controversy Right-wing pastor seems to be referring to himself when he says,"there's a lot of really stupid people today" Mark Frauenfelder
music REM, Animal Collective, The Postal Service, Soccer Mommy, and dozens of other artists on fantastic digital compilation benefiting Los Angeles food bank and wildfire fund David Pescovitz
Boing Boing Gadgets I'm an Apple fan, but I'm sick of my AirTag's awkward design—here's what I replaced it with Boing Boing's Shop
happy mutants "Humble Caveman" excoriates "Yabba Dabba Douchebag" Tempe City Council members for their hypocrisy Jennifer Sandlin
Entertainment David Lynch forever changed my life: A filmmaker's tribute to cinema's greatest dreamer Case Esparros
confirmation hearings Pete Hegseth suggests he "will shoot protestors in the legs" if asked by Trump (video) Carla Sinclair
Business San Franciscans pay hundreds more for hotel rooms due to location-based price discrimination Ellsworth Toohey
psychology Stanford's massive tobacco ad archive reveals a century of psychological manipulation Ellsworth Toohey
books Punk programmers and queer hackers expose Reagan-era tech corruption in Cory Doctorow's new novel, on Kickstarter now Mark Frauenfelder
Boing Boing Gadgets Your old keychain just got a 2025 makeover—this one charges your phone and opens bottles Boing Boing's Shop
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