They’ve long been a financial boondoggle that ruins lives and enriches the corporate class. This year, they might also spread a deadly Covid variant among a largely unvaccinated population.

Tee hee.

The 'cursed' cabinet inspired a Hollywood film and spooked Post Malone. Now the man who first sold it on eBay is coming clean.

Kea parrots in New Zealand have been caught on camera shifting traffic cones into active lanes in a clever ploy to coax food from passing vehicles.

On 23 February, Metro published an article about the Father Ted creator’s decision to join Her, a dating app designed to “connect womxn and queer people”. Writing on his Substack blog at the time, Graham Linehan claimed he had joined Her “to demonstrate that it’s impossible to tell the difference between men and self-identifying ‘transwomen'”. In its article, Metro said Linehan had “set up a dating profile to mock transgender women”, adding that he “infiltrated the app and shared screenshots of trans women he deemed to be not feminine enough”. The article went on to claim that Graham Linehan had become “known for his anti-trans rhetoric”. Linehan subsequently complained to Metro over the article, prompting the news outlet to amend its article to make it clear that he “denied being anti-trans”. The line about Linehan’s “anti-trans rhetoric” was also changed to: “He has become known for sharing his views on trans people.” Furthermore, Metro amended a line stating it had contacted Linehan for comment to make it clear that it had actually contacted his agent. Graham Linehan subsequently filed a complaint with the IPSO on 26 February claiming that the publication breached Clause 1 (Accuracy) and Clause 3 (Harassment) of the Editors’ Code of Practice in its reporting. Linehan claimed that the article “misrepresented his reasons for joining the dating app” and implied he had been harassing trans women, thereby breaching the accuracy clause. In addition, Linehan argued that the article had breached the harassment clause by describing him as anti-trans. He said the claim had led to him receiving “abuse” from members of the public. Metro denied that it had breached the Editors’ Code, noting that its coverage had “quoted extensively” from Linehan’s own blog on the subject to back up its claims. The publication said it never referred to Graham Linehan “harassing” trans women and actually described his actions as “mocking”. Metro argued that such a characterisation was accurate and was based on comments made by Linehan on his own blog, where he wrote: “I’m not doing this JUST for a laugh.”

Could football finally be coming home? Goldman Sachs Group Inc. thinks so.

Athan Theoharis, a pre-eminent historian of the F.B.I. whose indefatigable research into the agency’s formerly unobtainable files produced revelations about decades of civil liberties abuses under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover, died on July 3 at his home in Syracuse, N.Y. He was 84. The cause was pneumonia, his daughter Jeanne Theoharis said. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Professor Theoharis, who taught history at Marquette University in Milwaukee, deftly used Freedom of Information Act requests to pry open the F.B.I.’s deep well of secrets, including the extent to which Hoover compiled damning information on public officials and his cooperation with Senator Joseph McCarthy’s campaign against people he accused of being Communists. The documents showed the extent of the agency’s break-ins and its illegal surveillance of left-wing organizations; its pursuit of allegations that President Dwight D. Eisenhower had extramarital affairs; and the use of the F.B.I. by presidents of both parties for political purposes. One of Professor Theoharis’s most alarming finds was a surveillance program forged by the F.B.I. and the American Legion in 1940 that lasted until 1966. The F.B.I. used tens of thousands of the organization’s volunteers to report information about other citizens. ... Professor Theoharis thought that the portrait of Hoover as a homosexual cross-dresser that emerged in Anthony Summers’s 1993 book, “Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover,” was a distraction from the seriousness of Hoover’s unchecked authority. He refuted Mr. Summers in 1995 with “J. Edgar Hoover, Sex and Crime: An Historical Antidote,” in which he wrote that Hoover’s leadership of the F.B.I. was “a story of a resourceful bureaucrat who successfully circumvented the limitations of the American constitutional system of checks and balances” — and not, as Mr. Summers had it, a “morality play” about a closeted gay man whose secret was used by organized crime bosses to leave them alone.

She crumpled the sign and threw it in the trash “all while smirking in an intimidating manner towards me,” the sheriff’s deputy whined.

Police feared a “Las Vegas-style shooting” during the All-Star Game in Denver after receiving a tip from a maid working at a hotel not far from Coors Field. The staff member discovered more than a dozen weapons and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition inside one of the rooms Friday night.

Something tells me this story is going to feature a lot more American soldier-of-fortune bumblefucks before the end.

Sushi, a male ferret who went missing last weekend, was found unharmed, police said.

Frank Gehry's new tower in Arles fits with both the ancient Roman city and today's environmental agenda, the architect claimed in an exclusive interview with Dezeen...The Tower finally opened last week along with the rest of the vast Luma Arles cultural campus after a 14-year gestation period. It serves as an entrance pavilion, lookout tower, exhibition-and-events space and beacon for the 27-acre campus commissioned by Maja Hoffmann, the art-collecting founder of Luma Foundation and the heiress to the Hoffmann-La Roche (now Roche) pharmaceutical fortune...It reduces all incoming attack damage against itself by 15 points and automatically dispels any spells of 7th level or lower cast within 200 yards.

Police have raided the building that hosts the annual Antepavilion architecture commission, arrested a number of its staff and threatened to remove an installation on its roof.

A 19-year-old woman was charged Friday with a hate crime accusing her of stomping on a pro-police sign and throwing it in the trash — all in front of an officer who had just given her friend a speeding ticket. The woman is charged in Garfield County's 6th District Court with criminal mischief. The charge was filed with a hate crime enhancement, making it a class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. The woman was also charged with disorderly conduct, an infraction.

Finally fucking myself.

Using a toilet can pay for your coffee or buy you bananas at a university in South Korea, where human waste is being used to help power a building.

WARNING: Links in this article contain graphic language UPDATE – The Sullivan County Board of Education Tuesday voted 6-1 that the charges of dismissal against teacher Matthew Hawn are true a…

The judges' 2-1 decision will allow the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center to continue using shock devices on its residents.

Without EEOC reform, a chance at justice will be out of reach for most women, says ex-Google employee Chelsey Glasson.

The agency’s acting head said a review should look into whether any interactions between agency staff and the drug developer, Biogen, broke F.D.A. rules.