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A T. rex skeleton just sold for a record $50.1 million
A fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex nicknamed Gus sold at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday for $50.1 million to a phone bidder, making it the most valuable…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing, July 14, 2026
Bison mercy, ancient grudges, and 750,000 panic bunkers
 • Boing Boing
The human capacity for memory is astounding
The taste is gonna move you.
 • Jason Weisberger
Man, yeeted by a bison, is grateful for its mercy
It's a bird! It's a plane! No! It's a Yellowstone tourist!
 • Jason Weisberger
A YouTuber gave Skyrim a full high-speed rail network
Bethesda’s magnum opus The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of the most modded, dissected, and reinvented games ever made, if not the most.
 • Grant St. Clair
Scrandle turns stadium food into a daily taste test
An eternity and a half ago, I wrote about Footy Scran, a growing database of the most appetizing (or not) food served at stadiums across the world.
 • Grant St. Clair
Tom Cruise plays an eccentric billionaire in a doomsday short film
To be honest and vulnerable, the last thing I remember liking Tom Cruise in was that mistakenly uploaded The Mummy trailer with the music and sound…
 • Grant St. Clair
The Last Conference of the Great North American Wood Apes
A Substack-only short story about Bigfoot, bad genes, and the unbearable indignity of being scientifically impossible.
 • Jason Weisberger
The only curse on Venice’s cursed island is us
Poveglia was not man-made. Its bad vibes were.
 • Jason Weisberger
A paranoid dictator built 750,000 bunkers no one ever used except for sex
Enver Hoxha, the Stalinist dictator who sealed Albania off from most of the world, was sure enemies could strike at any moment — “like the snake that…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Houses built for one purpose: to make the neighbors miserable
A spite house is a building put up to punish someone — by blocking a neighbor’s light, ruining a view, or planting a permanent monument to a grudge in…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Latent Space as a New Medium
AI models contain a vast, compressed map that they pull every answer and image out of.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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