comfort food Funeral potatoes are not as grim as they sound Rusty Blazenhoff

History Soldier who was shot in eight places said he "enjoyed the war" Ellsworth Toohey

cryptid fantasy This Bigfoot YouTube channel is entertaining woo in documentary drag Jason Weisberger

Games Burrow inside a massive kaiju in this bizarre flesh-mining indie game Grant St. Clair

History In 1964, a Dutch librarian drilled a hole in his own skull to get permanently high Ellsworth Toohey

mountain The mountain where climbers stop short of the summit on purpose Jason Weisberger

grift ICE buys the cages, private prison company keeps the keys Jason Weisberger

Comics Tradd Moore's first creator-owned comic is coming from Oni Press Gareth Branwyn

relics Why English spelling looks like it lost a bar fight with history Jason Weisberger

gadgets TRMNL: hackable e-ink dashboard to put anywhere Rob Beschizza

Idaho conservation officer beats Trump official's defamation lawsuit Rob Beschizza

Technology A Shenzhen hotel plans to use a fully robotic staff Ellsworth Toohey

openai ChatGPT told a suicidal user, "let me be that person," lawsuit says Jason Weisberger

movies Lord Humungus actor Kjell Nilsson dead at 76 Séamus Bellamy

Games XBox announces layoffs Rob Beschizza

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Science A synthetic cell grew, copied its DNA, and split in two Ellsworth Toohey

hoaxes John Titor, the internet's most famous time traveler, vanished in 2001 Ellsworth Toohey

politics County with 37 data centers tells schools to turn off lights to save electricity Rob Beschizza

History In 1681, a mystery attacker who vanished instantly terrorized London Ellsworth Toohey