music Ozzy Osbourne sells bat plushie with detachable head David Pescovitz

police brutality North Carolina cop: "We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f—— n——" Rob Beschizza

tabloids Coronavirus can make you fat, the Queen is still dying, and a sex tape nightmare, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Funny An oral history of The Office David Pescovitz

alexa Easy ways to use Alexa just to mess with your children Thom Dunn

politics Commemorative 2020 election chess set lacks two important pieces Rob Beschizza

cancer Love, loss, and Carrie Fisher’s lamp Gina Loukareas

happy mutant I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff

china Massive leak of Chinese government documents reveal the "no mercy" plan for Muslims in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow

prison How to survive solitary confinement Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Royal sex & drug scandal, the Queen & Michael Douglas dying, and Miley Cyrus’s demonic possession, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

music Puddles covers Crazy Train Jason Weisberger

open source 3D printing stethoscopes, tourniquets and crucial dialysis-machine parts in Gaza Clive Thompson

mistakes Watch a locomotive tear down Vietnam's terrifying "train street" Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Boing Boing's own Rob Beschizza interviewed on the Cool Tools podcast Mark Frauenfelder

Alien invasion base on the moon, Michael Jackson’s body missing, and Prince Harry’s clash with Trump, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Gadgets Kickstart your copywriting career with this master class training bundle Boing Boing's Shop

Reviews These boots from GORUCK are crazy comfortable Seamus Bellamy

puzzles This is what 'going viral' looks like Rusty Blazenhoff

music THE BUREAU: Part Three, "Assessing Others" — with a Metasonix D-2000 Vacuum Tube Drum Machine Ethan Persoff