PUDDLES !!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/TXjpJGW0Jl — 🎸𝐆𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐲 🤘 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧🎸 (@ScotsmanGrumpy) May 17, 2020 I can assure you without any equivocation or qualification that this dog is not a duck. It was posted… Read the rest of the article: Dog enjoys puddle

Embedded above is a news segment from 12 News Now in Beaumont, Texas; Jordan James reports from the beach. Parody is dead and death itself. I guess you can say… Read the rest of the article: Crowds head to beaches

Unemployment claims in the UK stand at 2.1m after rising 856k in April and 637k in the first quarter before that. The official total is not as proportionally bad as… Read the rest of the article: UK unemployment soars during pandemic

Hirviöt ("monster"), was a 2012 public service announcement from Finland in which the adults have been day drinking. It asks: how different are you drunk? The ad was quite effective,… Read the rest of the article: Public information film from Finland urges parents not to drink around kids

Gizmodo's George Dvorsky compiled a gallery of the weirdest images ever taken on mars and I immediately clicked through to ensure that the squirrel was included. The squirrel (above) was… Read the rest of the article: Gallery of "weird" images taken on Mars

Laura Curren, county executive of Nassau County, N.Y., offers some wise tips for playing tennis safely as the pandemic continues. The two key takehomes are "kick but don't touch other… Read the rest of the article: Official: You can kick their balls, but don't touch them

Kazuki Ikeda shot this video of deers relaxing in a park in Nara, Japan, a city famed for its park full of relaxing deers. [Previously]

Harley-Davidson leveraged itself up the eyeballs as its brand tired and its business turned into a maze of protectionism and politics. Then the pandemic hit. "Most people blame me, the… Read the rest of the article: How Harley-Davidson killed itself

LMFAOOOOOOOO I AM IN TEARS😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/UWq0kaBIHT — Teflon Juan, M.S.Ed 🇰🇪 (@realjaycollins) May 16, 2020 In this footage, fear is the mind-killer.

AI can't flow, but Biggie somehow has it from beyond the grave. Join the subreddit associated with this channel at https://reddit.com/r/VocalSynthesis The voice in this video was entirely computer-generated using… Read the rest of the article: Voicefake: Biggie raps I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General

Andrew Cotter, who has found lockdown fame narrating the mundane adventures of his two dogs Olive and Mabel as if they were golfers at the apex of a tense match,… Read the rest of the article: Golf announcer's dogs go for a walk

Here is the complete genome of SARS-CoV-2, specifically the Wuhan-Hi-1 isolate (there are many to pick from). So little information, so much trouble!

One reason Trump's reelection campaign will become feral and unhinged is the likelihood of his prosecution as soon as presidential immunity comes to an end. Joe Biden, his presumptive challenger,… Read the rest of the article: Biden: I will not pardon Trump

The Apprehension Engine is a custom musical instrument that generates the unsettling and scary noises often heard in horror movies. But it has nothing on this old postcard spinner. It… Read the rest of the article: Empty postcard display spinner is a superior nightmare noise maker

The best solutions are sometimes the simplest ones: "I've been topping off a leaky tire for weeks and staring at my garden hose wondering if I could use it instead… Read the rest of the article: Got a deflated tire but 10 two-liter bottles? Make this DIY air compressor!

A law passed today in France obliges internet platforms to remove content within an hour or face huge fines, reports the BBC. The law concerns content related to terrorism or… Read the rest of the article: French companies will have one hour to remove content at police demand

Weston Kay is a leathercrafter who specializes in footwear teardowns, slicing and dicing shoes and boots to expose how well-made (or not) they are. This video seems a good introduction… Read the rest of the article: Cheap materials, expensive shoes: $425 sneaker teardown

How quaint "Not Racist But #1 With Racists" now seems.

This humorous scene presents a beautiful fractal of American office life. The soup of politeness, defensiveness, misaligned expectations and incentives, barely-suppressed self-loathing and rage, and bullshit? Surely recognizable to anyone… Read the rest of the article: Are you "medium busy" with various sundry computer-related tasks?

The BBC reports that conspiracy videos about Covid-19 account for "more than a quarter of the most-watched videos" about the pandemic. The study, published online by BMJ Global Health, looked… Read the rest of the article: Covid misinformation videos overwhelm YouTube