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mardi 30 septembre 2025, 23:10
Here is a list of notable non-water floods throughout history, from around the world. A non-water flood in this context is the unfortunate event where a substance (like molasses) floods from a storage facility in a large quantity, or when an industrial reservoir has a toxic...
Behold, the earliest known photograph of an intact giant squid, taken in 1874. This black and white photo looks more like a prop from an old sci-fi creature-feature than a real life animal. The photo shows the squid draped over a sponge bath. — Read the rest The post...
A generation of Americans grew up with Reading Rainbow, presented by Levar Burton, and after a 20 year absence the PBS kids' classic is returning with a new host: librarian and internet sensation Mychal Threets. 'I was raised on Reading Rainbow, LeVar Burton is my hero,' he ...
Alabama construction worker and US citizen Leo Garcia Venegas was twice arrested at his own job site by masked federal agents who refused to accept his REAL ID. He's now suing to stop unconstitutional raids. In May, masked agents ran past a 'no trespassing' sign onto a...
Announced only a few weeks ago but long in coming, AOL's dial-up internet service dies today. The 'final screech' is nigh, writes Rob Wile, lamenting the modem's last gasp. At its peak, AOL counted more than 20 million users and in 2000 became part of the largest corporate ...
Take a look. It's in a book! Reading Rainbow is returning with new episodes and a new host. Mychal Threets, AKA Mychal the Librarian, is taking over the reins of the beloved children's show. Reading Rainbow, which ran for 26 years on PBS, encouraging kids to read and love...
How much safer we must all be! ICE has cleared nearly all the workers from a Los Angeles carwash; the manager claims his employees all presented state-verified documents before starting work. All this will achieve is disrupting the car wash's operations. — Read the rest ...
Whoa! Why is Cancun Cruz passionate about protecting pedophiles? Super weird even for Ted Cruz. Protecting Donald Trump has become so crucial that Ted Cruz said the quiet part out loud. Previously:• Texas megachurch lets pedophile pastor Robert Morris resign• Accused...
COVID is quietly surging in the U.S. and the U.K., driven by emerging variants NB.1.8.1 ('Nimbus') and XFG ('Stratus'). Both are found in national wastewater systems, turning up in traveler screenings and state labs. Health officials warn that NB.1.8.1 has surged from ~15 %...
If you have ever been stuck trying to fix something, only to have the solution appear seemingly by magic when explaining the problem out loud to someone else, you're not alone. But what do you do when you are stuck and have no one to talk to? — Read the rest The post This...
Amazon's Kindle Scribe gets a new look today, with a color model joining the lineup. The redesigned e-ink notepads are thinner, lighter and faster, Amazon says, and include an AI-powered search feature. • A new front light system with miniaturized LEDs that fit tightly...
If you are a fan of over-the-top revenge movies and haven't already seen 2022's Sisu, you should absolutely go watch it now. The film, which takes place in 1944, during the Lapland War, features an absurd but very satisfying number of dead Nazis. — Read the rest The post...
Just three months after bombing Iran, the U.S. quietly loaded about 100 Iranians onto a deportation flight to Tehran, sending refugees and asylum seekers back to a regime infamous for jailing dissidents, torturing opponents, and silencing dissent. The two Iranian officials...
Alberto Joshua Hernandez, 22, was charged with aggravated kidnapping and robbery after forcing the driver who ran over and killed his dog to dig its grave. According to an arrest document obtained by KLTV, the victim told police he was driving home on Sept. — Read the...
Convicted felon and liable for sexual abuse, MAGA figurehead Donald Trump's question about whether TV shows 'different' events than reality once again raises concerns about his mental fitness, and whether aides and allies are manipulating his confusion. Ol' Grandpa Pudding...
There have been quite a few big announcements at Tokyo Game Show, but none have been quite as bizarre as Ananta. As the newest project from NetEase, the developer and publisher probably best known in the West for Marvel Rivals, Ananta looks like a mishmash of every...
SAG-AFTRA has condemned AI-generated 'Tilly Norwood,' arguing that she lacks real emotion, life experience, or legitimacy in performance. It also probably costs the world a rainforest for every 5 minutes of 'performance.' 'To be clear, 'Tilly Norwood' is not an actor, it's ...
Emma Roth spent three months with a Telly, a free television set (previously at Boing Boing). It's free because it has always-on ads running at the bottom. This is the future of TV, according to Telly, a company that offers a free TV in exchange for the privilege of...
Canny Valley is a collection of activist, author and former Boing Boing co-editor Cory Doctorow's surreal collages, as found in his Pluralistic newsletter. Canny Valley collects 80 of the best collages I've made for my Pluralistic newsletter, where I publish 5-6 essays...
Remember last month when we warned you about potentially radioactive shrimp? Sadly, it's time for round two. The Food and Drug Administration (such as it is) announced a recall of shrimp contaminated with Cesium-137 is once again being sold at a TON of different stores. —...
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