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Tuesday September 2, 2025. 10:11 PM
Chris Columbus, who directed two Harry Potter films, says there will be no cast reunion because JK Rowling is a transphobe. Rowling unsurprisingly launched into a transphobic rant on Xitter. 'It's never going to happen with all that political stuff. Everyone in the cast has ...
This is a bizarre story: North Carolina Republican election official James Yokeley Jr. was caught on video putting drugs, cocaine, and MDMA, in both his teenage granddaughter's ice cream and her friend's. Yokeley had the kids wait in the car while he went in to buy them...
Johannes Vermeer painted 'The Guitar Player' in 1672, a year so calamitous for the Dutch that they dubbed it the 'Disaster Year.' War and economic turmoil had nearly obliterated the art market. Yet this masterpiece, which remained in Vermeer's family long after his death,...
Who would have thought that outsourcing your thinking to an unreliable electric box could make you stupid? According to a recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, folks who use AI regularly to help them write essays, books, and the like are getting...
Y'all know that I love a good J.D. Vance meme, and I sharing them with friends (I see you, Bretton!) is my love language. Well, imagine my delight when I found out recently that there's a whole dang mural highlighting one of the original bald baby Vance images that launched...
Deep in the ocean's twilight zone dwells the nightmarish telescopefish. This sea creature looks more like a demon from a horror film than anything else I've seen in nature. It has a Labubu-esque mouth and telescopic eyes that hunt in the darkness, and resemble pearls devoid...
A YouTube channel archiving statements from Trump administration officials was censored by one of them: Vinay Prasad. Now a top official at the Food and Drug Administration, Prasad demanded the removal of videos showing him criticizing the vaccines he now regulates. — Read...
Genoese dockworkers have vowed to completely shut down trade in the Mediterranean if contact is lost with those on the Sumud Flotilla, bound for Gaza, for even twenty minutes. 'We will block all of Europe. Together with our USB union, together with all dockworkers, together...
Amorphus globosus is a mysterious and unusual phenomenon most often seen in cattle, occurring when one twin in the womb fails to develop properly. The name, which is Latin for 'formless sphere,' describes a veterinary oddity that is actually more common than many people...
I don't know about you, but every time I hear or see the words 'BREAKING NEWS' lately, I brace myself, because it seems like each breaking story is somehow worse than the last. And, as our democracy crumbles around us, pretty much every news story is awful and depressing. —...
New Vegas is one of the few bastions of what you might call civilization in Fallout's post-apocalyptic setting, which is probably why the Fallout TV show protagonists are about to completely wreck it in the upcoming second season. Before they do, however, it's probably...
I think my new favorite animal is the Asian small-clawed otter, a creature that happens to be the smallest of all of the over a dozen otter species. And, more specifically, I am totally in love with one particular Asian small-clawed otter named 'Mr. — Read the rest The post...
Ever seen someone water ski down a drainage ditch? This daredevil does just that — racing at breakneck speed through twists and turns. The narrow path requires expert balance. The ride ends as they shoot into a large body of water, a thrilling finale to a risky stunt. —...
In Of Floating Isles (September 2, 2025), Kawika Guillermo masterfully his lifelong relationship with video games with reflections on identity, loss, and belonging. Through vignettes spanning childhood to adulthood, Guillermo explores how games served as both escape and...
Mathematician Eugenia Cheng once attempted to learn Russian, struggling with a particularly difficult letter. щ. She says. 'the session with my teacher went something like this' Me: shTeacher: noMe: shTeacher: noMe: shTeacher: yes!Me: shTeacher: noMe: shTeacher: yes! —...
Seeing screenshots of Blocky World (playable in-browser on Itch.io) made clear what it is—a Minecraft clone with a spherical world—but did not prepare me for the experience of being on a spherical voxel planet. For starters, the curvature of the world is quite alarming...
The Atlas of Space shows one star, eight planets, ten dwarf planets, moons, comets, asteroids, spacecraft and trans-Neptunian objects. All in slowly-orbiting 3D. Clicking on these celestial objects brings up a detailed encyclopedia entry about it; for example, Huygens. An...
Monday September 1, 2025. 05:32 PM
Police are investigating the apparent murder of a festival goer at Burning Man. A murder investigation has been launched at the Burning Man festival in the US state of Nevada after a man was found 'lying in a pool of blood' on Saturday night, police say. — Read the rest ...
TL;DR: New users can get lifetime access to all 14 languages on Babbel for $159 with promo code LEARN until September 8. You can only point at a menu and smile for so long before it's time to speak the local lingo. — Read the rest The post Babbel can help you say more than...
In his new book, Conservative at the Core: A New History of American Conservatism, renowned historian Allan J. Lichtman argues that, despite rhetoric about limited government, fiscal responsibility, and states' rights, conservatives have consistently prioritized two core...
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