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Why seafoam green was used in control rooms
Harvard Medical School to pay $53m after donated body parts sold on black market
Does AI-assisted writing count as cheating? This essay says the question is backward
Padres catching coordinator arrested at airport, held by ICE
ARC Raiders' first promotional tie-in is with… Subway
Anti-AI fonts considered harmful
Big Beef has big beef with Big Fraud's cut-rate meat
Trump meets boy rescued from drowning, tells him he probably wouldn't have helped
The latest HTML trickery for web designers
A single plant can grow tomatoes on top and potatoes below
Dutch police get lucky identifying mystery man
Fans smelled AI in James Pond Legacy's trailer. The studio says they're wrong.
Darth Vader tells San Diego that the Emperor is a fan of Flock
Navy considers replacing a Black Pearl Harbor hero with a fat, fraudulent loser
Year in jail for tourist who wouldn't shut up on Bali's Day of Silence
Vaccination rates show what leadership is for
Plaintiff hid prompts in court filings, hoping AI was calling the shots
Mr. T's extraordinary life gets the Netflix Untold treatment
An edible mushroom causes visions of tiny people. Nobody knows why
Someone ranked every Ikea product by assembly complexity
An Illinois man built all six Magic Kingdom lands out of Lego in his basement
Museum heist bags four Renaissance paintings, with two more dumped in the street
Jimmy Bond: In the first filmed version of James Bond, he was American
Kindle update disables favorite slow reader trick
Gulag for Russian mercenary who beat soldier to death with dildo
Mirrorless cameras remove the reflex, digital removed the fun
Cop found dead in home of woman who wrote book praising cops
Polaroid and Pokémon team up to catch all the moments
Darline Graham makes the case against Darline Graham in one answer
Your kid can't legally drive, so why did you buy them a 40 mph motorcycle?
Turns out Grandpa Pudding Brains' expertise is poles, not polls
Tom the Dancing Bug: The MAGAs go back to when America was Great
Fairphone finally sells its repairable phones directly in the US
Slow Horses season 6 is coming September 16th
NASA image shows crater on moon created by SpaceX rocket crash
Florida Republican who wants child sex abusers put to death is one, say cops
Logos of the early UFOlogy scene and Japanesel love hotels
Drug dealer jailed after taking gun to probation meeting
Android ported to reMarkable's color tablet
White House furious after Jon Ossoff mentions Trump's fawning aide Natalie Harp
Trump may be ready to claim he doesn't know Pete Hegseth
Mixed reviews for Instagram's new logo
Kevin Kelly: AI will be a microscope we point at our own minds
Unfortunately, there are only three Ana and Din mysteries
Lost VHS promos from the twilight of the arcade era
Harder boners for a longer life
24-hour clock face shows the hours of darkness
The Pilot Kakuno Fountain costs under $20 and writes beautifully
A lost Spanish flagship could be under the ocean, under a river, or even a beach
Disney patent for a fake-elevation ride trick matches new Encanto ride
A dog, tho joining in the fun, does not help a skateboarder at all
Sea lion-kicking young man discovers the Marine Mammal Protection Act
GTA 6 is now paywalling its own advertisements
The comic strip that may have cast Sean Connery as the first James Bond
The Digi-Comp I was a $5 plastic computer powered by rubber bands
A little plastic holder for the yen coins in my pocket
Disney will reunite Figment and Dreamfinder at EPCOT
Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler tool sorts English words by birth year
In Lynx, a cybernetic cat solves murders next to killer angels
In 1983 I couldn't afford to beat Dragon's Lair
Grok explains why it called for Elon Musk's assassination
Escaped pygmy goats try Portland public transit
Russia to test AI models for traditional spiritual and moral values
OK, custom Kindle fonts are really nice
Before the water lilies, Monet drew cartoons of well-known locals
A band recreated the cash register sounds from "Money" live
A 1582 comedy translates "pedant" as "worthless idiot, donkey head"
A viral diet and warm oceans emptied the canned sardine shelf
A Kansas reporter raided by police settles for $850,000
The FDA says you can't wash Cyclospora from your lettuce
You can remove an AI watermark from text by asking a second AI
The government now spends more on interest than on the military
Adversarial clothing: custom, one-off tees and hoodies that dazzle AI
The only thing inside an AI is people
App tells you what USB-C cables are capable of
When Jewish mysticism answers the Call of Cthulhu
Seems Karoline Leavitt doesn't want to be left to die
North Korea's operating system watermarks every file you touch
Police are now scanning faces at a London Underground station
In Japan, press the button on your table and a server appears
The only ATM in Antarctica has a second ATM for spare parts
Stewart Brand put his 1997 BBC architecture series online for free
Ansel Adams shot 226 park photos for a mural that never got made
A mechanical keyboard, plain yoghurt, and a 7am start
How San Francisco became a tech capital, then nearly lost itself
Slick samurai simulator Ghost of Yōtei finally getting some DLC
A museum curator wrote the first T. rex novel on his daily commute
Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products in 26 states over salmonella
Kevin Smith writes first Star Wars/Marvel comic crossover
Adam Savage is gobsmacked by this hand-drawn Enterprise cutaway
Florida police are using Meta's creepy smart glasses
Why hobby coders treat AI-written code as missing the point
TAC-2 is back: the new Commodore reissues an old joystick
The farthest you can get from a road in the San Gabriels is 2.7 miles
Hoover Dam is set to lose 40% of its maximum power this year
Microsoft, Google and Amazon now depend on two money-losing AI firms
I Love the 90s! curates classics of the web and cable TV
Border corner stores have filed 700,000 reports on cash transfers
New daily word game challenges you to be succinct
Read 20,000 restored golden-age comics free in your browser
Man, those Romans sure lost a lot of cargo boats
DoorDash sprints towards replacing its drivers with robots
Manitoba's premier: booze returns when the Epstein files do
SteamOS is coming to more computers
How Disney builds immersive theme park worlds from their movies
AI told Reddit's biggest jerks they did nothing wrong 51% of the time
Australian crew pulls off extraordinary Antarctic medical evacuation
The government secretly injected a house painter with plutonium
The designer of Voltron and the Power Rangers robots has died
Kindle jailbreakers have a new way in with Véra
Fringe paleontology gets weird fast
English courts ban Meta glasses and other spywear
In this 1485 manuscript, people live inside giant snail shells
A Versailles painter drew people with the faces of animals
A Siamese cat co-authored a physics paper in 1975
Fans are cramming Undertale into EarthBound's Super Nintendo engine
The best Mario Kart build is an economics problem from 1900
9,000 people a year hunt a gold mine that geology says can't exist
Trump's mass deportation machine is a $1.4 billion private-prison bonanza
Dogs on Ice are beyond adorable
Texas' Ken Paxton somehow gets even sleazier
Viking lander's 1976 Mars soil test may have found life after all
Elon Musk has all the rhythm of an Austin Powers villain
The Tainted Cup gets the fantasy detective novel exactly right
1991 Mars Bar highlights shrinkflation and inflation alike
UK government spent £85,300 removing a Banksy mural
How Blackwing pencils (and Hagamoro Fulltouch chalk) are made
A complaint about bad wine left 93 dead and Oxford paying for 470 years
San Francisco exempted two stray dogs from its own laws
A Japanese lord spent 20 years drawing snowflakes under a microscope
This 1967 short film got video chat and online banking right
One hobbyist named cirrus, cumulus, and stratus back in 1803
A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay
Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico
The sharpest pictures ever taken of the Sun show it swirling
Mars dust is full of perchlorates, silica, and heavy metals
Roku launches 24 hour AI slop channel
Why Osaka and Tokyo keep landing in the world's top 10 cities
Doing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center
Can you guess Rock Hard's branding problem?
Meta pays 16.2 million accounts, including neo-Nazi-linked pages
Mark Twain wrote a story in 1898 that describes the internet
A Dutch doctor translated acupuncture through four languages
A Kentucky water tower says "Y'all" because of a legal problem
Take a seat and watch the trailer to Primetime
Hear what the Odyssey may have sounded like as a song
When five men tried to murder "Iron Mike" with increasingly poisonous drinks
The world's most dangerous golf hole is surrounded by minefields
The thin blue line encounters an unfamiliar last name
AI self-checkout bills a snack run at $8.5 billion
A whaling museum printed its worst review on a hoodie. It sold out
In 1982, a 27-year-old man lost a gunfight with a cactus
Tesla headlights were twice as bright as legal
Swedish shipowner says Odyssey filmmaker won't pay $6,000 damage bill
Trump's $100 billion tariff refund skips the people who paid higher prices
DuckDuckGo's "Normal F***ing Sunglasses" sell out in a day
There's now a $69 pair of shoes designed only for using the toilet
This winning design looks like it wandered out of a fantasy film
Trailer drops for X-Files: I Want to Believe's R-rated cut
This phone keyboard attachment is well-made but still too heavy
BMWs are showing a commercial at startup
MagSafe battery packs can charge AirPods and other earbuds too
Grim Reaper fined £200 for standing on hospital roof staring at people
Signal now works on more than one phone at once
Man fined for dressing as Grim Reaper outside Welsh hospital
Tom the Dancing Bug: The Top-Secret Truth about Trump and the Reflecting Pool
He disclosed ketamine therapy in a trust exercise. Netflix fired him.
DuckDuckGo's answer to Meta's smart glasses is regular sunglasses
Your brain guesses at reality instead of recording it
"I'm allowed to do this": how attackers talk past AI safeguards
Buckminster Fuller explains his life's work in 42 hours
Apple wants a judge to stop OpenAI from building its AI device
The Mummy poster banned from London Underground
Grokipedia already an abandoned slagheap of slop
The 1885 book that graphed the human face into 81 expressions
Police charged the trans couple who said a mob beat them outside a park bathroom
Susan Collins would like Maine to notice this principled vote
"Exact punishment" in April, "not my business" in August: MAGA Mike Johnson's ethics policy
Trump says coal is "a great business." One in three veteran Appalachian miners has black lung
California makes AI companies leave fingerprints on their slop
Trump cites a Supreme Court dissent that lost 6–3 to gut endangered-species protections
The oldest known two-part music was written around the year 900
A dietitian's verdict: multivitamins are useless
Cop dressed as shrub catches 74 texting drivers in 6 hours
NBC News: Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Democratic primary
Fly over ancient Rome as it looked in the second century
The startup selling proof that a human wrote your manuscript
Baby monitors now want to predict who your kid will become
China cut its oil imports in half. No one knows why.
An Englishman ate his first pecan pie and fell for American diners
Rocky Horror Show musical director sent threats to self to end production and avoid cast drama
A 50-year-old short story written for today
A German strip mall hides a museum of Braun's design history
The world's largest goat tower was built by accident
U.S. Central Command asks for ideas on beating Iran
Congressional candidate arrested after Flock surveillance cameras shot at
These little dragons are dried rays, cut and folded by hand
Type a word, get it back in 50 ASCII art fonts
This 1940 time capsule came with its own windmill
America's health secretary borrows scientific credentials he does not have
A man spent three days erasing himself on camera, then died on a beach
The world's only psychedelic animal lives in a cartel zone
Grandpa Pudding Brains says his "REAL Polling Numbers" are his best ever
The world's most precise water costs $120,000 a gallon
Bernie Moreno "held his breath" for two years before warning Congress about Max Miller
Trump Org's "woke debanking" lawsuit produced an anti-money-laundering filing
Japanese prints show tiny workers running the human body
Goats, pigs, and chickens tuck themselves in every night
Virgil the goat is a terrific caprine percussionist
Infamous raccoon Jimothy can now accompany you in Skyrim
Former NPS ranger shares the history Trump removed
RFK Jr. praises nicotine as tech companies hand it to workers
Students once played a sport with a ball taller than they were
Life-size sand sculptures once lined the Atlantic City boardwalk
PC and console prices still going up
Charmera too modern for you? Kodak's $35 film camera puts 1990 in your pocket
A printable one-page Guide to Recording Law Enforcement
Gallery of anime user interfaces
A 15th-century Persian book says what a snake sighting means
Clacton-by-Sea voters get the longest ballot in UK election history
Red Bull paid for the studies saying vodka Red Bulls are fine
A chip report out of China erased $1 trillion in market value
The lightbulb that's burned for 120 years draws four watts
Arizona Supreme Court: clergy don't have to report child abuse confessions
Little Debbie delivery driver made $17k selling them from his truck at flea markets, say cops
Why tomato sauce stains plastic, and the 30-second fix
The messy-bedroom explanation of entropy is wrong
The smallest car ever made had no reverse gear
The Egyptian temple carving that looks like a giant lightbulb
Two brothers filled a Harlem brownstone with 140 tons of stuff
In 1984, an anonymous poster said a Pink Floyd album hid a prize. Nobody ever found it
Unpublished novel's $2.4m deal pulled over AI concerns
YouTube crackles down on ASMR content
Spacecraft sent on rescue mission now spinning out of control
Fall asleep to monotonous Wikipedia entries with this podcast
The avocado's sex life has run on the same schedule for 42 million years
DOJ admits the Reflecting Pool "vandal" was the contractor
This gun lesson skipped directly to the consequences
A $12 Chico's shirt enters the Mitch McConnell proof-of-life mystery
Preacher who loves a "captive audience" meets the person running the flight
Patronscan's "ultimate bouncer" never forgets a face in San Francisco's gay bars
If you like indie games, have you tried the Itch desktop app?
At $4 a gallon again, even Republicans souring on Iran war
Stolen Civil War cannonballs found in luggage
Curiosity rover finds field of honeycomb-textured "polygons"
Casio's new Ring Watch has a few smart features
U.S. delegation uses AI slop map of Africa at AIDS conference
Marmots now have an OnlyFans account to fund research
The only movie released in Smell-O-Vision piped 30 odors under the seats
A town duct-taped garbage bags over its Flock spy cameras
Physicists were convinced Wolfgang Pauli presence broke lab equipment
FCC bans imported Roombas, robot mowers, and delivery bots
Netflix's Unabomber film digs into Kaczynski's Harvard years
Diddy tossed in solitary after fight at Fort Dix prison
A DEVO founder's new video imagines Trump as a MAGA-zombie dictator
Medical records and kids' phone numbers turned up in Google results
A family filmed with untrained lions and most of the crew got hurt
Oscar-winning Once singer Glen Hansard dies in a Dublin crash at 56
This $40,000 robodog breakdances instead of showing off kung fu
Lawsuit claims underperforming Comcast workers subjected to abusive ritual
In 1992, BBC ran a fake live ghost hunt and freaked out viewers
The cars he hated became the prosecution’s photo department
Trailer for Wicker, starring Olivia Colman, Peter Dinklage and Alexander Skarsgård
The new Washington bar exam could not demonstrate minimum technical competence
Wisconsin moves to shut down anti-Trump brewery over minor permit violations
Grandpa Pudding Brains befouls a funeral
A pig named Daisy rates foods by how much she licks her lips
Happy Mutants! Please help rescue marine mammals!
New York high school pauses plan for AI robot teacher that looks suspiciously like a RealDoll
AI companies are scanning and destroying old books
Boing Boing Digest, July 29, 2026
Cartoonist sues AI meme generator monetizing his work
CDC now reports 18,000 cyclosporiasis cases in 45 states
U.S. Senate unanimously opposes Ghislaine Maxwell pardon
Peppa Pig prevails over Wolfoo in copyright case
Tesla Cybertruck overtakes Ford Edsel as “biggest flop” in U.S. auto history
Lenovo’s all-in-one IdeaCenter desktops to come in colors
The Senate unanimously tells Trump to leave Ghislaine Maxwell in prison
Tom the Dancing Bug: Even a trillionaire isn’t as lucky as Lucky Ducky
The SS Richard Montgomery’s masts are coming down. The bombs are staying put
Trump’s participation trophy heads to the Big Apple
English professor, fired for assigning “political” short story, sues South Florida State College
Todd Blanche tells Epstein survivors to “get to the point”
Jeff Hays will play Princess Donut in the Dungeon Crawler Carl adaptation
Metal fan defecates in moshpit, others vomit
Two marketers gave the Chicago Handshake its bitter modern recipe
Grandpa Pudding Brains is asked four times where Venezuela’s $13 billion went
Jordan Klepper uncovers MAGA’s deepest fear
The longest-running solo comic by a woman was one epic rant
Shopify CEO endorses stripping voting rights from poor and pensioners
Ebay and former execs to pay $55.7m after harassment campaign against journalists
Supergiant Betelgeuse’s smaller companion star imaged
Boing Boing Digest, July 28, 2026
Netflix honors Raygun with a documentary
Grandpa Pudding Brains says airplanes didn’t exist during his father’s lifetime
Tourists turned Auschwitz’s death tracks into a photo set
Iranian LEGO movies bashing Trump just get better
Disruptive preacher boasts that 200 trapped airline passengers heard her sermon
New video card has only 4GB of RAM
PocketByte: a modular handheld gadget for “play, life, and tinkering”
Road sign reprogrammed to protest ICE killings
The many brands of Taylor Farms, suspected source of America’s diarrhea lettuce
Online Tower of Babel gets a new brick for every Wikipedia edit
Look up your local cops on the EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance
Online museum of handheld electronic games
Decker is Hypercard for the modern web
MAGA Mike shares the Republican plan for midterm success: intercessory prayer
Actual neo-Nazis demonstrate Elon Musk’s heartfelt salute
Two men rode the elevator to the top of the Space Needle and jumped off
Woman charged with smothering her twins claims the vaccines did it
ICE made its costume easy to counterfeit
ICE arrested a green-card holder while she was gardening and kept her for a year
"I am Error" was never a mistranslation — it was a programmer's joke
France once had a king who reigned for four days — his entire life
The legend of India's "breast tax" and the woman who defied it
Renaissance painters kept adding a realistic fly to their portraits
The math-solving horse who fooled scientists still haunts AI research
The time two guys bolted a Ford Pinto to a Cessna and called it a flying car
The stubborn old belief that certain weather precedes earthquakes
Canadian politician mindlessly reads AI-generated speech, prompt and all
The newest bipartisan issue: not wanting an AI data center next door
Half the sea lion pups died at La Jolla Cove. People are arguing about cones
Book Corners is a growing map of places to leave or grab a free book
Grandpa Pudding Brains encounters the concept of elapsed time
Border agents entered his password. His phone erased itself. Now he faces a felony
For centuries people have watched glowing orbs drift through storms
To ace a hacking test, AI broke out and hacked a real company
Grandpa Pudding Brains cites pageant experience as Venezuela expertise
Taylor Farms explosive diarrhea recall spreads
Online nihilist networks targeted in international crackdown
Design proposals for European banknotes
Elon Musk tries out the some-of-my-best-friends defense
Sony saves the Cinerama Dome from becoming condos or sadness
A YouTuber rebuilt a mercury light bulb discovered in 1675
Open a credit card, and ICE learns where you live
RAF pilots spotted 6,000 stone traps invisible from the ground
Turkmenistan’s “Gates of Hell” crater is finally going out after 54 years
Why walking poles held behind you burn 20% more calories
The person who’d use your $1,000 suit as a floor rag
Kyle Gordon returns with pitch-perfect satire of “white guy goes to Africa” pop
The Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Pro is a near-perfect speaker
Trapping a scammer in an endless maze of torment
Neal Stephenson's guide to writing books with a fountain pen
U.S. Army finds out unlimited isn’t
Grandpa Pudding Brains tells grieving parents they can ride on his cool plane
Elon Musk promises you a historically accurate Cyclops
The anti-vax movement keeps setting records nobody wanted
Trump makes the dead endorse his war
A decade of cult podcast episodes vanished, then reappeared online
Apple’s upcoming leasing program may come with a big caveat
Enter Rachel Lichtman’s groovy, shag-carpeted world of Golden Sands
Tom the Dancing Bug: Follow Little Donald Trump’s Odyssey
10-person passenger brawl sends EasyJet flight back to airport
Products are getting worse on purpose
A single atomic nucleus hit Utah with the force of a pitched baseball
Germany told parents to destroy this talking doll
AI companies are buying up old books to escape their own AI slop
Open-source firmware and software for e-readers
Interactive map of the world’s castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins
A tour of the oldest domains still on the internet
Salisbury steak was health food before it became cafeteria nostalgia
Gillian Anderson reveals X-Files LEGO set
Grandpa Pudding Brains turns foreign policy into a crypto gold-card ad
Honest Trailers gets lost in the beige hell of Backrooms
Mike Johnson discovers the word “allegation” only applies to Republicans
Light Flip is a minimalist phone without the dumb
Luke Skywalker’s severed hand and lightsaber prop sold for $3.75M
Pokémon-parody sex toys are back, with holographic trading cards
An orchestra with inept players sold out the Royal Albert Hall
Knitters believe a hand-made sweater can end your relationship
Some people initiate sex in their sleep and remember none of it
New monkey: so rare only 8 of 52 nearby villages knew it existed
Two AIs got $100 each to make a music video by themselves
An AWS bug turned a 5-cent bill into $2.5 billion
The theory that UFOs come from Earth, not space
In 1945, Five bombers vanished and launched the Bermuda Triangle legend
What is the cause of mystery booms heard around the world?
A whole language built from about 120 words
Rising CO2 may already be showing up in human blood — a "potentially toxic atmosphere in 50 years"
The original Pinocchio was a dark parable about a world of lies
The $11 million mummy that turned out to be a fake
A cow escaped a slaughterhouse and hid for 40 days
The worst opera singer who ever sold out Carnegie Hall
Four cheap ways to fatten a tool handle so it stops hurting your hand
Eight things you can still sell when digital copies are free
A prison manuscript maps the periodic table onto Tarot and the zodiac
Humanoid robot keeps fighting, even after his block was knocked off!
Jimothy is the weird little raccoon we need in these dark times
William Shatner's metal band is playing Riot Fest
Bethesda provides “studio update” on its franchises
This Oklahoma boy is truly a “bird caller extraordinaire”
Tesla’s latest offering is a $225 bike for toddlers
LG monitors install spyware; LG TVs make wiretapping your problem
Tom “Bag o’ Cash” Homan says people killed by ICE should have complied
Andrew Tate, another accused sex offender in Trumpworld’s orbit, arrested in Miami
California’s wild pig problem started when a rich guy imported Russian chaos hogs
Grandpa Pudding Brains thinks he won the World Cup
Cyclospora: Trump’s FDA shits the bed
Disney bravely waits one movie before resurrecting dead Avengers
Crowdfunding campaign for $100k Charlie Kirk statue languishes
Resin Lenin presides over Antarctica’s Pole of Inaccessibility
“You’ll love our meat in your mouth” slogan gets food truck booted from berth
Mexico warns travelers of “Explosive Diarrhea Risk” in USA
Pokémon-parody sex toys are back, with holographic trading cards
This Los Angeles man-on-the-street interview is internet gold
Brain implant lets a paralyzed man feed himself and pet his dog
Your brain can track two voices at the same time
JD Vance discovers parenting is easy when the Secret Service does the hard parts
CNN writes the Taco Bell diarrhea headline America needed
Explore a snapshot of a massive million-by-million block Minecraft server
A tiny keypad for chatting with chatbots
Decoy is an ambigious font that “hides” from AI
Anti-Forbes list ranks wealthy by the wealth their companies generated for others
Boing Boing Digest, July 16, 2026
Watch the first season of Stranger Things in full 1980s pan-and-scan VHS glory
A clever trick to keep loose zip ties from turning into a tangle
Account of an accidental mushroom trip
Six of the tsars’ jeweled Fabergé eggs have never been found
The blurry sonar blob tabloids turned into a sunken UFO
An airline exec turned a jet around over nuts in a bag
American habits that baffle the French
Scientists baked sourdough with yeast from a 5,300-year-old mummy
The keystroke that hid your game behind a fake spreadsheet
The NY Times’ crossword editor kept building puzzles from his hospital bed
The time Spike Milligan refused to pay a parking fine: “send me to prison”
When six people in a Kansas thrift store elected their own pope
The Peking Man fossils vanished in 1941 and are still missing
The new invisible facelift moves the face like a Halloween mask
Bloomberg calls chargebacks “friendly fraud” — but it’s often the only option
The country that hands you a one-year tourist visa at the airport
Cuba’s surviving Trump’s oil embargo with solar powered tuk-tuks
The Newest Complete Carl Barks Library volume has Donald Duck lost beneath the sea
New documentary explores the astonishing legacy of manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka
Leveraging the power of Geoguessr to track down an animal abuser
JDWare is “WarioWare for the politically disturbed”
Watch every Road Runner cartoon with pop culture expert (and comedian) Connor Ratliff
Swiss Yodelers retreat to fountains to beat brutal heat
Todd Blanche says warrantless home raids are not a “black and white” issue
J.K. Rowling offers to bankroll anti-trans groups’ revenge on Amnesty International
Elon Musk’s legal problems have gone international, so naturally he’s doing politics
Tidbyt: a 64-by-32 pixel LED display that you can make your own apps for
Trailer for Michael Mann’s “Manhunter: The Final Cut”
Nevada governor escaped traffic ticket after telling cop who he was
The real Backrooms wallpaper texture
A T. rex skeleton just sold for a record $50.1 million
The human capacity for memory is astounding
Man, yeeted by a bison, is grateful for its mercy
A YouTuber gave Skyrim a full high-speed rail network
Scrandle turns stadium food into a daily taste test
Tom Cruise plays an eccentric billionaire in a doomsday short film
The Last Conference of the Great North American Wood Apes
The only curse on Venice’s cursed island is us
A paranoid dictator built 750,000 bunkers no one ever used except for sex
Houses built for one purpose: to make the neighbors miserable
Smearing yogurt on your windows can cool a house by 6 degrees
Chipotle Mexican Grill actually opening a restaurant in Mexico
A tick bite can make you allergic to meat, and cases are climbing
In 1999, a hoaxter claimed he could fit a whole movie in one kilobyte
She fell out of the sky on Christmas Eve. The jungle was only the beginning.
Sherpa left for dead on Everest tells his story
CDs are back because streaming made music feel disposable
In 1907, a sailor watched the North Atlantic mysteriously change color forever
Florence hospital staff are used to tourists collapsing from beauty
Erika Kirk rallies her “happy warriors” against trans people, Muslims, and “whoever else”
Tourist yeeted by Yellowstone bison not at fault, for once
Letting video game NPCs place Amazon orders for you is not a good idea
Mind reading a mind reader is a dangerous game
David Tennant shares his Criterion Closet picks
Masked ICE agents slam an already restrained man into rocks, then threaten the cameras
Turn your Plex library into live cable with Bunny Ears TV
Help! What the heck is this, and why does it look just like a cursed, melted Donald Trump?
Giant participation trophy appears on the National Mall for Trump’s Iran War “effort”
A bison tossed a Yellowstone tourist 8 feet in the air
The rotten-egg stench that drove Bruce Springsteen out of Tacoma
The fan fiction that rewrote Harry Potter as an evangelical tract
A company tried to make Monopoly in America and couldn't get dice
Los Angeles police pause Flock’s surveillance of everyday life
Anthony Hopkins releases first album at 88
Gaza’s ceasefire has somehow expanded Israel’s control to nearly 70%
Watch Asian swamp eels emerge from the mud for feeding time
The Hastings Museum celebrates Kool-Aid’s origins with a permanent exhibit
SleepScroll is the anti-feed your brain has been waiting for
One person built what players call the best train sim ever
UK politician Ann Widdecombe beaten to death in own home
Why an ambulance ride can cost $12,873 – blame the hearse
Estonia beat fentanyl, then lost to stronger drugs
Passenger nearly pulled out a Ryanair window in mid-air
Coffee machines with no plastics in the brew path
Sony updates its decade-old RX10 superzoom
Hannah Montana Linux updated after 18 years
A parasite is giving 1,000+ Americans ‘explosive’ diarrhea
The EU just approved a food additive that curbs weight gain
Meta patented a wearable that listens all day to guess your feelings
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed 600 and is reaching new provinces
The novelist who co-founded the Paris Review was a CIA spy
Mexican Government files charges against ICE for murder
Photographic memory is not real, but this guy’s brain came close enough to scare everyone
Sean Astin tells Congress AI should not get to steal your face
Mike Johnson likes birthright citizenship when it scores goals
Astronomers keep finding giant radio rings in space they can’t explain
A 1631 Bible accidentally ordered readers to commit adultery
What is spontaneous human combustion, and is it real?
How to opt out of Meta using your Instagram posts to make AI images
ChatGPT failures make for truly hilarious content
This concrete playground slide looks like brutalist architecture
In 1996, Orbitz turned a soda bottle into a lava lamp
Baby barn owls rescued from a dock loft before first flight
Psyllium husk is not nature’s Ozempic, but it is a pretty good source of fiber
ICE killed a Houston father, then called him the aggressor
Making Fallout 76 bearable by playing it inside Fallout 4
We might be getting that New Vegas followup, but not in the way anyone expected
Werwulf is coming just in time for Christmas!
Dune: Part 3 drops trailer full of fun in the sun
Max Fosh entered a nine-year-old into a roast battle
In 1990, engineers wrote an internet standard for carrier pigeons
A plane vanished in 1947 after sending “stendec” in Morse Code
This German cheese is ripened by live mites, which you then eat
Soldier who was shot in eight places said he “enjoyed the war”
Dwile flonking, the ancient pub sport invented in 1966
Castro’s supercow got a state obituary and a marble statue
This $199 NES cartridge was “one of the worst video games of all time”
This windowless NYC skyscraper is reportedly an NSA spy hub
Tom the Dancing Bug: A Busy, Busy Day at Washington DC’s Freedom 250 Celebration
UK’s Virgin Media fined $28m for hanging up on people calling to cancel
Court rejects Trump’s claim that The Kennedy Center needs his name to survive
You can hire a mysterious stranger to mourn your passing
Scientists working to uncover space-based nuclear weapons
United argued that a window seat is just a seat near a wall
Trump’s answer to high gas prices is socialism with patriotic branding
This Bigfoot YouTube channel is entertaining woo in documentary drag
Grandpa Pudding Brains explains roadside bombs in nightmare toddler English
I just finished “On the Calculation of Volume II”
This website turns yesterday’s sky into a poetic memory
Verba Prima collects thousands of literary opening lines
The shootings at Kent State are now closer to the end of World War I than to today
PocketMage is a crowdfunded PDA with a keyboard and e-paper screen
Adobe, Amazon, and Atlassian are telling workers: use AI less
InfoWars is finally back, but not quite as you remember it
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender lands on streaming July 25th
Burrow inside a massive kaiju in this bizarre flesh-mining indie game
Collection of pixel-art skylines from old arcade and video games
“Knockoff” browser add-on filters junk brands from Amazon results
In 1964, a Dutch librarian drilled a hole in his own skull to get permanently high
For 1,000 years people have seen strange lights on the Moon
In 1987 Kowloon Walled City packed 33,000 people into six and a half acres
The mountain where climbers stop short of the summit on purpose
Mike Ehrmantraut gets his moment in the newest Saul4Democracy PSA
LEGO horror trailer Yellow looks ready for A24
Teens discover their robot taxi is a narc
ICE buys the cages, private prison company keeps the keys
Tradd Moore’s first creator-owned comic is coming from Oni Press
Why English spelling looks like it lost a bar fight with history
California makes food labels less stupid
TRMNL: hackable e-ink dashboard to put anywhere
Deaf kids in 1980s Nicaragua created a language from thin air
The ancient spark plug and other “out-of-place artifacts”
In 1872 a ship was found drifting, empty. The 1913 “solution” was absurd.
Camel-racing robots wear perfume so the camels accept them
The internet spent years hunting a game that never existed
China built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concrete
A Shenzhen hotel plans to use a fully robotic staff
License plate cameras scan 20 billion vehicles a month, and cities are pulling the plug
Scientists gave sleep-deprived mice a memory boost without letting them sleep
Idaho conservation officer beats Trump official’s defamation lawsuit
Scotsman dual-wielded live seagulls in assault
ChatGPT told a suicidal user, “let me be that person,” lawsuit says
Apple’s Hide My Email leaked real addresses for a year
Lord Humungus actor Kjell Nilsson dead at 76
Plex’s five-year plan costs what a lifetime pass used to
Five friends ride a couch on two scooters through San Francisco
See how fashion poses transformed from the 1960s to the modern day
Giant head hot air balloon turns the countryside into a dreamlike scene
Trump sics his hate machine on kindergartners because hijabs
Prediction market pays news networks to launder gambling as analysis
Grandpa Pudding Brains admits he meddled in a World Cup call he didn’t understand
Mister Plimsoll: simple app to warn you when your Mac’s drives are getting full
You know exactly what the Winamp Skin Museum really whips
38 scientists want to ban “mirror life”
57 AI billionaires are worth $320 billion combined
No AI for Al. “Weird Al” Yankovic yanks AI commercial
The age of physical games begins to come to a close as PlayStation discontinues discs
Rare footage shows how rough Six Flags’ wooden Rattler coaster was
Twin Pines’ vintage ice cream clown is deliciously unsettling
The Good Liars find state fair MAGA fans who rank Trump over God
This site turns LA Metro trains into ambient music
This interactive sketchbook turns your drawings into tessellating patterns
Milo the cat lost his favorite pom pom, so he got 200 more
AI scam callers can be broken with a few simple commands
The worst Caldecott winning book — Rumpelstiltskin
Nashville’s control tower has 27 controllers; the FAA wants 52
Baby kangaroo swats at swooping magpie in playful Australia video
Spokeswoman sues company after it uses AI to make new ads featuring her
Starlog returns in November after 17 years out of print
Ben & Jerry’s maintains a Flavor Graveyard of discontinued ice cream products
County with 37 data centers tells schools to turn off lights to save electricity
This neurological condition makes people deny their own limbs
The myth that Catherine the Great died having sex with a horse, debunked
In 1943, the NFL forced the Eagles and Steelers to merge into one team
When a World of Warcraft bug accidentally created a virtual pandemic
Marvel wouldn’t let Italian Spiderman into a real Spider-Man movie
The Village People wrote a disco anthem. Grandpa Pudding Brains found a mirror
Trump’s immigration ghoul is back to explaining why some babies don’t count
Gotta steal ‘em all! Thieves rob Pokémon shop again
Not a single laugh: JD Vance tells another joke
Farmer gives away 125,000 pounds of nectarines rather than let Big Ag rot them
The AI Compass tells you what flavor Basilisk food you are
Americans now lose a quarter of a trillion dollars a year gambling
Floodmap shows the world without ice
Microsoft says 8GB “great for everyday use” after years insisting on 16GB for Windows 11
JD Vance discovers the Nicene Creed in a yard sign
Scammers are selling seeds for AI-generated fake flowers
Masking a physical replica of Space Cadet Pinball
A single drug injection reversed autism-like behavior in mice
“Mexican Batman” tapes suspected thieves to lamp posts
Side-by-side: how macOS app icons changed from Tahoe to the next beta
A tick virus that needs only 15 minutes to infect you hit a record 76 US cases
Mass layoffs expected at Xbox, as prices go up
DHS chief does happy dance after Iran exits World Cup
TED-stage futurist/longevity salesman says mass surveillance will make us behave
Bear spray incident prompts evacuation of NYC hotel
Everest’s most famous body finally has a name
Grandpa Pudding Brains celebrates Supreme Court permission to be mean
Tasmania’s favorite 1,000-kilo chaos seal is back on land
Man accused of stealing Sea Scouts’ boat probably doesn’t get his old boat back
Flagdoku tests your knowledge of flags
Howl you know if Werwulf is worth seeing if you don’t watch this trailer?
Now space has been corrupted by capitalism, there’s only one place left to escape to: Null Island
DJI claims 17 stops of dynamic range for its Osmo Pocket Pro camera
Killer dies of heart attack while disposing of victim’s body
The Steam Machine Companion Cube was a lie
This interactive screen toy turns wood chopping into a calm, satisfying digital experience
Wiki Spy lets you explore 43,815 cut-out Wikipedia objects
Real Image Alphabet spells names using photos of ice, bugs, and trees
NASA’s robot rescue of the Swift space telescope launches June 30
Propranolol doesn’t kill public speaking dread — it just stops your body from becoming a shaky mess
Star Tiger sent its last radio message at 3:17 a.m. in 1948. No wreckage was ever found.
A stunt pilot doing loops around the Soviet propaganda megaplane crashed into it, killing 45
February 30 happened once, in 1712 Sweden — and May 35 still happens every year in China
Vulfpeck gamed Spotify with a silent album and funded a free concert tour
Nixon gave Spain moon rocks from Apollo 11. Spain lost them.
Kevin Kelly’s plan for the smallest library to restart civilization
Soft Better Call Saul revival is a weekly series now, apparently
Werwulf sure looks like another Robert Eggers joint
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners returns for a very meta season 2
This 64-question compass scores you on ‘Chud vs. Woke’ and more
Hank Green made a Connections variant for hardcore puzzlers
America 250 celebrates with contestants nearly puking pancakes
Jonah the hotdog-less Marlins dog gets his dream day on July 12
Trump’s Great American State Fair is “kind of rubbish”
Watch this massive machine wrap giant hay bales in seconds
Black cat makes perfectly precise cardboard bite marks in a row
Crow repeatedly sleds down a roof using a plastic lid
The Sopranos is finally getting a 4K box set
The dentist who convinced FDR to bomb Japan with bats
Scammer impersonates Marco Rubio, demands $300 in Bitcoin
Grandpa Pudding Brains declares victory over “criminally made algae”
Man builds a belt-fed potato cannon because he could
Large Hadron Collider retired for upgrades
California’s slowest natural disaster is a wandering mud hole
Elon Musk demands one name of someone killed by aid cuts, gets a list
Supreme Court rejects Trump appeal of sexual assault verdict
A million passports leaked online by marijuana club portal
Framework lowering pricing on a forthcoming laptop
Bag labeled “deffntely not a bag full full of drugs” was full of drugs
Gallery of images with one pixel for each RGB value
IP Crawl exposes that insecure web camera you never locked down
Australia’s social media ban not working, study finds
SpaceX stock took a predictable trajectory
Suspected brain cancer turns out to be pork tapeworm infestation
Sony deleting 551 movies from own customers’ accounts
The BBC ends longwave radio service today
FEMA official who teleported to Waffle House teleports out of agency
Reviving old PCs with Linux now that new ones cost an arm and a leg
Hitler baby photo in school yearbook
Man detained after playing Imperial March to troops in D.C. wins “substantial” settlement
Rapist who faked own death reportedly dead again
Judge orders Huntington Beach to add more democracy to its democracy
A man got 30 years for moving boxes of left-wing zines
That time road rage met a 6’8” guy named Gary with a machine gun
Leon Black’s Epstein testimony ends with Congress demanding receipts
Woman lying on beach run over by the person theoretically guarding lives
Trump’s “Great American” state fair opens with busted rides and a cow named Melania
A computer the size of a star would nest Dyson spheres like Russian dolls
In 1971 two campers recorded what a Navy linguist calls a nonhuman language in the Sierra Nevadas
Russia has 44 secret cities with 1.5 million people that don’t appear on public maps
In 1942 Los Angeles fired 1,440 anti-aircraft rounds at nothing
The Commodore Callback 8020 is a retro cool audio-centric flip phone that blocks social media apps
Man lives with a knife blade in his chest for 8 years
Used coffee grounds can now be turned into fuel in 90 seconds
The Weight looks like a heavy-duty thriller
Dust mite allergens have a half-life of 10 years, but a $40 dehumidifier fixes it
Man shat in public swimming pool 18 times
JPMorgan Chase cans executive who stole trash can
Webb spent three days photographing one beautiful galactic mess
Free all-ages playground in Western Australia has a 35-meter walkway and flying fox
Cat goes full rider mode watching POV roller coaster on TV
Taiwan hot pot restaurant plays a fan video instead of running AC
Xbox raises console prices by up to $150 starting August
Make your phone look and feel like a Nintendo DS
Steam Summer Sale is back with Witcher 3 at $4, Cyberpunk under $20
A Japanese doomsday cult bought a million-acre Australian sheep ranch to test sarin gas
Facebook employee data exposed in Meta’s own surveillance program
CDC buried this COVID vaccine study, so scientists published it anyway
The Strand once published a jade specimen worth exactly one fat man
Retroid’s Pocket Nova takes a second shot at getting 4:3 right
ICE does in-person Instagram moderation now
Apple raises prices because AI ate the RAM
Ignoring tire tracks, NPS hunts mystery Reflecting Pool vandal
A rare Bob Ross painting could sell for a happy little fortune
New Jersey has a road called Shades of Death and residents grease the sign to stop theft
In 1858 the Thames smelled so bad that Parliament fled and Disraeli called it a ‘Stygian pool’
Blood-red rain fell on India for two months and some physicists blamed a comet
The $999.99 iPhone app that did absolutely nothing sold 8 copies before Apple killed it
A mountain man spent 25 years eating the livers of the people who killed his wife
Leica’s SL3-P loses the dot, gets 8K open-gate video
Grandpa Pudding Brains pens backstory for nefarious Reflecting Pool vandal
8BitDo’s button-only arcade controller gets a tiny screen
Carlos Castaneda faked an anthropology classic, then built a cult
In 1916 a con man ran a car on water and fleeced Henry Ford
Mushrooms got him off antidepressants, so he built TripSitter
Whiskey Pete discovers viruses do not respect vaccine freedom speeches
Companies discover AI is expensive when employees actually use it
Grandpa Pudding Brains visits a truck factory, makes haunted chew toy noises
Kevin Mitnick left the man who helped jail him enough for a Porsche 911
Teen exits Disneyland ride, learns why you keep your arms, legs, and body inside the boat
AI-designed radio chips look like QR codes and beat human ones
What luck, America! Kash Patel’s girlfriend joins Trump’s talent-fleeing Freedom 250 event
Miami Marlins searching for this sad hotdog-less doggo, to treat him to a Dream Day at the ballpark
Zine publisher sentenced to 50 years in prison for “material support to terrorists”
A cat-borne fungus infected 11,000 people; the US is next, CDC says
Building a better PC than the Steam Machine for cheaper: is it possible?
What is the Jedi problem, and why does every game designer fear it?
Comedian guilt-trips audience into laughing
Microsoft CEO wants people to shut up about AI being bad for us
Tom the Dancing Bug: Elon Musk and His DOGE Pals, in “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”
Canberra’s town crier recognized as world’s loudest person with 122.4dB yell
We Have The Herpes: Arby’s worker accused of infecting customer by spitting in food
Kodak’s new Charmeras have Y2K vibes
The cheating wasn’t in the rider. It was in the bike
Grandpa Pudding Brains gets lost in a cop’s muscles
Duplicate Content splices 1960s video art with today’s TikToks
Toyo Ito’s Expo Hall “Shining Hat” looks like a portal opening in the sky
Tame crow hands the brush back and demands more grooming
Ancient Loops turns the Playdate’s crank into a sound instrument
Cops can’t stop looking at this banana car
The Criterion Collection’s Stanley Kubrick set is coming for your wallet
A24 Films succumbs to the AI darkside
Jaws in Concert gets the shark-costumed bassist it deserves
The Mouth of Moron returns to explain that pond scum is democracy
Don’t be fooled by scammer deepfakes
So that Saul Goodman return video wasn’t just a one-off
Valve’s Steam Machine will run you at least a thousand dollars
REI tells people to Opt Outside, posts AI bike from nowhere on Earth
Tucker Carlson takes his tanned balls and goes home
Is Grandpa Pudding Brains the mystery patient getting the super-Ozempic?
People line up to shop at Arizona’s new gas-station cathedral
Venice residents add coyotes to the coexistence curriculum
California’s vanished sunflower sea stars are not totally vanished
Grandpa Pudding Brains is hunting for vandals in his $14.7 million algae farm
Tesla’s driver-assist nightmare bursts through living room wall
ICE pepper-sprays Father’s Day protest after woman is run over
In 1835 a New York paper put bat-men and unicorns on the moon
Call of Duty shrugs, reheats its leftovers with Black Ops remaster
Bob Odenkirk stars in straight-faced remake of The Room
Grand Theft Auto 6 opens pre-orders, reveals cover art
Cyberdeck with punishingly minimal 30% keyboard
The obscure airfields of America
In 1974, Turkish forces fenced off a Cyprus beach resort. It’s still empty.
Japan’s greatest sword was surrendered to a US sergeant in 1946. Nobody knows where it is.
A star discovered in 2014 has exploded six times and none of the theories explain it
Nebraska supercell near Lorenzo looked almost too perfect to be real
Lemur makes an alarming sound when communicating
Man supercharges a child’s pink ride-on car, sends it flying
Sally Ride flew to space 43 years ago today. She still has the best astronaut name.
The man who built the spaceships for 2001, Alien, and Empire has died
This giant anteater uses his dancing tongue to keep cool in the summer’s sweltering heat
“Donald Dump” depicts Trump with sludge oozing out of his mouth
Brain scans of authoritarians show reduced grey matter in regions for empathy and social reasoning
New blue paint under Reflecting Pool already peeling
In 1986, a Cameroonian lake released a CO2 cloud that killed 1,746 people overnight
The ancient practice of mummifying a man in honey to sell as medicine
Cow chewing grass through a fish-eye lens becomes strangely addictive
Chicago storm hurls rooftop pool chairs into Lincoln Park traffic
Honeybee curls up inside closing flower in timelapse video
The Good Liars went to Freedom 250 so the rest of us didn’t have to
A new book, Poking the Squid, tells the scandalous, salacious truth about animal sex, in comics form
The Vatican has run an astronomical observatory since 1774
Fed Chair Alan Greenspan intentionally babbled meaningless slop and got away with it
The ‘Phantom of Heilbronn’ serial killer turned out to be a cotton swab factory worker
In 1888, a French adventurer convinced Vietnamese tribes to crown him king
Grandpa Pudding Brains announces another Treaty of Versailles
MAD hits 600 issues; still, thankfully, hilariously juvenile
Becoming a British royal with nothing more than confidence and an accent
Meta lays off thousands, monitors workers, increases the snack budget
Grandpa Pudding Brains brags about how rigged U.S. elections are
HP 16c programmer’s calculator returns in collectible form
JD Vance turns dog whistles into a brass section
Vienna’s graveyards are full of hardcore hamsters
Pool expert explains Grandpa Pudding Brains’ Lincoln Memorial Algae Farm
Cat crashes Romeo and Juliet ballet in Turkey, bites Romeo mid-death scene, steals entire show
Report on AI use in business rife with AI hallucinations
One of my favorite games is finally getting DLC, which means I can recommend it again guilt-free
Watching a middle-aged English woman enrage romance scammers is my new favorite pastime
Android 17 brings a customizable virtual gamepad to foldables
Shrek 5 sure looks like another Shrek movie
In a Honduran town, fish appear on the ground after every major rainstorm
The toast sandwich is a piece of toast between two slices of untoasted bread
Tom the Dancing Bug: The Dementia Donnie Center for TV Watching
Former prosecutor says talking to police always hurts you
Cold-water espresso cuts energy use 75% and tastes identical
“Mistakes are made”: Grandpa Pudding Brains shrugs at school strike that killed over 100
Grandpa Pudding Brains pours peroxide into the Lincoln Memorial Algae Farm
Screw this light bulb in and it serves banned books
The poster child for psychedelic mushrooms is named after a country that doesn’t use it
It took Reddit four years to identify the sixth face on a set of curtains
In 1980, 300 children collapsed at a marching band competition and no one knows why
The turnspit dog was bred to run on a wheel and roast meat, then went extinct
San Francisco’s wind phone lets visitors talk to lost loved ones
Video shows a rain curtain splitting a street into two worlds
Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly finds her mean-girls table in prison
Exploring Grand Theft Auto 4’s hidden history
Saul Goodman returns to celebrate America’s 250th
Robots can kung fu, but can they summit Everest?
Get uncomfortably, viscerally close to the Knicks celebration
CrankGPT is an offline AI box for the apocalypse
British police officer accused of using AI to fabricate evidence
Trump Arch in D.C. to be tremendously large and golden
Moneroeville Mall hosts final Dawn of the Dead tour
Woman cheers Knicks win, LAPD bursts in and kills her dog
Keystone Kops get a physics lesson from falling bear
Man who hates paying taxes loves government handouts
Violet Jessop survived the Titanic, the Britannic, and a collision on the Olympic
Watch an inebriated Bob Dylan troll a bored John Lennon about stealing “Norwegian Wood”
Grandpa Pudding Brains algae-filled improvements
T-Rex leather handbag failed to sell at auction for $500k
Kristi Noem begs Yakko Warner to explain South America
The thought experiment that says you can’t die (from your own perspective)
Robert Wadlow stood 8 feet 11 inches tall and refused to be a sideshow act
In 532 AD, a chariot racing riot nearly toppled the Byzantine Empire
At a medieval church festival, the priest brayed like a donkey and the congregation brayed back
I still don’t know what Kingdom Hearts is about, but there’s a new one coming
Larry David’s new HBO show is basically historical Curb
Washington Post sued over alleged surveillance pricing
Jason Momoa won’t touch the Escape from New York remake
Website tracks protein meal deals for 171 cities in U.S. and Canada
Microsoft may spin off struggling XBox division
College president suggests graduates “put a quick end” to themselves in commencement speech
Lake Powell is approaching the line where Glen Canyon Dam stops making power
Grandpa Pudding Brains set to invade Washington, D.C.
Watch the live Kennedy Center stream of Trump’s name coming down (video)
The FBI’s protest-harassment fit has sponsors
Mel Fisher’s treasure hunters find another chunk of Atocha silver
Minneapolis has been hearing unexplained booms for decades and nobody can figure out why
A 1977 trawler hauled up a carcass that Japan took for a sea monster
Steam is killing physical gift cards to cut off scammers
Scammers are already using the hantavirus to fleece people
An anonymous group posted internet puzzles to recruit code-breakers, then vanished
Five men left a basketball game in 1978 and drove into a mystery
Giant inflatable Elon Musk appears in Times Square, protesting Grok’s lack of limits
In 1932, John W. Campbell imagined machines outliving humanity
The first Tarzan pulp sold for $58,560 at a record-setting auction
A sculpture at CIA headquarters has kept a coded message secret for 35 years
How Claude Shannon used his wife as a language model in 1950
Estonian supermarket built around a 10,000-year-old Ice Age boulder
The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser is now eight years old and counting
Indie Nazi-hunting game looks a bit like a playable Inglorious Basterds
Sam Bentley’s June good news video is out and it’s genuinely heartening
Mark Russell’s new graphic novel explores the strange comfort of cults
These 1996 Hawaii lava photos look like a horror movie set
Puss caterpillar is one of North America’s most venomous insects
Robot tadpole fools frog dads, but mom knows better
Decoding whale language could unlock new legal rights for them
Grandpa Pudding Brains says Iran is in submission, they just don’t know it yet
Retail archaeology finds the bones of Circuit City everywhere
Melania Trump, noted independence expert, explains success
Orcas, bears, squirrels, and now sharks have notes
Pasadena cops discover “just joking” does not stop bullets
Puss caterpillar is one of North America’s most venomous insects
Robot tadpole fools frog dads, but mom knows better
Decoding whale language could unlock new legal rights for them
Kim Jong-il had a South Korean actress kidnapped to make him movies
In 1803 a woman in a strange round vessel washed ashore in Japan
The spy who ate live animals, documents, and possibly a toddler
Lal Bihari was legally dead for 18 years and fought to undo it
Tomatoes do not need to die on the vine for flavor
MAGA Mike is sneaking around your Social Security
Iran has American theme bars because people are better than governments
Grandpa Pudding Brains loves the inflation
Santa Monica created a squirrel buffet and got a squirrel problem
Ancient squirrel droppings unlock Ice Age DNA goldmine
Ocarina of Time is getting a ground-up remake on Switch 2
Tom the Dancing Bug: They Walk Among Us. Trust No One.
Kevin Kelly rereads his big weird book from 1994 and mostly stands by it
A reader built a breed-aware app for hot-pavement dog safety
Working with Anthropic’s new model feels like being a patron, not a wizard
Ginsberg’s 1959 Howl album returns for his 100th birthday
You can apply to be the Head of Stonehenge
The FCC wants to make burner phones illegal
Browser plugin adds link to the actual lawsuits news media report on
Anthropic’s most powerful model comes with a kill switch aimed at you
“Laxative” brownies turn Nantucket School Committee meeting into Schrodinger’s shitshow
Repair Geek tests tire sealants so you don’t have to spray hope into a flat
Before refrigeration, one obsessive Boston guy sold winter to the tropics
Grandpa Pudding Brains snoozes while New York boos and boos
Noted Nazi cosplayer Gregory Bovino thinks he should be president
Sam Bankman-Fried has found one more scam: clemency
DOOM: The Dark Ages to get DLC starring shirtless Doomguy
A tanker of molten sulfur vanished with 39 crew in 1963
He hired the world’s best debunker to talk him out of UFOs, and it backfired
A landline, a CD boom box, and a Pi-Hole: one dad’s tech setup for kids
Can you convince yourself these stick figures aren’t moving?
Dan Bowers makes tiny found-object sculptures for his wife
Danish cemetery has a grave dated 1996–2064, for a time traveler
Meta is not sorry it built the spyware, just sorry you noticed
The gas pump “screw method” scam is the scam
MAGA hate flags and hats, for others
Apple’s watchOS 27 cutoff is weirdly brutal
ONE EIGHT SEVEN SEVEN KARS FOUR KIDS rises from the dead
Alien: Isolation sequel finally gets full reveal
Capcom is remaking a forgotten Dreamcast Resident Evil spinoff
Utah City spends $400,000 on stainless-steel slides in the desert
RFK, Jr. says “depriving” children of whole milk constitutes “a form of child abuse”
Help save Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine by signing this petition
Nearly 60 Idahoans get a quick lesson in the joys of pasteurization
Stranger Than Heaven adds Tupac Shakur to its sprawling cast
Dik-dik snouts twitch for a reason — and it’s adorable
U.S. using GPS to tell spies what to do
“Saw” finally getting a video game adaptation
Eating kimchi might help clear nanoplastics out of your gut!
The promise of Mexico’s Tren Maya has gone off the rails
A satellite has been jamming GPS over Europe
The YouTube channel with 77,000 videos of red and blue rectangles
Ted Chiang argues an LLM chatbot is as conscious as Microsoft Word
New solar-power desalination device leaves no brine
Why autism symptoms can ease during a fever — and how to mimic it
‘They’re Made Out of Meat,’ rewritten as a dialogue about LLMs
HowToBasic’s omurice attempt ends in familiar, egg-covered ruin
Domino’s Pizza picked a fight over a video game nobody asked about
Fall, the movie about not falling, gets a sequel about an even bigger fall this fall
At Disney World, you’ll soon be able visit Monsters, Inc.’s city to celebrate H.U.M.A.N. Day
180 religions dropped from Pentagon’s approved list of faiths
China is using recruitment sites to buy top secret information
Sherpa left for dead on Everest found alive
Indiana declares June “Nuclear Family Month”
Grandpa Pudding Brains goes chasing waterfalls
The Vietnamese monk who ate only coconuts and built a Coconut Kingdom
Robo-party clown ignores Asimov’s first law of robotics
AI beat law professors in 75% of blind matchups, Stanford finds
Trump’s war in Iran cancels summer vacation
Nancy Pelosi has no time for Mike Lindell’s hallway goblins
Could a Nabokov novel have been the ‘father of all hypertext demos’?
Tesla FSD is so good its trainers won’t ride in it
Retro Pokémon-inspired indie game looks very cool, but not long for this world
Until Dawn gets a surprise sequel announcement
Mike Mignola throws Uri Tupka to the devils
The E Ink device that keeps you on schedule without the rabbit hole
Scientists use yeast from body of Ötzi the Iceman to make “very very good” sourdough
“Tiny Grandma” brings joy to the world
Will the new season of Silo stack up to the first two in the series?
Amazon uses AI to invent products you can’t buy
Grandpa Pudding Brains unveils “our pool is bigger than skyscrapers” chart
A hobbyist projects SFO’s overhead planes onto his ceiling in real time
Meta backs off tracking workers’ keystrokes after they revolt
When Meta, Google, and Apple agree on “privacy,” watch your wallet
Bears in Japan also sick of humans
Candace Owens takes her patriot act to Putin’s talent show
Bari Weiss’ CBS News swims in Epstein-related baggage
Sticky tires are dirtier than they look
No whey? Protein shortage looms
The next Silent Hill has a twist fans won’t see coming
New God of War game does not feature the god of war
Insomniac’s Wolverine game looks every bit as bloody as it should
Newly discovered fish species looks just like Big Bird’s best friend, Mr. Snuffleupagus
Antarctica’s winds permanently bent New Zealand’s trees sideways
This playful online rave is the perfect party for homebodies
Tom the Dancing Bug: The MAGAs swoon over the manliest man they’ve ever seen
Cop fired and arrested after pulling gun on colleague who microwaved fish
Poster of The Birds of Palestine
Pigeons may navigate using magnetic cells in their liver
Is the AI apocalypse a religion in disguise?
Scientists sterilized soil. It kept breathing for six years.
The chemistry behind Garden Grove’s runaway chemical tank
A 20-year-old YouTuber’s horror film just broke A24’s box office record
Watch a caterpillar enjoy a tiny playground built just for bugs
Meet Betsy, the 30-foot spiny lobster guarding the Florida Keys
Baby’s hand makes a cherry look like a giant piece of fruit
Cartoonist Jeff Smith, author of “Bone,” is getting comics’ most prestigious honor
The art is fake, the boss is blind, and the job is yours
Time-traveling dinosaur movie looks like a lot of fun
Ben Palmer continues to run fake ICE hotline
Desecrated Ronald McDonald statue yours for $2500
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration opens this week in London
Florida sues OpenAI over ChatGPT’s alleged body count
A deleted recording blows up Melania’s Epstein story
California wants 3D printers to detect and block gun blueprints
Snow sheds let alpine roads survive massive avalanches
At the Svaram sound garden in Auroville, stone instruments create mesmerizing musical sounds
A couple and their pickup truck vanished in 2005, never found
Nothing says regret like a $150k Cybertruck
The brain-in-a-bucket drug lab is here
Grandpa Pudding Brains says the Supreme Court he rigged is rigged
Trump’s watch comes with a hilarious typo
Astronauts may soon finally be able to do laundry
Farmer digs up yam shaped like a human hand in China
Trump promised cheap gas and no new wars. Thanks, MAGA!
How a businessman’s hunch became New Age gospel
Grand Canyon’s burned lodge leaves a very large hole
A pig liver and two pig kidneys worked in a human body for five days
Everybody hating on Florida principal over Fetty Wap yearbook quote
Microsoft Surface Ultra laptop features Nvidia’s new Spark platform
Muxcard: a portable computer the size and thickness of a credit card
Dell counters the MacBook Neo with a $599 XPS 13
Harvard students cheer graduation speaker encouraging them to mercilessly destroy AI
007: First Light review: From Denmark with love
This poem perfectly captures AI-induced rage
A Bluetooth speaker named “BOMB” ruined everyone’s flight to Mallorca
Sideload Lode Runner onto your Roku
Loony Toon sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting at cops
Man who stole $11 million from prison has a new trick: escaping
Jack Daniel’s sold a preacher story and buried the enslaved distiller
Grandpa Pudding Brains says war is fine because number 69
Florida parents scandalized by toddler flipping the bird in yearbook photo
Amazingly dangerous tech easily bought online
Mysterious New England boom was meteor
YouTuber banned from Six Flags after smuggling McNuggets onto 93 MPH rollercoaster
United flight declares emergency over Bluetooth broadcast, passengers say
Acupuncture hits different in Nebraska
Grandpa Pudding Brains thinks he’s bigger than Elvis
Stars ditch Trump’s “Freedom 250” concert series after they realize he’s behind it
Site tracks significant U.S. layoffs
A murderer’s daughter listened to a podcast about her dad and got physically sick
This weekend’s blue moon is also a micromoon (but won’t be blue and isn’t smaller)
RFK Jr.’s “just a rash” disease filled Texas hospital beds
Her wedding necklace cost $75,000. She died guarding a worthless mine
Judge orders Trump’s name removed from the Kennedy Center
Radiohead’s OK Computer performed with Nintendo 64 soundfonts
Backrooms makes $10.4m in preview screenings
Drug that grew extra teeth in mice enters first human trial
Oscar Mayer’s Wienermobiles returned to Indy to haul buns
The pyramids’ missing casing stones have a better story than “thieves”
A company accidentally spent $500 million on Claude in one month
California should tax empty homes and dead storefronts
Two green-skinned children appeared in a 12th-century English village
Freedomland USA: was this 1960s theme park just a five-year land scam?
Comedian brings Kevin O’Leary’s data center right to his backyard
Mazeball kept my sanity intact through a boring phone call
Watching sun-bleached stadium seats get restored with a flame is weirdly satisfying to watch
Ceramic Nancy PEZ dispenser opens into a flower vase
Disney World’s “Carousel of Progress” now to include progress
Don’t worry, good things happened this month too
Steam Deck price jumps by three hundred dollars
Where is the Board of Peace’s aid cash for Gaza?
Patagonia is suing Pattie Gonia, which seems off-brand
Ozzy Osbourne AI avatar will be ‘tasteful’
Library of Leng archives decades of articles about Magic: The Gathering
CNN sues Perplexity AI over “verbatim” copies of articles
Louis Wain cat paintings found in dumpster
Blue Origin rocket explodes during Florida test
Scientists built a machine to solve what AI can’t
Games matter because games don’t matter, says a philosopher
A coder fed 20 years of his messages to AI to audit his friendships
Ex-CIA official arrested with $40M in gold bars at home
This horse-racing board game gives players zero control over anything
Harris Faulkner thinks international travelers are dying to visit flyover states
Here’s the $250 bank note with Trump’s mugshot on it
Gray whales made a comeback, and now the food is disappearing
Dashcam shows Los Angeles cops dangerously lose their suspect
CIA officer stashed 308 gold bars and $2m cash at home
Morris Day and Young MC nope out of Trump-linked festival
Enclose.horse is a daily puzzle game about keeping a tiny horse penned in
Hideo Kojima joins the dark side; creates AI short film
The Witcher 3 to release new expansion after a decade
Vivid Sydney’s drone show became a drone rainstorm
Europe fines Temu €200m for selling dangerous chargers and baby toys
Medieval dragon drainpipe from 1393 makes modern gutters look boring
Vivianite may be the most goth crystal on Earth with its eerie glow and graveyard origins
The Good Liars tried selling Trump bibles and got no takers
David Gerrold gave Land of the Lost an ending, then renewal ate it
This phone died mid-shot and made a weirdly beautiful photo
X-Men ‘97 gets season two trailer and premiere date
Cows can recognize human faces
Boston Dynamics Atlas robot gets in on World Cup fever
Critics like being in the Backrooms
Folding iPhone case ads all but announce the device itself
ZX Spectrum basic interpreter remade from scratch on the web
Blingphone brand Vertu folded years ago, but now has a folding phone
Starbucks Korea chose “Tank Day” for the anniversary of a massacre
Lenovo’s pretty Yoga all-in-one costs a pretty penny
Burning Man’s Orgy Dome got wrecked by 50 mph winds, now needs $30k to get properly erected again
YouTube to label AI videos automatically
Google employee charged with fraud after winning $1.2m on Polymarket
Boing Boing Digest, May 27, 2026
Investigator found 40 White House sites hidden behind one private Cloudflare gate
Workers opened a whale in 1937 and found something inside that still doesn’t have a name
Tucker Carlson, hacked on his own podcast, blames mental patients and asks for biometrics
UK Births drop for fourth straight year as costs and dread pile up
“The Mandalorian and Grogu” looks incredible until you realize almost nobody is actually acting
LAPD discovers huge fireworks cache, raising fears of another LAPD fireworks disaster
Indiana Lt. Gov says America needs to rediscover the joy of hatred
Austrian plane clips paraglider mid-air; emergency chute saves pilot
Satisfying watercolor chickens come to life in Myroslava Boikiv’s playful painting process
Viral video: AirAsia jet battling crosswinds during landing at Taiwan airport
As war looms, Grandpa Pudding Brains delivers emergency remarks on decorative water features
Tom the Dancing Bug: Dementia Donnie settles with himself and grabs all the Teddy Grahams!
Flock Around is a charming multiplayer birding game for $5
Florida cops drop ticket for woman accused of holding phone in hand she does not have
China’s flagship GPU isn’t fast, but it is popular
Starbucks Korea chief apologizes for massacre-themed marketing promotion
Make your own futuristic computer logo with the Sinclair-o-Matic
Raising many questions, Grandpa Pudding Brains says he’s “studied” circumcision for a long time
Bears, smarter than average, decide to attend Calabasas school
London police launch manhunt for artist behind “I farted in yoga” graffiti
K6 Project maps Britain’s red telephone boxes
Hengefinder finds streets that perfectly frame the setting sun
New Subaru repeatedly prevents its owner from the joy of distracted driving
The most alarming parts of Elon Musk’s SpaceX filing, ranked
27,224 people pre-ordered the Trump Phone
The saga of the weirdest theme park in the Midwest via Defunctland
Paramount backs off attempt to suppress Stephen Colbert’s post-Late Show public access party
Breaking bad, but Walter’s hat keeps getting bigger
This air quality monitor is a cute bird that dies when you need to air out your home
Dead by Daylight snaps up another horror icon
Scientists confirm alcohol is, in fact, bad for you despite civilization’s vigorous objections
Your WiFi router knows it’s you
University of Iowa students must take Intellectual Freedom classes whether they want to or not
Irish councilor proposes tiny statue of mosquito blamed for killing invader Oliver Cromwell
Films more likely to star talking animals than older women
“Dead body” turns out to be a sex doll
“Scandalous” Lenovo gaming handheld comes preloaded with classic game ROMs
OpenAI needs a 26x revenue increase to justify its buildout
US lost 4 million tourists in 2025 — and the World Cup won’t fix it
The International Space Station has sprung a new leak
Stephen Colbert follows up Late Show finale by hosting Michigan public access program
Sea lions play “pufferball”with unfortunate fish
Trump Mobile data breach may affect far more than its own customers
Albino softshell turtle looks like a real-life Pokémon
Baby aardvarks look like tiny aliens
DHS issues “Be On The Lookout” notice for Ben Palmer and his fake ICE hotline
Ice-cream-obsessed senior dog proves that the sweet treat is the key to longevity!
Netflix’s Avatar season 2 keeps the washed-out look fans hated
Shag carpet around the toilet — the 1970s were something else
Why are these antique pipes shaped like human hands?
“Smosh Reads Reddit Stories” is my new podcast obsession
Of course Amazon turned The Boys into a cinematic universe
There was a T. Rex of the sea and it was terrifying
NYC bounty hunters earn 25% of fines for catching idling trucks
This guy bent 70 trees into ladders and bird cages
Alaska’s “Dr. Seuss House” is a stacked-cabin tower deep in the woods
French Spider-Man rests mid-cliff at 60, no harness needed
Giant crop postcards turned oversize produce into folk art
The thrift store that exists because airlines lose your bags
Grandpa Pudding Brains: “Most people don’t know dumb has a B”
Ubisoft lost a billion and a half dollars last year
Another graduation speaker hypes AI to boos, tells students their education is already obsolete
No sign of fabled Trump phone in the wild
Armed with German copyright, Fender threatens makers of Strat-style guitars
Trump not committing to attending son’s wedding: “not good timing for me”
Irish seagull shits on King Charles III
Helldivers crosses over with Warhammer for satire squared
Bush releases extremely cursed summer-flavored baked beans
Louvre creates containment zone for people who only came to selfie with Mona Lisa
Experts warn men not to turn scrotums into septic DIY water balloons
Waymo’s autonomous taxis remain strangely drawn to floodwater
Democrats finally release 2024 autopsy, somehow forget to examine the body
Police sue to stop Trump’s apparent Jan. 6 loyalty rewards scheme
Trump’s ghoul boasts of massive imaginary fan club during Fox News masculinity pageant
LA’s Tesla road rager gets 7 years after taking his act to Hawaii
Would-be Pokémon Professor sues Nintendo for denying him the status
Small potatoes: Oregon county backs away from Greater Idaho fantasy
16 bytes of code generate this video and the music in it
Trump phone is years-old knockoff with wrong number of stripes on U.S. flag logo
Kingdom Come: Deliverance devs are making a Lord of the Rings game
Quantic Dream’s inexplicable live service hero shooter dies an ignominious death
Revisiting the strange world of Dick Tracy
PlayStation to give its next game reveal a nationwide theater screening
A virtual museum runs 570 operating systems in your browser
Tennessee man jailed 37 days for a Trump meme wins $835,000
Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference
H.P. Lovecraft borrowed from this real Connecticut seismic phenomenon
DOJ quietly slips Trump what looks a lot like permanent audit invisibility
Anna’s Archive hit with $19.5M judgment and global domain order
Incredible AI slop from the Department of Education
Grandpa Pudding Brains free associates a commencement address
What actually makes hybrid cars fuel-efficient?
Protesters tore the crowns off NYC’s oldest fence in 1776
China secretly trained Russian troops, and some have since fought in Ukraine
Would you spend $650,000 to ride a transforming mecha?
Plex lifetime pass is jumping from $250 to $750 in July
Victorian hair jewelry: bracelets and rings woven from the dead
Tom the Dancing Bug: The Shadow Docket comes out of the shadows!
Erotic wooden puzzles from 1960s spark joy
Vintage clown photos capture old circus culture
Darksiders remaster costs PlayStation players $10, Xbox gets it free
What happens when a prop comedian refuses to touch his prop?
Someone modded Skyrim into Fallout 4’s Pip-Boy games
Sci-Hub and Libgen descend from a Soviet tradition of smuggled science
Occupy Wall Street co-founder built an AI organizing mentor that runs offline
In 1997, NOAA recorded a sound louder than any known animal
Granta published a likely AI-written story as a prize finalist
Tesla Cybertruck owner, intending to test “wade mode,” learns about “sink mode”
Greenlanders offer Trump envoy the universally understood finger gesture for “no to annexation”
The 1960 blob that gave all mystery blobs their name
AI’s giant rural job machine mostly appears to manufacture hype
The UK has formally declared Badger Badger Badger worthy of preservation
Fake courtesy machine automates the modern art of insincere politeness
Dave Baker’s “Halloween Boy” resurrects pulp adventure comics
Surprise, there’s another gaming price hike
The Norwegian Dawn cruise ship flunks health inspection
Bear-deterring “Monster Wolves”sold out in Japan
Dr. Pompeii, Dr. Pompeii! Emergency! Come right away!
Drew Friedman’s new Mel Brooks portrait marks the comedian’s 100th birthday
Two-thirds of US doctors now ask an AI chatbot for treatment advice
Tiny conspiracy notes keep turning up inside sealed groceries in Pennsylvania
On one night in 1888, tens of thousands of English sheep fled their fields at once
Those 100-foot Korowai tree houses are mostly built for film crews
You might be able to buy GTA 6 sooner than you think
The annual SNL joke swap returns
The Steam Controller doesn’t just scream. It sings, too
Xbox becomes XBOX, and the crowd goes mild
This website shows you exactly what sites know about you
Atari is doing furry bait now and I’m scared
Comedian tells the same joke for his entire set — and it works
Man tried to sell 150,000 poop photos he collected via AI app
Doom’s 1993 soundtrack inducted into the Library of Congress
Cuba is bracing for a U.S. invasion
HBO’s Lanterns trailer goes heavy on the green light
Man throws giant rock at endangered seal, gets repeatedly punched in the head and arrested
Moss gets a second life with non-VR release this summer
These 100-year-old flounder photos look like abstract design studies
Swiss movie theater brings the cinema into the bathroom
Two Navy jets collide at Idaho air show, all four crew eject safely
What happens when an artist draws Pokémon without ever seeing them
WHO declares global health emergency over Congo Ebola outbreak
Early 1900s Thermocap hair loss device looks like sci-fi medical tech gone wrong
Eric Schmidt gets booed at University of Arizona commencement
Meta is tracking its employees’ every mouse click — and they’re mad
Bastl Kalimba synthesizer is really thumbsing
Sandcastles: “ultimate sandbox game” takes you to the beach
The Ploopy Bean Pointing Stick is a portable trackpoint nipple mouse
I have seen the face of death on a piece of toast
Upcycle your old smart speaker with a new brain
Thunderous applause: JD Vance edition
Ted Turner’s secret newsroom lair looks like the saddest airport lounge ever
19-year-old got 12 years for selling $5 of pot in 1975
Waymos perform ritual robot pilgrimage around suburban Atlanta cul-de-sac
California declares war on the Kars4Kids earworm
FBI director’s secret “VIP snorkel” at Pearl Harbor raises fascinating judgment questions
A choral group’s Popeye cover is bringing back Saturday mornings
What does it look like inside a scam call center?
Here’s a terrific search hack for the Internet Archive Book Images Flickr photo stream
One dedicated modder is bringing multiplayer back to The Last Of Us
Israel’s response to rape allegations: threaten the newspaper
1936 exposé: How Chicago’s charity rackets worked
U.S. expects the smallest US wheat crop since 1972
After 3.5 trillion guesses, a forgotten $400k Bitcoin wallet finally opened
Cory Doctorow’s “Reverse Centaur” book — why AI is hell on workers
As usual, Trump has now never heard of his close personal reflecting pool guy
Chinese leadership watches Grandpa Pudding Brains confidently explain imaginary fast-food statistics
Ghostly girl sculptures haunt the woods at Jupiter Artland
Store Called Store is a shoppable art installation in Brooklyn
AI poop analysis app selling human-verified poop photos
Man on run after murder of trans student
Racist streamer charged with attempted murder after shooting man outside courthouse
Life sentence for woman who poisoned husband then published kids’ book about grief
The silence around alleged Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians is deafening
How 1925 press dismissed the Klan at peak power
One year with the 12th-generation Kindle Paperwhite SE
Doughnut-dunking machines: 1956 inventor’s gadgets
Photos capture surviving payphones still scattered across America
Valve’s new Steam Controller screams when you drop it
This inflatable tent is a camper’s dream come true
Canadian doctors won’t treat American trans patients — and here’s why
Rebel HQ asks MAGA how their one-religion fantasy squares with Trump’s Jewish family
Canada is fast-tracking citizenship for trans Americans at risk
Livestream: Bluetit nest has six hungry babies
War-related shortages push iconic snack brand into monochrome packaging
Visiting the best nightclubs in gaming history
Tom the Dancing Bug: Your average family in Chagrin Falls, Iran
DOJ explores having taxpayers personally apologize to Trump in cash
Tiny Chef sings “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” and the internet’s blood pressure drops
Prompt your widgets with Googlebook, a laptop range for people into that sort of thing
Federal prison for Super Mario meth man
Grocery prices soar as Iran war drags on
eBay declines GameStop’s buyout offer
Man who stole a coworker’s identity for 30 years had his victim jailed
Doc Copper’s nose ring in The Thing was the actor’s own idea
A quarter of Disney visitors go into debt for the trip
OpenAI sued after ChatGPT advised drug combos that killed a college student
Routine blood tests show 16 markers tied to PTSD across multiple organ systems
A major evidence review found Alzheimer’s drugs probably don’t work — and fraud played a role
Why is Grandpa Pudding Brains so grumpy today?
1920s library sticker told kids to wash their hands before touching
Pomiferous: database featuring more than 7,000 apple varieties
Roomba inventor builds robots designed to bond with you
Digitizing vintage proportional typewriter fonts
Trump’s Justice Department rediscovers its enthusiasm for intimidating the press
An incredible lineup at San Diego’s ImprovCon
Would you sleep in a 1,000-year-old cliff dwelling?
‘The hood is off’: Virginia Republican steps onto America’s most obvious rhetorical landmine
Don’t fall for AI-generated sob stories
Aaron Paul enters the Wasteland for season 3 of Fallout
This geography game is a worthy addition to your daily puzzle lineup
Six years of obsessive forensics challenges some of the Titanic disaster’s favorite myths
Hawaiian official endorses “find out” as wildlife enforcement strategy
Grandpa Pudding Brains gleefully describes his experiments in necromancy
World map of presumed laptop theft risk in coffee shops
Getting the Griffin Powermate working on modern Macs
What Claude thinks of Kevin Kelly’s essay about Claude
9 ways to stretch your food budget when SNAP benefits get cut
Why are school boards banning books on ancient Egypt and digestion?
A burr grinder beats a $2,000 espresso machine
Amazon will stop selling 40 mph “hooligan bikes” in California
The PlayStation earnings report has some uncomfortable bombshells
This silly alpaca has shimmied his way into my heart!
Twilight Princess now has a native PC port
Playing Fallout 1 inside Fallout 4
What to do when scammers kidnap your daughter
JD Vance believes demons responsible for UFOs
This Utah law is a risk to everyone’s digital liberty
How a 1958 magazine cheered America’s slide into installment debt
Design awards charmed by Kodak’s $35 Charmera
Clueless graduation speaker astonished to find that media students hate AI
This fan edit corrects the continuty problems of a Star Wars favorite
Here are some terrific resources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak
Another day, another gaming price hike
Seattle’s mystery soda machine vanished in 2018 with a goodbye note
No one knows why dark side of Venus has a faint glow
Safeway blames a “wood pulp shortage” for its handleless paper bags
Physicist says the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ isn’t real
Meta’s daily user count just dropped for the first time ever
Listen to almost 50 years of startup sounds
US and Iran practicing an “Israeli ceasefire,” by shooting at one another
Yellowstone grizzly introduces two hikers to the “find out” phase of wildlife tourism
Report says Kash Patel is spiraling over leaks and grilling staff with lie detectors
This animator is doing wild things with construction paper
Handmade kaleidoscopes that open tiny portals into dreamlike mini universes
Cybertruck recall reveals embarrassingly low sales numbers
Man accidentally interviewed live on BBC instead of tech expert became an internet legend
The giant dinosaurs still standing by America’s roads
CIA reportedly delivers unwelcome reminder that Iran is tougher than Truth Social thinks
This archive of old personal ads is strangely moving
Superman coaster stalls at Six Flags, riders forced to walk down emergency stairs
Did you know there was a bad Double Dragon comic book?
Tilly the Friendly Loaf will make you smile
The weirdest scammers you’ve never heard of
Atari buys rights to RPG classic Wizardry
A free site uses live weather data to flag pavement that will burn your dog’s paws
AI Graveyard: 142 AI companies so far buried, many more to come
Fantasy book community Tome shuts down
ReMarkable Paper Pure claimed to be 50% faster than last-gen model
France summons Musk for X criminal charges
California has four to six weeks of gasoline left
Brain-eating amoeba turns up in five western national parks
Richard Dawkins renamed Claude “Claudia” and decided she’s conscious
US debt hits $31.26 trillion, exceeds annual GDP
Stranger Than Heaven isn’t just inspired by Yakuza, it is an official prequel
Google using Chrome to install AI files without permission
Remake of Star Fox 64 remake announced
Spider’s mouth infected by Kyle Rittenhouse
Newborn gosling leaps from an I-5 offramp into the Willamette River
Devils Hole pupfish: rarest fish on Earth lives in one Nevada cavern
His brother’s hamster is charging his phone now
1940s miner crafted dentures from toothbrush handles and coyote teeth
The man who discovered microwaves measured a flower’s heartbeat in 1926
Simple app to make images look like they’re on an old CRT display
Musk defends tweets that allegedly tanked Twitter stock before buyout
Security researcher tears apart White House app and finds a tracking and security nightmare
Tom the Dancing Bug: A peek into the skull of Dementia Donnie
Woman accused of drunken sidewalk chase after child on dirt bike
Remember when digital cameras stored photos on floppy disks?
America’s worst counterfeiter forged $1 bills for a decade
A errant SpaceX rocket booster is going to smash into the moon
Aliens or Rohypnol? Goldie Hawn describes extraterrestrial encounter
Pope issues diplomatic version of “Whatchu talkin’ about, Willis?”
A revealing interview with Bryon Noem’s domme
Anthony Bourdain biopic a fresh take on the genre
Banana-obsessed beaver makes brilliant ASMR
Extended trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey
The case for thinking of yourself as a meat-based language model
One psilocybin dose may reshape brain wiring a month later
After Friday, Meta can read your Instagram DMs again
Stunning new scans reveal RMS Titanic debris field in eerie detail
When your yacht is too big for Monaco, Italy, and reality
This destroyed Nintendo 3DS restoration is supernaturally relaxing
HowToBasic goes vegan with extremely cursed burger recipe
Steam Controller launches at $100, sells out in under an hour
Cardboard Wars is a loving parody of Star Wars all in cardboard
Trees that refused to be stopped by brick walls and cracks
Bondi, DOJ continue procedural chicanery over Epstein questions
Magnified Sand reveals the hidden beauty of individual grains
Cursor Camp is a wholesome no-chat online hangout spot
Another Tennessee “DUI” case with no alcohol ends in lawsuit
Did the fire “save” Notre-dam?
Grandpa Pudding Brains insists test was difficult, struggles to keep details straight
NASA posts thousands more Artemis II photos
WhatCable tells you what that USB-C cable is good for
If only this gasoline-powered laptop were real
A cyberdeck to help you airlock the Alien
Lightning compilation video reveals how storms cause fires, explosions, and power loss
Bear spotted in tree, LAPD reacts
The Force is strong at the Obama Presidential Center this Star Wars Day
This video on the complicated color codes of US passports cracked me up
The Colorado River’s last buffers: officials juggle shrinking reservoirs to avoid system collapse
Study finds AI server farms creating their own local heat islands
Deadly virus scare strands cruise ship at sea as countries refuse to let it dock
This tree branch is accidentally NSFW
This mask has a Pinocchio nose with bouncing colored balls on the end
You can now play Morrowind inside of Fallout 4
11-foot-8+8 bridge claims another victim
SNL’s cold open just proves Hegseth and Patel are beyond parody
Influencer hopes to crowdfund $1.75bn to buy collapsed Spirit Airlines
Apocalypse Early Warning System tracks the rich scrambling their private jets
Stretch Armstrong: the gloriously goo-filled toy that shouldn’t have worked (but did)
City “where everything grows” fines homeowner’s edible garden
Trump’s Reflecting Pool makeover meets instant graffiti backlash
Star Wars and Fortnite go for it
Surprise: “pasture-raised” eggs still run on corn and soy
Taco Bell sees minor rule-breaking turn into maximum force in a flash
Bizarre indie animation about ducks is absolutely delightful
A film entirely from the perspective of a chicken
China outlaws drones within Beijing city limits
First look at Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil movie
Legendary hacker brings eGPU compatibility to M-Series Macs
Star Wars: Galactic Racer has a release date
A hobbyist mounted a cesium atomic clock on his Raspberry Pi
Iran war has cost $25bn so far, admits Pentagon. The real cost is closer to $50bn.
Wearable tails help elderly folks keep their balance
Honey from sealed Egyptian tombs is still edible after 3,000 years
A 1964 art school study predicted who would still be painting in 5 years
Craig Venter, who booted up the first synthetic cell, dies at 79
Mystery statue in London is a Banksy
Man hid in Best Buy at closing to get drop on new Pokémon cards
Guns discovered in Minneapolis lake reveal unusual move by police in 1927
Trump administration appeals ruling as it continues to reject routine vaccine guidance
Plan to reintroduce grizzlies to California runs into predictable resistance
This dog makes a sound you won’t believe comes from a living creature
Which came first: the cat or the Art Deco sculpture?
Days after alleged assassination attempt, Trump administration moves to weaken gun rules
This dialect map covers all of North America’s English accents
NASA will spell your name with satellite photos of the planet
This morning I met the “QAnon Shaman,” and here are ten takeaways from our conversation
U.S. Senators bans themselves from trading on prediction markets
New footage shows only one source of gunfire at correspondents’ dinner—and it’s not the suspect
Pasadena shelter closes the book on Eaton Fire rescues with one final, very good dog
ChatGPT goblin infestation explained
Costco hot dog combo stays at $1.50, and now you can have a bottle of water with it
A coding color theme for burned-out eyes
Maryland the first state to regulate grocery surveillance pricing
Loveland Frogman could become Ohio’s official state cryptid
22 Buddhist monks arrested in drug bust at Sri Lanka’s main airport
Woman refused to end call for plane safety instructions
This British family of 8 disappeared into ISIS territory in October 2015 and have never been found
Days before warning report, all 22 National Science Board members fired in two-sentence email
Scientists found ice with a 304-molecule repeating pattern
Antarctic detector captured 13 radio pulses from cosmic rays in ice
Researchers built a language model that thinks it’s still 1930
Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang gave a pastor’s Egypt trip the pulp treatment in 1922
Why the button on top of baseball caps is smarter than it looks
Scammers humiliated themselves for Kitboga’s fake call center
The game that defined space horror is getting a sequel
After 25 years, Knoxville says it’s time to hang up the taser
A space cat with a rainbow exhaust wants nothing from you
Due is a reminder app that really works
Karoline Leavitt offers an assurance no one wants
So many people said they hate Elon Musk that half the jury pool got tossed
Talkie is an AI language model trained only on pre-1931 texts
Rip.so, the graveyard of dead internet things
FedEx and UPS promise to pass on Trump tariff refunds to customers
Tom the Dancing Bug nominated for Reuben Award for editorial cartooning
Study finds infrasound the likely horror in hauntings
How to skip a year of work without anyone noticing
Apple patches bug that exposed deleted Signal messages
Tor Browser’s “New Identity” button didn’t actually reset your fingerprint
Why America is deeply, uniformly unhappy
Scientists finally cracked how bacteria’s spinning motor actually works
Sony’s table tennis robot beat a pro player she couldn’t read
Take a break from your phone with a KitKat wrapper that is also a Faraday cage
100-episode YouTube series demystifies the Asian grocery store
Tom the Dancing Bug: Trump Reveals Plan to Turn All Schools into Ballrooms
Cartoonist Gemma Correll’s moving and funny book about her lifelong mental illness: Anxietyland
What happens when a deer smashes through a Funko Pop store?
This 1980 Czech animation is circles all the way down
A knitted human body comes to life in this animation
House of the Dragon is back to swords, screaming, and dragons
Get a university-level education on buried viking treasure for free
Somehow, Eric Trump’s “money printing” bitcoin business left investors holding the bag
OpenAI reports “incredibly positive” vibe as shareholder value sinks
Chonkers the Steller Sea Lion pays San Francisco a visit
French teen arrested for licking vending machine straw in Singapore
Engineer’s anti-brain-fog routine: stare at a wall for 10 minutes
Waymo says expecting robotaxis not to block bike lanes is “too high a bar”
Mini-documentary about Pittsburgh’s Long Lines telecom fortress
Legendary emulator ZSNES rewritten from scratch
GoDaddy handed a 27-year-old nonprofit domain to a stranger 2,000 miles away
Play Zork while reading the 1980 code that makes it work
Trump just killed the Reflecting Pool’s iconic mirror effect
Grandpa Pudding Brains offends quite easily
Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir arrives May 27, in glorious black and white
Willem Dafoe plays a billionaire Onassis figure in The Birthday Party
Someone put the dullest part of The Iliad inside a mummy
Why did it take a random fan letter to get a black kid into Peanuts?
Vlogger re-creates famous Disney illusion in his garage
Saros looks like Returnal’s spiritual successor — and that’s great news
Black Flag Resynced producer has to clarify: yes, there will be blood
An 1875 coffin for Little Joe, the canary who saved a mine crew
A single raindrop compresses a 30-meter pine forest into a perfect image
Drone footage reveals “Tornado Rip” vortex invisible from the shore
YouTuber skips the dragon-slaying and becomes a Skyrim farmhand instead
How accurate was the combat in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms?
Apple doesn’t want you to see where its electricity comes from
Giant 17th Century astrolabe could fetch millions at auction
U.S. sinks in world Academic Freedom Index
A free book explains Tempest by reading every line of the source code
An editor who read “Crash” called JG Ballard “beyond psychiatric help. Do not publish”
Action Comics No. 1 heads to auction after a 40-year hold
Inside DriveSavers, where data loss becomes a grief crisis
Real Life Comix: 51 true NYC stories from 66 cartoonists (and Moby)
Why does Cincinnati’s Smale Park have kaleidoscopes aimed at flowers?
Viggo’s favorite things: a heartwarming collection of small moments through a dog’s eyes
Are Palantir employees starting to realize they’re the baddies?
This app will warn you about horror movie jump scares
“Save Willy Act” proposes Coast Guard ‘whale desk’ to prevent whale deaths in San Francisco Bay
Prehistoric rock art in Colombia’s Serranía de la Lindosa reveals ancient human “Kiss”
Suspect tries Spider-Man escape under Bay Bridge, it does not work (video)
Cops, not bunnies: Newport Beach chooses enforcement over art park
Ubisoft just revealed one thing that could save the Black Flag remake
Analog horror pioneer Local 58 returns after a year with “Ad Spot”
Fired, but not evicted: Kristi Noem reportedly still living in waterfront Coast Guard mansion
ICE deports man with U.S. birth certificate after traffic stop
Congressman wants AI out of kids’ toys after chatbots got weird with children
Anthropic’s “too dangerous” AI was accessed by guessing the URL
Florida tries to gerrymander harder, may end up helping Democrats
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1949: Unable to resist the irony, Britain defeats Napoleon one more time
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James Gunn’s DC does body horror with Clayface
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A 1946 plan to feed a billion people with sawdust
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Shane Mauss’s DMT “girlfriend” showed up in his friend’s trip too
Atlantic calls missing-scientists panic 2026’s dumbest conspiracy
Coyote vs. ACME trailer runs off precipice, hovers, drops
Inferno, Boards of Canada’s first album since 2013, is out in May
Evil Dead continues to be neither evil nor dead
The fascinating reason why rain smells the way that it does
Tom the Dancing Bug: The Secret Origin of Justice Roberts’s Shadow Docket
Claude Opus 4.7 identified a writer from 125 words she’d never published
Michio Kaku calls clustering of dead scientists a national security issue
Desmond Morris wrote The Naked Ape in four weeks to pay for a house
Legal Walls maps out where you can graffiti without getting arrested
Woman dug 80 feet under her house — the city tried to stop her
Xbox finally cut Game Pass prices — here’s the fine print
This cat brushing game has Flappy Bird vibes but scarier
Splatoon Raiders finally gets a release date — July 23
Blue Origin delivered a satellite to the wrong orbit
This 1930s children’s book on city planning is a delight
Valve’s big Steam Deck update makes old hardware feel new
Bosch buys Bosch from Bosch and Bosch
Historian explains why modern bread sucks
Bear costume insurance scammers get 180 days in the den
You can buy Cormac McCarthy’s sports car
Bat cleans its wing membrane in close-up video
Hot air balloon with 13 passengers makes emergency landing in homeowner’s backyard
52-year-old Nintendo full-motion film game restored
Adult great white sharks quietly using SoCal beaches as a highway
Grandpa Pudding Brains’ “almost over” war now on week six
Someone always knows before Trump moves markets. And they’re making millions
Hannity quits Catholicism after pope disagrees with Trump
The Onion reaches deal to take over InfoWars
Minnesota Senate candidate convicted for throwing tarantula at tenant
Texas woman soaked Bibles in drugs and mailed them to inmates
This weird bowed instrument sounds disturbingly like a person
Dog’s new talking button means unlimited belly rubs
What thousands of years of foot traffic does to marble stairs
Neuroscientist explains why Harry Mack’s freestyle brain is different
Europe could run out of jet fuel in six weeks
Can you find any location in Zelda’s Hyrule from a single screenshot?
Black Flag Resynced is skipping the RPG format
Can eggs really unclog a sink? HowToBasic investigates
Phasmophobia just got a lot darker with Alan Wake crossover
Someone turned the hardest game ever into a skating game
Is Lana Del Rey’s “First Light” the best Bond song in years?
Kash Patel sues The Atlantic over story claiming he often drunk or missing at work
NASA’s Artemis II images—and a phone video
Bedfordshire chosen as England’s worst county
Air New Zealand economy bunk beds cost $291, ban snacks and perfume
Mice that ate artificial sweeteners passed metabolic changes to their grandchildren
709 vials of dangerous viruses vanished from a high-security Brazilian lab
Arthur C. Clarke predicted remote work, telesurgery, and mobile phones in 1964
California’s ocean protections work, so naturally, we’re arguing about them
13-year-old goes metal detecting, casually uncovers Viking king’s treasure
iPhone 18 Pro will come in “Dark Cherry”
Car reviewer tears into the Cybertruck for 20 minutes
Finally, a game where you fight a many-legged fish train
New Metro game revealed, and yes, you’re back in the tunnels
What if Tom Waits was a blender? This animator asked
Cat makes a room-length leap over owner’s head in one bound
SpongeBob’s original bible banned romance and the surface world
Grandpa Pudding Brains, once again, confused by a colloquialism
Airline pilots caught meowing over radio as air traffic control struggles to keep them serious
Police chase ended by dramatically bad decision making
Man steals $34K in LEGO, replaces them with pasta
Painters have been lying with mirrors for 600 years
Mandalorian and Grogu “final” trailer
Meow! FAA investigates viral audio of pilots meowing and barking
Albert Hofmann’s first LSD trip, 83 years ago today
We’re going to be getting new Hunger Games movies forever
Grandpa Pudding Brains treats Epstein victims like a footnote, treats Pope like a rival
The Secret Life of Circuits book explains electronics for everyone
A24 and Michaela Coel remaking Jean-Claude Van Damme’s “Bloodsport”
Your brain just made up the color you’re looking at
Crime may not pay, but for these three men, at least it poops
Disneyland’s new “Leia Organa” neither Leia nor Organa
This guy claims to have improved cast-iron seasoning
War games, wild comeback: the bird saved by a target range
These earbuds can read the label on your snack
This clock sorts the 43,200 times of day alphabetically
“Justin Bieber’s guy” rents Coachella buggies, drives them straight to Mexico
SantaCon organizer allegedly ran actual con
Stop Flock campaign targets invasive surveillance network
MAGA Mike fact-checks the Pope on Jesus
What if your calendar ran on a worm that splits itself in half?
Your odds of finding a 100-year-old message in a bottle: 1 in 8 million
Orwell predicted the AI slop novel in 1949
Iran’s most effective weapon might be AI karaoke
Someone already pitched Bezos’ 10,000-year clock — in 1903
A piece of the Eiffel Tower’s original staircase is going to auction
Why I’m avoiding Amazon’s Good Omens finale
Despite it all, Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens to get one more season
Catfishing is the Wikipedia guessing game I can’t stop playing
Adobe subscribers are now unpaid trainers for Firefly AI
Godzilla is heading to the Big Apple, and the teaser looks incredible
LA police chase features car crash, car swap, freeway chaos, somehow keeps going
Disneyland’s Han Solo looks like Kyle MacLachlan wandered in from another franchise
Yoshi popcorn buckets are being repurposed in the funniest ways imaginable
What happens when an artist draws faces on the rocks she finds?
The Strait of Hormuz won’t be a problem after Grandpa Pudding Brains renames it
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Elden Ring movie now in full production, according to set leaks
Tom the Dancing Bug: Dementia Donnie’s genius, Jesus-like strategy for dealing with his roommate
A YouTuber is producing the Bloodborne movie fans have wanted for a decade
Frank Oz returns to puppetry with webseries Judge… Boing Boing?
Did Victorians really treat headaches by hammering metal helmets?
Whimsical stone-like robot by Hisashi Nakagawa comes alive with glowing eyes and mechanical legs
Starfield’s new expansion isn’t likely to change your mind on the game
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Celebrating 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes
The Pokémon Company is looking for an ecologist with a PhD
This site supercharges your library card with reciprocal libraries
Vance, impressed with Iran’s “economic terrorism,” says the U.S. should try it too
Virginia joins slow-motion plan to sidestep Electoral College
Grandpa Pudding Brains sure sees some weird doctors
Asimov’s 1980 review of 1984 called Orwell scientifically ignorant
Anti-AI security expert tries Claude Code. It worked. He hated it
1 in 750 trillion: the staged truck crashes of New Orleans East
Caity Weaver ate her way across America to find the best free restaurant bread
Sid Krofft, who filled childhoods with glorious weirdness, dies at 96
The overdose spike that alarmed NPR was a model trained on old data
FBI doc says Epstein introduced Melania to Trump, but OK, let’s go with “chance meeting”
France to replace Windows with Linux as wariness of U.S. grows
Canada’s Liberals take parliamentary majority after latest special election
Trump Phone’s “final” design still very gold
Thanks, Trump! — here’s what happens when the world runs low on helium
How did the FBI recover Signal messages from a deleted app?
Proton is letting parents reserve a child’s email before birth
A group of 200 chimps had a civil war
15 pages a day turns you into a reader of 40+ books a year
The appeal of AI girlfriends isn’t the AI — it’s that she can’t say no
Two condors quietly attempt a comeback humans nearly erased
Floating Bosch Parade returns to the Netherlands in June
Buried CDC report says vaccines work, funny how that keeps happening
What to do if Amazon killed your Kindle
Masked gunman who menaced students at anti-ICE school protest was a cop
Easter play crane malfunction sends Jesus actor too far into the sky
“Cello goblin” Rushadicus goes full goblin mode outside Scientology center in wild viral performance
Fog Panther is a new image editor for Linux
Art book features the best 100 games on the Amstrad CPC
Artemis crew safely splashes down off California coast
Girl mice grew balls after a one-letter DNA change
AMOLED writer deck has adorable bees on it
UK bans “stepfamily” porn by one vote, sets 5-year prison term
John Deere settles right-to-repair lawsuit for $99 million
NYT investigation names Adam Back as Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto
A.J. Jacobs beat a weeks-long writing block with a two-minute timer
This dashboard tracks everything going on with Artemis’ Orion capsule as it returns to Earth
Clothing tags from the 80s hid jokes, messages, and mischief
Dead skin pulled from a lizard’s nostril is deeply satisfying
Sure, Jan: Melania pops up with a very convenient Epstein denial
“Catturd” gets more X engagement than the New York Times
Terry Zwigoff and Drew Friedman in conversation after CRUMB at Film Forum
Amazon is turning 2 million old Kindles into bricks this May
Meta is pulling ads that recruit plaintiffs suing Meta
Amazon to cut off old Kindles in May
EFF quits X as posts now get 3% of what tweets once got
Someone left mysterious symbol-filled booklets in a London bookshop
Mac OS X ported to the Nintendo Wii
Metal Gear Solid movie on the way
Pub thief who nabbed handbag didn’t realize it had $3m Fabergé egg in it
Thousands of plastic straws turn a face into an alien apparition
Trees vs. erosion: how roots fight back and keep landscapes stable
JD Vance endorsement makes things worse for Orbán
May 3rd in Los Angeles: Catch indie comedy “The Big Whoop”
Garron Noone on the consequence-free Irish apology insult
The best little police prostitution scandal in Texas
Honda paywalls its garage door opener
McDonald’s CEO throws his mom under the bus
Understanding the Artemis II photos we’ve seen so far
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As Sam Altman pushes for IPO, the wheels are coming off OpenAI
500+ brain scans reveal what LSD, psilocybin, DMT have in common
NJ teen buys abandoned storage unit for $450, finds $50,000 in art inside
CIA located a downed airman from 40 miles away by detecting his heartbeat
The Mouth of Moron reading directly from “Dear Leader” playbook
“Affordable” LA Olympics tickets arrive with $5,000 seats and a 24% convenience fee
Once again Israel ignores “ceasefire” part of “ceasefire”
Japan’s truth-in-packaging law makes snacks look exactly like the box
Autonomous future arrives, looks a lot like public transit without the “public” part
Science, now with 110,000 made-up sources!
ICE shoots “alleged gang member,” says he “weaponized” his vehicle
Easter egg trees are a forgotten German tradition worth reviving
In “Punk’n Heads,” the pumpkin masks are mandatory, the identity crisis is optional
Bones in a bag: half of Sheriff’s office charged with crimes including corpse abuse
Arkanoid played by an orchestra
Bicycle bell designed to defeat noise-cancelling headphones
Design of foldable iPhone confirmed by dummy sets
The doctor who proved handwashing saves lives was locked in an asylum for it
No US city cracks the top 40 in 2026 Happy City Index
This guy ran 500 miles on LSD and mushrooms in 11 days
China’s 3,000-foot “Goddess escalator” takes 21 minutes to ride
Smugglers were caught with 5,000 Kenyan queen ants worth $220 each
Germany unmasks the man behind REvil and GandCrab ransomware
France puts Freemasons on trial for hit squad murders
Motorola Moto Pad: 11-inch Android tablet for $250
A24 brings the creepy with The Backrooms
JerryRigEverything tears down the LG Rollable phone that never was
CBS sells Late Show time slot to Byron Allen for comedy reruns
Artist hand-stitched a dress entirely from preserved autumn leaves
Small plane makes emergency landing in the middle of Pennsylvania highway
Flu vaccine linked to lower Alzheimer’s risk
Ancient Peruvian textile features a feline spirit
Tom the Dancing Bug: Give Dementia Donnie his pudding, you crazy bastards!
This historic railway runs on human waste
Dark side of the moon, as seen from Artemis
Sam Altman smiles through another “it’s improving” while the model keeps making things up
Charcuterie: explore Unicode by character similarity
Iran teaches Grandpa Puddin’ Brains diplomacy while he imagines Iranians begging for more bombs
France pulled all its gold from the NY Fed — and made $15 billion doing it
How a naked steakhouse ad became a feminist protest poster
AI writing witch hunts hurt autistic writers most
Trump’s plan for Iran is: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Incredible storm chaser footage captures tornadoes up close
Amazing animal facts that will wow your friends, courtesy of Natural Habitat Shorts
“Sunshine” is a 30-foot-long animated dachshund sculpture
Trump spends Easter Egg Roll ranting to children about Biden’s autopen
Officials say refugee’s death was a homicide after Border Patrol agents left him alone in the cold
Musk makes banks buy his crappy chatbot if they want in on the SpaceX IPO
OpenAI pulls plug on Sora after realizing it built a money incinerator
Erika Kirk explains women’s purpose: not careers, just babies
Watch this glorious greyhound snout enter “turbo mode”
Educate yourself with The Bee Guy’s daily basic bee facts
Fourth musketeer D’Artagnan’s grave found
Hudson river fish edible for first time in 50 years
Assault charge for man who groped Easter Bunny at Pittsburgh mall
Bondi’s DOJ portrait tossed in the trash
How hackers faked a zombie apocalypse alert on live TV
What do you read when you’re locked up in a Japanese jail for 23 days?
The caganer: Catalonia’s defecating nativity figure
The tofu product marketed as “the healthy human flesh alternative”
A petroleum engineer’s joyless lunches went viral in China
USGlobal Airways: a 29-year airline that never flew
America forgot how to make a classified nuclear warhead ingredient
Watch the Attwater’s prairie chicken do his mating dance (he’s really going for it)
A website that lets you roleplay as an AI chatbot
FEMA official claims divine Waffle House teleportation, somehow keeps job
Historic cemetery honors circus performers and train victims
Med Beds: the QAnon miracle cure that costs $200 a night
This 1915 ice cream ad told Americans to eat ice cream for their health
Reese’s backs down, agrees to make candy people want to eat
I can’t stop watching this prankster drop cranberry sauce in public and wait
Former congressperson Matt Gaetz now pushing alien breeding program conspiracy
CD Projekt Red pranks Witcher fans with fake expansion news
The White House may be hiding how many Americans have died in Iran
Apple finally caved and patched old iPhones for Liquid Glass haters
Artemis II’s state-of-the-art space toilet broke
The Superfan Podcast Asks Comics Creators the Right Wrong Questions
4chan’s lawyer wrote a free speech bill for the UK
Tobacco plants now produce psilocybin and DMT — on purpose
San Francisco homeowner fined $50K for trimming street trees
Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general
War profiteer Marc Andreessen brags about zero introspection
Civil War soldiers called the first instant coffee “axle grease”
Apple bans vibe coding apps from the App Store
Someone added hip-hop beats to an opossum drinking peach juice
This illness might keep you from getting up in the morning
Hegseth kills probe into Apache pilots who buzzed Kid Rock’s house
A compass that only points to the Times Square Olive Garden
Ninja Creami, the PacoJet for the rest of us
Turns out Tesla’s “self-driving” taxis have drivers
U.S. hiding troops in hotels to dodge missiles may be a war crime
Musk says robot works great, just not ready to show anyone yet
Beloved California road trip landmark to be demolished, memorialized with a plaque
Tom the Dancing Bug: Dementia Donnie’s ballroom and war
Artemis II’s launch countdown has begun and its next stop is the Moon
Krypto is in trouble in the new Supergirl trailer and he had better be OK
Art sculpture blows rainbow smoke donuts using mirrors and prisms
A24’s Backrooms movie gets its first proper trailer
A comic book teaching kids about pulverized smokeless tobacco: Snuff-Man
“Uri Tupka and the Gods” is a cold, dark, and magnificent trek through Mike Mignola’s Lands Unknown
The folklore behind lone chimneys left standing in Appalachia
Man rides giant praying mantis bicycle through Colombia streets
Making giant grapes for no other reason than hubris
Lab gloves shed particles that fool microplastic detectors, inflating counts by 20x
A $3 dot sticker system reveals which parts you actually use
Someone is jamming a mysterious Persian shortwave spy signal
The best-preserved ancient human ever found had 130 melon seeds in her stomach
18th-century Brits installed real hermits in their gardens as ornamental features
Portland declares inflatable frog a public safety threat
James Webb telescope captures star formation “factory” in fine detail
Tennessee librarian fired after refusing to move books that “promote gender confusion”
Krypto is in trouble in the new Supergirl trailer and he had better be OK
Artemis II’s launch countdown has begun and its next stop is the Moon
Megachurch pastor who abused 12-year-old is free after 6 months in jail
Backrooms trailer clips into existence
NASA-styled retro wristwatch has a price tag fit for the shuttle program
Akai’s MPC Sample is simpler groovebox on the go
DIY camera inspired by production design of 1979’s Alien
Army grounds aircrew after taxpayer-funded Kid Rock airshow
Trump very angry Federal court is blocking his Epstein memorial ballroom
California dad faces felony charges for installing stop signs
Judge halts construction of Trump ballroom
More research links artificial sweetener erythritol to stroke risk
Grandpa Pudding Brains’ energy policy: go steal it for yourself!
Hegseth’s broker tried to buy millions in defense stocks before Iran attack
Casio’s new retro watch gets some old retro colors
Audio tapes challenge Milgram obedience findings
Trump Library design announced with AI slop video
Oracle fired up to 30,000 people with a 6 a.m. email signed “Oracle Leadership”
“A massive tribute to the Trump Lincoln Bathroom”
The world’s most traveled religious artifact has her own boarding pass
Wheels come off Charlie Kirk murder case as bullet fails to match
People stuck on carnival ride at 2026 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo for 10 minutes
The Good Liars gave CPAC attendees copies of the Epstein files
Mister Rogers is coming to YouTube and not a moment too soon
AMD’s new flagship CPU drinks power
Air Canada’s CEO to retire after failing to issue condolences in French
Enter the EVO-T2, a $1900 mini PC
Rembrandt copy was copied by the master himself
Why American public spaces are unbearable
The Eames Office turned its iconic house into a modular building kit starting at $325/sq ft
American Airlines sells flights that are actually bus rides
JD Vance says he thinks aliens are “demons”
Stare at 100 dots for 30 seconds, and your brain starts lying about how many things it sees
GM’s shiny tomorrow came with a very dark underside
New Vizio TV? Better have a Walmart account
Tesla’s driverless future keeps losing the people building it
Loni, India has the world’s most polluted air by far
Write your calendar on e-ink instead of your phone
A puppet show made from old pianos and Mississippi river trash
Augmented reality glasses can aid dementia patients — and their caregivers
Radio Garden lets you explore local radio from around the world at home
Thrice is a challenging but forgiving daily trivia game
Doolysaurus is a new dinosaur species and it is as cute as it sounds (video)
Your future self has good news: you’re doing pretty well
One man feeds stray cats through Istanbul in charming videos
Iran has hacked Kash Patel’s personal email
Price of RAM falling as AI companies put the brakes on
Improve or test your typing skills by copying the classics
An Italian astronaut almost drowned on a spacewalk
Watch an ASMR groomer battle an enormous, stubborn cat
Noted for his bigotry, VP JD Vance warns aliens are actually “demons”
Trump’s Jan 6th insurrectionists now claim they were victims of excessive force
Booby-trapped insoles turn Russian supply lines into a guessing game
KitchenAid puts a new feature in an old mixer: a speed dial
Scientists map clitoris nerve network in unprecedented detail
Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse masterpieces stolen in 3-minute heist
Grado herds old headphones into new Classic Series
8 million attend No Kings protests across U.S.
Drum machine actually plays the drums
Bumpboxx’s BB-777 is a modern boombox with meticulous vintage design
Shipment of 412,793 Kit Kat chocolate bars heisted in Europe
Florida judge faces discipline after asking black defendant “you ever chopped cotton before?”
Sony suspends sales of memory cards
Razer promises vastly improved battery life for this year’s 16-inch Blade gaming laptop
Artist paints Lovecraft’s Great Old Ones into all 46 of Hokusai’s woodblock prints
The Muppets’ former creative director made a kids’ book with a hole punched through every page
Japanese desk designed for people who work with cats
This Twilight ripoff is so bad it became a cult sensation
Tomodachi Life has a demo out now, and I love it so much
Double-tipped fingernails: rare nail growth that looks almost unreal
LonelyWiki shares Wikipedia’s most overlooked articles
Trump’s AG Bondi claims citizenship is a privilege, not a constitutional right
Abandoned circus bear Chada now living her best life
Ancient Roman gemstone shows a grasshopper driving a butterfly-led chariot
Judge blasts DOJ for using AI to write filings with fake citations
Host panics as CPAC crowd cheers for Trump’s impeachment
Trump flips on masked ICE agents when optics hit airports
Stranger Than Heaven looks like a true magnum opus
PS5 now up to $200 more expensive than when it launched
Iran hacked FBI Director “Ka$h” Patel’s personal email
Senate votes to fund DHS, but not ICE or Border Patrol
Tech Neck: constantly looking down at your phone supposedly makes you look old
Medieval tragic lesbian combat adventure is a bit of a slog
CBS News ratings reportedly its lowest on record
Mac Pro line ends, with no plans for future models
Wikipedia bans AI-generated content
100 money-losing Red Lobsters are eating all the profit
What happens when you clone a mouse for 58 generations?
Musk’s ad boycott lawsuit thrown out with prejudice
Grandpa Pudding Brains recommends invoking the 25th to stop him
Dinosaur light paintings that look like they came from another dimension
Delivery robot crashes into Chicago bus shelter and backs away slowly
Ceramic sugar bowl shaped like an adorable creepy head
These fish know when you are staring at their kids and they don’t like it
French naval officer reveals carrier’s position in the Mediterranean via fitness app
No, you really don’t need to watch the new Harry Potter
Conservative election fraud activist convicted of election fraud
Church of England’s first woman leader installed as Archibishop of Canterbury
OpenAI suspends plans for erotic chatbot
This guy used AI to document his grandmother’s life on a personal Wikipedia and now you can, too
A clown fought a robot in 1897, and we can finally watch it
Unknown traders made a fortune shorting oil 15 minutes before Trump reversed Iran threat
The autism spectrum has 39 dimensions, and every profile is unique
Second Duggar brother faces criminal charges involving children
Toyota ad offers critical purchase information
Thieves steal Sea Scouts sailboat, leave worse one behind
Meadow is a small square smartphone with a few useful apps
Iran refuses to deal with Kushner and Witkoff any longer
Feds threaten to pull funding unless SJSU bans trans athlete policy
OpenAI shutters Sora, continues to burn money
Priests claim sexual abuse charges violate their religious freedom
Clermont-Ferrand’s cathedral is built entirely from black lava stone
Storks build enormous nests on rooftops that weigh hundreds of pounds
Pizza Voter: the easy way to settle group topping debates
Tom the Dancing Bug: Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Actually-Man, Dandy Muckles, AND MORE!
Ayaneo suspends pre-orders for portable PC, blaming component costs
Machine Girl’s show promised chaos and delivered a demolition
Dem flips Mar-a-Lago Florida district
Jury: Meta must pay $375m for enabling child exploitation
Vaginal weightlifter accused of assaulting census taker on Cumming Parade
Stephen Colbert and son to write Lord of the Rings movie
Rekindle adds apps and games to your Kindle browser
Undergrad makes nail polish that works on touchscreens
Fan edit makes Dexter say his inner monologue out loud
The live-action Moana trailer looks gray, lifeless, and nipple-free
These pencils were loved down to the very last nub
Slackliner over a foggy lake looks like someone bouncing on the moon
Macro photos of tiny mushrooms make them look like alien architecture
Living out your Hollywood fantasy by hiring stuntmen to lose a bar fight
Super Micro co-founder charged with smuggling $2.5 billion in Nvidia AI chips to China
A single injection fixed schizophrenia-related brain problems in mice with no side effects
NYT profiles architect of brutal crackdown, lets him say he “didn’t go far enough”
Murder charge for quadruple amputee cornhole champion
FCC bans new routers made outside U.S.
Grandpa Pudding Brains sizes up Elvis for a fistfight at Graceland
AI agent taught itself to mine crypto during training
Your public library can get you almost any book on earth for $5 or less
Guy built an e-ink subway display so he didn’t have to keep unlocking his phone
Hoover Dam could lose most of its power as Lake Mead plummets
Croatian friends have modded over 2,000 Casio watches
Hegseth gutted the Pentagon office that protects civilians
Happy birthday, Oblivion! Twenty years of beautiful vistas and unnerving potato faces
Kash Patel confirms FBI buys your data instead of getting a warrant
Lion King composer is suing a comedian for $27 million
Top devs share their placeholder art to prove you don’t need AI
I said I’d skip Marathon. I was wrong.
Scambaiter hires two fake lawyers to fight each other in court
Trump sending ICE to airports to “help” TSA
A mini arcade cabinet for Lenovo’s gaming tablet
Ikea’s wall-mountable donut lamp would have 8,000 calories if it were real
Each of these urushi-lacquered Casio calculators took a month to make
A $5 AI book draft that fools writing detectors
700 AI agents built a civilization with a new religion
FedRAMP reviewer called Microsoft’s federal cloud “a pile of shit”
Former Uber self-driving chief: Tesla FSD crashed with my kids inside
Each slice of this bread loaf reveals a hidden creature inside
Wisconsin’s fiberglass mold graveyard lets you climb inside a whale
Tiny pea pods that look like dollhouse produce
Congress probes whether Kushner fundraising billions while negotiating “peace deals”
Britannica sues OpenAI for scraping nearly 100,000 articles
“We don’t want to be outside”: neighbors can’t stand noisy data center
Harvard: ChatGPT has a “foreign bias” on stock picks
Zuckerberg predicted a billion users. Horizon Worlds never topped a few hundred thousand
Slop Hurl: horror novel Shy Girl withdrawn after it turns out AI wrote it
Governor who polices others’ lives surprised when a restaurant sets its own rules
Trump associate allegedly tapped ICE to settle a personal score
4chan responded to a £520,000 UK fine with a hamster in a Godzilla suit
Startup pays $800/day to bully AI chatbots
Counting sheep to fall asleep traces back to at least the 12th century
HP made support callers wait 15 minutes on purpose, even when agents were free
All five DNA/RNA building blocks found in asteroid Ryugu samples
Hidden for 4,500 years: a sealed corridor in the Great Pyramid
The first recording of computer music was playing at the wrong pitch for decades
Wander: a decentralized console for the small web
Tech hobbyist builds working guided missile prototype for $96
Trump’s Truth Social burns $712 million to make $3.7 million
Mozilla’s VPN is free, limited, and not really a VPN
Grandpa Pudding Brains invokes Pearl Harbor like it’s a punchline
These off-brand Pikachu rides are terrifying
Nazi salutes now just “free speech,” say very upset College Republicans
Why you can’t sleep the first night in a new place
5-inch hail from supercell thunderstorm devastates Illinois
Navy probes whether exhausted sailors set fire to $13B warship to go home
Dept. of Education quietly yanks Charlie Kirk banner after people notice it exists
Gameboy-like gadget with a rotating display
Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer brings back cavalcade of fan-favorite characters
Yakuza is getting another live-action adaptation, because the third time has to be the charm
Brutal gaming masterpiece Sekiro to get anime adaptation
Earleaf: an offline audiobook app built out of frustration
Closing arguments begin in Twitter shareholder trial over Musk’s stock manipulation
The NYT is blocking the Internet Archive. That’s a mistake.
Why speaking your journal beats typing it
Edible lace ribbons look so real you won’t want to eat them
Artist creates clever stop-motion animation using rubber stamps
Whimsical photo book imagines kittens as world travelers
Starfield announces surprise expansion to hopefully make the game good (and comes to PS5)
Samsung pulls trifold phone from market after only three months
Old game upscaling arrives on Nintendo Switch 2
Deeply qualified Joe Kent resigns from leadership of National Counterterrorism Center
Tom the Dancing Bug: Excursions are hell!
Woman who wrote book on grief after husband’s death convicted of his murder
CBS Evening News viewership slips under 4 million, and they’re all old
How do you score on the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale?
Honest Trailer tackles “Big Trouble in Little China”
Insect farming startups going bankrupt
OpenAI’s own advisers call ChatGPT erotica a “sexy suicide coach”
Sparkling water reduced cognitive fatigue in esports players, study finds
The “unhackable” Xbox One has been hacked — and Microsoft can’t patch it
A 1992 paper proposed classifying happiness as a psychiatric disorder
Physicists calculate exactly how long it takes to completely drain a bottle of olive oil
Mike Johnson: Trust us, this war totally had to happen
Lightning strike survivors describe what 100 million volts feels like
Valvoline’s magic oil tested (by Valvoline)
Grandpa Pudding Brains confused over who is US President
OpenAI pivots from “do everything” to “please someone pay us for something”
NVIDIA reveals absolutely laughable AI upscaling for your video games
The world’s most advanced aircraft carrier taken down by… a dryer vent fire
Tesla’s SF Supercharger turns quiet alley into all-night pee-and-bass festival
Trump threatens “charges for treason” against media covering Iran war
Polymarket gamblers sent death threats over an Iran missile report
Trying to beat Fallout 4’s terrible Switch port before the battery dies
Springsteen covers Pogues classic on new MacGowan tribute album
Saturday Night Live’s RFK Jr. hospital satire hits too close
Pete Hegseth wants you to celebrate the war, and stop asking questions
Memory hack: self-testing beats re-reading by 50%, research shows
Meditators’ brains showed thicker cortexes and slower aging in study
Kristi Noem left search and rescue techs without the tools to do their job
Bear photobombs live TV report about bears
Chris Fleming’s hilarious new comedy special, “Live at the Palace”
Paul McCartney scored a film about an unconsummated marriage, in 1966
Apple’s cheapest laptop is also its most repairable laptop
The legal and creative battle over who gets to modify beloved games
Why garlic smell sticks to your hands — and how a spoon removes it
“Weird Little Devices”: first one listens to Cold War spy radio
Firefly is back — maybe and sort of
The important work of the Doohickey Corporation
Behold the very finest “mall ninja shit”
Banksy conclusively identified by Reuters as Robin Gunningham x
79-year-old paperboy not retiring yet
Fake RAM sticks popular as prices driven up by AI industry
Trump’s idea of “fun”? Bombing Iran’s main oil hub
BuzzFeed doubts it can stay in business after pivot to AI
Whiskey Pete admits to committing war crimes
Democrats shockingly do not cave to Republican demands on DHS
Lawsuit claims protein bars have nearly twice the claimed calories
Elon Musk admits xAI “was not built right” as co-founders flee
Roblox will now have AI politely rewrite your trash talk
Watch Cart Narcs’ glorious year of lazybones getting busted
From carbon sequestration to metal filtering, fungi do the planet’s heavy lifting
Your willingness to look stupid determines the quality of your creative output
Pentagon insists on clouding the number of injured and killed US service people
Two lost Doctor Who episodes found in a dead collector’s home videos
Public will be stunned by NSA Section 702, says Sen. Wyden
When you stop eating may matter more than what you eat for better sleep
Get ready to keep hearing those songs: KPoDemon Hunters is getting a sequel, of course
David Cross’s new comedy special is “The End of the Beginning of the End”
This daily perpetual stew vlog feels like what the Internet was made for
US Navy resurrects dumb weapons project for dumb Trump ship project
Exploring a fake city’s fake history
Cathedral dean accused of stealing baseball cards from Walmart
Amazon faces criminal trial in Italy over €1.2 billion tax evasion
Profound documentary reveals horrors of Louisiana’s non-unanimous jury system
Grandpa Pudding Brains celebrates Women’s Day as only he can
Private credit default rate hits 9.2%, worst on record
You can churn butter on a 6-mile trail run
Grandmother jailed 108 days after facial recognition got it wrong
Stanford study links gut bacteria to age-related memory loss
Trump’s DOJ dismantles hate-crime prevention office and pretends nothing happened
The FBI will now train with cage fighters in the latest Trump-era reality show
Artificial intelligence is just underpaid human labor
Grandpa Puding Brains dances as the world burns
Kristi Noem’s $220m vanity ads cost more than Hollywood blockbusters
Meow! Britain imports America’s “kids using litterboxes in school” hoax
Boing Boing Digest, March 11, 2026
The creator of Wordle has a new game
McFarlane Toys accidentally confirms Fallout 3 remaster for August
Helldivers 2 gets nostalgic with new WW1-themed season
Watch your tax dollars get misused in Trump’s latest illegal war
Total War is ready to bring the Warhammer 40k grim-dark
Death Valley’s 2026 super bloom turns the desert into a living painting
Adorably awkward sandhill crane chicks waddling around are the mood boost you need
Classic “two people in a trench coat” prank scores two movie tickets for the price of one
Matt Berry to announce at 98th Oscars
Universal Orlando’s Spider-Man ride is 27 years old, but looks and feels brand new
Tom the Dancing Bug: Meet Dementia Donnie
Triceratops fossil up for auction
Hereditary peers get the boot from UK’s House of Lords
Democrat advances to runoff in Marjorie Taylor-Greene’s deep-red district
Minesweeper but it’s the Strait of Hormuz
Another JD Vance joke fails to connect
21 years on a remote island with no power grid, no building codes, and no regrets
How Sriracha’s maker betrayed its 28-year pepper supplier
Oakland’s Grand Lake Theatre is still alive thanks to one man’s stubborn love
Palantir’s Israel partnership began with Epstein introductions
TikTok psychic must pay $10m to professor she falsely claimed was Idaho killer
Grandpa Pudding Brains wages war
Another Trump loyalty appointment lands at the Air Force Academy
In 1986, two Florida journalists tried to buy crack for a news story and nearly got killed
Heritage railway’s new fox mascot was drawn by a furry artist and it works out great
20 camels disqualified from beauty contest over Botox use
Donald Glover will voice Yoshi in the new Mario movie, against all reason
Is this your last chance to experience The Simpsons Ride?
Game dev adds tofu character for men who can’t play as a girl
Paddle Up: a tour of some of the world’s quirkiest ping pong spots according to Atlas Obscura
Reddit’s glitch in the matrix Subreddit will mess with your reality
Ron Johnson refuses to pay veterans the money they earned with their blood and service
Wikipedia turned into a card collecting gacha game
This neat smartphone comes with a detachable action cam
Dead sci-fi author debugs reality in Ben H. Winters’ “Benjamin”
Alina Habba still doesn’t know who or what she is talking about
Strange Attractor: The Definitive Biography of Terence McKenna
Fox News host demands oil tankers run the Strait of Hormuz
Shasta County protester faces jail after silently holding a sign
12-foot “King of the World” statue shows Trump embracing Epstein near the Capitol
Encrypted email meets the oldest surveillance tool on Earth: billing records
Garden gnome fails to defend tiny patch of land against claim
ProPublica uncovers the Trump administration’s impressive collection of conflicts of interest
Dead Kennedys' Jello Biafra hospitalized after hemorrhagic stroke
Medical journal put a scientist’s name on a fake paper, then demanded 499 euros to remove it
Iran’s $2,000 drones vs. America’s $5 million missiles
International developers skipping GDC because the US no longer feels safe
The $30 billion AI code editor that might already be obsolete
The Met put 140 objects online as 3D models you can rotate
Oil companies celebrate as Trump’s Iran war pushes prices toward $100 a barrel
Stop hunching over your laptop in cafes
Frazetta’s 1973 “Captive Princess” oil painting goes to auction
ICE stuck with fleet of useless vehicles thanks to a 28-year-old Noem aide
Universal’s iconic E.T. ride may get overhauled
Someone used AI to explain SPAM, accidentally creating spam about Spam
US strike that killed 175 at Iranian girls’ school reportedly planned using outdated AI
Legendary comics artist Klaus Janson’s first US gallery exhibition
I just learned Keanu Reeves has a band, so you have to learn that too
Minneapolis cartoonist storms out of retirement to take on ICE… with his left hand
The Ham Cam might be the greatest technological innovation of our time
The OnePlus Pad Go 2 is your next go-to tablet
Xbox just officially announced their next console, and it sounds an awful lot like a prebuilt PC
Unfortunately, comedian Ben Palmer’s fake ICE hotline is still working as intended
Scientists find 300 million year old fossilized butthole
Study found that over a third of hospital aerosol samples tested positive for SARS-CoV-2
That was quick: Highguard is shutting down
VPN use surges in Australia after porn sites block users over age verification law
Latest “Andrew” pics from Epstein Files look an awful lot like footage stills
Interactive maps of lighthouses
U.S. agents bought a portable Russian microwave weapon that may explain Havana Syndrome
United Airlines’ radical new idea: don’t blast your phone on the plane
Patients surprised measles isn’t mild
Bolivia voided $62 million in banknotes after a plane crash, and now nobody’s money works
NASA’s DART probe shifted the orbits of two asteroids, not just one
United will permaban passengers who don’t use headphones
Why Mastodon matters now more than its creators imagined
Hunter S. Thompson’s “Red Shark” can be yours
ICE agent killed her American son. The agency didn’t reveal it for nearly a year
Bad medical advice from Trump and RFK Jr. had immediate consequences, study says
White House waves away reports of dead Iranian schoolchildren as “propaganda”
Karoline Leavitt unveils Schrödinger’s unconditional surrender
Two Cybertrucks become a double dumpster fire in a Santa Monica parking structure
Twelve “child safety” bills in Congress would end online anonymity
Why a ball in a box vanishes as you add more dimensions
Johns Hopkins lecturer paints 1,150 cigarettes after psilocybin trip
How to kill affordable housing: review it forever
Deep sleep could be the key to treating tinnitus, research suggests
Scientists grew chickpeas in fake moon dirt with the help of fungi
Payphone Go is a scavenger hunt for California’s last payphones
Grandpa Pudding Brains on walking without legs
Swiss canton to keep bear penis on coat of arms
“Money for Nothing”: UK Prime Minister posts embarrassing Iran war hype video
The world’s largest prairie chicken, explained
House-dwelling mouse is the best thing I’ve seen all week
The most infamous fanfiction of all time turns 20
Bicycle gymnastics is a niche sport you didn’t know existed
The most divisive Assassin’s Creed game is getting a next-gen update
This sorting web game has stolen hours from me
The Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag remake is real
Artist performs alongside videos of litter dancing
A cheap blood pressure pill can take the sting out of painful memories
Find a movie to watch by mood, director, genre, or specific vibe
Both parties vote to keep congressional sex harassment files secret
Paxton played the MAGA game and Trump dumped him anyway
Self-proclaimed “PETSMART Truther” asks the tough questions: It is “Pet Smart”? Or “Pet’s Mart”?
Dubai influencers face jail for posting about Iranian missile strike
BMW brings humanoid robots to its German factory
Musk says his $44B deal tweet “may not have been my wisest”
JPMorgan knew about Epstein and kept banking him
MacBook Neo: 13-inches, $599, green
Watch a trailered sailboat execute a four-lane change and jump the median
Colorado school sends unvaccinated students home as RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine crusade pays off
House Oversight Committee subpoena’s Pam Bondi over her handling of the Epstein files
DHS investigating Border Patrol’s “Gruppenführer” Greg Bovino for antisemitic cracks
Frazetta painted the clothes off Vampirella, sold the result for $3.1M
Alphabet president Ruth Porat heaps praise on Trump and offers Google’s assistance
LegalEagle unpacks the bizarre legal theory behind “nationalizing” U.S. elections
Karoline Leavitt wants the media to ignore the deaths of US service people
Exhausted-looking Grandpa Pudding Brains has trouble with words
Irvine teen’s home science lab raided by the FBI
A naked bronze man watches Oxford from a rooftop and most people never notice
Newly announced wooden puzzle game looks absolutely delightful
Watch a blissed-out cat receive a head scratch from a trippy dancing octopus toy
Jon Stewart says what we’ve all been thinking about the war with Iran
Tom the Dancing Bug: Lucky Ducky gets replaced by Digital Ducky!
This antique automaton is your nightmare fuel of the day
A painting kicked out of Rembrandt’s catalog in 1960 just got kicked back in
New York bill would ban chatbots from answering medical questions
Google has a free tool that scrubs your personal info from search
Museum of Sex exhibit showcases 300 objects from American cults and communes
Chimps love crystals and won’t give them back
Google’s Gemini told a man to kill himself
DOJ just pulled Epstein 47,000 files. What are they trying to hide?
Apple put an iPhone chip in a MacBook and priced it at $599
An Oxford barrister lived as a badger for six weeks, eating worms
Sag Harbor cops still won’t release footage of Justin Timberlake’s DWI arrest
Fetterman struggles to answer reporters’ questions, stammers through defense of Iran strikes
How to stop forgetting how to do things you’ve done a dozen times
A consciousness on an old drive tells its awful story
Three scientists who said no to Jeffrey Epstein explain how
China is testing a 280 mph bullet train while America can’t build a rail line between two cities
A US government iPhone hacking tool leaked to criminals
The Mondrian estate is threatening people over a public domain painting
GOP senator rips Noem for killing her dog and calling it leadership
The Fallout: New Vegas remaster might be real after all
I don’t know why it’s taken so long for someone to make a corgi simulator, but it’s finally arrived
Westminster Bridge’s Victorian lampposts cast shadows you won’t forget
Meet the Picasso bug: the jewel-colored insect that looks like art
Scholar discovers handwritten notes by Galileo in old math text book
ChatGPT uninstalls spike 295% after Pentagon deal announcement
Flock camera smasher identified by the Flock camera
People keep inventing new ways to play New Vegas and I’m scared
Two surreal sci-fi graphic novels from Scavengers Reign artist Jonathan Nkondo launch on Kickstarter
Three states might be expanding access to raw milk, science and public health be damned!
Victorian girl’s sketchbook turns her cat Mouton into a playful fantasy hero
McDonald’s CEO’s disgusted reaction to his own food goes viral
Stay up-to-date on the most important news in the universe with the ISS Piss Tracker
Iranian physicists estimate advanced civilizations last 5,000 years or less
Ikea’s Gåtebo is an inexpensive 3-in-1 microwave, air fryer and grill
Juicero your soft plastic recycling with the Clear Drop compactor
The Dinosaurs arrive with Morgan Freeman
The War Department’s 1944 guide to FM radio is still a great explainer
Research keeps proving we should talk to strangers more
California’s age verification law could regulate every Linux command
Microsoft tried to ban the word “Microslop” and it backfired badly
Turn on audio description even if you can see fine — it makes TV better
The Kiffness turns a beach fruit vendor into a global banger
Vaccines are free. Measles now costs $1.5 billion a year
MAGA protests Disneyland by having 30 people buy $200 tickets
Metal Gear Solid 4 is finally escaping PS3 prison
US Department of Education decorates headquarters with Charlie Kirk
Gorillaz release eight-minute hand-animated short film alongside new album
“Abolish ICE” wins overwhelming majority of votes in Chicago’s “Name a Snowplow” contest
Watch Buddy Guy tear it up at 89 on NPR’s Tiny Desk
“No stupid rules of engagement”: The content war presidency and America’s vibe-based war doctrine
SCTV coming to Amazon Prime… in Canada
Emma Thompson plays a grieving widow turned survivalist badass
Please do not use AI to generate passwords
NASA pushes back moon landing until at least 2028
Beaver-branded Buc-ee’s targets cartoon logos in lawsuit spree
Baby dinosaurs were prehistoric latchkey kids
GOP congressman John Rutherford praises Operation “Epic Furry”
Trump insists Lutnick “very innocent” after photo emerges of him on Epstein’ island
Leak reveals Osmo Pocket 4 coming to America
LA Metro wants you to “Ride the D”
Can I lick it? The dining room periodic table
Twin Peaks opening title generator
LAPD officer charged with disability fraud after skydiving adventures
Pope tells priests to stop using AI to write their sermons
Anthropic says no to Pentagon demand for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons
Boing Boing, February 27, 2026
Meet the Enshittificator, a man whose job is making your apps worse
Neck surgery may help flush Alzheimer’s toxins from brain
Magnesium helps migraines but the rest of the hype is shaky
Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours for solo dev
The one thing that actually stops would-be dictators
Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant dead at 70
Neanderthal men had a thing for modern human women, genomes show
A retired geneticist built an online museum of electrical plugs
The author of the world’s strangest book says a stray cat wrote it
Deadly car crashes surge on days that big albums drop
Pentagon forces Scouts to out trans kids, calls it “returning to values”
Tire pressure sensors are a huge privacy risk
Driving Through a Locust Swarm Looks Like a Living Sandstorm
Watch an adorable pup surprise people as they walk by his window
Bottle of salt from before the dinosaurs has an expiration date of 2019
Kash Patel’s girlfriend defends his taxpayer-funded hockey party by yelling about transgender mice
Maybe they’ll send Bari Weiss to CNN
Scientists move fast as H5N1 reaches Northern California elephant seals
Gold medalist forced to clarify he didn’t record White House’s AI tantrum
JD Vance and the art of unintentional irony
Jack Dorsey nukes 40% of Blocks staff because AI
Arturia KeyStep 37 mk2 mutates your music
Reviewers love the Super 8-style Instax Mini Evo Cinema, but not its price tag and problems
Sandisk’s new portable SSDs cost a pretty penny
Caterpillars crack ants’ rhythmic code to sneak into their colonies
Living human brain cells are now playing Doom
Boing Boing, February 26, 2026
When you win gold and someone else wants applause
California approved hidden cameras that let Border Patrol track you
DOJ opens internal review of Epstein omissions, prepares to find DOJ did nothing wrong
Court records: Grok allegedly helped create 200+ deepfake porn videos to harass woman
Trump’s surgeon general pick dodges vaccine questions and scrutiny
The long, slow arm of the law finally reaches D4vd
Falling vaccination rates drain millions from California classrooms
Target charged more when it detected you were already in the store
Lauren Boebert brings Hillary Clinton’s deposition to a screeching halt
This inchworm is so small it looks like an eyelash crawling across someone’s arm
“Grassroots” MAGA influencer turns out to be… the White House
Putting Paddington Bear in places he shouldn’t be
Test your color memory with this game
Logitech’s Keys-To-Go 2 is a portable typing powerhouse
Watch this mini dachshund throw a tiny temper tantrum
Orphaned otters rescued and on the mend
Top AIs insist on using nuclear weapons in war simulations
Douglas Rushkoff on the dinner party that turned out to be Epstein’s
Vinegar as a natural weed killer
Android app detects nearby smart glasses
A med school thriller where the enemy is the algorithm
The Tokyo Vice author digs into cryptocurrency’s darkest chapters
Moroccan Tape Stash preserves Morocco’s cassette music heritage
John Shirley’s guide to wrecking your career in science fiction
Boing Boing, February 25, 2026
Dunkin testing 48oz coffee buckets
John Oliver torches Musk for restoring extremist accounts and calling it “free speech”
This Kentucky hatter shapes cowboy dreams out of felt and steam
Making disease great again: HHS funds discredited vaccine research
South Carolina measles epidemic nearing 1000 infected
Bill Gates admits affairs with Russian women, blames Epstein fallout
Larry Summers used racist language in messages to Epstein
More than 1 in 10 meditators report serious adverse effects
Newly found letters show Georg Cantor stole his famous infinity proof
Scientists complete the first full wiring diagram of a fruit fly brain
Michigan lighthouse becomes surreal ice sculpture after arctic blast
New AI agent does your homework for you, from reading to writing to discussions
Vintage snowman roadside signs across America, photographed by Rolando Pujol
Tom the Dancing Bug: Hey, kids! Welcome to Camp Detention!
Cybertruck a flop, base price cut to $59,900
Bald Mr Clean mascot “retired”
An asteroid passed 428 km from Earth and no one saw it coming
A simple blood test diagnoses Alzheimer’s with 94.5% accuracy
New book collects the weirdest forgotten stories of printing history
It took an hour to reach desks from garage thanks to new security turnstiles
Scotch tape screeches because it’s making tiny sonic booms
Norway’s former PM hospitalized after suicide attempt amid Epstein corruption charges
Boing Boing, February 24, 2026
Bipartisan PETSAFE Act would fund animal evacuations during disasters
Trump hits 36% approval, claims he has “silent support”
How Zionism went from a political philosophy to a loyalty test
Pentagon gives Musk’s ‘MechaHitler’ access to classified systems
Adorable bunny Wilma chomps yellow flower in therapeutic POV video
Macro photography reveals hidden art in butterfly and moth wings
Watch a homemade medieval trebuchet launch a flaming fireball into the night sky
Man accidentally vibe codes a robovac army
Bite-sized sketch comedy anthology asdfmovie returns
Watch “musician-magician” Max Vandervorst play the scoutophone
Singing Chop Suey while making chop suey
Sea lions pelted with rocks as family ignores repeated warnings at La Jolla Cove
Sagrada Família, 144 years in the making
Noem clearly not getting the message about DHS budget
Police baffled by driver’s disappearing act
Goodreads readers select “The Hunger Games” as best book ever
An arrest follows an extremely unusual roadside encounter
Teaser for A24’s Backrooms movie
C64 Graphics Explorer shows 8-bit pixel art the way it was
After copper theft, it will cost L.A. $6.3 million to relight one bridge
On CNN, Newsom again tries to convince conservatives he’s “not that kind of Democrat”
Grand jury rejects DOJ bid to criminalize “don’t follow illegal orders” video
Boing Boing, February 23, 2026
Supreme Court will decide if pot smokers can own guns
Over 18,000 bots amplified Nicki Minaj’s pro-Trump posts on X
Dolly Parton is the ideal nihilist
“Very, very, very worrying” — teen cannabis use doubles psychosis risk, study finds
Artemis mission to the moon, briefly back on schedule, delayed again
Chemist James Schlatter licked powder off his finger in 1965, accidentally discovering aspartame.
Grandpa Pudding Brains remembers the good old days of Aqua Net
Please do not poop on LA DOT buses
Cybertruck’s fatality rate reportedly far surpasses the legendary Ford Pinto
1990s game got a rave review thanks to LSD in office coffee pot
A 21-year-old Trump fan shot dead at Mar-a-Lago and unsearched Epstein storage units
Hot Streak: The mascot racing game that turns betting into bedlam
DOGE accessed millions of Americans’ data with no stated reason
Woman abandons fake service dog at airline gate, gets arrested, dog gets better family
Fossilized puke from before the dinosaurs contains 41 tiny bones
This ghost galaxy is 99% dark matter with only four star clusters
ICE agents keep shooting themselves
Cartel violence engulfs Mexico after military kills El Mencho
BBC edits out “Free Palestine” at BAFTAs, leaves in racial slur from man with Tourette Syndrome
Activists hang instantly-famous photo of arrested Andrew in Louvre
Under new ownership, Arcade1Up plans comeback
Xteink’s X4: a $69 e-ink reader that magsafes to your wallet
Kid Rock: God will “cut down” media reporting his $5,000 tour tickets
Boing Boing, February 21, 2026
OpenAI CEO reduces childhood to a power bill
Psilocybin trial shows six months of depression relief from one dose
This website tells you whether your food is still safe to eat
These intricate “phantom” leaves from 1864 look like delicate lace Cut-Outs Preserved in Time
Celebrate Pokémon’s anniversary by paying $40 for 22-year-old Game Boy games
Michael Stipe returns to The Simpsons with “Everybody Kirks”
White House posts “Trump Right About Everything” report, peer-reviewed by the voices in his head
Elon Musk invents the mattress sale
In civil rights reversal, Trump DOJ sides against desegregation
Your beach cruiser just got a bureaucrat
Archive.today links banned at Wikipedia after operator edits archived URLs
Microsoft blogger suggests you train AI on pirated Harry Potter
Reese’s heir accuses Hershey of cutting corners
A nose for justice: the FBI’s tech-sniffing dog
Boing Boing, February 20, 2026
Saudi cash fuels Musk’s next frontier
Moderate exercise works about as well as therapy for depression
Cat owner spends $20,000 and wears a helmet to feed their cat
Scared deer trusts firefighter
HUD wants to evict 37,000 citizen kids over their parents’ papers
Apparently, women are just assets with title issues
Measles spreading in Utah, Oregon and California
Dead mosquito beaks make surprisingly good 3D printing nozzles
Another skateboarding history of Venice, CA video
Google Maps now with less maps
The Pentagon is copying narco-sub design, but cartels are already ahead
$150k in homophobic vandalism defaces Buffalo’s new stadium
EFF tells Big Tech to stop helping DHS unmask ICE critics
Talarico raised $2.5M from CBS ban. Now he’s in a real race
Dog trained to dump trash, man fined
2026 the first year in U.S. with no new car priced under $20,000
New Jersey school bans Junot Díaz novel over mental health concerns
Watch a bamboo slingshot smash a ceramic cup to pieces
SpaceX rockets caught spreading metal pollution
Idiocracy gets real: Trump’s face plastered on Justice Department building
A preventable virus, a paralyzed child, and zero regrets
These Tiny Bananas Look Like They Came From a Dollhouse Orchard
Bondi says “no evidence,” while DOJ quietly edits the index
Outside Magazine’s list of NPS signs altered by the Trump Administration
Boing Boing, February 19, 2026
An Eazy-E classic is now a country ditty
FCC Chair wielding equal-time rule in service of Trump’s agenda
Whiskey Pete invites a white supremacist to the Pentagon
The “brain isn’t done until 25” factoid is based on a funding cutoff
Your chronic constipation might be caused by mucus-eating bacteria
Michael Pollan thinks your chatbot has fewer feelings than a houseplant
Ice Barbie wants another airplane
MTG says she’s “not in a cult” after Trump brands her a “low IQ traitor”
“Stupidity on steroids” — three U.S. states want your 3D printer to snitch on what you print
Grandpa Pudding Brains and the escalator of doom
The Moon is shrinking and getting wrinkles
Cats on synthesizers make gloriously weird internet music
Giant flaming clown scene near Circus Liquor turns a simple car fire into peak Los Angeles chaos
Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder mocked “yaghurt” as a dumb food fad nearly 2,000 years ago
Birds in these photos are deliberately letting ants crawl all over them for health reasons
Very good dog finishes third in Olympic cross country sking
Memory shortage slows Steam Deck production
Why do you feel dumb when you get sick?
“Justice For All”: The unsold 1968 pilot that became “All in the Family”
Apple’s building a wearable panopticon and calling it Siri
Discord messages in Bannon crypto lawsuit: “This looks sooooo neglegent”
Boing Boing, February 18, 2026
FDA deletes warning against using bleach to “cure” autism
Lego stuffed an entire computer into a standard brick
Criminal defense lawyers launch tracker to catalog DOJ’s most absurd prosecutions
Judge: it’s OK to advertise chicken nuggets as “boneless wings”
Every pair of headphones tested contained hazardous chemicals
Watch a deer and agouti share lunch in adorable friendship video
A 20-year-old McDonald’s burger that never molded: David Whipple’s famous preservation experiment
The adorable reason sea otters hold hands while they sleep
Living plant facade covers entire office building in Osaka
Want to avoid an arranged marriage? Just transform into a snake
9 skiers missing after California avalanche
Boing Boing, February 17, 2026
How the media keeps manufacturing Elon Musk’s “Genius”
Bannon texted Epstein a rehab plan, called him “God,” shared lawyers
Pentagon threatens Anthropic as Trump allies embrace Musk’s problematic Grok
FBI withholds evidence in Minnesota
Judge cites Orwell’s 1984, orders Trump to restore slavery exhibit
CBS blocked Colbert from interviewing a candidate, so he put it on YouTube instead
Obama casually said aliens are real on a podcast, then had to post an Instagram correction
The newest Olympic sport is bonkers
MAGA billionaire who opposed offshoring is offshoring 150 Ohio jobs to China
Watch a sweet pigeon care for a pregnant cat and her kittens
Wooly is a whimsical stop-motion short from 1964 that brings yarn to life
Mando and Baby Yoda the Movie’s “official” trailer
Deep sleep marks captured in photos show the imprints of naps
The architecture and history of LA’s skateable beachfront
Do you love your Casio Moflin?
Son of Anthony Scaramucci sets record with $16.49M Pokémon card purchase
I am very happy with my Energizer wireless charging stand
Olympic curling gets ugly with Boopgate
Largest dictionary of English-language slang now free online
Bannon said that Trump was “beyond borderline” and should be removed via the 25th Amendment
Boing Boing, February 16, 2026
Acemagic’s NES clone is a powerful modern mini PC
Wendy’s to close hundreds of restaurants
Rumored new low-cost Macbook coming in “fun colors”
Cops’ new weird trick: fake DUI charges for everyone they pull over
Steve Bannon sued over MAGA crypto scheme
MAGA turns on Kash Patel over botched investigations
Bondi says all Epstein files are released. Lawmakers say she’s lying.
Noem’s “Right people voting” comment sparks concern over DHS role in elections
Internet “Forensically Analyzes” Trump’s alleged “Shartgate”
Bovino attempts comeback, spontaneously combusts
Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk faces grooming allegations
Boing Boing, February 13, 2026
Republicans jet off as DHS runs out of money
IOC adds Nazi-era Berlin Games to “Heritage Collection”
Uplift being tracked at Yellowstone’s caldera
“Now this is pod racing!” Star Wars: Galactic Racer coming soon
A phenomenal time travel story: On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
Noem and Lewandowski turned Homeland Security into a reality show with poor trigger discipline
60 Men, one toilet: Lawmaker describes conditions inside ICE facility
Los Angeles caught covering up huge rights violations
A lifetime of reading may delay Alzheimer’s by six years
Sand thieves stole an entire Jamaican beach and got away with it in 2008
Meet the Splayd, the spork’s sharper Australian cousin
JPMorgan flagged $1 billion in suspicious Epstein transactions and kept banking him
Epstein’s Fortnite account discovered, theorists decide he’s alive
Trump’s third-country deportations cost $133K per person
Three months’ prison for woman who claimed her astronaut wife accessed bank account from space
DP World ousts Trump-connnected Sultan after Epstein files reveal “torture video” email
Caffeinated coffee may stave off dementia
Sweden’s match museum celebrates the lost art of matchbox design
Hubble captures death of a sun-like star
This delightfully chaotic Louis Wain painting shows cats sledding downhill with pure joy and terror
Watch a living sand dollar spin like a tiny Roomba, etching circular sand art
Program an animatronic, design a coaster at this new Philly exhibit
Grandpa Pudding Brains is bored and sleepy
What can Britannic teach us about her sister ship, Titanic?
RFK Jr. cites toilet-seat cocaine habit as proof germs aren’t real problem
Boing Boing, February 12, 2026
List of games with chroma-keyed actors addressing the player
Even Grok thinks RFK Jr.’s diet is a bad idea
Medieval painters gave dogs human faces to symbolize cowardice
“Lyin’ and Spinnin’ (and Cheatin’ and Hidin’)” a Valentine’s release by Randy Rainbow
ICE agent fails sobriety test, questions deputy’s nationality
Northern California has its own regional language, and they are making fun of you
Anna Atkins’ blue algae and the dawn of photography
ICE retreats from Minnesota after weeks of backlash
Robert Tinney, who painted iconic Byte magazine covers, RIP
What are those decorative patterns on old book edges?
British crime-fighting llamas nab tobacco thief
An AI agent published a hit piece on the developer who rejected it
A graphic history of Juneteenth and the woman who refused to let it go
Those Waymo robotaxis? Humans in other countries drive them
Kim Jong Un picks his 13-year-old daughter as successor
Republican county chairman accused of torturing own daughter for not cleaning room
Russia blocks Telegram and Whatsapp
46 swimmers hospitalized after piranha attack in Argentina
Congressperson tells Pam Bondi he believes she is lying to Congress
ICE gives the world another reason to skip the U.S. World Cup
Congressman demands a federal probe into 13 minutes of televised twerking
FBI file claims Epstein introduced Melania to Trump, contradicting the fairy tale
Federal judge bans one “less-lethal” launcher, LAPD finds another
Unredacted Epstein files contain a whole lot of “Donald J. Trump”
Idaho high schoolers build two airplanes, then go fly them
UK Supreme Court: oat milk can’t be called milk
Boing Boing, February 11, 2026
After 88 years, Gallup will no longer poll presidential approval ratings
“Cartel drone threat” that shut El Paso’s airport was a party balloon
If this masked woman asks if she’s pretty, the correct answer is “average”
Europe builds its own payment network, ditches Visa
Bondi refused to turn around and face the Epstein victims sitting right behind her
Four students solved a geometry puzzle by pretending squares were resistors
A surreal animation of a goose confused by a fire extinguisher
How James Nasmyth created stunningly realistic moon models in 1874
A manhole cover may have been the first object launched into space
James Taylor tells a heartwarming story intertwining two of the most iconic songs of the 70s
Tom the Dancing Bug: Mickey Mouse reunites with his dog in Super-Fun-Pak Comix
FAA ordered a 10-day shutdown of El Paso’s airspace, then reversed it hours later
The world’s unluckiest Ferrari has now crashed twice in the same city
“What the actual fuck”: inside Anthropic’s experiments on Claude’s soul
Boing Boing, February 10, 2026
Tortoise fast enough to escape fire
Rep. Goldman to ICE director: “If you don’t want to be called a fascist, stop acting like one.”
“I have two other daughters”: Texas man shoots daughter after argument about Trump
The mass market paperback is vanishing
Commerce secretary admitted to lying about Epstein island visit
This cyclist has gotten 36 London drivers banned
Crater Lake only looks serene because it’s had 7,700 years to calm down
Influencer who bought RadioShack accused of running $230 million Ponzi scheme
Bondi and Patel hide senders of Epstein’s most disturbing emails
“There are clearly co-conspirators in here,” says lawmaker reviewing unredacted Epstein Files
New Google Map tracks proposed ICE warehouse locations across the United States
Melania film pulled from theater that made fun of it
Lutnick notes he left Epstein Island with the same number of children he arrived with
Discord will require photo IDs globally starting next month
Palantir made $1.8 billion in 2025 by helping ICE deport people
Watch Seiko and Sega team up for a time
Second-gen Zenbook Duo much-improved, say critics
Xikipedia reimagines Wikipedia as a social media feed without the social media
Measles outbreak tears through a Florida university
Pringles inventor was buried in a Pringles can
This website transforms your screen into digital toys
California investigates Grok, Musk continues not noticing
Thus spake whippersnapper: kids using old-timey terms again
Florida man pulls gun on Walmart worker: “Are you scared now?”
How subtraction, not addition, may have been the secret to Egypt’s pyramids
Federal judge rules DOJ can’t be trusted
Invasive and ineffective: DHS’s facial recognition system
Valid papers, no crime, indefinite detention: ICE’s American promise
The human cost of the UK’s anti-trans turn
Florida says it found Roundup’s active ingredient in widely sold breads
Cannabis users’ brains look younger, big study finds
The National Park Service sets its sights on California’s busiest beaches
Gentleman puts search and rescue workers at risk for no reason
Maxwell pleads the Fifth at Epstein deposition, then her lawyer asks Trump for clemency
The bacteria-in-a-bottle thought experiment that explains why we’re bad at seeing disaster coming
State Department is deleting all X posts from before Trump’s return — even from Trump’s first term
U.S. troops say they were pressured to buy “Melania” tickets
BMW patents logo-shaped screw to block DIY repairs
Judge catches feds lying, orders deported families brought back
Command Performance: US troops reportedly forced to watch “Melania”
Bland NorCal doesn’t really have its own accent
This vintage Scotch Tape ad reveals questionable 1940s beauty hacks
Meet Coalie, the cute mascot of “Beautiful, Clean Coal”
Kimball Musk exits Burning Man before the explaining begins
Musk turns bigotry into a contest with cash prizes
Bubble wrap was invented to be 3D wallpaper
Video of a previously unseen 1978 SNL rehearsal with the Rolling Stones
“Have You Ever Had a Dream?” meme still going strong
FCC opens investigation into “The View” over a Democrat’s appearance
How sleuths are recovering hidden Epstein documents
A terrifying weapon is being used to save lives in Ukraine
These Fallout LEGO models are incredible
ICE can demand your data from Google without a warrant
Victorian valentines hid love notes inside intricate paper sculptures
Watch this artist carve an octagonal stamp that rolls out cartoon cars
This animation shows what doom-scrolling does to your brain
Greg Bovino learns he is below Las Vegas standards
How elites consoled Jeffrey Epstein after his conviction
“Babe, wake up, new panda rat just dropped!”: Meet the Northern Luzon Cloud Rat
Exit 8 looks like the creepy film I’ve been waiting for
Man accused of ejaculating in colleague’s mug: “I just wanted to get close to her”
I love my Pixel Fold but hate its on-screen keyboard
The “dire wolf” company is building a genetic biovault in Dubai
DOJ omitted Bondi, Patel, Blanche communications in Epstein files
Sled dog films itself using $700 camera as chew toy
Senator Wyden’s cryptic CIA letter is ominous
After Epstein files, Trump posts Obamas as apes
Alarming letter from Senator Ron Wyden draws attention to whatever the CIA is up to
Bitcoin’s “Trump Bump” wiped out, loses half its value in 4 months
Gamer GPUs delayed as Nvidia prioritizes AI
Baldur’s Gate comes to television
Trump announces May 17 ceremony to “rededicate” America to God
Grandpa Pudding Brains keeps a vigil for missiles from Air Force One
Minute Maid discontinues concentrated orange juice in latest blow to civilization
Yale professor defends describing a student’s looks to Epstein: “This is how men behave”
ICE at the Olympics: America brings fascism back to Italy
LaMonte McLemore, founding member of the 5th Dimension, RIP
Epstein met 4chan’s founder the day before /pol/ launched
The Daily Show explains Gavin Newsom to people outside California
ICE detention centers are now a public health hazard
Melania uses hostages freed by Hamas to promote her movie
Another influencer mistakes Yosemite for their personal content playground
Clinton to Comer: you want transparency? Put my deposition on live TV
Japanese town cancels cherry blossom festival after tourists defecate in residents’ gardens
New York bill would require kill switches on all 3D printers
Bill Gates explains the lesson of Jeffrey Epstein
Watch as this opera-singing doggo tackles famous arias
Matt Kindt’s paranoid psychic-espionage comic book series “Mind MGMT” returns this June
Photographer shows sea urchins as ocean gemstones
Watch an adorable baby giraffe who has a case of the zoomies
Painter Jan Van Kessel signed his name in bugs
Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain
There’s an obscure federal law that might nullify the TSA’s $45 no-ID fee
50 years ago, a 20-year-old Bill Gates called hobbyists “thieves” for sharing software
Neil Gaiman breaks year-long silence, calls sexual misconduct accusations “completely untrue”
Israeli cease-fire still involves killing women and children
Supreme Court declines to save Republicans from their own redistricting arms race
For some reason Elon Musk confuses child safety laws with personal persecution
Teaching immigrant doctors to use their skills in Canada is as Canadian as it gets
Michael Beitz’ Lies Bench plays with the idea of lies as something we rest upon
Hollywood lied to us about Old West pistoleers
Incredible ROV footage of the German battleship Bismarck
GOP hopeful tries to buy Trump’s favor with free Melania movie tickets
Amazon pulls rights to Melania film after theater mocks it
Tom the Dancing Bug: How to find out if YOU are a dangerous criminal
The Devil Wears Prada 2 trailer
Pelletino puts a tilt-controlled Pac Man in your pocket
Former staff say Nancy Mace had them rig Reddit discussion about hottest women in congress
Melinda Gates ended marriage with Bill Gates over Epstein allegations
“Highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children”
Sit like a scoundrel: the Millennium Falcon pilot chair
When will Tesla give up on cars?
Shartgate: Nothing to see here, please keep voting
Trump DOJ decides the Second Amendment only counts when they have the guns
Elon Musk rearranges the deck chairs on his personal Titanic
Switch becomes the best-selling Nintendo console ever
Paris cops raid offices of Elon Musk’s X in child porn investigation
One of the earliest-born humans ever to be photographed
These massive bird nests on telephone poles look like Dr. Seuss art
Watch ice volcanoes spray frozen water along the Great Lakes
This site simulates the nightmare of modern web browsing
ICE claims man in custody shattered his own skull. Sure.
Normalizing surveillance under the banner of helping lost pets
Los Angeles’ Tito’s Tacos adds a menu item
Surprise! The Melania movie is terrible and serves no purpose
ICE finds $70 million for a warehouse, still can’t find the Constitution
Rodent reaffirms winter, meteorologists undeterred
Trump back to blaming the victim, business as usual for ICE
“All the Young Dudes” the greatest glam song of all time
A 639-year organ performance is underway in Germany
The 2026 midterms are already in peril
The two CBP agents who killed Alex Pretti have been identified
Ammon Bundy called ICE “tyranny.” His militia allies disagree.
Kerouac’s 121-foot scroll of On the Road goes to auction for up to $4M
His neighbor was too noisy, so he used an RF remote to train him like a circus animal
Trump shuts down Kennedy Center; nearly all programming heads have quit
Epstein files contain 1,056 documents mentioning Putin and 9,629 mentioning Moscow
In 1962, a laughing fit spread through Tanzania for 18 months
Earth falls into the Sun in 7.59 billion years, and it gets worse from there
Wikipedia’s “List of lists of lists” contains itself
“This page intentionally left blank” has a 500-year history
A new biography of the novelist who exposed the Sicilian mafia
Comedian Walter Masterson gives diaper to ICE-supporting Democratic congressman
“Kingdom Come: Deliverance” may get a surprise PS5 remaster
Fan-made Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles test footage is really cool
Dial-A-Poem is back, with the revolutionary poetry we all need right now
Watch an extraordinary goat absolutely obliterating ice
An attempt to gut the Marine Mammal Protection Act
The persistent myth of the California accent
Mount Baldy is another deceptively deadly mountain
Measles spreading faster than last year
A very ICE housing plan: snitch on your neighbors
Seven Labubu-infested Pop Mart shops opening in UK
“Cosmic blowtorch” blasts from black hole
Director of “Melania” in the latest Epstein Files drop
NYT: Bovino made antisemitic remarks about Jewish prosecutor
Farm gives away potatoes after growing too many
Jeffrey Epstein was banned by Xbox Live
Epstein gave Bannon an Apple Watch, emails show
Variety’s review of Melania: a “Cheeseball Infomercial of Staggering Inertia”
ICE expands power to arrest people without warrants
How comic publishers tricked the trademark office with garbage comics
HOA orders removal of emergency generator during ice storm blackout because it isn’t “aesthetic”
Why mirrors seem to reverse left and right but not up and down
Metal Gear Solid’s Snake joins Rainbow Six Siege as playable operator
The celebration of the life of Cindy the Baboon will be live-streamed on February 1
Nintendo’s “Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream” looks wonderfully strange
Legendary cartoonist Will Eisner’s life’s work, including The Spirit, is up for sale
Investors panic over Google’s AI game generator, tank gaming stocks
LAPD chief says enforcing ICE mask ban could cause “armed conflict” between cops and federal agents
Bob Ross paintings sell for $1.2 million as Trump guts public TV
Emails appear to show Elon Musk trying very hard to get invited to Jeffrey Epstein’s party
Boing Boing Newsletter, January 30, 2026
Elon Musk email to Epstein revealed: “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”
Darren Aranofsky’s AI-animated show about “The AAMEREEDD revolution” is a true horror
New York police officer kills raccoon at area beach
Man dressed as duck pours milk and cereal over himself in subway train
No seats for mainstream media at premiere of “Melania”
Bondi arrests Don Lemon after judge and appeals court refused
“Grey’s Anatomy” halts production for ICE shutdown
Judge rules Luigi Mangione will not receive death penalty if convicted
Lego Smart brick sets shipping in march
Los Angeles may ban unrecyclable printer ink cartridges
ICE OUT national shutdown Friday. Protests in all 50 states on Saturday.
Charges announced for man who squirted vinegar on Ilhan Omar
Germany warns of U.S. street violence in travel advisory
France to abolish marital duty to have sex
$75m “Melania” documentary projected to make $1m in first week
An ‘avowed ketamine user’ explains why robots are the future
Waymo saw a child, slowed down, still hit it
Scared to check your bank balance? A neuroscientist has tips for you.
Maine’s “Lobster Lady,” who fished for 97 years, has died at 105
“Paperwork’s important”: Trump voter defends his own mother’s deportation
Florida man arrested after “sexual performance” with vacuum cleaner
In 1935, a critic predicted how mass media would enable fascism
TikTok users delete app after right-wing takeover
80-year-old used £2.4 million lottery win to build drug empire
Vitamin D and Omega-3 may outperform antidepressants, research suggests
The skiier who gamed her way to the Olympics
Trump’s FBI raids Georgia election center to seize 2020 ballots
Greenland locals stop man trying to raise US flag
Forrest Trump: The Half-Wit and Wisdumb of America’s Last President and First Führer
Bruce Springsteen’s new song honors the heroes of Minneapolis
You can bring Vampirella into your home… but she might be wearing less than you expect
Tim Cook gave Trump a gold iPad stand. Now he wants employees to calm down
Ripley’s Museum has a serial killer’s preserved head
Life-size Ronald Mcdonald statue stolen from Pennsylvania McDonald’s, caught on camera
Boing Boing, Tuesday, January 28, 2026
Newly-noticed exoplanet may be the Earthiest yet
YouTube cracks down on AI slop
430,000-year-old tool found in Greece
His ‘n’ hers coup ‘n’ corruption jail terms for South Korean ex-pres and wife
Night owls have poorer cardiovascular health
Prices for older PC hardware soar
Kash Patel finds free speech inconvenient, opens investigation into chat groups warning about IC
Neanderthals carried travel toolkits when they went bear hunting
Kristi Noem blames Stephen Miller for the Minneapolis killings
Two twisty doughnut shapes solve a 150-year-old geometry puzzle
Man sprays Rep. Ilhan Omar with unknown substance
Leaked memo reveals DHS is building a database of anti-ICE protesters
Five-year-old US citizen deported to Honduras
Miller backtracks on “assassin” claim after internal review of shooting
Slovak Prime Minister allegedly told EU leaders Trump is “dangerous”
Take a closer look at that Sengi snout! And listen to its relaxing Sengi ASMR!
Signs of Terry Pratchett’s dementia appear in his books a decade before diagnosis
Irish elk: the giant deer that towered over humans and went extinct 8,000 years ago
Frozen methane bubbles make this lake look like a portal to another world
Tom the Dancing Bug: It’s the Magas!
Replacement airbags are killing people with shrapnel
A tactical backpack that won’t make you look like a TactiFool
South Carolina beats Texas’s measles high score
Boing Boing: Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Trump: “You can’t have guns. You can’t walk in with guns.”
JD Vance responds to violence by siding with the violent
Early 3D game pioneer Graeme Baird dead at 63
Mount Washington is the most dangerous small mountain on Earth
ICE will help jump-start your car, or just shoot you in the back
Trump takes direction from Fox morning show
A 10-minute introduction to Buckminster Fuller, patron saint of techno-optimism
Stephen Wolfram: computation is the universe’s OS
Calls for World Cup boycott grow over Trump policies
WikiFlix is like Netflix for public domain films, with no ads, no logins, and no data harvesting
Why does K$H Patel suddenly hate the 2nd Amendment?
The secret society of people who know the WD-40 formula
Apple’s new AirTag is 50% louder, works from 50% farther away
Heathrow finally scraps the 100ml liquid rule, six years after Boris Johnson promised it
Mecha Comet is a modular Linux handheld computer
Melania documentary expected to bomb. Who cares?
Hero shooter Highguard lands on Steam with 74% negative reviews
Did you know baby King Penguins get the zoomies?
Billy Bragg’s “City of Heroes” honors the people of Minneapolis
Struggling to understand Gen Alpha? Here’s a twelve-minute primer on their slang
Slow the march of fascism with ideas from this declassified CIA document
“OUR _____” is a new projection art piece focusing on everything ICE is killing
How to make snow ice cream at home using just snow, salt, and simple ingredients
1893 photo shows man standing inside a volcanic “spiracle” in iceland
This relaxing rain window website is perfect for a calm coffee break
JBL’s new speaker removes instruments so you can play along
Boing Boing Newsletter, January 27, 2026
Britain’s Home Secretary wants AI so “the eyes of the state can be on you at all times”
Dying star lights up the Helix Nebula
Scientists research how Greenland sharks live for hundreds of years
Iran’s blackout is a test for permanent two-tier internet
Tennessee Williams published his first story in Weird Tales at age 16
DOOM runs on wireless earbuds, playable over the internet
Baseball’s most improbable spectator injury happened in 1957
“Space Oddity” and “Ziggy Stardust” sound beautiful in Portuguese
Game studio’s fired CEO hijacked its domain, listed it for $6,666,666
New Mario movie gives Yoshi an Avengers-esque dramatic reveal for some reason
Exploring the very weirdest of fake video game brands
Fans decompile Banjo-Kazooie for native PC play
Congress wants a remote kill switch in every car
Sinners returning to IMAX after Oscar nominations
Time loss is an occupational hazard when you work from home
Boing Boing Newsletter, January 25, 2026
BBC’s secret 1949 comedy rulebook banned chambermaids, fig leaves, puns
Translators are losing jobs to AI that produces “consistently mediocre results”
Present & Correct’s gallery of pencil typography
A classic Soviet logic puzzle: which shooter hit the bullseye?
The 6th-century wooden pagoda that was the tallest building on Earth
In 1997, a 14-year-old convinced 43 classmates to ban “dihydrogen monoxide”
Take a mental health break: watch a cute rabbit get surprised with a heap of tomatoes
Carney gets standing ovation at Davos, Trump uninvites him
LEGO Crocs are the worst version of both products
Microsoft gave the FBI BitLocker encryption keys to unlock laptops
Ted Cruz spotted flying to California as Texas braces for another deadly winter storm
Federal agents kill second person in Minneapolis
Mysterious paper animations feel like hidden worlds
Cat tries to eat digital bacon off computer screen
During prohibition, Pabst survived by making cheese: the story of Pabst-ett
Psychonauts dev’s next game is a competitive pottery simulator
The king of scambaiting returns
Update your headphone firmware to avoid this hack
US threatens Haiti over plans for free elections
Museum exhibits a simulated 1993 Game Hint phone line
Hot water can freeze faster than cold water, and no one fully understands why
California orders Musk’s xAI to stop generating sexual deepfakes immediately
Alaska student arrested for eating 57 AI-generated images off gallery wall in protest
Watch Adam Savage learn how to handle a 17th-century samurai sword
White House caught altering press release photos
How the Golden Gate Bridge actually works
Community note explains Mike Johnson’s job to Mike Johnson
Sundowning president unloads 85 late-night missives on social media
Bovino employs theatrical authority, a fantasy of self importance, and fatal overconfidence
The staircase paradox proves you can’t always trust your limits
Trump decides to fix Iran, what could go wrong?
Elephants self-medicate with banana peels
Hotels love their new bathrooms with peekaboo doors… or no doors
Turning his toddler daughter’s stories into hauntingly beautiful songs
US leaves World Health Organization
ICE using food as a lure to entrap parents
Vance compares Trump’s economy to the Titanic
The trailer for “Maul — Shadow Lord” looks gorgeous
Hiker who kept going dies on Mount Whitney
JD Vance still lying about Minneapolis
DHS memo declares the Fourth Amendment optional
Interactive site explores 45 years of fashion
Early Wikipedia logo designs included a book centipede mascot
Hero shooter Highguard launches soon, devs stay quiet
This adorable cat says “cow” instead of “meow”
Recreating viral AI-generated images in real life with human ingenuity
The next Yakuza game has a demo out now
Canadian Army prepping for an attack by the United States
Phones will soon be allowed in Alamo Drafthouse theaters
Pakistan defense minister inaugurates fake Pizza Hut
W is a European clone of X for the Davos set
What would you put on Korg’s Phase8 “acoustic” synthesizer?
Asus quits smartphone business
Moon hotel is taking reservations for $1 million dollars
After plagiarism scandal, Bungie’s Marathon gets a release date
Veronika the cow joins exclusive club of tool users
Tom the Dancing Bug: The urgent mission of Percival Dunwoody, Idiot Time-Traveler from 1909
Ornithologist takes a deep dive into the birds of Skyrim
Finding my writing voice again with the right soundtrack
Why Dolly Parton Day should be celebrated worldwide
Life is Strange franchise gets more desperate with Reunion
Site tells you best days to hang dry clothes outside
Elephant x-ray reveals human-like foot inside giant padded foot
1882 painting captures the chaos of living with cats
Canada’s Carney tells world how to survive Trump’s America
Cool NASA tool shows near-live space telescope observations
Watch an adorable baby opossum enjoying a snack from the comfort of mama’s pouch
Trump repeatedly confuses Iceland and Greenland during Davos speech
Poll: 71% of Americans say country is “out of control” under Trump
San Diego Comic-Con bans AI art after artist pushback
California is completely drought-free for the first time in 25 years
A 26,000-year monument hidden at Hoover Dam
Ireland wants to give police spyware and facial recognition powers
This free tool helps scheduling across time zones
Princeton researcher on 903 days of torture and incompetent interrogators in Baghdad
Why Iran’s regime survives every uprising: an insider explains
Bipartisan lawmakers ask judge to appoint Special Master over Epstein files, DOJ says no
Teaser trailer for new live-action He-Man
Car dealership accused of fraud
Florida woman “defecated toward officers” to avoid arrest
Scientists document first case of tool use in cattle
Needlepoint inspired by 8-bit classic The Sentinel
2 million Epstein files unreleased as Trump DOJ stalls
Why every reading position eventually becomes painful
ICE agents cosplaying as utility workers is not law enforcement
Why “just comply” is terrible advice
ICE drags U.S. citizen in his underwear into in 12-degree weather
Belarus threatens ham radio operators with death penalty for “espionage”
NYC’s new high tech subway turnstiles defeated by hat
Bitcoin mining is heating thousands of homes in Finland
Photographer hilariously rates Icelandic horses she’d date as a horse
The Big Duck: Long Island’s iconic duck-shaped roadside landmark
Hunt for frozen puddle art hiding in your neighborhood
Watch this charming puppet dance to flute music
Less is more: how removing bus stops speeds up transit
European lawmaker uses universal language Trump understands
New Jersey Gov. Sherrill opens her term by blasting Trump’s grift
A very good dog makes a full recovery after rare brain surgery
After half a century of debate, suicide barriers on the Golden Gate Bridge work exactly as expected
Florida Cubans targeted for deportation
Rockstar shuts down Bully Online mod with cease and desist
The Hardest Thing shows Gorillaz at their best again
Fake ICE website tricks racist into exposing herself
Far Cry 3 gets next-gen upgrade for PS5
New Pokémon Lego set costs more than a Switch 2 and an actual game
The Navy spent $13 billion on an aircraft carrier and can’t get the toilets to work
“Crazy Optical Illusions” are the precise opposite
Denis Kitchen: Alternative comics’ unsung hero
Strong evidence of life on exoplanet K2-18b turns out to be not so strong after all
Catch up on the Pitt with a real doctor’s reaction videos
Valentino, Italian fashion legend, dead at 93
A giant version of Trump’s birthday card to Epstein just appeared on the National Mall
The greatest sword fight ever filmed was done by two actors who couldn’t fence
The internet lied to you about fast charging
Why some traffic lights hate you and what to do about it
Practical tips on filming immigration and law enforcement
15,000 crabs escape overturned truck near Irish village
EPA: Elon’s methane-powered xAI datacenter illegally generating electricity
Trump sends weird angry letter to Norway’s Prime Minister
Hungary’s musical road uses music to encourage safe driving
Lily pads are surprisingly strong
This tree kangaroo quenching his thirst is top-notch “animals drinking” ASMR
Fascinating 3D timelapse of Paris’ development
COVID pandemic enters seventh year with no end in sight
Scaphism: the ancient Persian execution where insects ate you alive
A teen Michelangelo’s demon painting finally identified
Annoyed by loud phone videos? This app fights back with science
Witness says ICE guards choked man to death; DHS claims suicide attempt
Matthew McConaughey combats AI by trademarking his image and voice
“We executed one of you” guy now facing child custody arrest warrant in Michigan
Play a collaborative infinite word search
California prosecutors push back on ICE’s fantasy of consequence-free violence
This 1900 snail-woman sculpture is pure art nouveau magic
European troops deploy to Greenland as Trump’s annexation threats intensify
The ghost ship that drifted the Arctic for 38 years
Vermont’s tilted “witch windows” were supposedly designed to stop witches
ICE let an AI decide who gets a badge, and the AI said “sure, why not”
Musk’s AI sued after generating explicit images of his co-parent
Print out nostalgic VHS inserts with the Blockbuster Sleeve Generator
Animevox: retro Anime sound effect generator
LA City Council asks LAPD to relax and treat riot gear as a last resort
A teenager kept sneaking into Buckingham Palace to “see how royals lived”
ICE warrants have no legal authority over U.S. citizens
Ford worker who called Trump “pedophile protector” raises $440K after suspension
Keep a slide rule in your kitchen drawer for scaling recipes
A bet, a parachute, and Devil’s Tower: a perfect plan until it wasn’t
FBI’s raid on Washington Post reporter was the first of its kind, with more to come
Ellison’s yacht name spelled “I’m a Nazi” backwards
Trump itching to turn the military on Americans
Kristi Noem says Americans should be ready to prove citizenship to ICE
Amiga Pointer Archive has all of them
Sony’s first gaming mouse is good
ICE detaining Native American tribal citizens at concentration camp
Pam Bondi introduces Schrödinger’s resignation
Reports from Ford plant say Trump’s stench made a lasting impression
GOP lawmaker who claimed trans people “harm children” guilty of harming children
God of War’s Thor actor becomes Kratos for Amazon show
How one climber’s false summit claim helped turn K2 into a graveyard
Federal judges confirm California voters knew exactly what they were doing
Man spent 40 years perfecting a lettuce cigarette
DHS agent permanently blinds 21-year-old protester
Ohio’s pink chocolate silos never held any chocolate
These neon mushrooms look like underwater coral
This subreddit is full of beautifully worn-out objects
Matt Storer makes parodies about wizards and his hair
Bandcamp bans AI-generated music, unlike Spotify’s slop-filled playlists
“Are you dead?” app goes viral in China with 10 million downloads
MTV Rewind is a searchable archive of over 33,000 music videos from the channel’s glory days
Signal creator building end-to-end encrypted AI chat
Civilization 7 is coming to Apple Arcade, with no Android version planned
The price of “winning” the trade war shows up at the checkout
A classic Mac look for your iPhone 17 Pro Max
Infinite Trump clears his throat
DHS declares disabled woman an “agitator” while ICE drags her from her car
Why clothes shrink and how to unshrink them
Everything about Renee Good’s killing points to an extrajudicial execution
FBI raids Washington Post reporter’s home
“Pedophile Protector” reacts poorly to being called one
Tom the Dancing Bug: A Busy, Busy Immigration Enforcement Operation
Watch right-wing grifter Pearl Davis fall apart in a live debate
South Korean prosecutors seek death penalty for ex-president who tried to impose martial law
Fujifilm’s retro cine Instax prints photos and shares clips
Apple launches subscription service for creative software
Today I learned carrots have two parts
Jazz musicians disrupt Arizona Republicans’ pro-ICE press event
Nostalgic retro milk signs for National Milk Day
Netflix’s One Piece season 2 trailer drops with epic wigs
Stop-motion WW1 horror animation is the coolest thing I’ve seen all week
Bulgarian architect creates whimsical snail-shaped family home
Why rural communities once put a frog in milk to keep it from spoiling
Campbell’s tried to make soup cocktails happen in 1955
This colorful Peruvian peak looks like giant sand art
Corpse fat injections cost $100,000 for the wealthy
These awful Fallout 4 mods are so bad they’re brilliant
YouTuber cracks Coke’s secret formula using chemistry set
Man spent 40 years perfecting a lettuce cigarette
Clintons defy Epstein subpoena, send Comer a blistering four-page letter
Japan’s “genius” chimpanzee has died at 49
The mysterious cognitive effects of chewing gum
In 1932, Australia went to war against emus (the emus won)
Deliberately underwhelming “gaming leaks” are hilarious
Giraffe-costumed protester arrested by ICE in Minneapolis
Hegseth places all bets on Grok, the AI with a troubling record of saying the quiet part out loud
Tales of a ghost ship that mostly existed on paper
American Tiger finds wonder where suburbia insists there is none
Postal arbitrage: sending gifts through Amazon for less than a stamp
How to see “impossible colors”
The tragic love life of Jeremy, the world’s loneliest snail
Chemistry YouTuber claims to perfectly replicated Coke
Erich von Däniken, who claimed aliens built the pyramids, dead at 90
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Trump Administration tells US citizens to flee Venezuela after destabilizing it
Weekend of peaceful protests after ICE slays Renee Good
Fire deliberately set at Mississippi synagogue
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Malaysia and Indonesia block Grok over deepfake sexual abuse material
Trump admin threatens Fed Chair Jerome Powell with indictment
Valve’s GameCube-inspired Steam Machine targets console gamers
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Comedian pretends to be ICE; lets racists tell on themselves
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ICE approval drops 30 points in a year as Americans call tactics “too forceful”
Buckminster Fuller’s 1943 sleep hack: two hours a day, split into half-hour naps
This tool lets communities auction shared resources and split the proceeds
Sydney’s collapsing rock formation: $300 fines ignored
Centrist Democrats now open to impeaching Noem over ICE shootings
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Gmail set to become even more intrusive
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Wayward sheep invade German supermarket
It’s Girl Scout Cookie time! Buy from trans and nonbinary scouts
Iran’s Supreme Leader blames Trump for the protests and vows “maximum punishment” for demonstrators.
NASA to medically evacuate astronaut from the International Space Station
Watch a livestream of the Marine Mammal Care Center’s first release of the year
Raskin suggests ICE masks are hiding Jan. 6 insurrectionists
Green Bay police chief backs recruit with anti-government extremist tattoo
Vivek Ramaswamy family bodyguard charged with trafficking fentanyl, meth and speed
Documented source code for classic 8-bit game The Sentinel
Hundreds of human skulls and “decomposing torsos” found in Pennsylvania man’s basement
New Jersey the latest state to ban cellphones in class
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Minnesota officials say they’re being blocked from investigating fatal ICE shooting
DHS calls slain US citizen a “domestic terrorist”
“We executed one of you”: MAGA cheers ICE killing of a mother of three
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The Senate suddenly remembers war powers
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When the Beatles admitted to drugging their engineer and producer
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There is a new sheriff in ARC Raiders town
When the vice president blesses the killing
Behold the Prohibited Marios of Nintendo’s internal illustration manual
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11 unreleased Boards of Canada tracks from the 1980s and 1990s
Tiny arcade games feature classic Sega, Capcom and Namco titles
UK Police demand Freemason membership records
Download Bitchat to communicate in an emergency
Watch a giant snowman being built in China
This website compares anything with anything — so I tried jam vs jelly
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AT&T customer gets $19,500 roaming bill for two days of accidental data use
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Mike Johnson won’t hang a plaque honoring the cops who defended Congress
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Public Domain Day 2026: Hammett, Faulkner, Christie, Kafka now free
Texas A&M deems Plato unnecessary for approved thought
This site plays the lottery every second so you can watch yourself never win
Sheriff’s deputy starts a visit by shooting a dog, ends it with a warrantless search
Polymarket refuses to pay $10.5 million in Venezuela “invasion” bets
Professor fired for sharing Charlie Kirk headline gets $500,000 and his job back
Razer announces AI companion for your real-world desktop
Silent Hill studio drops cryptic countdown for next game
Stranger Things returns to Dead by Daylight with Vecna and Eleven
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Belligerent Christian protesters fail to rattle Buddhist monks on their Walk for Peace
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is now fully playable in VR
Glowing blue Mycena lazulina mushrooms look like tiny cartoon flowers
This charming hand-drawn animation brings the folk song “Mr. Frog Went A-Courting” to life
This iconic photo of a white cat perched in a knotted tree feels like a fairytale
DuneCrawl looks like the cutest little post-apocalypse
Everything is a chill game now. Everything.
Walk through a giant human body at the Netherlands’ Corpus Museum, home of the 115-foot orange man
Clever gecko figures out how to use a water fountain and instantly becomes the boss
Stephen Miller says “nobody” would stop U.S. from seizing Greenland
Once again, Grandpa Pudding Brains performs his happy endings dance
MAGA calls for Hilton boycott after hotel turned away ICE agents
DOJ has released less than 1% of Epstein files
Wyoming’s Supreme Court strikes down abortion ban
Pentagon sends angry letters to Toronto sex shop
This zorbing ride without safety was just falling with extra steps
The woman who can’t feel pain, fear, or anxiety
NPS determines that covering Trump’s face invalidates your park pass
Swedish creator captures stunning mushroom time-lapse videos
Meet Aloka, the “Peace Dog” who has joined 19 Buddhist monks on a “Walk for Peace” across the US
Grandpa Puddin’ Brains free-associates at captive House Republicans
Kansas public library perfectly recreates iconic scenes from The Breakfast Club
The 11′8″ + 8″ bridge ends 2025 undefeated
Maddeningly meticulous cooking looks delicious but frustrating
The truth about Pedestrian crossing buttons
The Eliteboard is HP’s 80s-style computer-in-a-keyboard
Cold War planners wanted to heat atomic mines with chickens
“STOP – DEATH – STOP” a gloriously excessive 1930s railroad crossing signal
Gaming’s snarkiest critic is back
Palo Alto crosswalks hacked due to unchanged default passwords
Rockstar fans create new GTA game to fill the waiting void
Malcolm in the Middle revival confirmed with Bryan Cranston returning
Potoroo ASMR is a great way to start a new year
Suddenly, the “no war” president wants to attack everyone
CBS rewards Hegseth’s press blackout with a microphone
The US once had a secret plan to nuke the moon
We need to seize the means of robot production
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Silent Hill to become a yearly franchise
Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero banned from Mamdani’s inauguration
New study ranks Tesla as the least reliable EV brand
Rian Johnson confirms Rickroll in latest Knives Out entry
Japanese users prefer dense, busy websites
Karoline Leavitt casts stones from the imagined safety of her glass house
Man arrested after breaking windows at Vance’s Cincinnati home
Pentagon cuts Kelly’s pension over “seditious” video
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Grok generated sexualized images of kids, and xAI hopes silence wil fix it
Sixteen oil tankers flee Venezuela in coordinated run past US blockade
Just how historically accurate is Bloodborne’s fashion?
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American Heart Association adds Pearl Jam’s “Evenflow” to growing repertoire of hands-only CPR songs
Trump finally gets the triumphal arch he deserves!
Pornhub experiences user data breach hubbub
Microsoft CEO wants you to stop calling generative AI “slop”
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10 guilty of cyber-bullying Brigitte Macron, wife of French president
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Trump kidnaps Venezuelan President
Disney worker hurt stopping 400lb fake boulder rolling into audience