Sept. 5, 2026

OnlyMarms: OnlyFans with wholesome marmot videos

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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: Colorado researchers studying yellow-bellied marmots launched “OnlyMarms,” a free OnlyFans account with wholesome marmot videos that has drawn about 1,700 fans and roughly $6,000 in tips, plus events like Fat Marmot Week and a fundraising beer called Marmot Tears. Desertas Island land snails, once thought to have only 21 left under a single rock in Portugal, are being restored after Chester Zoo bred 300+ descendants and conservationists removed invasive species and repaired habitat before a careful nighttime release on Bujio Island. Florida teens Ashrita and Anish built the Pizza For a Purpose app, helping donate 25,000 slices to charities. Ethel marked her 117th birthday and is recognized by Guinness as the world’s oldest living person. A Half Moon Sunoco near Albany offered 20% off for 15 seconds of dancing, generating a million-view TikTok.

00:10 OnlyMarms Fundraiser
01:07 Snails Saved
02:01 Pizza Donation App
02:37 Oldest Person Birthday
03:20 Dance For Discount Gas

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Hey there, I'm Johnny Mac with five good news stories.

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Johnny Mac, what are you doing in the basement there?

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Are you on OnlyFans? No, I'm on OnlyMarms. OnlyMarms is

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giving Marmot research a funding boost. Faced with funding cuts,

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researchers studying Colorado's yellow-bellied marmots decided to put their furry

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subject's internet appeal to work. Their solution, OnlyMarms, a free

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account on OnlyFans... featuring wholesome videos of marmots going about

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their lives. The idea emerged during a conversation between UCLA

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professor Daniel and his students. They started joking about it

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and it became a real fundraising effort. The account has

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attracted around 1,700 fans and roughly $ 6, 000 in tips. One

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early video captured a female turning away a male visitor

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approaching her burrow. They're also finding other ways to get

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people in. They had Fat Marmot Week, which invited the

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public to vote on animals bulking up for hibernation. And

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a local brewery has collaborated on a fundraising beer called

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Marmot Tears. Good news, if you're a tiny island snail,

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you're getting a second chance. A snail species once feared

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to have just 21 left. It was getting a fresh

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start after a breeding program helped return hundreds to its

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state of island. That's great. Desertus Island land snails were

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found beneath a single rock in Portugal. Believed to be

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the last of their kind, the entire group could fit

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inside a Petri dish. England's Chester Zoo joined the rescue effort,

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breeding more than 300 descendants for release on Bugio Island.

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Before returning the snails, conservationists worked to remove invasive animals

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and restore the habitat. There had been some goats and

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rabbits that had destroyed the local vegetation, and mice had

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preyed on the snails. Getting the animals home required careful planning.

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Rough weather left a narrow window for the journey, and

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the island had nowhere to dock. The team worked at

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night using red lights to avoid disturbing rare seabirds. As

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they placed the snails in sheltered rock crevices, each snail

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measures no more than about 8 millimeters. In Florida, some

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teenagers found a way to connect people with other people

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who want to help, and they're doing this one pizza

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at a time. Brother and sister Ashrita and Anish created

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Pizza for a Purpose, an app. So let's users arrange

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pizza donations from local restaurants to nearby charities. They came

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up with this thing two years ago. Since then, the

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app has helped provide twenty five thousand slices to people

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facing food insecurity in communities, including Broward County. Seeing families

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struggle to afford food that made the teens want to

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do more. They put their tech skills to work, simplifying

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the donation process through the app. Donors can choose a

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nearby restaurant and a charity they want to support. Happy

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birthday to Ethel. Ethel celebrated her 117th birthday on August

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21st with family, friends, and enthusiasm for discovering what comes next.

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Ethel has been recognized by Guinness as the world's oldest

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living person. She was born in 1909. However, just in

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the last year alone, she got to stroke a llama

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and held hands with King Charles III. She credits her

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long life to a calm, non-confrontational outlook, avoiding arguments while

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remaining firm about what matters to her. As a young woman,

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she traveled to India to work as a nanny for

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a British family, spending three years exploring the country. Today,

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her family includes three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. She thanked

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everyone for their wishes and is looking forward to finding

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out what the next year will bring. In New York,

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a gas station has found a way to make filling up.

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Less painful and more entertaining. It's the Half Moon Sunoco.

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You know the one by Albany? They offered customers 20%

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off their entire bill if they danced for at least

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15 seconds. Love it. The promotion was the idea of Paulina,

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the station's 23-year-old social media manager. She wanted to give

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customers some relief from fuel costs while adding a little

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fun to their day. Two early participants, Bill and Dan,

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set the tone. Dan described his moves as Michael Jackson moves.

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A TikTok video featuring the dancers drew more than a

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million views. Business said they're planning more discounts in the

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months ahead. Those are your five good news stories for today.

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Have a great day.