Sergio

Agreed, narrowed eyes mean they trust you. Ears back would mean anger, those ears look relaxed. Yet all cats are different and if OP says they’re angry presumably there’s a reason why. Maybe the cat’s tail is twitching? If so I think this expression is more like “exasperated about something annoying done by a loved one” and they’re dealing with it by retreating to a space that feels comforting and that is close to the loved one. If a cat stares at you, it usually means something related to you. So I’d guess the cat is saying: “I love you even though you’re being really annoying right now.”

Do you work at a desk in an office? You can keep it there, and then if someone comes in to talk to you, you can lean in to the monkey as if to listen to its whispers, and say “Monkey doesn’t like that idea!” Lean in again. “Monkey is getting upset! You should go now. Bad things happen when Monkey gets upset…”

These teenagers are sometimes handed “pre-idea funding”—hundreds of thousands of dollars, or in rare cases, even millions—before they have the glimmer of an actual company in mind.

what could possibly go wrong

That reminded me to look up their interview with Saul Alinsky again, and I found a page with a bunch of the Playboy interviews: https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/playboy-interviews/

Somehow I feel more “represented” by VLC than I do by any of the astronauts.