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Saturday July 26, 2025. 11:03 PM
Old Book Illustrations is an online archive of, yes, you've guessed it. But they did have a particular genre in mind: Victorian and French Romantic illustrations. 'We are not the only image collection on the web, neither will we ever be the largest one,' the creators write. ...
TL;DR: Learn a new language and unlock new adventures with a lifetime subscription to uTalk on sale for $99.97. Listen, I'm not saying that being able to speak even the most basic phrases in another language is guaranteed to get a happy grandfather to buy you a pretzel, but...
George Santos, the conman who briefly served as a GOP congressman representing New York's third district (and the state Democratic Party's incredible indifference to campaigning there) has reported to federal prison to serve his 7-year fraud sentence. The federal Bureau of...
Two years ago, a team of researchers from Tel Aviv University discovered that plants under stress emit sounds above the range of human hearing. They also speculated that other plants and animals might respond to those sounds. The same team has just published a paper in the...
Payment processors such as Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Stripe are extending their control of what you can spend your money on. This authoritarian and censorial trend received more attention this week after they forced software platforms Steam and Itch.io to remove or delist ...
TL;DR: Mondly is offering lifetime access to 41 languages for a one-time payment of $89.99 (reg. $299.99). No subscriptions, no upsells—just a wildly flexible app with bite-sized lessons, speech recognition, and even VR/AR features. Look, we all had dreams of being...
A man from Glendale, California, was arrested Tuesday after menacing a woman at the Burbank Nordstrom's Rack. Police say Calese Carron Crowder, 38, is seen on security camera footage following the shopper before 'crouching behind her and appearing to sniff her buttocks.' —...
Death Stranding's 'photo mode,' which lets players mug and gurn for the camera with actor Norman Reedus's 56-year-old face, is one method youngsters are using to defeat Britain's new online age verification system, part of its sprawling Online Safety Act. — Read the rest ...
Game distribution platforms Steam and Itch.io recently removed adult-themed titles to comply with demands from payment processing companies. These financial institutions—Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Paypal, and others—are themselves under pressure from reactionary...
A dating safety app designed to protect women has exposed the very users it promised to shield. Tea, which recently topped Apple's App Store charts, suffered a data breach that leaked 13,000 verification photos and government IDs of its female users, as reported by NBC News. ...
A wedding prank backfired when a bride arranged to have her blindfolded groom unknowingly remove a garter from a male groomsman's leg instead of hers, leaving their marriage in crisis from day one. As reported in a Reddit post on r/AITAH, what was intended as a lighthearted...
Walking 7,000 steps daily — not the often-cited 10,000 — can significantly reduce risks of heart disease, cancer, and dementia, new research reveals. An analysis of 57 studies found that people who walk 7,000 steps per day reduce their risk of death from any cause by 47% ...
Developer Terence Eden created an eerie digital version of Cold War-era numbers stations using nothing but built-in browser features and 1KB of JavaScript code. His creation speaks random numbers and words in various languages with unsettling pitch and speed variations. The...
'Bad art succeeds where good art fails,' might be the lesson from Sarah Jones's fascinating exploration of Thomas Kinkade's cultural impact in Dissent Magazine. In early July, the Department of Homeland Security indulged in a little art appreciation on X, where it posted a...
Friday July 25, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Unlock cheats for thousands of games with a Cheat Happens lifetime subscription, now $35 with code CODES30. Not every gamer wants to grind through hours of frustration just to unlock one new feature. If you'd rather take control and have a little fun bending the rules,...
As a fella with mental health issues of his own, I'm not about to make fun of anyone brave enough to work through their problems. But holy crap, it's come to this: there's a support group for individuals suffering from AI Psychosis. — Read the rest The post Digital...
Last year, we told you about a pizza joint that accidentally contaminated THC with pizzas, giving recreational drug users unwanted carbs. Having had some time to chew it over, the Centers for Disease Control has released a report on how the accidental dosing went down. —...
Is it a tourist trap? Yes. Is it a trap that you should be happy to walk into? Also yes. If you're in Reykjavik, Iceland, for a layover or the start of an adventure on the island, you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't stop in at Lebowski Bar. — Read the rest The po...
It'd be a lot easier to tell if what you smear on your armpits was a risk to the rest of your body if the potentially dangerous deodorant had been sold through a single store. But nope: all sorts of joints have been selling it. — Read the rest The post FDA recalls 67,000...
By Graham Wise - https://www.flickr.com/photos/108308648@N03/14988647707, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36713656 The post Tailless whip scorpion under microscope: a look at the gentle giant of the arachnid world appeared first on Boing Boing.
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