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A tree by Hadrian's Wall, among England's most famous vegetables, was felled in the night last September, under cover of Storm Agnes. Authorities have concluded their investigation and charge...

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The entire division of Tesla responsible for the company's public supercharger network is being canned , reports the BBC. Citing messages from those affected, it counts "hundreds" of firings....

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Lawyers from the Police Benevolent Association have filed a lawsuit against NYPD Police Commissioner Edward Caban and Mayor Adams over recent policy changes relating to the use of performance ...

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Avid Pro Tools, makers of music-making software, recently posted this funny and surprisingly accurate video  of "rock stars that sound like…" Have you ever thought about how Robert Plan...

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We've been fans of Reverend Billy  for a long time! I personally encountered his work around 2005 when I first began studying culture jamming as a form of social activism and public pedagog...

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In the next three minutes, prepare to witness a man, machine, and their unlikely ballet. The plot of this short film follows a man, after finishing up his day's work, catching sight of a 22-to...

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Anyone with a dog knows that they can tell time—but how? Alexandra Horowitz is a professor and Senior Research Fellow at Barnard College with a PhD in Cognitive Science. She runs Barnard's D...

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Over the weekend, the Crab Museum in Margate, England held the inaugural World's Funniest Crab Joke competition , in celebration of International Crab Day. The Guardian covered the competiti...

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When asked for the source about dubious claims, Donald Trump clearly short circuits, gives a meandering "uuuuuuuh" and then leans into a word salad that includes the words papers and Venezuel...

https://boingboing.net/2024/04/30/trump-unable-to-source-his-venezuelan-crime-stats.html

A man in Weston, England tried to convince a group of strangers waiting at a bus stop that a wild fox running around town was harmless. "People are scared of it for no reason," the gentleman...

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The opening credits sequence from X-Men: The Animated Series is one of the more memorable cartoon intros of all time, with a riveting theme song and an exciting clash of characters. The series...

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Over the weekend, the New York Post published a piece titled, "College students aren't having enough sex — so they're turning to anti-Israel protests. " The article focused on recent comment...

https://boingboing.net/2024/04/30/could-covid-19-and-a-lack-of-sex-be-the-reason-why-young-people-are-protesting.html

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After a century of racist demonization of cannabis, the federal government appears to be willing to budge on its zero-tolerance policy. As reported in The Washington Post , Attorney General Me...

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Alligators are terrifying, prehistoric apex predators—or are they? This alligator is probably having the most embarrassing day of its life. It struggles to find purchase on the slippery fenc...

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In 2022, a woman walked in on her ragdoll kitty without knocking first, only to discover he was a secret acrobat. She posted about his cute and clumsy efforts of hanging on a chandelier and...

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Punctuating the skyline of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan's capital, is an architectural monstrosity that defies convention — the Neutrality Monument. This massive 95-meter grotesquely phallic arch,...

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Fresh off the introduction of the new, super-creepy Atlas robot, Boston Dynamics has revealed a blue, glittery, Muppetesque version of Spot named Sparkles. Sparkles and Spot greet each other,...

https://boingboing.net/2024/04/30/meet-sparkles-the-robot-dog-who-definitely-isnt-going-to-murder-you.html

Three year-old Saylor Class complained that there was a monster in her room. Her parents thought it was a figment of her imagination. It wasn't. It was 60000 bees. > "We even gave her�...

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Julius Kivimäki, a 26-year-old Finnish creep, has been sent to prison for hacking a psychotherapy firm and stealing intimate notes on over 33,000 patients, then trying to extort the company a...

https://boingboing.net/2024/04/30/one-of-europes-most-notorious-cyber-criminals-gets-prison-time-for-stealing-therapy-notes-of-33000-people-and-attempting-to-extort-them.html

Columbia University shut the entire school down today. This comes after after hundreds of pro-Palestine protestors were arrested yesterday, followed by hundreds of school faculty members wal...

https://boingboing.net/2024/04/30/columbia-university-shuts-down-as-protestors-barricade-inside-building-video.html

Earlier this month, a mysterious masked man known only as cheeseballman427 began advertising his actions: at 3pm sharp on Saturday, April 27, in the year of our Lord 2024, cheeseballman427 wo...

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Having escaped from jail, "the most courteous thief in the nation" lived in a shuttered Circuit City and survived on supplies stolen from a neighboring Toys R Us. It sounds like Jeffrey Man...

https://boingboing.net/2024/04/30/an-escaped-convict-hid-out-in-a-shuttered-circuit-city-for-six-months.html

Four zebras escaped from a a trailer on I-90 near the town of North Bend, Washington over the weekend. From The Seattle Times : >  Johnson said the > driver was taking the zebras t...

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The battle rages on even in California, a State that quickly stepped up to protect women's rights to manage their health care. As California, at a statewide level, was willing to protect wom...

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Donald Trump solemnly bid his farewells before entering the "the icebox" this morning — where one hour later he reportedly closed his eyes and transformed himself into a frozen vegetable. ...

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In what sounds like an overreaction to misbehaving and rude tourists, a small town in Japan hides its beautiful view of Mount Fuji behind a scrim. In response to overzealous tourists lookin...

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