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Germany has 200-point plan to reduce bureacracy
German leaders came to agreement Thursday on a lengthy, detailed plan to cut red tape in Europe’s largest economy. Nothing happens there without hacking…
 • Rob Beschizza
Merriam-Webster picks “slop” as word of the year
Slop, referring to polished but uncanny, derivative or mediocre AI-generated content, is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. The top U.S. English…
 • Rob Beschizza
Raccoon falls though ceiling into restaurant
Diners in the fancy Ristorante Brissago at the Grand Geneva Resort in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, were joined Sunday by an unexpected guest: a raccoon that…
 • Rob Beschizza
California police “dispose” of free weed offered in Christmas display
Twenty-nine jars of marijuana added to a Christmas giveaway display outside a high school were confiscated this week by Auburn Police Department in…
 • Rob Beschizza
Sloth ASMR: Listen to this gorgeous two-toed sloth crunching his way through a pile of sugar snap peas
Here’s something we don’t feature nearly enough of on Boing Boing: SLOTH ASMR.
 • Jennifer Sandlin
Vintage Gumby motel sign still stands after 70 years in Wisconsin
Here is a fantastic motel sign shared by Rolandopujol on their retro roadside wonders page.
 • Popkin
Watch a super-fluffy bunny eat a banana: the perfect mood-boosting video
Sometimes, it’s important to take a break from all the bad news online and let your mind rest.
 • Popkin
Watch thousands of icebergs float by in Newfoundland’s Iceberg Alley
If you visit Newfoundland’s Western Shore, you can watch icebergs drift by up close. Iceberg Alley is a narrow corridor where thousands of massive…
 • Popkin
“Cronyism in couture”: Vanity Fair publishes brilliant new portraits, capturing the “hideousness of this administration”
Go grab yourself a cup of coffee (or a shot of tequila) and fire up your computer, because you really must take a few minutes to soak in the new article…
 • Jennifer Sandlin
Boing Boing, December 16, 2025
Epstein's blackmail fortune, Alabama's package theft crackdown, and OpenAI's adult mode
 • Boing Boing
Epstein’s fortune came from scaring billionaires
A New York Times Magazine investigation traces Jeffrey Epstein’s $600 million fortune to a simple con: convince rich men their finances were a disaster…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Aeroflot Flight 6502: when a pilot’s ego killed 70 passengers
On October 20, 1986, a Soviet Tupolev Tu-134 was flying from Sverdlovsk to Grozny with a stopover in Kuibyshev.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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