TL;DR: Get a refurbished Nintendo Switch bundle with all the accessories you need for $219.99 (reg. $299.99).

If your idea of relaxation involves button-mashing, cozy gaming marathons, or finally understanding why everyone won't stop talking about Mario Kart, this Nintendo Switch bundle is your low-friction entry point. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Enjoy lifetime access to Microsoft Office Pro 2021 for Windows with a free training bundle to sharpen your skills for $39.97 (MSRP $239.99) until Apr. 19 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

If you've been in the office with an Excel pro, you know they're a handy asset. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Never lose your passwords again with 88% off Sticky Password Premium for just $24.97 (Reg. $199.99).

Cybersecurity is more important than ever. That means your generic passwords probably won't cut it anymore — especially when data breaches are a dime a dozen. — Read the rest

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Rough week for pedo protector Pam Bondi. Trump threw her under a bus, Congress still wants her to testify under oath, and someone at the DOJ tossed her portrait in the trash.

Bondi was clearly a fierce Trump-supporting sycophant, but it wasn't enough to save her job. — Read the rest

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On February 11, 2013, someone hacked into the Emergency Alert Systems of at least five TV stations and broadcast a message warning viewers that "the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living." KRTV in Great Falls, Montana, was first. — Read the rest

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Playwright Jeremy O. Harris — Slave Play, Daddy — was in Okinawa last year to make a film when Japanese customs found MDMA in his toiletry bag. He spent 23 days in a Japanese detention facility. He went through 23 books and submitted a movie outline to a major studio from his cell. — Read the rest

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Tucked behind the manger in traditional Catalan nativity scenes, almost hidden, is a little figurine with his trousers down, squatting. That's the caganer — literally "the defecator" — and he's been there since at least the 17th or 18th century Baroque period. — Read the rest

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In May 2005, a Tuck School of Business student named Mark Nuckols launched Hufu, a tofu product marketed as "the healthy human flesh alternative for the cannibalism-curious." The origin story: Nuckols was eating a tofurkey sandwich while reading Marvin Harris's anthropology book on cannibalism when the idea struck him. — Read the rest

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Keith Brown, a British petroleum engineer, ate the same cheerless sandwiches for lunch every day — dry bread, a slice of something, no condiments — and his wife Zhang Jian filmed them. She posted the videos to Douyin, China's version of TikTok, where audiences were, according to Wikipedia, "grimly fascinated." — Read the rest

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For 29 years, Baltia Air Lines — later renamed USGlobal Airways — existed as a real company with real investors, real Boeing 747s, and real executives. It never carried a single paying passenger. According to Wikipedia, it also "never generated any revenue outside of that raised from investors." — Read the rest

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The U.S. government forgot how to make a classified component of its own nuclear warheads, then spent $92 million figuring it out again. The material is called Fogbank, and almost everything about it is classified — its composition, its purpose, and how it's manufactured. — Read the rest

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The mating dance of the Attwater's prairie chicken is truly a display of beauty and grace. If you don't believe me, just watch this video, recently posted by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, which announced that it's currently mating season for the species of grouse that the U.S. — Read the rest

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Continuing my trend of writing about Really Cool Websites You've Probably Never Heard Of, here's another, perfect for anyone who's sick of the current AI obsession we're living in. Which is to say, anyone with sense.

You may have heard tell of comedian Ben Palmer's fake ChatGPT frontend, which, in fact, just sent messages directly to him to answer with his very much non-artificial intelligence. — Read the rest

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In Hugo, Oklahoma, you can visit the Showmen's Rest area of the Woodlawn Cemetery to see the graves of circus performers from the Showmen's League of America. This video from Cylinderella offers a glimpse of some unusual headstones featuring various circus animals and performers. — Read the rest

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The man in charge of coordinating federal disaster response says he was once mysteriously transported by God to a Waffle House in Georgia. A claim that, incredibly, is not disqualifying in an administration that seems to treat basic reality as optional. — Read the rest

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In case you haven't heard of Med Beds — well, first off, I'm jealous of you, because you clearly aren't cursed with knowledge of what the QAnon right is getting up to nowadays. Let me curse you: it's the latest buzzword to come out of the MAGA cult (and I do mean cult literally in this case). — Read the rest

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This 1915 ice cream advertisement was featured in a paper. The ad reads "Eat More Ice Cream. It's good for you." Underneath this text, the ad explains how ice cream can be eaten at any time of the day and that you'll feel fantastic afterwards. — Read the rest

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After quietly swapping real chocolate for cheaper coatings in some products, Hershey is now reversing course and promising to bring back classic Reese's recipes, a rare admission that customers can, in fact, tell when you cheap out on the good stuff. — Read the rest

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I can't stop watching videos from Jellytoi, a mischievous prankster who stirs up chaos with a simple can of jellied cranberry sauce. The premise of all Jellytoi's videos goes as follows: a can of cranberry sauce is emptied out in a public space and left in a perfect can shape. — Read the rest

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Former congressperson Matt Gaetz says a uniformed member of the U.S. military once briefed him on a secret program in which aliens are breeding with kidnapped humans from war zones and migrant caravans, a claim he admits he never bothered to verify. — Read the rest

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Truly, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a game that keeps on giving. Two full expansions and countless small DLCs later, and CD Projekt Red's monster-slaying RPG masterpiece continues to evolve. If you've so much as looked at a gaming console in the past ten years, you've heard of The Witcher 3: deep and impactful player choices, an authentically miserable medieval Polish world to explore, a wide cast of monsters that only you, in the shoes of professional monster hunter Geralt of Rivia, can slay. — Read the rest

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We expect premium high-octane bullshit from the Trump administration at this point. There's no way to trust what anyone handpicked by the President to do a job can do that job honestly. The latest — perhaps one of the most disgusting violations of the American public's trust — has been brought to light by The Intercept: The Pentagon is trying to hide the number of casualties that the United States armed forces have sustained in the President's illegal war on Iran. — Read the rest

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You'll find tons of guides online that explain how to reduce the fugly of Apple's Liquid Glass design aesthetic in iPhone OS 26. And why not? It makes many on-screen elements hard to see, even in ideal lighting, and removes some of the customization freedom iPhones enjoyed in the last few iterations of the company's phone operating system. — Read the rest

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A 62-year-old Alabama grandmother is headed to trial after police tackled and arrested her at a No Kings protest for wearing an inflatable penis costume and carrying a "No Dick Tator" sign. Apparently, the authorities in Fairhope have decided the real threat to public order is a joke everyone understood. — Read the rest

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Just hours into its historic mission to return to the moon for the first time in half a century, Integrity suffered a mission-critical failure — the toilet. Shortly after entering Earth orbit, the fan in the Universal Waste Management System (UWMS) redesigned for the Orion capsule failed to start. — Read the rest

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When I first heard about the concept behind the comics adjacent Superfan Podcast, it immediately reminded me of an idea we kicked around at Boing Boing back in our print days. We thought it'd be fun to do a feature where we hung out with some well-known fringe culture personalities and talked to them about anything other than the thing they were known for. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Through April 12, you can get Microsoft Office Home and Business 2024 for Mac or PC for life for only $99.97.

Paying software subscriptions like Microsoft 365 doesn't really make sense once you think about it. You're paying every month for something you'll never actually own. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Grab this AdGuard VPN 5-year subscription for just $49.99 (reg. $359.40). It supports up to 10 devices with zero logs.

Every search you run, every rabbit hole you tumble down, every embarrassing product you look up at 2 a.m., someone's watching. — Read the rest

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Preston Byrne, the US attorney who has been merrily trolling UK regulators on behalf of 4chan, has co-authored a draft bill, the UK Free Speech Act, with the Adam Smith Institute, according to The Rage. The bill would codify First Amendment-style speech protections into UK law: confine criminal liability to threats, incitement, and harassment; forbid government suppression of speech; ban police from logging non-criminal "hate incidents"; protect workers from dismissal for lawful expression; and prevent banks from refusing services based on opinions. — Read the rest

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Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have modified tobacco plants to yield five psychedelic compounds at once: bufotenin and 5-MeO-DMT (from Colorado River toad secretions), DMT (a tryptamine found across plant species), and psilocin and psilocybin (normally found in mushrooms). — Read the rest

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