Weird Hour-long Brony retrospective covers it all Grant St. Clair

animation Exclusive Interview: "My Little Pony: Make Your Mark" star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan Devin Nealy

makers Barb Noren makes soldering iron unicorns Gareth Branwyn

offworld Hoofed mammal-themed fighting games are big business Leigh Alexander

books "Weird Ireland" offers a wonderfully whimsical tour of the Emerald Isle Thom Dunn

happy mutants "Humble Caveman" excoriates "Yabba Dabba Douchebag" Tempe City Council members for their hypocrisy Jennifer Sandlin

Space The studio behind The Last of Us is finally making a new game (and not another remaster) Grant St. Clair

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

1970s "Pickled People" were heads made out of stuffed panty hose and smushed into jars, and people in the 1970s bought them for fun Jennifer Sandlin

tabloids Trump's dementia and teddy bear sex in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Boing Boing Gadgets Here's your chance to score an iPad mini for under $100 Boing Boing's Shop

books Grant Morrison's new novel Luda is overwhelmingly fabulous Thom Dunn

movies Take look at Greta Gerwig's Barbie Devin Nealy

flowers Stunning psychedelic timelapse of blooming cactus flowers Mark Frauenfelder