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Comics "The Black Ghost" is a fun Latina twist on urban noir superheroes Thom Dunn

porn Sonic the Hedgehog "porn parody" clearly ignorant of prior Sonic fandom Rob Beschizza

climate change Republicans get billions of dollars in public funding to fight climate change by pretending that it isn't real Thom Dunn

politics Canadian "protesters" at Huawei extradition hearing say they were tricked, thought they were in a music video Cory Doctorow

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Funny Watch this funny and curiously compelling Bad Lip Reading spin-off of Stranger Things David Pescovitz

science fiction That time Charlton Comics published a trans sci-fi story in 1953 Thom Dunn

futility closet Frances Glessner Lee created miniature death scenes to train investigators in the 1940s Futility Closet

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Games Gardening games offer respite for anxious players Rob Beschizza

Business Arbitrage nomads are stripping the carcasses of America's dying big-box stores and moving the choicest morsels into Amazon warehouses Cory Doctorow

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