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Thursday May 8, 2025. 06:35 PM
Pulling the fire alarm to get out of class has been replaced by setting actual fires. Students are setting their Chromebooks on fire while participating in a viral TikTok trend. Schools across Connecticut have had to evacuate due to the smoke and fire caused by students...
In trying times like the ones we're currently living through, I like to remind myself that there are awesome humans out there doing great things. One such outstanding person is photographer and conservationist Shawn Miller, aka 'Kylesthenix' on social media, who has helped...
The Walt Disney Company announced that it is planning to build its seventh theme park, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The park will be developed and built by UAE entertainment company Miral, with Disney providing intellectual property, creative design, and operational...
Image from Wikipedia The post This caterpillar turns into a fuzzy moth queen, but not before freaking you out with its acid-spraying tentacles appeared first on Boing Boing.
Hoping the Judiciary finds a way to maintain a 'degree of independence,' Chief Justice Roberts asked the face-eating leopard to perhaps not eat judges' faces. 'In our Constitution, judges and the judiciary is a co-equal branch of government, separate from the others, with...
The Bored Button is a fun way to explore the internet randomly. The bored button will take you to an entertaining website, many of which remind me of the earlier days of the web in their simplicity. I've spent way too long clicking away at the bored button, getting...
City leaders in Utah and Idahol have adopted a policy of malicious compliance. Republican lawmakers banned 'unofficial' flags, to keep city halls from flying Pride flags. The cities of Boise and Salt Lake City simply made the flags their official city symbols. — Read the...
McMansion Hell posted an intriguing article situating the tasteless gold (or, rather, 'golden') accouterments that litter the White House now that Trump's in it again. The tradition is 'car dealership Rococo,' writes Kate Wagner. If you, like me, were putzing around on...
Tomáš Kopečný, the Czech Republic's Envoy for the Reconstruction of Ukraine, wore socks showing a Kremlin tower and St. Basil's Cathedral ablaze. The famed 16th-century church has long been a symbol of Russia and the nearby Kremlin; officials from it were displeased by...
The Mac Themes Garden showcases more than 3,000 themes for the classic MacOS. Remember when it was easy? There's an index of authors, a search so you can find whatever dimly-remembered one you had on your Bondi Blue G3 in 1998, and an explanation from curator Damien...
Nine nazis were arrested in England after posting photos of themselves celebrating Hitler's birthday party at a pub in Oldham. Among the delights were a cake with swatiska icing and Nazi flags; the pub, for its part, says they were tricked and that the men concealed the...
With the U.S. economy shrinking for the first time since the pandemic amid growing prices and stock market chaos, the trade deal announced today with the U.K. comes at a critical time for both countries. 'The agreement with the United Kingdom is a full and comprehensive one ...
New Zealand contains a vast army of sheep, which famously outnumber humans there. But the ratio is slowly trending down with the international decline of the wool trade. Government statistics show that the jokes are old: long-gone are the days when there were fifty sheep for ...
Death Grips' seminal debut, Exmilitary, will see its first ever official vinyl reissue since the original 2011 vinyl release via Ormolycka, who is also handling the reissue. The new reissue, limited to 500 copies, features a 140 gram 'Camo Swirl' record, an insert of the...
Wednesday May 7, 2025. 09:40 PM
So Grand Theft Auto 6, the most hyped entertainment product of all time except for maybe the epic of Gilgamesh, has been delayed to next year. In what must surely be a calculated move to keep a legion of angry gamers from burning down their offices, Rockstar Games has...
On paper, the anatomy of a refund scam is simple. A scammer calls a victim, alerting them of some fictitious tax rebate or tech refund. After gaining access to the victim's computer and navigating to their banking page, the scammer uses simple text edits to 'change' the...
Or Hellywood, as the 'director' of Marked or Delivered describes it. After months of flirting with AI video generators and crowing about how actors' jobs are on the chopping block, the AI crowd has put their best foot forward with the so-called first feature-length AI...
The Pushcart Press Bookstore, claiming to be the world's smallest bookstore, is an enchanting literary destination in Sedgwick, Maine. Located atop Christy Hill overlooking Acadia National Park, this tiny bookshop was created by Bill Henderson, founder of the independent...
These Medieval illustrations perfectly capture the hilariously strange powers of the Bonnacon, a mythological being from European folklore that sprays explosive diarrhea onto its victims. When threatened, it expels a stream of caustic dung that can scorch anything it...
'Out of the Inkwell: The Tantalizing Fly' (1919) is one of the early animated shorts from the Out of the Inkwell series, created by Max Fleischer and starring his iconic character, Koko the Clown. The series is known for its innovative techniques and experimental animation,...
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