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A 20-year-old YouTuber’s horror film just broke A24’s box office record
“Backrooms,” a horror film by Kane Parsons, who directed it at 20, opened to $81 million this weekend — the strongest opening A24 has ever had and the…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Watch a caterpillar enjoy a tiny playground built just for bugs
Watch a caterpillar go down a tiny slide.
 • Popkin
Meet Betsy, the 30-foot spiny lobster guarding the Florida Keys
America’s love of giant roadside attractions has produced many strange sights, but few are as fierce as Betsy, a colossal spiny lobster in Islamorada…
 • Popkin
Baby’s hand makes a cherry look like a giant piece of fruit
This video, shared by Gyu, plays with perspective in a clever way.
 • Popkin
Cartoonist Jeff Smith, author of “Bone,” is getting comics’ most prestigious honor
When the National Cartoonists Society has its annual conference in August, it will confer on cartoonist Jeff Smith its Milton Caniff Lifetime…
 • Ruben Bolling
The art is fake, the boss is blind, and the job is yours
Have I mentioned today how much I love indie games? I just came off 007: First Light, which — while a very, very good action adventure romp — is still…
 • Grant St. Clair
Time-traveling dinosaur movie looks like a lot of fun
Sometimes, all you need for effective horror is a good pitch.
 • Grant St. Clair
Ben Palmer continues to run fake ICE hotline
Strange days when a comedian has more moral backbone than anyone in government.
 • Grant St. Clair
Desecrated Ronald McDonald statue yours for $2500
In-restaurant statues of Ronald McDonald are largely a thing of the past, McDonalds having stepped back from using its famed mascots in marketing aimed…
 • Rob Beschizza
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration opens this week in London
Since the 1960s, Britons have been growing up with Quentin Blake’s fabulous illustrations to books by Roald Dahl, Joan Aiken, Elizabeth Bowen, Sylvia…
 • Rob Beschizza
Florida sues OpenAI over ChatGPT’s alleged body count
Chatbots are intimate, persuasive, always available, and very good at sounding confident even when they're completely wrong.
 • Jason Weisberger
Boing Boing, June 1, 2026
Epstein bombshell, pig organs, and a hand-shaped yam
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