News Meet the "Silent Man" who mysteriously blocks traffic without uttering a word Mark Frauenfelder

Labour's Keir Starmer is the UK's new Prime Minister Rob Beschizza

interviews Michael Sheen grilled by neurodivergent interviewers Rusty Blazenhoff

monoliths Mysterious massive metal monolith appears on Wales hillside David Pescovitz

Ecce machina, ubi homo Amazon product name is an OpenAI error message Rob Beschizza

oops Road painters misspell school outside of school David Pescovitz

astronomy A nice asteroid, 69 alligators long, passed by the Earth this week Thom Dunn

meteors Texas struck by meteor the size of a thousand-pound corgi Thom Dunn

wales Dobby is dead and does not need your socks Jason Weisberger

18 attacked in squirrel rampage Rob Beschizza

maps Bot posts picks from the Library of Congress's expanded map collection Rob Beschizza

Monsters Meet Guy N. Smith, the guy who gave the world 7 novels worth of crabs Thom Dunn

penises Some Welsh people want a dragon penis on their flag Thom Dunn

LGBTQ Welsh town elects world's first non-binary mayor Jess Sabine

snakes Man trying to remove rattlesnake with bbq tongs is predictably bitten Jason Weisberger

tabloids Harry and Meghan's "lies" revealed in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

television Old television repeatedly knocked out entire village's broadband for 18 months David Pescovitz

censorship Church of England refuses to allow foreign language on a gravestone, calling it a "political statement" Thom Dunn

music Watch this BBC weather forecaster's amazing drumming after he was told to do his own music Carla Sinclair

animal friends Mountain Goats have taken over a small Welsh town while humans are in quarantine Thom Dunn