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Friday April 25, 2025. 04:00 PM
Many people think that pigeons are akin to 'rats with wings'. These images might change your mind, though. Upon first sight, many people wouldn't know that these are pigeons. Due to selective breeding, there are all kinds of pigeons out there with vastly different looks. —...
The Academy Awards are inevitably political: it's Hollywood's own internal popularity contest and an opportunity to reward those who have it coming as much as those who actually deserve the accolades. But this has become too obvious, not least thanks to voters admitting they ...
Apparently, no one told the right that you're not actually supposed to root for the genocidal, totalitarian Galactic Empire. Comedian Walter Masterson found this out the hard way when he crashed a MAGA/Zionist joint protest (real meeting of the minds) in full stormtrooper...
Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu was a powerful figure at the Vatican before he was convicted of financial crimes there and ordered by Pope Francis to resign. Now the old man's dead, Becciu expects to be among those choosing Francis's replacement as Pope—he was never...
Last week, news began circulating that fast casual restaurant Panda Express was implementing a new company-wide mask policy that would ban masks for its workers, unless they were 'required for specific job duties or safety protocols,' or if workers jumped through hoops to...
Sethuraman Panchanathan has led the National Science Foundation (NSF) since President Trump appointed him in 2019. But he abruptly resigned yesterday after the same man ordered the agency's $9 billion budget slashed by 55% and half of its staff fired. On 14 April, staffers ...
Rejoice, fellow vaccine enthusiasts—it looks like there's good news on the horizon for Novavax, everyone's favorite scrappy, highly effective, Matrix-M adjuvanted, protein-based, non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, which also has the fewest side effects, to boot. The company...
Google may be broken up as a result of a court ruling that it abused its monopoly in online advertising. One outcome may be having to sell Chrome, the web browser it spitroats users with. And it looks like pretty much everyone in tech wants a chance to get it. — Read the...
Just when I think Naughty Dog might finally be making another game, they blindside me. The studio has attained Bethesda-level infamy for seemingly being unable to move away from their most popular game, with The Last of Us now being released a total of four times for three...
TL;DR: Get up and get stretched at work with guided movement plans from Moova Plus. If you've ever stood up after back-to-back meetings and winced, you probably find yourself looking for better office chairs. But even the best chair can only help so much, so short of...
Tigers are at the top of the food chain, and with sharp claws, strong teeth, and bone-breaking jaws, these massive cats aren't spooked by much. Unless, that is, a playful fish decides to make a splash, which sent one ferocious tiger into sheer panic. — Read the rest The...
What's a 'dry microburst associated virga bomb?' I would have guessed it's something my D&D dungeon master would made up while drunk. But it's actually when a thunderstorm basically says 'screw this' and projectile vomits all its air straight down. — Read the rest The post ...
Thursday April 24, 2025. 11:54 PM
According to the Department of Justice, everyone's favorite Hamptons beekeeper spent the summer of '94 organizing rape squads and manning murder checkpoints, but a kindly private equity entrepreneur on Long Island is making sure you can still buy his artisanal honey at the...
TL;DR: Be your own project manager with this one-time download of Microsoft Project 2021 Professional. If you've ever met somebody who insists they can easily do what a project manager does, now is their time. Microsoft Project 2021 Professional is available at one of the...
The twice-impeached president with 91 felony charges has decided it's time to kill the Democratic party. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, President Trump has directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate ActBlue, the Democratic fundraising platform that helps...
American Airlines announced it was cutting flights and withdrawing its 2025 financial guidance today, thanks to the uncertain economy under Trump 2.0. 'We came off a strong fourth quarter, saw decent business in January, and really domestic leisure travel fell off...
Kristi Noem proved once again she's better at writing lie-filled autobiographies than she is running the Department of Homeland Security. As reported on Fox 40, the DHS ordered US-born immigration lawyer Aldo Martinez-Gomez to 'self-deport' from his birthplace....
Evertop is a handsome portable computer with an e-ink display and a built-in solar panel. By implementing the modest specifications of a mid-80s IBM PC on a low-power microcontroller, it can run for hundreds, even thousands of hours on a charge. — Read the rest The post...
'You Wouldn't Steal a Car' was an anti-piracy campaign of the early 2000s, famously ineffectual and the target of many parodies. It has long been known the campaign exceeded the licensing terms of the music it used—pirated, you might say—and now analysis of the font...
Scientists have discovered the world's most bitter substance, and shockingly, it's not the collected tears of Tesla shareholders. As reported in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, it's in a mushroom called Amaropostia stiptica. This mushroom contains a compound...
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