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“Their questions were unique, to say the least: Should I tell the IRS that I left my job to become a full-time dominatrix? Will my bank close my account if I say I’m an escort? If a tax form asks whether you met with customers in your ‘home office,’ does prostitution in your bedroom count as a client meeting?” The prostitute nudging sex workers to file their taxes.

+ “Despite being an avid wildlife photographer, retired postman Rodney Holbrook never expected to capture a Ratatouille-style scene unfolding in his own shed. After regularly discovering that things from the night before had been mysteriously tidied, he set up a night vision camera on his workbench. It captured a mouse picking up clothes pegs, corks, nuts and bolts.”

+ Here’s a look at the Golden Globes winners. I saw about thirty headlines about how terrible Jo Koy’s monologue was, so I watched it. It wasn’t great. But the Hollywood media is making it seem like it was a crime against humanity.