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Fuck ICE. Abolish ICE. Whatever the slogan, it’s gotta go.
TIL: ‘shamone’ has a Wiktionary entry
Another pizza emergency: sales are “lagging behind the broader US fast-food market”
What if The Holiday had farts in it?
30 facts about Venezuelan culture
Copyrighted works from 1930 enter the public domain today, including The Maltese Falcon, early Nancy Drew mysteries, Betty Boop, and Pluto
New Year’s Eve fireworks but with Muppets
Seth Bailey on every bestselling Christmas toy from 1960–2024
Jingle Meows
Christmas movie posters but with Muppets
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
That time when Tony Hawk dressed as Santa to deliver gifts in San Diego
Česnica: a Serbian Christmas bread
The top 10 posts of 2025
Here’s Santa!
Nick Robinson on XD
A very brief explanation of “gloving”
The eight-day week
Detroit has a 10-foot bronze Robocop statue now
Don’t tell Anish Kapoor!
Betamaxmas: a retro Christmas audiovisual experience
TIL: Christmas Day is known as Family Day in Uruguay
A brief history of BeMe.com
Wearing white on your wedding isn’t that old
Food and drink in Yakutsk, the coldest major city on earth
High Horse: a documentary on the history of Black cowboys
A quote of a quote on chivalry
My friend made a podcast about culture and zines!
Tim Curry interview with CBS about his memoir
Àrokò Cooperative: building culture through media and design
Bootylinguistics
The best croissants in Paris apparently
Heaven’s Gate (the cult, not the movie)
Retro tech and product hauntology
5th November and other revolutionary acts
Forbes on Uniqlo’s intuitive self-checkout
Happy Halloween!
Banned kids show episodes
looks.wtf: a collection of funny Unicode faces and emoji
How to create your own wigglegrams
“Aviary: The Bird in Contemporary Photography”: a new photo book celebrating the majesty of birds
More Perfect Union on Sysco, the wholesale restaurant food distributor ruining eating out
Christina Brown on the idealisation of French protests
A KFC bag made into a… bag!
Melanesia, Malesia, and Papuasia
The “Dark Is Not Evil” trope
Secret Galaxy on the history of Quantum Leap
I have learnt a new word: vaguebooking
SkatePal: a non-profit supporting Palestinian communities through the art of skateboarding
The seaweed bricks that are cleaning up Mexico’s beaches
Jiminy Glick to Bill Maher
JSTOR Daily on “why we think Japan is special”
FlowingData on the Pentagon Pizza Orders Theory
Paul Biggar on Ireland “failing Palestine”
Woke architecture