A ballet performance of Romeo and Juliet in Izmir, Turkey, was nearing its tragic conclusion when an uninvited cast member wandered onstage and quietly took over the production. This mischievous cat appeared during the final scene and began acting like it had been rehearsing with the company for weeks. — Read the rest

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The massive consulting firm KPMG had to pull a lengthy report on the use of Agentic AI after it was found to be riddled with AI-generated fabrications and mangled citations. AI detection company GPTZero analyzed the report, Total Experience: Redefining Excellence in the Age of Agentic AI, which was released in October, 2025. — Read the rest

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I really, really loved Dragon's Dogma 2. Yes, even after its meme-filled moment in the sun was over. Yes, even in spite of the wholly unnecessary microtransactions that marred its reputation at release. (Incidentally, literally every Capcom game has those. — Read the rest

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Asked whether anyone would be held accountable for a strike on an elementary school that killed more than 100 children, Grandpa Pudding Brains said no, called it "a strange question," and shrugged: "Mistakes are made."

The children were killed in the active voice. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for just $9.97 (reg. $199). 

Deal Days, Stack Social's Prime Day equivalent, is an excellent time to get the software you've always wanted at a great bargain; and this Microsoft Windows 11 Pro license is a great example of why. — Read the rest

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It should come as no surprise by now that I enjoy a good scambait. Scambaiting, or the art of deliberately wasting scammers' time, has become a bit of a flourishing practice of late. All the better for people who love both being entertained and watching criminal activity get foiled. — Read the rest

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Well, this is a sweet bonus: if you own an Android foldable like a Samsung Z Series foldable, OnePlus Open or Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold, you may soon have access to a customizable, virtual gamepad baked into Android 17, which is set to start rolling out to Android hardware today. — Read the rest

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Back when Shrek 5 was officially confirmed as a project that was, indeed, happening, I thought it was overdue. Now that an actual trailer has dropped, though, I think I'm officially upgrading that to "too late." Maybe my expectations were too high after spinoff Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, which was a genuine masterpiece of a family movie. — Read the rest

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In the department of Yoro, Honduras, fish turn up on the ground after large storms. The lluvia de peces — literally "rain of fish" — has been reported for over a hundred years and is said by residents to happen every year during the mid-year rainy season. — Read the rest

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A toast sandwich is exactly what it sounds like: a thin slice of toasted bread, placed between two slices of untoasted bread. Season with salt and pepper. The recipe appears in Isabella Beeton's 1861 Book of Household Management, in the section for invalid cookery. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: A 1-year Rosetta Stone subscription is $127.20 (reg. $159) through June 28 as part of Deal Days — new users only.

Google Translate will get you through a crisis. Rosetta Stone will get you through a dinner party, a day trip, and the kind of off-menu conversation that actually makes a trip memorable. — Read the rest

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Tom the Dancing Bug: The Dementia Donnie TV Room

-> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! JOIN US IN THE INNER HIVE, and be the first kid on your block to get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic – before it's published anywhere. — Read the rest

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Apple added a feature called Vehicle Motion Cues in 2024 that places small dots around the edge of your screen. The dots move in sync with your car — sweeping left when you turn right, sliding forward when you brake. Your inner ear detects motion while your eyes see a static screen, and the mismatch causes nausea. — Read the rest

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When a former prosecutor got a new case, the first thing he asked was whether the suspect talked. "Nothing lights up a prosecutor's face when he is faced with a difficult case and finds out the suspect talked," writes the Campola Law Firm. — Read the rest

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The UNSW team that used ultrasound to speed up cold brew to three minutes has pushed the technique further — producing espresso-strength shots with room-temperature water. A transducer pressed against a coffee filter basket generates sound waves that create acoustic cavitation, collapsing microscopic bubbles that fracture the grounds and pull out flavor compounds far faster than cold water alone. — Read the rest

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Grandpa Pudding Brains wanted the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool painted "American flag blue," and nature responded with algae bloom green.

The newly refurbished Reflecting Pool was supposed to transform Washington's look. Success: the giant painted blue basin turned green, and crews are now reportedly fighting the bloom with hydrogen peroxide, vacuums, skimmers, and ozone nanobubbles. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: One payment, no renewals, no subscription drama — this lifetime Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 license is just $19.97 (reg. $229) through June 28.

There is a reality where Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are fully unlocked and live permanently on your PC for less than twenty bucks. — Read the rest

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Connect to an open WiFi network, and a captive portal opens a shelf of banned ebooks. The access point is a smart light bulb. Rick Osgood reflashed the ESP32 chip inside with custom firmware, rewrote the partition table to carve out 2MB of the 4MB flash for storage, and built a web server that runs entirely off the bulb's power. — Read the rest

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In 1906, a U.S. plant pathologist named Franklin Sumner Earle collected a small brown mushroom in Cuba and shipped it to the New York Botanical Garden. He called it Stropharia cubensis — later reclassified as Psilocybe cubensis — and never mentioned it again in any of his letters. — Read the rest

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In January 2020, a Finnish Reddit user posted a photo of curtains printed with eight celebrity faces and asked for help identifying them. Seven were quickly matched — Josh Holloway, Jessica Alba, Orlando Bloom, and others prominent in the mid-2000s. The sixth face, dubbed Celebrity Number Six, resisted identification for four years. — Read the rest

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On Sunday, July 13, 1980, around 500 children from 11 marching bands gathered at the Hollinwell Showground near Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, for a Junior Brass and Marching Band competition. At about 10:30 am, band members began to collapse. Children began "[falling] down like nine pins," according to one witness. — Read the rest

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The Turnspit Dog was a short-legged, long-bodied breed kept in English kitchens to run inside a wooden wheel connected to a roasting spit. First mentioned in 1576 as "Turnespete," the breed was also known by several names: Kitchen Dog, Cooking Dog, or Wheeling Dog. — Read the rest

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Theodore Hook is a historical figure whose eccentricity defined his period. He became known for the Berners Street Hoax of 1810—an undertaking considered arguably the greatest practical joke in history. Hook arranged for dozens of tradesmen, including the Lord Mayor and the Duke of Gloucester, to converge on a single London address for a wager. — Read the rest

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Not every phone is meant to connect two living people. At San Francisco's Sunset Dunes, a bright blue phone booth gives visitors a chance to speak the words they never got to say to someone they've lost. You can watch someone using the phone here in this sweet video. — Read the rest

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A video of this weird-looking phenomenon shows a person standing at the razor-thin boundary between clear skies and a rain shower. A distinct curtain of rain advances across the street while the ground around her remains completely dry. As it moves closer and closer, it looks like two worlds colliding. — Read the rest

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Raw Story, citing the Daily Mail, says Maxwell has formed a "highly secretive" group at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, where she allegedly whispers with three women she considers among the "finest and best educated" prisoners. The reported crew has a certain country-club-crime theme: a doctor convicted in a bogus billing case, a former CFO accused of raiding company funds, and a bookkeeper who wrote herself very generous checks. — Read the rest

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You have to promise to pretend to be a little surprised when I tell you that Grand Theft Auto 4's Liberty City was based on real-life New York. I'm not asking for a full send, just gasp a little or something. — Read the rest

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It's a funny world when Breaking Bad's comic relief lawyer Saul Goodman has more integrity than the sitting President. I did not tune into Trump's UFC fight, but you better believe I sat up when Better Call Saul co-creator and showrunner Peter Gould posted a celebration of his own. — Read the rest

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Pemba, a modified Unitree G1 humanoid robot, is on an expedition slated to culminate with a summit of Mount Everest. Unitree's robots can pull off impressive kung fu and parkour, but all bipedal robots struggle on uneven terrain. (And sometimes even on level ground.) — Read the rest

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Sixty-three arrests. Four stabbings. One shooting. When New York City gets out to celebrate, they celebrate. The city's reaction to their hometown heroes winning the NBA championships has become the stuff of legends in mere days, and not for no reason. — Read the rest

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