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“Dead body” turns out to be a sex doll
A reported corpse in the bushes of an English neighborhood was a discarded sex doll, according to the Peterborough Telegraph, ending a brief panic in…
 • Rob Beschizza
Scottish politician illegally used party funds to pay for camper van, fancy pencil sharpener, toilet seat, and curry sauce
If you need to sharpen a pencil, you are unlikely to do better than the Caran d’Ache pencil sharpener, with an 80-year-pedigree and a $180 price tag.
 • Rob Beschizza
“Scandalous” Lenovo gaming handheld comes preloaded with classic game ROMs
A budget retro gaming handheld carrying Lenovo branding and loaded with thousands of copyrighted game files has surfaced on AliExpress, and the company…
 • Rob Beschizza
OpenAI needs a 26x revenue increase to justify its buildout
J.P.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Journalist who investigated Epstein’s New Mexico compound says she’s been hit with directed-energy weapons
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, a veteran journalist who spent years investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch compound in New Mexico — including ties to…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
US lost 4 million tourists in 2025 — and the World Cup won’t fix it
Eighty million more people traveled internationally in 2025 than the year before.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing, May 25, 2026
Sea monsters, shag bathrooms, fake ICE hotlines
 • Boing Boing
The International Space Station has sprung a new leak
The very premium air leak in the very best Russian part of the International Space Station is back!
 • Séamus Bellamy
Stephen Colbert follows up Late Show finale by hosting Michigan public access program
On July 1, 2015, shortly before taking over “The Late Show” on CBS, Stephen Colbert unexpectedly spent an hour at midnight guest-hosting a public access…
 • Ruben Bolling
Sea lions play “pufferball”with unfortunate fish
Sea lions are the adorable dogs of the ocean, but lacking balls to play with, they play with the next best thing — fish that turn into balls when…
 • Gail P Sherman
Trump Mobile data breach may affect far more than its own customers
As Rob mentioned on Friday, the Trump phone can’t be found in the wild: the only models out there, as far as any outlet can see, were the units sent to…
 • Séamus Bellamy
Albino softshell turtle looks like a real-life Pokémon
An albino softshell turtle looks more like a rare Pokémon than a real animal.
 • Popkin
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