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Monday February 24, 2025. 03:26 PM
Mike Amesbury is the member of parliament for Runcorn and Helsby in England, serving as an independent since his suspension from the governing Labour Party. Why was he suspended? Because he punched one of his constituents in an act of 'unprovoked drunken behaviour,' as the...
In Trump 2.0, 'free speech' only applies to those who agree with the new regime. Everyone else will 'suffer the consequences,' as warned by the host of Idaho's Republican town hall, where a woman who disagreed with Saturday's talking points was dragged out in zip ties by...
What do you see in this image? From The Ape That Spoke: Language and the Evolution of the Human Mind, by John McCrone. At first sight this is an unintelligible jumble of lines, but when told what the picture represents, most people find it clicks into place with almost...
A bunch of extremely smart people on TikTok have discovered that dropping heavy objects on their feet gets them thousands of views. Leading this parade of mangled metatarsals is 19-year-old Luke Pilling, who decided that dropping toasters, air fryers, and computer monitors...
Here's a timely question, given established facts and recent events: Is Ketamine Neurotoxic? Desmolysium, M.D., a former user of the dissociative and hallucinogenic anesthetic, seems quite convinced. At recreational doses, ketamine is addictive, destroys the bladder, and is ...
Watch a real cat's bewilderment when it meets a look-alike cat built out of Lego. The Tuxedo cat in the video pounces around the lego cat when it first sees it, as if to challenge it to a duel. As one might suspect, The Lego cat sits there, stiff as a board, unbothered. —...
We've been sounding alarm bells about The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025—what the Center for Progressive Reform calls 'the conservative movement's blueprint for weakening our government and building an authoritarian presidency'—for almost a year now. If you're...
According to a study published in the journal Science, mice innately aid other mice when they fall unconscious. Humans, elephants, chimps, and dolphins all recognize when a companion requires life-saving assistance, but this behavior has not been seen before in mice. — Read t...
A gentleman's creative approach to air travel was cut short at Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport when police interrupted his attempt to claim a spot on an aircraft's wing. A video of the incident shows the man scaling the wing of a commercial aircraft preparing for...
Far-right podcaster Dan Bongino will be the FBI's new deputy director, Donald Trump announced yesterday via The Washington Post. This is the same former Secret Service agent who says that power 'is the only thing that matters,' checks and balances be damned. — Read the rest ...
Spanish soccer league LaLiga broke a large portion of the Spanish internet because some naughty websites were letting 400,000 monthly viewers watch men chase balls around without paying the proper viewing tax to their corporate overlords. LaLiga's Chief Internet Breaking...
To nobody's surprise, there's another norovirus outbreak on a cruise ship. This time, the lucky passengers are onboard the MS Iona, an 'Excellence-class' (also called 'Excel-class,' described in this article) cruise ship operated by P&O Cruises (a Carnival subsidiary) that ca...
Comedians Seth and Josh Meyers recorded an episode of their popular podcast 'Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers' on Friday at the On Air Fest podcast conference in Brooklyn, NY. Their guest was fellow podcaster Dan Taberski, and as always it was a casual but very funny...
At the Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona, Spain, you can visit a macabre sculpture like no other. The 'Kiss of Death' is a striking funerary sculpture that depicts a winged skeleton kissing a man as he takes his last breath. Both beautiful and eerie, this sculpture seems like ...
TL;DR: Get Pok Pok, the award-winning, Montessori-inspired learning app for kids 2-8, for life for just $59.99 (reg. $250). Parents, we need to talk. If your kid is glued to a tablet watching the same mind-numbing cartoons on repeat, or worse—screaming because you dared to...
Sunday February 23, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Get a lifetime subscription to PDF Expert Premium Plan for Mac for just $139.99. Edit, sign, convert, merge, and annotate PDFs effortlessly. Does this scenario sound familiar? You open a PDF, realize there's a typo, and suddenly, your entire day is ruined. — Read the...
TL;DR: Ditch the scribbles and get Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 for just $79.97 (reg. $579.99) through March 30. If your idea of a flowchart involves a napkin and a barely legible scribble, it's time for an upgrade. Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 is the ultimate...
Watch a guy smash the world record for Most Hot Water Bottles Burst In One Minute. Sergey Tsyrulnikov has incredible lung strength. I'm certain it wouldn't be possible for me to pop a single hot water bottle by blowing into it, no matter how hard I tried. — Read the rest ...
Watch how every piece of an iphone works. Wired dissects an iphone and explains what the function of each component is. We also learn about how the parts of the different Iphone models have changed over time. I use my phone (a bit too much) every day of my life, yet I had no ...
I always get a kick out of a good metafictional genre story. Give me a crime/horror comic that reflects on the nature of storytelling within the crime/horror genres, and I'm all in. But it's rare that I also come out of such a story with an excitement for something beyond...
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