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Pokémon-parody sex toys are back, with holographic trading cards
Ten years ago, an Australian company called Geeky Sex Toys launched a line of adult toys based on Pokémon.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing, July 17, 2026
A brain full of dogs, beams, and stolen airplanes
 • Boing Boing
This Los Angeles man-on-the-street interview is internet gold
LA’s infrastructure failed, but the streetwear concerns were structurally sound.
 • Jason Weisberger
Brain implant lets a paralyzed man feed himself and pet his dog
Keith Thomas broke his neck diving into a pool in 2020 and was paralyzed from the chest down.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Your brain can track two voices at the same time
You know the trick of picking one voice out of a crowded room — the “cocktail party” problem.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
JD Vance discovers parenting is easy when the Secret Service does the hard parts
JD Vance reinforced the stereotype that the U.S.
 • Jason Weisberger
CNN writes the Taco Bell diarrhea headline America needed
In the world of online journalism, the headline is the whole enchilada.
 • Jason Weisberger
Explore a snapshot of a massive million-by-million block Minecraft server
The 1,024,000² 2b2t World Download Project is a public archive of the Minecraft anarchy server 2b2t, preserving roughly 13.7 TiB of compressed world…
 • Rob Beschizza
A tiny keypad for chatting with chatbots
Codex Micro is a keypad by Work Louder, for OpenAI, that’s designed for use specifically with LLM-related tasks such as chatting to chatbots and…
 • Rob Beschizza
Decoy is an ambigious font that “hides” from AI
Decoy is a font where each glyph is ambigious, the idea being that machines will interpret it one way and humans another.
 • Rob Beschizza
Live map of Britain’s trains
Signalbox plots every train moving across Britain in real time (or close to it), each choo choo represented by a dot creeping along the lines.
 • Rob Beschizza
Anti-Forbes list ranks wealthy by the wealth their companies generated for others
The Anti-Forbes List ranks the richest humans not by their net worth (illiquid, volatile and unrealizable as it is) but by the value their companies…
 • Rob Beschizza
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