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“I can’t say how I know this, but he has everything planned out to a T,” Bert Kreischer said as he revealed how extensively Tom Cruise’s assistants help manage his life.
The event was marred by protests, with demonstrators accusing Donald Trump of undermining democracy and calling for the full release of the Epstein files.
House leader Mike Johnson ended congress early to avoid a vote on impeaching Pete Hegseth, President Trump's crusader-tattooed "Secretary of War," and opinion polls show why. Never popular in the first place, Hegseth is now among the administration's most widely-disliked personalities, an outcome do
The latest wave of diarrhea is upon us, courtesy of an Escherichia coli outbreak that has sickened at least thirteen people, sent eight of them to hospital, and led to three suffering hemolytic uremic syndrome, a severe complication whose symptoms include "bloody diarrhea" and "blood in the urine."
“She does not allege that she was forced to engage in any acts,” the District Attorney said as the horrific two-year-old case was recently reopened after new evidence came to light.
BUENOS AIRES—After exhausting a significant amount of his intellectual energy in a series of company launches, a creatively tapped-out Peter Thiel announced Tuesday a new startup called “Frodo, But Evil.” Everyone knows Frodo’s the hero of Lord Of The Rings, but he’s not in this case, which—I mean,
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Sharon Jacks of Washington County, Ohio, went into surgery to have part of her right leg amputated. The surgical team prepared and draped her leg, applied a tourniquet, and removed it. Unfortunateley, they did all this to the left leg, and Jacks is now suing the hospitals and physicians involved. —
Florence Pugh urged men to break their silence over the Cornell allegations in the statement that Instagram restricted.
Our friend Coop has a new book coming out. It collects his rock-and-roll work from the last 40 years, including gig posters, flyers, and record covers. It's called Poster Boy, and it is massive: 312 pages, 11 inches by 14 inches. — Read the rest The post Coop's Poster Boy collects 40 years of his ro
LOS ANGELES—With her three wins last night finally putting her ahead of her greatest pop star rival, Taylor Swift surpassed Geppetto the Incredible Waltzing Horse on Sunday as the most-decorated artist in the history of MTV’s Video Music Awards. “This is truly an incredible achievement for Swift, wh
Finding the right partner may begin with something entirely unrelated to swiping, according to psychologist Dr. Dan Rosenfeld.
It works, for a little while anyway. America is fighting rising sea levels with sand because we don't really have a better plan. On both coasts, the United States' answer to coastal erosion is more beach sand. In just California: Newport Beach wants 200,000 cubic yards from the Santa Ana River. — Re
Tech companies have begun offering personal AI agents, which can access users’ accounts and perform tasks on their behalf. The Onion examines the pros and cons of these autonomous digital assistants. PRO Fun to torment a digital slave Never liked taste of water in first place More time to spend with
Auralnaut's reimagined Star Wars series is both more fun than plain ol' Star Wars and makes a lot more sense. Obi-Wan "Larry" Kenobi takes the fan-favorite character and turns him up about 300 notches. The tension between Anakin and Obi-Wan is far more believable in Auralnauts work. — Read the rest
Boing Boing reader Dávid Sipos emailed us with a fun story: I own a 1976 Volkswagen T2 that was used as a hero vehicle in Matchbox: The Movie. Months later, I discovered that my actual bus had become a Matchbox model. — Read the rest The post This guy's 1976 VW bus became a Matchbox toy, with his re
A Massachusetts lesbian bar’s decision to make masks optional one night a week sparked a massive backlash that took an even stranger turn when the owner reportedly feared “infiltrators” and introduced unexpected restrictions.
I wrote a few years ago about the mysterious and legendary 200 (!) unused songs that Stevie Wonder recorded for his 1976 masterpiece album Songs in the Key of Life. The musicians and engineers who worked on the double (plus) album have expressed amazement at the quality of the many, many songs that
For all those who missed the 2026 MTV VMAs last night, worry not! The internet has plenty of memes to give you the full recap.
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Most people see a used tea bag as something ready for the trash, but Ruby Silvious sees a tiny canvas waiting to be transformed. Her delicate paintings turn these stained, wrinkled surfaces into miniature scenes filled with landscapes, flowers, animals, people, and other carefully observed details.
French seer Nostradamus wrote a prophecy in 1555 that resurfaced now and seems relevant as it might be a warning about artificial intelligence. Read on to find out exactly what he said, and to learn why experts are worried about AI’s massive progress.
'Soggy Panels' is one of those comics that catches you off guard with an idea you never saw coming. Created by two artists, the series features black-and-white comics about everything from animals and video games to relationships, technology, biblical stories, and completely random situations.
ROCKFORD, IL—Toilet paper rolls hanging limply at their sides as they stood astonished in front of the home, local teens observed this weekend that their math teacher’s duplex was too depressing to TP, a discovery that derailed their night’s plans. “Oh God, this is where Mr. R lives? Guys, this does
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The AP reports that U.S. president Donald Trump asked China's president if he wanted to buy US arms on Sunday, describing a deal that would "upend generations of U.S. policy toward China"—as if Trump blurting it out it meant anything. The U.S. — Read the rest The post Trump offered to sell arms to C
I remember waiting hours¹ for an AmigaBASIC mandlebrot set to render on my Commodore A500 in 1992 or so, its 7Mhz CPU tackling 64,000 pixels one by one until the amazing results were complete. Now I can stare at wastingmytime's fractals zooming and morphing at 60 frames per second. — Read the rest T
When Concord Public Library in New Hampshire announced a yearlong amnesty on overdue fines, hoping to get some of its many purloined publications back, it didn't expect to see a 1894 issue of Century Illustrated. Local man John Hanson walked in with it, reports NPR's Sophia Palaza-Carre, and the giv
A truck-mounted crane tipped over onto a house in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday morning, and then a second crane brought in to lift the first one toppled while trying to right it. It too fell onto the house, reported Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue spokesman Frank Guzman. — Read the rest The post Crane fa
More than a dozen English words long-used in Bermuda and the Caribbean found their way into the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016, joining last year's set in the definitive record of the English language. Bimpert, from Bermuda, refers to a stupid or foolish person, as found in the traditional phrase
You've surely seen interactive maps showing the effects of the sea level rising, but Sliding Shores makes a game of it: you get a beautifully-rendered globe and a slider to raise or lower the oceans. There's a load of presets, from "oceans drained" to "drown Everest," a feat not even Waterworld mana
Newcastle University in the United Kingdom has a new Professor of Sustainability: Anant Ambani, the heir to an Indian fossil fuels fortune and owner of an enormous zoo. Ambani earned the professorship for "his work in conservation, biodiversity protection, animal welfare and environmental stewardshi
Microsoft and chip company Qualcomm launched the "Copilot+" PC branding in 2024 for so-called "AI" PCs. They even had a "Copilot" button that you could press to bring up the "AI". Though it at least indicated decent hardware, it was a hamfisted grasp at a vague buzzword and the "AI" features were ba
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Matthew Ammel, the former bodyguard and former boyfriend of former Arizona U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema, was arrested after allegedly breaking into her home while she was out of town and causing $200k worth of damage. Ammel, police say, demanded that Sinema post a video to social media and threatened
Reelizer is a collection of movie poster art curated by Roger Erik Tinch. First published in 2011, it blew up after being linked to by Daring Fireball, slowly faded over the years, went on hiatus, and is now back thanks to new content management software. — Read the rest The post Reelizer: curated g
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TL;DR: Handle work and fit in some play on this Lenovo 300e Chromebook, on sale now for just $79.99 (MSRP $284.99). If you're looking for a laptop that can get your daily tasks done, you probably don't need to spend thousands of dollars. — Read the rest The post This $80 Lenovo Chromebook doubles as
Cartoonist Matt Bors has teamed with artist Tristan Wright to create a new comic book version of the early 90s TV kids' cartoon series "The Toxic Crusaders." While the cartoon series was edgy for a children's TV show, this new comic book version is for adults and is more explicitly political, with i
DLSS 5 is Nvidia's AI-powered tech for dynamically repainting video game scenes in real-time, with more realistic lighting, textures and geometry. Controversial enough on recent games, where it succeeds on a technical level, the real fun is to be had applying it to old ones. — Read the rest The post
Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney directed Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. His latest, Musk, profiles the wealthiest man in the world. But you won't be seeing paid ads for it on YouTube, Facebook or TikTok, as all of them are
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Barstardica is an online type "foundry" that generates fonts mashed-up from classic typefaces. The resulting abominations are perfect for hostage letters, zany comedy and upsetting graphic designers. Preset features include scale, offset and skew, and you can set specific glyphs not to be swapped. —
DES ALLEMANDS, LA—Holding hands and giggling as they talked the part-time fast food worker through their sandwich order, singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey and swamp tour boat captain Jeremy Dufrene reportedly celebrated their wedding anniversary Saturday at a gas station Subway restaurant. “Lana swoone
This photo of a Borzoi lying in a patch of green grass is visually stunning, yet silly because of the angle. The angelic pup looks more like a rug than a canine spread out in the grass. His fur doesn't help him look like a dog because it's so flat and long. — Read the rest The post This Borzoi nappi
Watch a playful capybara twirl a stick around his mouth like he's performing a trick at a talent show. He seems very dedicated to the art of stick twirling. His serious expression says it all. Another capybara hanging out nearby simply chews on a stick to pass the time. — Read the rest The post Watc
WASHINGTON—Despite carefully checking and double-checking the credentials of the man who reached out to him via email, FBI director Kash Patel was reportedly phished Friday by a scammer posing as FBI director Kash Patel. “First of all, he’s got my face as his profile picture, so that right there gav
A cybercriminal collective known as ShinyHunters claims to have breached the FBI’s online job portal and stolen more than 2 terabytes of employee personnel records. What do you think? The post FBI Hack Exposes Thousands Of Employee Records appeared first on The Onion.
NEW YORK—Stressing that the sport’s existing suite of advanced metrics was no longer sufficient to satisfy their hunger for increasingly granular data, baseball analysts from across the country called Wednesday for the creation of a new statistic called B.L.E.P.H. “We don’t care what it measures or
SACRAMENTO, CA—Saying the newly instituted changes better reflected the realities of modern driving, officials at the California Department of Motor Vehicles announced Friday that they had added a highway chase to the state’s standard road test. “Test-takers will be expected to safely merge onto the
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From breakout stars to aging veterans, these are the players most likely to define the 2026 NFL season. Aidan Hutchinson, Lions defensive end: After signing a four-year extension worth $180 million last season, Hutchinson should finally be able to afford enough eye black for both sides of his face.
A judge has officially ruled that tacos and burritos can be called sandwiches. Click to read the full fact. The post WTF Fun Fact 13741 – It’s Official: Tacos are Sandwiches appeared first on WTF Fun Facts.
Learn more about the precipitation called diamond dust. Click to read the full fact. The post WTF Fun Fact 13692 – Diamond Dust appeared first on WTF Fun Facts.
Autonomous product adoption might be robbing us of the emotional value of manual tasks. Click to read the full fact. The post WTF Fun Fact 13593 – Autonomous Product Adoption appeared first on WTF Fun Facts.
Vampire bats French kiss each other with mouthfuls of blood to build social ties. Click to read the full fact. The post WTF Fun Fact 13535 – Vampire Bats French Kiss appeared first on WTF Fun Facts.
Sallie Ann Jarrett was a famous civil war mascot who now has her own statue. Click to read the full fact. The post WTF Fun Fact 13256 – Sallie Ann Jarrett appeared first on WTF Fun Facts.
Living on a street with trees is associated with better health. Click to read the full fact. The post WTF Fun Fact 13165 – The Power of Trees appeared first on WTF Fun Facts.
Someday, most Facebook accounts will belong to dead people. Click to read the full fact. The post WTF Fun Fact 13007 – Dead People With Facebook Accounts appeared first on WTF Fun Facts.
You can see two sunsets from the world's tallest building. Click to read the full fact. The post WTF Fun Fact 12992 – The Burj Khalifa Double Sunset appeared first on WTF Fun Facts.
Was that a real spider on Marv's face in Home Alone? Click to read the full fact. The post WTF Fun Fact 12620 – Home Alone’s Spider Guest Star appeared first on WTF Fun Facts.
Can you really make a living watching true crime? Click to read the full fact. The post WTF Fun Fact 12595 – A Dream Job That Gives You Nightmares appeared first on WTF Fun Facts.
