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Unintentional pet camouflage boingboing.net/2023/02/27/un…

Unintentional pet camouflage

Please enjoy this wonderful collection of photos where pets have camouflaged themselves amongst household items. The bird in the first photo has a look on his face that makes me…

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Nathalie Meibach weaves some of the coolest baskets I’ve ever seen boingboing.net/2023/02/26/na…

Nathalie Meibach weaves some of the coolest baskets I've ever seen

Nathalie Meibach weaves some of the coolest baskets I've ever seen.  She translates scientific data from meteorology, ecology and oceanography into her artwork. I came across Meibach's baskets on the…

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Adem Ocaktan is a prankster who creates amazing illusions out of mannequins and his own body boingboing.net/2023/02/26/ad…

Adem Ocaktan is a prankster who creates amazing illusions out of mannequins and his own body

​​Adem Ocaktan is a prankster who creates amazing illusions out of mannequins and his own body. This particular video of a creepy mannequin pushing him in a baby carriage made…

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This portable in-home golf simulator is on sale for $20 off boingboing.net/2023/02/25/th…

This portable in-home golf simulator is on sale for $20 off

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. Life is chaotic, and finding time…

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Why you should stir your espresso instead of swiriling it youtube.com/watch?v=iI09bbH2… boingboing.net/2023/02/25/wh…
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Have you ever eaten banana peels? boingboing.net/2023/02/25/ha…

Have you ever eaten banana peels?

Thanks to the Dead Milkmen, I've known for decades that you can smoke banana peels (I'm not sure it's wise to do so, but that's up to you). But did…

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Retired educator teaches youth geometry and math through quilting, and they love it boingboing.net/2023/02/25/re…

Retired educator teaches youth geometry and math through quilting, and they love it

​Who said that you'd never use math in real life? The Rock Paper Scissors Collective art and community studio in downtown Oakland​, California​ is ​offering a unique internship for students from...

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Twitter account showcases bizarre and delightful tattoos boingboing.net/2023/02/25/tw…

Twitter account showcases bizarre and delightful tattoos

Do you have any tattoos? Are you thinking of getting one? If that's the case, a Twitter account called 'Tats That Go Hard' may just get you to reconsider. It…

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More Dead Space remakes, anyone? Sci-fi horror hit’s sequels may get the treatment boingboing.net/2023/02/25/mo…

More Dead Space remakes, anyone? Sci-fi horror hit's sequels may get the treatment

After the success of EA's recent Dead Space remake, it only makes sense that they'd want to look into continuing the series. EA has started distributing consumer surveys to gauge…

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George Santos lied about his job to a judge, as heard in audio obtained by Politico boingboing.net/2023/02/24/ge…

George Santos lied about his job to a judge, as heard in audio obtained by Politico (listen)

Before duping his 142,000 Republican voters in New York, GOP trickster George Santos pulled a fast one on a Seattle judge. In 2017, during a bail hearing to help out…

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Look your absolute best no matter where you’re recording with this 4K webcam, now on sale for $299.99 boingboing.net/2023/02/24/lo…

Look your absolute best no matter where you're recording with this 4K webcam, now on sale for...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. These days, more and more of…

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The eufy Smart Scale can take your fitness journey to the next level, and it’s now only $44.99 boingboing.net/2023/02/24/th…
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That time when ferocious flocks of seabirds attacked people, inspiring Hitchcock’s The Birds boingboing.net/2023/02/21/th…

That time when ferocious flocks of seabirds attacked people, inspiring Hitchcock's The Birds

In 1961, the good people of the small town of Capitola, California were terrorized by seemingly-insane seabirds. Eight people reported injuries and countless others ran in fear. Inspired by this…

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Obama finds Trump’s secret stash of Minecraft diamonds that he used X-ray to find boingboing.net/2023/02/21/ob…

Obama finds Trump's secret stash of Minecraft diamonds that he used X-ray to find

This is what deepfakes were made for: Obama and Biden giving shit to Trump for having too many stacks of diamonds on a brand-new Minecraft server. ObamaDonald, I found your…

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Mysterious metal sphere washes up on Japanese beach, baffles authorities boingboing.net/2023/02/21/my…

Mysterious metal sphere washes up on Japanese beach, baffles authorities

A 4.9-foot metal sphere washed up on Enshuhama beach in Hamamatsu City, 150 miles southwest of Tokyo, and authorities don't know what it is or where it came from. The…

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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s plan for breaking U.S. into two countries includes rules about sex toy displays at Walmart boingboing.net/2023/02/21/ma…

Marjorie Taylor Greene's plan for breaking U.S. into two countries includes rules about sex toy...

You've got to hand it to Marge, she pays attention to the details. Most kooks who call for dividing up the United States into two separate countries often overlook important…

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Ben Stein is sad that there isn’t a “large African-American woman” on his syrup bottle boingboing.net/2023/02/21/be…

Ben Stein is sad that there isn't a “large African-American woman” on his syrup bottle

Ben Stein looks crabby and depressed here. He's upset that "Woke corporate culture" removed the image of a "large African-American woman" from his syrup bottle. "About to do something which…

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Don Lemon receives “formal training” before returning to CNN after “woman in her prime” comments boingboing.net/2023/02/21/do…

Don Lemon receives "formal training" before returning to CNN after "woman in her prime" comments

CNN's Don Lemon hasn't shown up for work at "CNN This Morning" since he aired his ageist, sexist thoughts on women in their 50s last Thursday. "A woman is considered…

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The grimly repeating history of homophobia at The New York Times boingboing.net/2023/02/21/th…

The grimly repeating history of homophobia at The New York Times

Jack Mirkinson writes that The New York Times' reportorial hostility to trans people echoes a long history of homophobia—something for which it has apologized in recent years, but learned little…

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Project Veritas ditches founder James O’Keefe over, among other things, him squandering its money on his musical theater dreams boingboing.net/2023/02/21/pr…

Project Veritas ditches founder James O'Keefe over, among other things, him squandering its money...

James O'Keefe was always a theater kid, and after years of making things up, it's finally brought him down. He's being fired from his own Project Veritas group after "squandering"…

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