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Thursday June 12, 2025. 07:04 PM
Convicted felon #47 shared some deep thoughts on his diminutive social network. This missive on social media was intended, it appears, to reassure 'great Farmers' and 'people in the Hotel and Leisure business' that the deportations destroying their businesses are in their...
Under odd-sounding circumstances, and rather than calmly visit the man at his home, knock on the door, and present a warrant, ICE decided to stage a dangerous gang-style abduction in the middle of a city street. It feels unlikely that a protester punched a CBP officer in the ...
Qingdao, China once played home to a German trading colony. Like most colonial powers, the Germans shrugged off what the local culture had to offer by ways of food, etiquette and architecture. When the Germans came to do business on the coast of the Yellow Sea, they brought...
If nothing else, inveterate prankster Max Fosh, whose antics have graced this very website time and again, is making real innovations in the culinary field. He started out cooking with real, actual lava, then moved on to lightning, and is now evidently setting his sights on...
Slime molds are weird. They are blobs that don't have brains or nervous systems, yet they can navigate mazes better than some humans, and remember past events without neurons. Despite their name, slime molds are not actually mold. They're Protists, a diverse kingdom of...
I'll watch anything with Jared Harris in it. Take me by the head, point my eyeballs at it and you have my undivided attention. It's my opinion that he's one of the finest actors of his and many other generations. When Apple dumped the first season of Foundation in our lap, I ...
At some point, Belle Delphine needs to face a reckoning for introducing the concept of selling bathwater to the public consciousness. You may know soap company Dr. Squatch for trying to make soap cool, and their recent partnership with actress and object of national...
A phone-charging myth once kept emergency operators busy responding to thousands of pointless 999 calls from people who wrongly believe dialing the emergency number will boost their dying phone batteries. The urban legend, which gained traction in UK BlackBerry forums around ...
At some point in human history, someone was sitting in a boat across from their pal Athelstan, fishing pole in hand when they say 'Athelstan, I've been struck by it, fella. We've been gripping them fish all wrong.' Athelstan raised his eyebrow and jiggered with his reel,...
We're never going to escape the shadow of GTA V, are we? Thirteen years and five distinct rereleases in and with the series' next installment looming large in the distance, Rockstar nonetheless seems intent on keeping the game's momentum going. — Read the rest The post GTA...
A competitive snowball fighting sport from Japan has evolved into an international phenomenon, with teams battling it out in organized tournaments from the Arctic Circle to the Australian Alps. Yukigassen, which literally means 'snow battle' in Japanese, transforms the...
TL;DR: This $23.99 MagTag tracker card (usually $59.99) works with Apple's Find My app and fits in your wallet like a credit card. If we're talking real, AirTags are cool, but nobody asked for a tracker shaped like a Mentos. No worries, the MagTag is in town, and it has a...
Adam O'Neal, a correspondent from The Economist, is the Washington Post's next opinion editor. He'll be implementing owner Jeff Bezos's directive to champion 'personal liberties and free markets' and made clear that this means an 'unapologetically patriotic' section that...
Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist assemblyman, has taken a slim lead in polling ahead of the Democrats' primary election for New York City mayor. Andrew Cuomo, who seemed only weeks ago to be a shoo-in, has a fight on his uniquely busy hands. — Read the rest The post...
Released in 1984, the space trading and exploration game Elite created a new genre while selling hundreds of thousands of copies. The work of British programmers David Braben and Ian Bell, its use of clever coding techniques to suggest a vast and deep universe of worlds to...
Comedian David Walliams performed a Nazi salute to the discomfort and dismay of other contestants on the family-hour BBC panel show he was recording. 'I didn't have David Walliams doing a Nazi salute at the Would I Lie To You? Christmas taping on my 2025 bingo card,' one...
If a British pound stretches a little further than an American dollar, it hasn't helped Poundland's 825 stores turn a profit. The company was reportedly sold today for £1 to an investment firm, which is expected to close 100 of the worst-performing outlets as it...
An Air India Boeing 787 carrrying 242 passengers and crew crashed into a hotel shortly after takeoff en route to London from Ahmedabad in India. Footage posted by the BBC show 'scenes of devastation' with emergency workers searching for survivors on the ground. — Read the...
National Geographic researchers made a breakthrough discovery in the Southern Ocean — capturing the first-ever footage of a living Gonatus antarcticus squid, a mysterious creature previously known only from dead specimens. The three-foot-long deep-sea squid was spotted at...
Wednesday June 11, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office 2024 Home (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote) for Mac or PC as a one-time purchase—just $129.97 (reg. $149.99). Microsoft Office 2024 Home is here, and unlike your streaming subscriptions, it won't keep asking for money every month. It's a...
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