happy mutants Cat Wishes: a picture book about being a wish come true Cory Doctorow

tabletop games Solo roleplaying a Thousand Year Old Vampire Gareth Branwyn

tabloids Hollywood hypocrites tearing America apart and rioters battling to destroy the United States, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

COVID-19 Obsessive-compulsive disorder as practice for COVID-19 David Pescovitz

Gadgets You can get 5 of these best selling apps for over 90% off their regular price Boing Boing's Shop

kickstarter Relicblade launches campaign for new two-player starter set Gareth Branwyn

music Members of Flaming Lips and Los Lobos score Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923) David Pescovitz

tabloids Do the tabloids deserve a government bailout? This week’s dubious offerings make a poor case for their survival. Peter Sheridan

conspiracy theorists David Icke banned from Facebook Rob Beschizza

robots AI, machine learning, and other frothy tech subjects remained overhyped in 2019 Cory Doctorow

happy mutants After more than a decade, Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg's YA classics The PLAIN Janes are back! Cory Doctorow

guns The Alpha Gun Angels are Israeli gun influencers John Struan

youtube Horace Goes Copyright Striking Rob Beschizza

racism Utah elementary student wore a Nazi costume to school parade David Pescovitz

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

World Mental Health Day It’s World Mental Health Day: A primer on depression for the public-at-large Maureen Herman

History A Tangled Weave: when Louis XIV made owning calico cotton a crime Michael Skeet

politics Read the whistleblower complaint about Donald Trump Rob Beschizza

everyone's a critic Right wing freaks out over eco-art in Austria: "Go away and take your shitty forest!" Clive Thompson

happy mutants Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks Chris Merritt