A Russian state media story, evidently inspired by social media gossip, forced Buckingham Palace to deny that King Charles III is dead. Charles announced that he has cancer in January… Read the rest of the article: Buckingham Palace forced to deny King Charles III has died after false report in Russian media
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Rob Beschizza I massively enjoyed this video of a drum-maker crafting a biggun. Sadly it's been denuded of authorship and context at Reddit and I couldn't find it anywhere else. I love… Read the rest of the article: Watch a new drum being made the old-fashioned way
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Rob Beschizza What's the smallest readable font? You need 5×7 pixels to have gaps where they should be. You can go 6 pixels tall if you're OK losing the holes in your… Read the rest of the article: NanoFont, a 3×4 pixel font with "legible" 2×2 lowercase glyphs
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Rob Beschizza Mice, accidentally introduced to Marion Island, a remote Antarctic island off the coast of South Africa, now breed out of control in the warming environment and are devouring the seagulls.… Read the rest of the article: Mice, infesting Antarctic island and eating the birds, to be exterminated
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Rob Beschizza Colorado congressman Ken Buck, presiding over a very safe Republican district, planned to retire this fall and hand his seat to someone just like him. Unfortunately, embattled Colorado congresswoman Lauren… Read the rest of the article: How retiring GOP congressman Ken Buck screwed over Lauren Boebert
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Rob Beschizza Langley Air Force Base on the Chesapeake Bay in southeastern Virginia was "swarmed" for weeks by mystery drones, reports TMZ, triggering a full-scale investigation by the U.S. military. This spate… Read the rest of the article: Mystery drones swarmed Langley Air Force Base
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Rob Beschizza Pere Rosselló, an astrophysics student at Universidad de La Laguna in Tenerife, Spain, posted an animation depicting the gravitational collapse of Spongebob. "You can see how virial equilibrium is eventually… Read the rest of the article: N-body simulation of the gravitational collapse of Spongebob Squarepants
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Rob Beschizza It's that time of year again! Time to Irish Mambo. Whaddya think they're dancing to everywhereSure it's a Mambo beat with an Irish airSure an' it just came over from… Read the rest of the article: Irish Mambo
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Rob Beschizza At a rally today in Dayton, Ohio, former president Donald Trump, while rambling on the subject of automobile tarriffs, suddenly veered into discussion of November's election and issued a promise:… Read the rest of the article: Trump: "I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath"
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Rob Beschizza I hadn't thought to post about the public exposure of far-right political cartoonist StoneToss, but now that Twitter is censoring discussion of his alleged name it's once again time for… Read the rest of the article: Nazi cartoonist meets the Streisand Effect after Twitter censors discussion of his identity
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Rob Beschizza An external panel was seen to be missing from a United Airlines flight after it landed in Medford, Oregon yesterday—a Boeing 737-800 carrying 139 passengers, all oblivious to the in-air… Read the rest of the article: Panel missing from United Airlines Boeing 737 after it lands in Oregon
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Rob Beschizza What's funny about forcing China to sell Tik Tok is that Democrats overwhelmingly support this because they really believe that Tik Tok is a threat to the Republic, whereas Republicans… Read the rest of the article: Right-wing weirdos eager to buy Tik Tok after House votes to force Chinese owners to sell it
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Rob Beschizza Staff at Richmond Wildlife Center in Virginia dressed as foxes in hopes of helping calm an orphaned fox kit in their care. In a video posted to the center's Facebook… Read the rest of the article: Wildlife center staff dress as foxes to calm orphaned kit
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Rob Beschizza As part of its Open Content program, the Getty made nearly 88,000 images available under the Creative Common Zero license, which allows everyone to "copy, modify, distribute and perform the… Read the rest of the article: Getty Museum posts nearly 88,000 scans of artwork with Creative Commons Zero license
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Rob Beschizza A woman was arrested in Palatka, Florida, after trying to sell her 18-month-old daughter to a store employee and then leaving the child with them. Woods had been observed around… Read the rest of the article: Florida mom tried to sell daughter for $500
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Rob Beschizza Sofas are crap now: it's all compressed wood put together with the cheapest brackets and screws known to manufacturing. Even if you get spendy, it'll just be the same easily-shipped… Read the rest of the article: Why sofas are crap
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Rob Beschizza Texans now require a VPN to get their pornhub fix after the company and others like it blocked access from the state over its age verification law, which finally went… Read the rest of the article: Pornhub and other sites block Texas over age verification law
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Rob Beschizza Minneapolis passed a law requiring rideshare companies to pay its drivers more. Uber and Lyft say they'd rather leave. Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after… Read the rest of the article: Uber and Lyft say they'll leave Minneapolis rather than pay drivers its new minimum wage
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Rob Beschizza J.K. Rowling had another "middle-aged moment" Wednesday, claiming that the Nazis did not target trans people when they "burned early books on trans healthcare and research," as an online critic… Read the rest of the article: J.K. Rowling claims Nazis didn't burn trans books, issues lawsuit threat when called a holocaust denier
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Rob Beschizza Oregon is the fourth state to pass a bill giving consumers the right to fix their own appliances and gadgets, reports The Oregonian. The right to repair is building steam.… Read the rest of the article: Oregon passes right-to-repair law