Sixty-nine cents a month gets you a subscription to a bye.fyi email address. You will never see any email sent to the address, but anyone who sends you email gets… Read the rest of the article: Bye is the first email service to automatically respond with an insult, and then delete every email sent to you
Somewhere between discovering The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Hellblazer, I fell deeply into love with early-to-mid 20th-century detective fiction. It was a world of smart men who mean… Read the rest of the article: Raymond Chandler is the once and future king of opening paragraphs
Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds Hi, everyone. Welcome back to the… Read the rest of the article: In Praise of THE SPAMP! And SPIT-COIN: A Proposal to Convert All Money to Saliva
This curious rock fell from the sky above Sanchore, Rajasthan, northern India on Friday, alarming residents with a huge explosive sound and leaving a one-foot crater where it fell. The… Read the rest of the article: This curious object fell from the sky in northern India
The English language is full of weird, unofficial rules that dictate certain grammatical changes for seemingly arbitrary reasons other than "it just feels right." Consider: inserting the word "fuck" into… Read the rest of the article: A great fucking explanation of expletive in-fucking-sertion
During the COVID-19 pandemic, 2.6 billion people were under a mandate to stay at home. According to psychologist Elke Van Hoof of Free University of Brussels-VUB, [the lockdown] "is arguably… Read the rest of the article: We are all part of the biggest psychological experiment in history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJV9acMsDwM If HBO's upcoming Lovecraft Country is even 20% as great as its source material—Matt Ruff's novel bearing the same name—We're in for a fun, terrifying treat. I suppose we'll… Read the rest of the article: Lovecraft Country is coming to HBO and I am here for it
Since 1940, a statue of President Theodore Roosevelt on a horse flanked by a Native American man and an African man on foot has stood outside New York City's American… Read the rest of the article: Goodbye to the racist statue of Roosevelt and two people of color outside NYC's Natural History Museum
Every year, adventurous (and oft-unprepared) hikers who are fans of Jon Krakauer's book "Into the Wild" (1996) or the move based upon it have attempted the treacherous 20 mile trek… Read the rest of the article: The "Into the Wild Bus" is gone
Colin Kaepernick is joining Medium's board of directors. He'll also develop editorial content for Medium's Level magazine for black and brown men and their new anti-racism blog Momentum. According to… Read the rest of the article: Colin Kaepernick joining the board of Medium
View this post on Instagram A post shared by William Cobbing (@william.cobbing) In this footage, William Cobbing (instagram) wears a giant ball of clay on his head. He slices off… Read the rest of the article: Man removes wet clay blob on head slice by slice
A record-breaking number of Kentuckians have registered to vote this year, when Lovecraftian demon Mitch McConnell is up for another term in the Senate. A slight majority of those voters… Read the rest of the article: Kentucky Election Board conveniently cuts 3,500 polling stations ahead of primaries
If your mother has been screaming at you for years to sit up straight, it might be time to finally take her advice. That’s because bad posture does more than… Read the rest of the article: The Allbaro Air takes a new approach to fixing your bad posture and it doesn’t feel like a straitjacket
Courtesy of Fox News blatherskite Kat Timpf, here's a lesson on the dangers of performing contempt for laughs. When your reptile brain feeds you something really nasty to say and… Read the rest of the article: The greatest moment in the history of conservative comedy
John Bolton, challenged as to why he reserved his claims about Trump's behavior for a book deal, has a grimly convincing excuse: revealing them during his former boss's impeachment trial… Read the rest of the article: John Bolton's book, packed with dirt on Trump, is out tomorrow
From NPR: The new order — which is expected to come with broad exceptions — comes as the administration continues to wrestle with high unemployment among American workers because of… Read the rest of the article: Trump is reportedly planning to try, once again, to suspend H-1B and other visas through the end of the year
Disney has just released a first look trailer for the new 'Hamilton' film.
A noose was discovered in the garage stall of Black race car driver Bubba Wallace at a NASCAR race in Alabama on Sunday, less than two weeks after Wallace advocated… Read the rest of the article: NASCAR investigating noose found in Bubba Wallace's garage stall at Alabama race
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says Septeber 15 is the tentative date for the electric car company's shareholder meeting, and “Battery Day,” at which it Musk is expected to show off… Read the rest of the article: Elon Musk says Tesla 'Battery Day' and shareholder meeting on September 15
I have been frequently awed by Ta-Nehisi Coates's thoughtful observations on politics and race in America. But I'll be honest: I was somewhat disappointed by his first run of Black… Read the rest of the article: Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Black Panther and the Crew" is a powerfully relevant superhero story about Black lives, police brutality, and US history
