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Monday August 11, 2025. 09:19 PM
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of 45,000 pairs of socks that double as miniature foot furnaces. For the bargain price of $80-130, customers got to participate in an impromptu science experiment testing the interaction between heat, friction,...
A pair of two-time Trump voters just discovered that authoritarian overreach isn't quite as fun when you're on the receiving end. As reported by NBC7, George and Esmeralda Doilez got an unexpected civics lesson while heading to the dentist in Southern California. — Read the...
Kim Davis, who served time for refusing to do her job and issue marriage certificates to people she didn't want to have one, is asking the Supreme Court to consider her bigotry as an exercise in religious freedom. Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who was jailed...
While announcing his federal takeover of Washington D.C., Donald Trump said this was just the beginning. 'We have other cities that are very bad,' he said at a press conference, telling reporters that New York City, Baltimore, and Oakland were next. — Read the rest The post...
The High Republic-era television show, The Acolyte, introduced us to some new fan-favorite characters, and killed them. This new novel helps fill out Jecki and Yord's backstory. Padawan Jecki Lon was one of my favorite characters in The Acolyte, and her interactions with...
Convicted felon Donald Trump thinks he can solve homelessness by demanding that people go away. President Trump wrote Sunday that homeless people should be moved out of Washington, D.C., 'IMMEDIATELY' and relocated 'FAR' away, as he hints at more aggressive policing in the...
US Coast Guard analysis of the OceanGate disaster shows the submersible had audibly, dramatically delaminated seven dives before the terrible incident. Coast Guard analysis shows that a deafening crack was heard several dives before the OceanGate Titan imploded. It seems ...
A new UK internet safety law could require Wikipedia to collect the real names and identities of its volunteer editors — a change that threatens the very way the free online encyclopedia works. The Wikimedia Foundation just lost its court challenge to block these rules,...
Penn State researchers have shown that phone conversations can be intercepted from up to 10 feet away by detecting tiny vibrations in smartphones using radar technology. The team used a millimeter-wave radar sensor—the same type found in self-driving cars and motion...
Donald Trump has made it 'official' — he's going to 'take our capital back' by replacing the D.C. police with the National Guard. 'This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our capital back. We're taking it back…I'm officially invoking section 740 of the Distri...
A Batavia, Illinois company called Savor has figured out how to turn carbon dioxide drawn from the atmosphere and hydrogen from water into fat that is molecularly identical to the butterfat in sticks from the dairy aisle. The product browns, melts, and tastes like the real...
Time is running out if you want to join this year's 4th of July larp, what the event describes as a 'trailer park larp about the broken American dream.' The 4th of July larp website provides this overview of the project: 4th of July is a social drama focusing on the...
Jim Kitchen's seen a lot of our planet. He was the first fella to travel to every one of the 193 nations recognized by the United Nations, been propelled into low orbit, and sunk down to the Mariana Trench in 2022. — Read the rest The post Man who canceled OceanGate Titan...
You'll be playing Sims 4 for the next 20 years and you'll like it. Since that game's release in 2014, it's gotten a steady stream of updates and expansions, attracting a steady playerbase and keeping them from straying with the constant promise of something new on the...
Crystal Palace's concrete dinosaurs, which include beasts weighing up to 10,000 pounds, offer a fascinating glimpse into the birth of paleontology. The sculptures are completely inaccurate but wonderful nonetheless. They were created by natural history artist Benjamin...
We had high hopes for the Tesla Diner. Elon Musk has suffered these past few years. He needs a win. One that might compel his kid to speak to him again. A success that could make Grimes overlook what went wrong between them. — Read the rest The post Musk's Tesla diner faces...
An American Airlines regional jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter collided in January in the crowded airspace of Washington National Airport, killing all passengers and crew aboard both aircraft. The NTSB recently held three days of hearings to gather testimony for its...
Hey! Remember last month when the Department of Homeland Security thought it'd be awesome to use South Park to advertise their push to hire more ICE agents? Man, what a burn after Trump and his tiny peen were featured in the cartoon series' season opener. — Read the rest ...
Given how shitty AI is making the Internet nowadays, it's almost refreshing to see an actual human making it worse. It's like having a favorite Bond villain — you don't like their evil plans, but you can at least appreciate the vast intricacy of them. — Read the rest The p...
James Ensor (1860–1949) spent nearly his entire life in Ostend, Belgium, living above the family shop that sold carnival masks. In the 1880s he turned his back on the realist style that had first brought him recognition and began conjuring a far stranger world: grotesque...
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