snowball Here are an assortment of images depicting snowball fights from the 1400s to the 1900s Popkin

Games This sorting web game has stolen hours from me Grant St. Clair

SantaCon: how a surrealist prank became a global red-suited pub crawl Jason Weisberger

LBGTQA+ Elon Musk encourages anti-trans bigots to target Netflix Jason Weisberger

books Community rescues Disco Elysium creator's forgotten literary masterpiece Grant St. Clair

sports Competitive snowball fighting requires 90 snowballs, helmets, and strict rules (video) Popkin

science fiction Dyson Trees could make a home for humans—and other things Rob Beschizza

silly If you love ducks, gift yourself a quacking keyboard! Jennifer Sandlin

Boing Boing Gadgets Fly high this holiday: 4K drone bundle cuts price to $99.97 Boing Boing's Shop

politics Examining QAnon's "official" Twitter account Grant St. Clair

adorable animals Neuty the nutria gets a treat after surviving Hurricane Francine Jennifer Sandlin

olympics WTF is the Paris Olympic mascot? Gail Sherman

Presidential speeches Yes!! Kamala Harris brings down the house with supercharged speech in North Carolina (video) Carla Sinclair

libraries Internet Archive forced to remove half a million books Natalie Dressed

NASA's race to synchronize Earth and Moon clocks and why it matters Mark Frauenfelder

Games Helldivers but with the Penguins of Madagascar Gail Sherman

Helldivers 2 is being broken by snowball fights Grant St. Clair

movies Marvel's VFX artists vote to unionize Grant St. Clair

vaporwave Chill out with this Vaporwave jam set to the Weather Channel Thom Dunn

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