The coat of arms of the Swiss canton of Bern features a bear. The bear has a penis¹. It's not a big penis, but it is right there, and some people wanted it gone. The cantonal government, having considered the issue, decided to keep the penis. — Read the rest

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U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R—Fla.) claimed on The Joe Rogan Experience that there is evidence of interdimensional beings. According to the transcript:

"They can actually operate through the time spaces," Luna, a U.S. Air Force veteran, told Rogan.

Without getting into classified conversations, Luna said, there "were very credible" witnesses who reported "movement outside of time and space."

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer posted a video to Tik Tok depicting him reviewing some British military firepower, with a voiceover solemnly defending his ambivalent response to the Iran War. His reedy voice is ill-suited to such cinematic efforts in the first place, and the comically Trumpian vibe is also at odds with norms of British political communication. — Read the rest

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A massive sock monkey created by Emilia Evans-Munton has earned a spot in Guinness World Records as the largest sculpture of its kind. The 22-year-old artist built the enormous textile creature for her degree show at the Glasgow School of Art. — Read the rest

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In Rothsay, Minnesota, you can see the world's largest prairie chicken sculpture. This wonderful giant chicken stands 13 feet high, 18 feet long, and weighs a whopping 9,000 pounds. It stands with its head bowed, on top of a plaque. — Read the rest

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Sci-fi prepared us for killer robots. Not robots that steal your essence. Grammarly's newest helpful feature, which uses AI to generate feedback from deceased authors, is being referred to disparagingly as "digital necromancy." I did not have "using dead authors to cheat on homework" on my 2026 bingo card, although perhaps I should have. — Read the rest

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I'll never get bored of how delicious the irony of Amazon making The Boys, a show ostensibly about superheroes but really about the devastating effects of unchecked capitalism, is. Unfortunately, I won't get to enjoy that delicious irony much longer, as the show will conclude with its fifth and final season this April. — Read the rest

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There's just something about beloved pets living in to-scale dioramas that gets me.

Xing's World for his cats, for instance, is one of the most impressive projects I've ever seen, but I think it may have some serious competition from English photographer and model maker Simon Dell. — Read the rest

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Hi my name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that's how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don't know who she is get da hell out of here!). — Read the rest

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Every once in a while, YouTube's algorithm delivers something completely unexpected. A gem you've never searched for and never would have guessed existed.

Today, that gem was bicycle gymnastics. Not the events I usually watch — extreme tag or competitive axe-chopping — but something equally athletic and far more surreal. — Read the rest

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I guess I'll have to be the one to say it: there are a lot of Assassin's Creed games. Pretty brave, right? Yeah, I guess I'm just in the habit of saying what everyone is thinking. Here's another spicy take: of them all, Assassin's Creed Unity is easily the most divisive. — Read the rest

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If you have a touch of the ADHD or you just like categorizing things, I'm sorry in advance for stealing your afternoon. I'm just paying it forward, though: one of my friends sent me a link to 45 by 45 recently knowing full well the effect it would have on me. — Read the rest

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To quote myself, "Assassin's Creed: Black Flag is supposed to be the good one." Among its fellows in the (very, very) prolific Assassin's Creed franchise, Edward Kenway's swashbuckling adventure is generally regarded the high point of the core series before beginning its microtransaction-infested decline in earnest. — Read the rest

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In these wonderful videos, artist Shoji Yamasaki performs alongside videos of objects left behind outdoors. He records himself moving his body and even wearing different outfits that imitate the object from the initial video. He places the video of the object and of himself side by side, showing them in unison. — Read the rest

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Here are some compelling photos of what happens to shoes after they're left out in nature for a while. Long after a pair of sneakers has outlived its usefulness to humans, they can begin an unexpected second life. Sometimes people abandon their sneakers in the great outdoors, and although littering isn't cool, what happens to some of these sneakers is fascinating to see. — Read the rest

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Every time you recall a painful memory, your brain has to re-save it — and propranolol, a cheap beta-blocker commonly prescribed for blood pressure, interferes with that process. Take it before recalling a bad experience, and the memory comes back duller, less emotionally charged. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Windows 11 Pro is Microsoft's latest operating system, and it delivers enhanced security features, an updated interface, and AI integration—get it now for just $12.97 (reg. $199). 

Microsoft is such a staple that you'd be forgiven for thinking any old operating system can do the job. — Read the rest

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Ikea just announced its Kallsup portable Bluetooth speakers, which come in pink and yellow-green—just like that new MacBook Neo that Apple announced. Ikea's saturation slider is way up, though, so I'm not sure how well they'll go together. But they share another thing in common: they are inexpensive. — Read the rest

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The House voted 357-65 on Tuesday to bury a resolution that would have forced public disclosure of sexual harassment investigations against members of Congress.

The resolution came from Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who wanted the Ethics Committee to open its files on harassment cases — including cases where members had sexual relationships with their own staff. — Read the rest

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Ken Paxton has done everything right by the MAGA playbook — challenged the 2020 election, flew to Mar-a-Lago for Trump's 2024 campaign launch, and stood with him in the New York courtroom. "No one has been more loyal to Donald Trump than me," Paxton posted on X. — Read the rest

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Anytime I sit down to watch a movie without an idea in mind, I end up browsing movies for way too long. By the time I've selected a movie, it's already too close to my bedtime to start it. Searching for a movie ahead of time has become much easier for me with a website called waaat.ch — Read the rest

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Musical comedian Ben Lapidus is out here asking the tough questions that have plagued us all for years. In a new full-length video that he released today for his song PETSMART, Lapidus, a self-proclaimed "PETSMART Truther," wants to know whether the company "PETSMART" is actually "Pet Smart" or "Pet's Mart." — Read the rest

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A company called Safe America Media was incorporated just 11 days before landing roughly $143 million in no-bid DHS contracts to produce ads urging immigrants to self-deport. The ads starred Noem herself, riding a horse at Mount Rushmore in what amounted to a taxpayer-funded vanity project, according to the Wall Street Journal. — Read the rest

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Last Saturday, air defenses intercepted Iranian missiles over Dubai. The missiles were destroyed, but wreckage crashed into the Fairmont hotel on Palm Jumeirah and struck near Dubai International Airport, sending flames and shrapnel across some of the city's most visible landmarks. — Read the rest

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Over the past 10 months, a Figure 02 humanoid robot at BMW's Spartanburg plant in South Carolina worked 10-hour shifts, five days a week, moving more than 90,000 sheet-metal components over roughly 1,250 operating hours and 1.2 million steps. Its job — removing and positioning parts for welding — is the kind of repetitive, physically punishing work that chews through human bodies. — Read the rest

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Elon Musk told a Delaware courtroom he hadn't read his deposition transcripts or prepared for his testimony because he works "an insane workload, 100 hours a week." He was there to answer questions about a tweet that tanked Twitter's stock price during his $44 billion acquisition — a tweet he conceded on the stand "may not have been my wisest." — Read the rest

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More than $600,000 flowed through Jeffrey Epstein's JPMorgan accounts directly to a 14-year-old girl — one the bank's own internal descriptions referred to as having been "purchased." Compliance staff flagged the accounts. Senior executives overruled them and kept the relationship alive. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: This 7th generation iPad comes with 32GB of storage space, a 10.2″ Retina display, an Apple A10 Fusion chip, and up to 10 hours of battery life for just $94.99 (reg. $199.99). 

If you're on the market for a tablet and a sworn member of the Apple ecosystem, this refurbished 7th Gen Apple iPad (2019) may be exactly what you're looking for. — Read the rest

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The long-rumored MacBook Neo is Apple's lowest-priced laptop and comes in a variety of lovely colors: "blush, indigo, silver and a fresh new citrus." It has 8GB of RAM, 256GB or 512GB of storage, a 6-core A18 processor (as found in iPhones) and a promise of all-day battery life. — Read the rest

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Were I the driver with this dashcam, my heart might have exploded. This is some amazing freeway chaos.

The driver says they had seconds to respond, but it doesn't look like they had to. The boat was over the median, and the dashcam vehicle didn't seem to change speed. — Read the rest

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