[Note: disturbing photos below] Lisa Kereszi “has an eye for the kind of detail that makes you feel like slitting your throat,” Sarah Boxer...
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Worker at Utah DMV wears best #Halloween costume ever for DMV worker
I love this. A guy working at an office of the Utah state Division of Motor Vehicles wore a sloth costume to work today. I salute you, sir,...
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Senate Intelligence Committee is investigating Bannon and his Cambridge Analytica activities
The United States Senate Intelligence Committee is “pursuing a wide-ranging investigation” into ex-White House adviser Steve Bannon’s activi...
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96-year-old Carl Reiner has a message for Americans
Carl Reiner is disgusted with what's happening in the United States these days. In this heartfelt PSA , the accomplished nonagenarian s...
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Trump Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Varma tweets obscene Halloween joke
It's not funny. Medicare For All is the idea of you and everyone you love being protected from going bankrupt if you get really sick. ...
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Trump's US-Mexico border troop deployment could go as high as 15,000.
President Donald Trump said today he may issue an order to deploy more troops, possibly up to 15,000, to the U.S. southern border with Mexic...
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Exchange unwanted Halloween candy for Reese's with this vending machine
I can't help but love the " Reese's Halloween Candy Converter ." It's a vending machine where some fortunate trick-or...
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'Jobs not Mobs' is Trump's new video, promising full-on fascism after midterms
Full on white supremacy and fascism, folks. 'Jobs Not Mobs, Vote Republican Now,' says the sitting president, in an ad with a rais...
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Computational propaganda, bots, and the amplification of anti-semitism online
Just days before the horrific mass murder at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue, my Institute for the Future colleagues Sam Woolley and...
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Sample pages from Liz Suburbia's new comic book anthology, Thee Collected Cyanide Milkshake
Artist Janelle Hessig (who was a guest many times on Boing Boing's retired Gweek podcast) has launched a comic book publishing company i...
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What it's like to drive in Japan
I'm pretty used to driving on the left side of the road, having driven in Rarotonga, New Zealand, and Australia for several months. But...
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An artificial intelligence populated these photos with glitchy humanoid ghosts
Two of the MIT researchers behind the provocative Deep Angel project, an algorithm that digitally erases objects from photos, have now deli...
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Can you see the penis character 𓂸 found hiding in the Egyptian hieroglyphics unicode block?
There are three Egyptian hieroglyphs depicting penises, each with Unicode characters: 𓂸𓂹 𓂺 Amazingly, no-one seems to know about them des...
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Picking locks with a cheap battery-powered pumpkin saw
The LockPickingLaweyer modified a cheap battery-powered pumpkin-carving saw into a rather effective electric lock pick! from Boing Boin...
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The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora induced a climate crisis and changed world history
The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 was a disaster for the Dutch East Indies, but its astonishing consequences were felt around the world...
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First screen test of Henry Cavill in The Witcher
Cast as Geralt in the forthcoming adaptation of The Witcher , Henry Cavill seems to be undergoing an unsettling realization in his first co...
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Antarctic scientist stabs colleague who kept spoiling the endings of books for him
Russians, obviously. Quality UK newspaper The Sun reports: A SCIENTIST accused of attempted murder in Antarctica stabbed his colleague b...
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No logs and no ads make this VPN an excellent choice
Not all virtual private networks are created equal. For masking your IP address and location, just about any service will do. But in an incr...
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High on the hog: what cannabis-fed pork tastes like
What pork from pigs who had a cannabis-infused diet tastes like wasn't a burning question that I needed answered. But damned if I'm...
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Ministry's "(Everyday Is) Halloween" (1984)
Al Jourgensen may prefer to forget that he once cultivated an English accent and created this underground club hit, but on this day, we hap...
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Food magazine editor resigns after joking about "killing vegans, one by one".
William Sitwell, editor of UK grocery chain Waitrose's in-house magazine, has resigned after calling for the killing of vegans. He was r...
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Outfits to indoctrinate the future postal worker in your life
Just kidding, these are officially-licensed USPS U.S. Mail Carrier costumes for kids and they're adorable at that. At $24.95, I might ...
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Blackface halloween costume costs nurse her job
Blackface halloween costumes represent a perfectly-formed bubble of bad ideas. Everyone knows they're widely condemned as racist and eve...
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The dialysis industry just set a campaign spending record to fight California limits on pricing
At $111,000,000, the California dialysis industry's campaign spending against Prop 8 (which caps the price of outpatient dialysis) is no...
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Watch the Addams Family dance to Joy Division
Last year they danced to The Ramones. This year the Addams Family is grooving to Joy Division. Related: How Wednesday Addams got her nam...
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iPhones hate helium
The bad news is that, due to the sheer tininess of certain components, iPhones are particularly vulnerable to going haywire in the presence ...
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These Halloween dog treats are called "Bits O' Brains"
I'm not sure what's funnier about these Halloween dog treats: the fact that they exist or that they're clled "Bits O' B...
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How to open a walnut with your bare hands
The key appears to be having something other than bare hands to crunch it against, such as concrete. But commenters insist this can be acco...
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Voting, an American Choice!
FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book . RESIST! … the temptation to fail to JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription cl...
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London's new high-rises: speculators' luxury flats designed never to be occupied
London is the epicentre of the British affordable housing crisis, and while there are over 500 high-rises under construction in the capital,...
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Greyhound abandons 400 remote communities in Canada
Greyhound announced that it was pulling its buses out of western Canada earlier this year. For anyone that owns a car? No big deal. For thos...
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FBI investigating right-wing troll's bungled attempt to accuse Mueller of rape
Far-right Twitter troll Jacob Wohl (age 20) looks like he could be in a heap o' trouble. The banned-for-life ex-futures trader recently...
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