions, allowing them to gauge how they affect others.
This picture shows the unbreakable link between this little one and his cat. “My son has loved my cat since the day he was born. She tolerates that love in a way I never thought possible”, shared his mum on Reddit.
10. Man Greeted By Otter
What are the chances of you getting in a river in the middle of the jungle and finding your best friend ever? That’s what happened to this man, who was filming one of his nature videos in Thailand and was greeted as an unexpected guest by one of the ‘locals’, a super cute otter, that wanted to give him a warm welcome to the neighborhood. Seriously, the whole thing is super cute.
Btw, this man’s called Frank Cuesta, and his channel and animal videos are the best.
11. A Mongolian Winter
This is how a Mongolian dresses their child for the cold. And now, we want to dress our kids exactly like that, ignoring climate changes and knowing they’d probably die out there in those clothes. Look at this kid -aren’t they cute? Parents also sew bells into their clothes so they can work around without have the need of keeping the eyes on them all the time. They are a thousand years ahead of us, seriously.
Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down. They can but wont cry or get hurt becaue they wear armor, it’s a double win. Seriously, we need those as soon as possible.
12. Zorro And Bandit
Ladies and gentleman, these are Zorro and Bandit. Mum and son. Together. Ready to fight crime -or commit it- you never know in the cutest way possible. But, we can’t deny that lil’ wee Bandit looks like he has already seen some things he’d rather not… Branded and treated a thief already as a wee lil kitten. Does he really have a choice? Does he really stand a chance?
This could really be how the villainous path of Señor Bandido really started. Think about it. But like, he’s born to the family business. There’s no escape, Bandit. We are so sorry.
13. Cat After A Nap
“My cat has emerged from my weighted blanket and doesn’t know when or where she is”, says Reddit user u/-catsnlacquer-. It could be your cat, or any of us, but let’s be serious here: that wasn’t a cat nap, that was a cat coma. Look at that face. She was catatonic. Like about to ask what year is this or who is the actual President of the United States.
Funny thing is, we are 100% sure her human spent the whole time trying to decide what to watch when the cat went to sleep. We’ve been there, done that.
14. The Boycott
A boycott: to engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (a person, a store, an organization, etc.) usually to express disapproval or to force acceptance of certain conditions. Reddit user u/drewtheblueduck couldn’t figure out why his music kept pausing while he was trying to work. Until he found out there was something -better yet, someone that was boycotting his attempts to listening to his favorite jams. His BFF.
We are no experts, but we think it might be an issue with the subwoofer. Plus, it wasn’t pausing, it was pawsing.
15. One Year Difference
“One year difference… some things never change”, says Reddit user u/vladgrinch, proudly sharing this adorable picture of their dog and its best friend. This is so cute, we can’t. Every pet owner knows that toys are really important to pets. Cats and dogs can get emotionally attached to the things they chose. And it doesn’t even have to be a toy — it might be an old sock or a cap.
Oftentimes, the toy they played with when they were youngest will remain their favorite. And pet owners: you better share it so we can all say aww! together. Please.
16. Doctor Meow and the Multiverse of Catness
Cats. We love them to bits, but our cute feline overlords have different sides to them. When they think we’re not looking, they can act like the biggest derps on the universe. However -and luckily for us- their derpiness is an endless source of entertainment for us and the internet alike. Case in point, this kitty, who very well could be the main star of Doctor Meow and the Multiverse of Catness, just with this picture.
The whole sequence is hilarious. We have something to add here, he immediately tries to make out with self, so we think this might be Loki, not Doctor Meow.
17. The Warning
There are cats, and then there are cats that come with a warning. Would you adopt this one? Of course, there’s something about him that just makes you go and say: ‘I’m up to the challenge!’. Because of course you are. Who wouldn’t. It’s nearly impossible to resist to that face. In his defense, we’ll say there probably was a perfectly good reason: it was fun. He probably didn’t need anything else.
Just so you know, as soon as the sign was put on his cage, someone from Texas was willing to pay his adoption fees. Because of course they did. Who wouldn’t?
18. Heidi Is The Loveliest
Did you know that dogs and cats can develop vitiligo? Vitiligo is an uncommon skin condition that causes skin to lose its natural pigment, a process called depigmentation. In addition to affecting the skin, vitiligo can also cause hair to turn white. With vitiligo, an autoimmune disease attacks and destroys melanocytes. As the melanocytes die off, the skin in the affected area turns white or pink This below is Heidi, and she’s got vitiligo, but she’s the cutest.
Currently, there are no available treatments for vitiligo. However, because vitiligo causes no discomfort, your dog or cat will be just fine living the rest of his or her life with this condition.
19. A Cute Encounter
Look. At. Him. What would you do if you found a little stoat during another of your boring work days? That’s exactly what happened to Reddit user u/Boyinthecorn, whose work day satisfaction improved a million times. “Found this little guy at work today”, he said. Vicious little cuties. Fluffy and teeny on the outside, can take a whole rabbit if necessary. Deadly little suckers, like a squirrel whose gone on a blood frenzy.
And yet still adorable. Adorable things killing other adorable things. Stoatally adorable, we must say. PS. They are not legal to keep as pets in the US, as they are listed as high-risk.
20. Kitty Beans!
First off, we may have to remember everyone that these are not beans literally — beans are basically cat paw pads and the “official” term for them is digital pads; the digits being their toes. Cats have: four toe beans on each foot and five toes on their front feet, two of these being the dew claws. That makes for 18 toes unless your cat is polydactyl.
This kitty is precious and their toe beans are just adorable. Soft as jelly beans, they make us want to hug him. We want a kitty. And we want it now.
21. I See You
Look at this visitor near Trident Technical College, SC. Owls are very curious, but they are generally not “smart,” at least when being compared to the most intelligent members of the avian world – the corvids and parrots. To be honest, a own looking at anyone like that, is just terrifying. Owls looking at you like that are way to scary, you never know that they are thinking -or scheming.
Owls could peek over the top of something and not look like a bird at all if their beak isn’t showing. They can be really big. Seriously, some even argue that the Mothman was originally a misidentified owl.
22. A New Plant Species
Back in February, researchers confirmed a new plant species had been discovered in Central China. They confirmed that the plant is a new Astragalus species. But, could anyone confirm what kind of plant is this below? Some Reddit users tried their best, with names like Dogwood Tree, Snifferus Wooferus, Knotty Dogwood, a Doglas Fur or a Puplar. But it really seemed like a rare find, as it looked like the rare Dūmus Canis, more commonly referred to as ‘dogshrub’ or ‘pupweed’.
Whatever it is, we’ll take it -it looks pet-friendly enough. However, better get the hose first, he might need some cleaning prior entering the house, don’t you think?
23. Birthday Party
We don’t know about you, but we think that this is the best party ever. Reddit user u/the_pizzacat shared this picture of the awesome party they threw their cat, with a half cheese, half pepperoni pizza and all the love in the world. “I don’t have kids, so I threw my kitty a birthday party”, they said. Then you have their super cute cat in a hat. How cool is this?
On a serious note, though, you don’t need an excuse to eat pizza. Just eat the pizza. Seriously, you’ll feel better. It’s always a good time to eat pizza.
24. Louie And His Bowtie
“My cat Louie was messing around with toilet paper and I decided to tie a loose “bow” around his neck to see what it looked like.. It’s been an hour. He absolutely REFUSES to let me remove it”, shared Reddit user u/ThrowAwayNZProblem. I mean, who would? Look at how smart he looks. Trendy, elegant, handsome… It’s got everything; he’s catwalk ready. Please, Loui, never ever remove that awesome bowtie.
Two hours later, he kind of allowed to get it removed. He was chillin’ on the sofa and his human went to remove it to keep it safe. He woke up immediatly and just glared at them. “I could feel him writing my obituary with just the side eye”, they said.
25. Double Trouble
No, this is not a two headed cat. These are two cuties everyone would like to have in their lives, as it turns out they just really like each other and want to be very close. They love each other so much, we can’t get enough of them. We hope their owner have this picture framed. So much love! Think about all the shenanigans! Add one more and you’ve had Purrberus.
We love how just from this alone you can tell which one’s the troublemaker. They are so cute. Red tabby cats are natural charmers, and this is the proof everyone needs.
26. A Kitty And His Sweater
Y’all. This is a kitty. A kitty in a handmade sweater. A great picture shared by Reddit user u/ponceau_4r, who said: “Took a photo of a kitten with a cute sweater, on a traditional bamboo porch at an indigenous village”. What do you think guys -does this cutie like his sweater? To be honest, this baby is all of us when we were young and had to put on grandma’s handmade sweaters.
This kitty might be bothered, but we are a 100% sure that a happier lass you’ll not find, she’s super happy and her family are huge animal lovers.
27. Baby Squirrel
A baby squirrel can improve anyone’s day. You don’t believe us? Just take a look at the picture below. However, if you ever find one, please call your local wildlife rescue and ask what to do. Normally, they will ask you to put the baby squirrel back where you found it in a cardboard box (shoe size), lined it with some soft rags. After that, it’s best to keep an eye for a few hours for its mom to come.
If the mom doesn’t take it, bring it to the Rescue Centre, where they’ll put it in a heating bed all set up.
28. The Cutest Smile
Sloths are the cutests animals and no one can deny that. Those furry arms just seem made for hugging! Why are sloths so darn cute? Is it the little button eyes, the round or perhaps the adorable pink tongue? They make our heart melt and feel warm and fuzzy whenever we see them. Pretty much everything about sloths scream cuteness, but not that cliché, cutesy-wutesy cuteness you find with kittens or baby rabbits.
However, it’s important to remember that just because a sloth likes to snuggle a tree does not mean they want to snuggle us! Never touch a wild sloth, and don’t patronize organizations that allow sloths to be held by humans.
29. Baby Piglets
Baby pigs are incredibly cute and lovable. Look at these below, with their good looks, their cute snouts! With their adorable curly tails, soft noses, and floppy ears, they’re positively irresistible. All wrapped up in a blanket, begging for a hug -we wish, at least-. While pigs are often raised as farm animals, some people have pigs as pets, and take them on leashed walks just like dogs! Pigs have complex social lives and excellent memories, and studies show they are the smartest of all domestic animals.
Baby pigs are so cute and just look like they are the or would make the perfect pet. And they are for the right people but they are not the pet for everyone. Remember: babies grow up!
30. The Best Proposal
Ok, so this is a man proposing. Nothing to see here, apart from a little hippo that just want to take part in this couple picture perfect moment (that became so when he joined in, let’s be real). Some of you may recognize her, that’s Fiona, from Cincinnati zoo (This pic was taken before Fritz, the baby of the family, for all of you that have had the luck to meet them).
Fiona a little jealous, which makes it even funnier. Always a bridesmaid, never the bride. Poor Fiona. She better get an invite to the wedding.
This important movement happened in 2017 and was to break with everything that had come before.
Now only a few models have it, but not long ago all iPhone models that came to market did so with a physical home button. Yes, indeed, it is that one that is located at the bottom of the screen and with it we could execute almost all actions. Now, why did Apple remove the home button and when did this happen?
To know this story you have to go back to 2017. When we entered that course, rumors in the Apple specialized press did not stop commenting on one aspect: the next iPhone would break with all previous ones by eliminating the famous home or home button that the terminals included at the bottom. Instead, it would add an almost full screen where the only buttons were on the sides. What happened? That this was confirmed in September of that same 2017 at the press event held by Apple.
In the middle of that month (September 12 to be exact), those from Cupertino announced the launch of the iPhone X. This model featured a 5.8-inch OLED display and TrueTone Super Retina HD Dolby Vision HDR10 Super Retina HD technology. Apple has been known for making moves that are not always understood by the public, such as removing the 3.5 mm headphone jack or this one, which removed the useful home button on the screen. There were several reasons for this action, but the two main ones were as easy as more screen and a more elegant design.
The fact of placing a home button meant that the design of the screen was not complete, i.e. it required a band to be placed at the bottom to insert the button. This ate quite a lot of the screen dimensions, which in turn demanded that the terminal was larger if you wanted to make up for the lack of inches. With the elimination of the button, the display area gained in size – and quite a lot of it.
To this we must add the design aspect. Apple, as we said, is not afraid to innovate in other areas. Eliminating the button gave the iPhone a more elegant look, with a terminal that was practically a full screen and looked amazing. In addition, it allowed you to introduce gestures to control the terminal oreven the well-known Face ID.
The elimination of the home button in turn caused Touch ID to disappear from smartphones. To replace this very secure method of unlocking,Apple opted for Face ID, which was nothing more than easy recognition for unlocking or performing actions. It may seem less complex than fingerprint, but Phil Schiller, Director of Product Marketing at the time, explained that there was a better chance of someone unlocking your phone with Touch ID (1 in 50,000) than with Face ID (1 in 1,000,000).
In short, the elimination of the home button responded to a purely display area decision, firstly, which was accompanied by a more groundbreaking design, secondly, and new technological bets by Apple, thirdly. Although the vast majority of new terminals no longer include this home button, there are models, such as the iPhone SE 2022, which are still launched with this screen. After all, the old never dies… and there are still people who prefer it to gestures.
Spanish rock went through its moment of glory in the 80s and 90s as the antithesis of pop. Beyond Loquillos and Ramoncines, Spanish rockers did not want to copy American classics
Battles are counted by the victors. The cultural ones too. We have had hundreds of books and movies about the Movida Madrileña, explaining its ups and downs: Alaska, Pedro Almodóvar, McNamara and company have made headlines every time it is time to talk about transgression, as if they had not been supported by television from the very first moment. And yet, the music that was danced to in most of the rest of Spain had nothing to do with stratospheric makeup and ‘La bola de cristal’, but with two guitars, a bass and drums.
Spanish rock had its moment of glory in the 80s and 90s as the antithesis of pop. Beyond Loquillos and Ramoncines, Spanish rockers did not want to copy the American classics and their look was that of a person you would change sidewalks if you saw them at night in a dark alley: tank top, long hair and punk attitude, although the lyrics spoke of love and hopelessness. If you didn’t live through that era and still believe that the epitome of modernity was the Pegamoides, here are eight Spanish rock songs that don’t necessarily define the bands, but explain the rage that in Spain flew underneath any media back then. Horns, kalimotxo and guitar playing!
Fito Cabrales has dedicated his adulthood to sing coplas to ‘Soldadito marinero’ accompanied by the Fitipaldis, but in 1990 he released with his friends a small album of ten songs titled ‘Burrock & roll’ which opened with a declaration of intent. Fito was 24 years old and wanted to revolutionize music, making it clear that they were not like the others: “I have two fingers in front and I never use both / And I walk down the street with my bad reputation”. Ten years later, Platero y Tú’s farewell in the back and on the last page of a newspaper traumatized a whole generation that is still waiting for a reunion tour that will never come.
‘Estado policial’ – Extremoduro
Before Robe settled in and came his ‘Vereda de la puerta de atrás’ or his symphonic songs in ‘La ley innata’ and ‘Material defectuoso’, his first albums were downloads of rage that mixed heartbreak with sex, poetry or, why not, his attacks against authority. At the age of thirty and five years after founding Extremoduro, the group released their third LP, ‘Deltoya’, which, between hymns to harmony (‘Ama, ama, ama y ensancha el alma’) and truncated love songs like ‘Sol de invierno’, started with one of those songs that could never have been played in the movida: ‘Estado policial’ is the coarsest Extremoduro, the one that could only have come out in the underground of the 90s and who didn’t care about the consequences of their songs. Lyrics like “Pincho las arruedas de los coches policía, pongo un par de bombas en cada comisaría” (I puncture the tires of the police cars, I put a couple of bombs in every police station) still impress with their crudeness right now.
‘Barrio conflictivo’ – Barricada
Enrique Villareal, ‘El Drogas’ (better known today thanks to the meme in which he acknowledges having taken psychotropic substances) had just arrived from the military in his twenties and his life in Chantrea, the Pamplona neighborhood where fighting with the police, arrests, demonstrations and arrests were the daily bread, made him start a group to tell his reality. Barricada is, perhaps, the epitome of the Basque rock of the 80s and 90s, which in 1985 and under the production of Rosendo himself, created ‘Barrio conflictivo’, a song that with pure guitar told everything that nobody talked about. “Torture in interrogations. Aggressions, anguish and pain. Txantrea sinister nightmare, you are to blame for wanting to live in peace” marked the beginnings of a group that would never stop claiming social rights and the need to understand the past (before getting into internal brawls). A marvel.
‘Maneras de vivir’ – Leño
Since we have already mentioned him, Rosendo Mercado is the grandfather of Spanish rock, and that’s taking into account that the great majority of the groups moved in the upper part of the peninsula. In the center was La Movida, which he was not interested in at all. Maybe that’s why, among so much glam, he released with Leño ‘Este Madrid‘ (“Es una mierda este Madrid que ni las ratas pueden vivir”) as a prelude to the song that changed everything, the most important anthem of Spanish rock: ‘Maneras de vivir’. If when someone sings “No pienses que estoy muy triste” no contestas “Si no me ves sonreir” no podemos ser amigos.(“Don’t think I’m too sad” you don’t answer “If you don’t see me smile” we can’t be friends.)
‘El Congreso de Ratones’ – La Polla Records
Evaristo was 19 years old when he got on stage for the first time to sing his punk nonsense. La Polla Records fired for 24 years (and a small revival in 2019) against everything, including, of course, La Movida: the song ‘Herpes, talc and techno-pop’, as a substitute for the slogan “Sex, drugs and rock & roll”, gives a good account of it. However, in a dialogue with the present day, we have to choose ‘El Congreso de Ratones’, which in 1985 closed their second album, ‘Revolución’, and which years later would be covered by Estopa in some concerts, demonstrating that, deep down, we are nothing: “Camouflaging this fascism in democracy because here the same people always rule”. The day Gen Z discovers La Polla Records there will be some very strange dances in TikTok.
‘Aprendiendo a luchar’ – Reincidentes
Reincidentes was born out of pure chance and the student revolt in Seville, at a time when they felt that music was just another element of support to power and only singer-songwriters and some rock groups were able to be something more. Fernando Medina, at the age of 20, founded a group that has already turned 35 touring the country with hymns like ‘Vicio’ or this ‘Aprendiendo a luchar’ that, in the end, seemed to sing to themselves in their second album in 1991, ‘Ni un paso atrás’: : “¿Dónde estudias, dónde curras, o en una ocupación? Contra el reino del cipote, del dinero y de la cruz”. (“Where do you study, where do you work, or in an occupation? Against the kingdom of the dick, the money and the cross”). Now it may seem almost a childish perrenque, but in the early 90’s they took the Basque Country by storm and it didn’t take them long to release albums non-stop (and, unlike other of these groups, without losing a bit of their DNA along the way).
‘Sarri, sarri’ – Kortatu
It is curious that one of the few songs in Basque (the other, perhaps, being ‘Ilargia’, by Ken Zazpi) that sounds beyond its borders is one that celebrates the escape from prison of Piti and Sarri, two ETA members who escaped from Martutene prison in 1985. That same year, and on the music of the song ‘Chatty Chatty’, Fermín Muguruza and his band made a comical portrait of what had just happened (“Today the radio broadcasters were broadcasting live that they would eat paella, and Piti and Sarri, right under their noses, were plotting it without them noticing”). Years later it was used as a spearhead against Muguruza, but it led to nothing. In fact, it’s still played at weddings of people who don’t know what they’re dancing to. Luckily.
‘Nos quieren detener’ – Boikot
Before Boikot, the group created in 1987 with ska influences, turned to a more supportive and avant-garde type of rock, they had time to release songs like ‘Eskeletos radiaktivos’, ‘Serrindemadriz’ or ‘Karraskal’. But on the verge of their change of style in 2002, the group came out with a song as was usual for them: short, to the foot and without leaving witnesses. Between hymns and trilogies of albums dedicated to Che Guevara and claims almost of demonstrations in ‘Pueblos’ was hidden a little song that spoke against illegal detentions and how the middle class turned a blind eye. Did you want music against the Movida? Boikot were from Madrid and they couldn’t make it any clearer: “Y burgués, tú nunca entenderás, los problemas de la calle no son de los demás” (And bourgeois, you’ll never understand, the problems of the street don’t belong to others).
We could go on here for long hours, video clips, analysis of Platero y tú’s ‘Juliette’ or Barón Rojo’s albums, or even ask ourselves if Def Con Dos deserves to be here. What is clear is that, as it is sold today, it seems as if the vindictive rock never went beyond the anecdote at the bottom of the page, a suburban movement between the Movida and the “Donosti sound”. But the truth is that there were hundreds of groups that shaped a whole generation and who are hardly remembered.
Manolo Kabezabolo, Siniestro Total, Asfalto, Triana, Obús, Mago de Oz, Cicatriz, Tijuana in Blue, Negu Gorriak and many others found a small refuge outside the audiovisual in a television that protected certain groups and annihilated others: it was time for concerts and Tipo stores at a time when, before social networks, this was the best way to be indignant. Guitars, drums, pogo and screams: When will a series in the style of ‘La ruta’?