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Wednesday February 5, 2025. 02:00 PM
A man was riding a ski lift in New Hampshire on Sunday when his chair suddenly dislodged and plunged to the ground. The skier dropped 20 feet from the Flying Bear lift at Attitash Mountain Resort in Bartlett, according to ABC News. — Read the rest The post Man riding ski li...
Remember when the CIA engaged in wholesome activities like overthrowing democratically elected governments and flooding American cities with crack cocaine for funsies? Those were the good old days. According to the WSJ, Trump's newly installed CIA Director John Ratcliffe...
San Francisco's Department of Public Works demonstrated peak bureaucratic theater yesterday when multiple workers stood around a water-filled pothole (which ABC7 breathlessly misidentified as a 'sinkhole') while Waymo's autonomous vehicles yolo'd straight through it. The...
The BBC has a report on how fentanyl reaches the United States, where 74,000 people died from overdoses last year. Chinese chemical companies supply the raw ingredients, sometimes including instructions for making the drug. Despite China's 2019 ban on fentanyl, manufacturers ...
A bouncing eyeball collects coins while dodging purple grass and carnivorous plants in 'Bouncing Beholder' — a complete platform game with smooth animation, physics, and randomly generated terrain. The surprising part? The entire game fits in just 1,024 bytes of JavaScript ...
After a gentleman in the Los Angeles area was seen allegedly lighting a couple of brush fires on Monday, a group of neighbors tackled him to the ground, where he remained until police arrived. (See video from KTLA below.) The arsonist had already started one fire in one of...
Remember when humans could build stuff? Like, 'Hey, let's slam 4 million cubic yards of concrete between two canyon walls' and five years later — two years ahead of schedule — Hoover Dam? Well, nowadays it takes longer than that to approve the font size on the 'No...
Update 2/5/25 8:33am: BBC reports that the US Postal Service has resumed accepting parcels from mainland China and Hong Kong after a brief suspension following Donald Trump's new rules that closed a tax loophole for packages worth $800 or less. — Read the rest The post USPS...
TL;DR: Stay prepared for the snow this winter with real-time radar images and future-generated forecasts from this accurate weather app, now less than $28! Uh, oh! Did you get caught in a surprise snowstorm? You thought you were prepared for the day—you're wearing your...
Stewart and the Daily Show staff find some laughs in the useless misdirection Team Trump is throwing out while 'Leon' grabs the purse strings. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Trump saying stupid things in public takes the focus off the evil ...
Tuesday February 4, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Get TWO dozen long-stem farm-fresh roses for just $19.99 (plus shipping) — less than a single dozen at a florist. Valentine's Day is creeping up fast, and if you're planning to impress someone special, don't wait until the last minute. — Read the rest The post...
Hulu is close to green-lighting a pilot episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Sounds like we're about to get a Joss Whedon-free Buffy the Vampire Slayer. — Read the rest The post...
A man in Midland, Ontario, was charged with various crimes related to damage in a Blind River motel room and a 'breakfast sandwich' that he allegedly threw at a police officer after being taken into custody. 'While in custody, the accused was later served a breakfast...
A woman held out a tasty-looking bun for two golden retrievers to snack on, but one of them was in no mood to share. So while his brother was chilling on his back, peacefully waiting for a bite, the sneaky doggo hilariously put his paw over the other pup's mouth, creating a ...
100,000 eggs, with a street value of $40,000, were stolen on Saturday in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania State Police said that they were taken from the back of a trailer at about 8:40 p.m. at Pete & Gerry's Organics' warehouse in Atrim Township there. — Read the...
Kilauea, one of the most active volcanos in the world, located on Hawaii's big island, is erupting. Subscribe to our daily newsletter! CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! USGS Report: Episode 8 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at 9:52 p.m. HST on Monday, 3 February...
In Phoenix, Arizona, ICE deployed several dozen agents, using military vehicles and flashbangs to subdue a 61-year-old who was reportedly in poor health and did not resist. It appears the Trump Administration has decided to resurrect the failed US strategy of 'Shock and ...
Waffle House is now adding a.50 surcharge on every single egg you order. Two eggs sunny side up? That'll be a buck extra. Three egg Spanish omelet? Ka-ching! $1.50 additional. Blame the bird flu. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? — Read the rest The post Waffle House ...
Enjoy Atlas Obscura's list featuring 13 places that have cannonballs stuck in them. Usually, when a cannonball is launched it will destroy the area of the building that it hits. There have been many instances, though, where the cannon ball becomes lodged in its target...
Far-right, ultraconservative, misogynistic, anti-immigrant white supremacist performance artists, The Proud Boys, have lost the commercial rights to their logo and name. In December 2020, the Proud Boys vandalized a church in Washington, DC, and burnt its Black Lives Matter...
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