Afternoon roundup

The worthies on the closing of the browser tabs:

• Australian water rats have figured out that the hearts and livers of poisonous cane toads are fine to eat. I would love to know how rats figured this out, and how the practice spread. 


• Australia's poisonous legislators have passed a piece of anti-terrorism legislation every 6.7 weeks since September 11, 2001. The water rats may not help in getting rid of this nuisance.


• A perhaps-unintended consequence of anti-Uber activism in California making it harder for people to work as contractors: dancers at strip clubs become employees when many didn't want to.


• Merivale NIMBYs.


• Another for the "I guess we just can't have nice things" file. The Police Minister wants to allow pill testing at events; it's an excellent harm-reduction strategy. New Zealand First has blocked it, reckoning it would increase drug use. And while I'd be pretty confident that Labour and the Greens could find enough supporters for pill-testing in the National/ACT caucuses than would be needed to get it over the line, the usual politics stuff means we can't have nice things.