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Wednesday September 17, 2025. 06:13 PM
Frank is a charming, cute armadillo who loves to play. Watching him is a joy! I had a friend named Frank once who was a total downer. I would much rather travel Europe with Frank the Armadillo; he seems cool and not a jerk. — Read the rest The post Meet Frank the...
Rather than attacking pleasure boats or eating seals, Old Thom spends his days swimming with Atlantic white sided dolphins. No one quite knows why. Orcinus orca, or killer whales, are more likely to eat their smaller whale buddies, rather than join their pod and swim...
Convicted felon and liable for sexual assault, Donald Trump loves bullying with lawsuits, but this one is sheer lunacy. 'This is a stunningly pathological lawsuit even by Trumpian standards' former prosecutor Ken White joked on Bluesky. 'It reads as if he was holding a...
Fascism enthusiast Jesse Watters threatens anyone who calls a fascist a fascist with arrest or ostracism. After a few days of telling us how their murdered white supremacist stood for free speech and everything 'American.' MAGA morons are now working extra hard to limit...
While the rest of us are worrying about artificial intelligence stealing our jobs, our intellectual property, or hallucinating bullshit that makes our lie-ridden world just a tiny bit worse, Albania has put a Large Language Model to work in a public office: 'Diella, the...
TL;DR: Still paying monthly for Word or Excel? Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows plus official Microsoft training for less than $50. If you're still paying a monthly fee to open Word documents and build budget spreadsheets, we...
Ever since Fellowship of the Ring's release, perhaps the biggest Lord of the Rings talking point (aside from Viggo Mortensen really breaking his toe on that helmet) has been the question of why they didn't just take the eagles to Mordor. — Read the rest The post Lord of the...
Watch a guy slide down a 100 foot trash chute and come out the other end with a giant smile on his face. This looks both extremely fun and unsafe. This stunt was attempted by a professional, so don't try something like this if you see a trash chute trying to lure you in. —...
There's a few months left before winter turns many of us into hermits. It's the perfect time to visit an outdoor garden before you hunker down for the colder months. Here's a list of 17 outdoor gardens to explore, shared by Atlas Obscura. — Read the rest The post 17...
Those trying the hotpot at a Shanghai branch of chain restaurant Haidilao may have noticed an unusual piquant note to the flavor on a February day earlier this year: two teenagers had urinated in the soup. Authorities stress there is no suggestion anyone actually consumed...
– Announcing the September 2025 Inner Hive Drive: Join Tom the Dancing Bug's Inner Hive, and you'll not only get weekly emails with pre-publication access to each week's comic and other content, but the first year's fee (details at link) will be donated to Immigration Law &...
This hologram ice cream vending machine in Japan goes the extra mile to prepare your cone. The machine displays a real cone through a glass screen after you choose a flavor. Then, hologram cartoon characters appear and look as if they're the ones filling up your cone for...
OK people: this is serious. We need to get together $15 million bucks. If 1,000 of y'all can pony up $15,000 (is that math right?), we can buy David Lynch's house. Who's with me? The longtime Hollywood Hills estate of the late, great filmmaker David Lynch has landed on...
Americans are experiencing the biggest credit score decline since the Great Recession. FICO data shows a two-point drop in the national average this year. The drop reflects rising financial strain as more borrowers miss payments on car loans, credit cards, and personal...
In 1962, Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, invited Nobel-winning philosopher Bertrand Russell to a debate. Mosley aimed to persuade Russell of fascism's merits. Russell, who was 89 at the time, replied: 22 January 1962 Sir Oswald Mosley,5, Lowndes...
On June 19th, David Scoville received a call from someone claiming to be Google Support. The caller warned of an attempt to take over Scoville's account, complete with a fake death certificate. What sealed the deal was an email from 'legal@google.com' — Read the rest The...
Last Saturday at the Bowery Ballroom in NY, stoner rock legends Fu Manchu took to the stage to deliver a crushing set of distorted, loud, punches-you-in-your face guitar riffs and beat down drums to an ecstatic crowd. The set went off without a hitch, lasting a good hour...
Tuesday September 16, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Readmio turns reading into a performance with voice-activated sounds, and a lifetime subscription is just $39.99. Kids can smell boredom a mile away — which is why plain storybooks sometimes don't cut it. But hand them a tablet and suddenly it's screen-zombie hour....
A tech enthusiast named Blinry took a week-long dive into the world of software defined radio (SDR), discovering the invisible universe of electromagnetic signals surrounding us. Using a $30 USB dongle and some wire, he accessed a treasure trove of radio communications. —...
Reminiscent of a James Bond scuba infiltration, a man swam up to a restaurant during cash-out, took the staff hostage, and swam away with the loot. The report shows the man forced two employees to go to the corner of the room and told them to close their eyes. — Read the...
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