Behold the kilometer-long, 300-tonne fatberg of Hodge Hill, the largest agglomeration of chip fat, wet wipes and human shit that Severn Trent Water has ever had to deal with. They're stuck trying to clear the mass, which extends underneath the M6 highway, and have ordered "high-pressure jets" to tackle the "horrible, gunky mess." — Read the rest

Thames Water Authority clears a lot of fatbergs from London's labyrinth of decrepit sewer tunnels, but it wants everyone to know that the one under Yabsley Street was especially nasty.

Head of waste networks at Thames Water, Matt Rimmer, described the fatberg as "huge and disgusting".

Here's a little public service announcement with a lot to unpack. Fatbergs are horrifying agglomerations of grease, excrement and fiber clogging the waterworks beneath our cities. Britain's ancient sewers seem especially vulnerable, providing an endless stream of "thousand-foot fatberg removed" stories, complete with nightmarish footage of yet another London lard shoggoth. — Read the rest

Two "giant" fatbergs were removed last week from the sewers of St. Andrews, Scotland, reports the BBC. 20 tonnes (22 tons) of congealed grease, sewage and toilet paper had to be broken down, and Fife authorities embarked upon an educational campaign to get locals to stop pouring cooking fat down the drain. — Read the rest

Fatbergs — vast agglomerations of human waste, toilet paper, sanitary products and general filth held together by fat — are often found in the sewers of major cities such as London. But a 64-meter monster now lurks under Sidmouth, a cosy English seaside resort on the Devon coast. — Read the rest

After a nine-week battle (previously), London's sewer heroes have vanquished a 130-tonne (143 ton) fatberg lurking beneath the city. The congealed mass of fat, trash, wet wipes, diapers, condoms, excrement and death had formed a glistening wall of pale horror that presented "the most gut-wrenching work" waste manager Alex Stephens had ever seen. — Read the rest

The latest fatberg (a hardened mass of condoms, nappies, wet wipes, fat, and other things that people insist on flushing down their toilets) (previously) to clog London's sewers is the Whitechapel whale, measuring 820 feet long, weighing 130 metric tonnes (as much as 11 double-decker buses) (this is a standard measure of fatbergs).

It took Thames Water four days to remove the biggest and smelliest blockage yet from beneath the city. (Previously)

Twitter owner Elon Musk and his stalwart CEO, Linda Yaccarino, have been sharing rosy news about the platform recently. Musk is very excited about the rise in "user-seconds," one of the few metrics that doesn't make Twitter look like a sewer pipe clogged with a fatberg. — Read the rest

If you've been watching The Late Show with Stephen Colbert over the last few months you may have noticed that the late night host has refrained from saying the name "Trump" in any way. He has gone out of his way to use terms like "the former president" or "the 45th president" or even just "45", giving Trump the Voldemort treatment. — Read the rest

Former disgraced President Trump is planning to speak at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) this weekend, to presumably spread more lies about his losing the election, his taxes, Joe Biden, two impeachme…goddammit…we all KNOW what he's going to lie about. But watch this concise illustration showing the division within the Republican Party. — Read the rest

Donald Trump, Jr., in an effort to pile up as many stupid tweets as his disgraced father, sent one out that has successfully blown up in his entitled face.

As Texas deals with an unprecedented winter storm causing mass power outages and water issues Tweedle Don decided to needle the governor of Texas, who is Republican Greg Abbott. — Read the rest

Britain's ancient, fatberg-infested sewers are already choked to the grates thanks to irresponsible flushings during the coronavirus crisis. People running out of (or hoarding) toilet paper are instead using paper towels, kitchen napkins, wet wipes, newsprint and other materials that won't break down. — Read the rest

Raytracing is a method for drawing scenes by modeling beams of light, illuminating and richocheting off objects. It's realistic but very slow, and only the newest and most expensive video cards [Amazon] introduce it to realtime games. MySQL is the most commonplace relational database, the sewer containing all the web's fatbergs, the last thing on earth you'd use for number-crunching graphics. — Read the rest

London has fatbergs: glistening, multiton agglomerations of fat, sanitary napkins, "flushable" wipes, human waste, dirty diapers, used condoms, and delicious strawberry jam; New Orleans has 93,000 pounds of plastic Mardi Gras beads.

"It's an algorithm" was never a good excuse, but YouTube's had plenty of time to fix this one, and they don't even pretend to care anymore, even after media began to set quotes from anguished victims against those of smugly indifferent anonymous spokespeople. — Read the rest

After "hundreds of condoms" were found clogging a sewer pipe in Austin, Texas, police realized that illegal sex may be afoot. A nearby massage parlor was subsequently busted.

Austin police then launched their probe that culminated in a raid about six weeks later where a woman who co-managed the business "was found in a massage room with a completely nude and uncovered male," the document said.

A 40 meter lump of wet wipes and fat was so heavy that it broke a sewer in West London.

Stephen Hunt, a repair and maintenance supervisor at Thames Water, who is overseeing the fatberg's removal, said its size was staggering.

Noted tax-avoiders Thames Water's press release trumpets the news that they have excavated the largest ever "fatberg" — a technical term denoting a huge, impacted lump of "festering food fat mixed with wet wipes" — from a London sewer.