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Herdling is a beautiful new game about herding from developer Okomotive (Far: Changing Tides and Far: Lone Sails) and publisher Panic (Untitled Goose Game, Thank Goodness You’re Here). It’s launching on PC and consoles in 2025.

Herding has never looked so fun.

The US Sun

PUZZLE solvers have been challenged to crack this unique optical illusion that has baffled the minds of many. Only those with the IQ of a top professor can spot the hidden monkey in under seven seconds. And you must bring out your A-game to crack this challenge otherwise it will leave you pulling your hair […]

Everyone can see the pouncing lion – but only those with the IQ of a top professor can see the monkey in just 7 seconds

Beachgoers have been warned to take care after an increase in incidents involving weever fish on the Lincolnshire coast. National Coastwatch Mablethorpe said five people had been stung in recent days. Spokesperson Malcolm Drewery said: “If you stand on one, it’s very, very painful.”. The charity recommended wearing...

Weever fish warning after people stung in resort

New York Post

Hasta la vista, baby!

A TikTok influencer was “catfished” on a vacation after booking what she thought was a hotel with a scenic seaside view — only to discover she’d been epically scammed. 

“We were screwed so hard,” said Sonja Dennig, 28, while recalling the dupe in a video with over 3.6 million views on TikTok, Newsflash reported.

The content creator, who boasts nearly 480,000 followers on the platform, had reportedly booked the accommodation in Westerland, on Sylt, an idyllic island in Germany’s North Sea for a weekend getaway. 



Alvin Bragg’s deacon pal under investigation for allegedly scamming church members out of...

I thought I rented a hotel room with a seaside view — but I was royally scammed

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Herbie J Pilato

It's been eight years since former TV child star Sawyer Sweeten, best known from Everybody Loves Raymond, died tragically by suicide at only 19 years old. Sawyer Sweeten, his twin brother Sullivan Sweeten, and their older sister Madylin, played Ray Romano's TV children on Everybody Loves Raymond, the Emmy-winning sitcom that originally aired on CBS 1996 to 2005.

The Tragic Suicide of Former TV Child Star Sawyer Sweeten ('Everybody Loves Raymond'): 9 Years Later

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Wadlow's condition meant he never stopped growing.

This Is The Tallest Person Ever To Have Lived

A few folks working on decentralized social stuff just proposed a new symbol for all things fediverse: the asterism, represented here by three asterisks in a triangle. Looks like this: ⁂. I dig it! But I might like one of the Hacker News comments even better: “that’s the sarcasterisk and...

TIL what an “asterism” is.

Today I learned there’s a really neat Windows app called Twinkle Tray that lets you easily manage the brightness levels of multiple monitors. Useful for the winter nights when you want to adjust brightness levels easily, and the app even integrates neatly into the Windows 11 system tray.

Twinkle Tray is the Windows app I never knew I needed.

Japanese myths call the creature "ryugu no tsukai", or “messenger from the sea dragon god’s palace”.

What Is The Doomsday Fish? And Why Were People So Scared Of Seeing Them?

The Guardian

Brittany Lacayo clinches Guinness World Record mark with tongue wider than a hockey puck and as wide a credit card

Her unusually wide tongue was once her secret. Now it’s given her a world record

An explosion from the side of an old brick building. A crashed bicycle in a city intersection. A cockroach in a box of takeout. It took less than 10 seconds to create each of these images with the Reimagine tool in the Pixel 9’s Magic Editor. They are crisp. They are in full color. They are high-fidelity. There is no suspicious background blur, no tell-tale sixth finger. These photographs are extraordinarily convincing, and they are all extremely fucking fake.

No one’s ready for this

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Horoscope for Friday, August 23rd

They’re not toying around.

Mitch Johnson and Jake Parr, a pair of best friend-urban explorers, came across a daunting bungalow in Scotland that triggered their paranoia like few spooky sights have before.

“It was probably one of the most uncomfortable places I’ve ever been to if I’m honest because I wasn’t quite sure if there was anyone in the teddies,” said Johnson.





Haunted New Orleans mansion that Nicolas Cage lost to foreclosure lists for $10.25M

The men traveled six and a half hours from Manchester, England, to Selkirk, Scotland, seeking to explore the abandoned house they’d heard about from the great vine. The deserted...

I’m an urban explorer — this abandoned house of dolls is the scariest place I’ve ever seen

Until today, we’ve seen exactly 40 seconds of Boston Dynamics’ new electric Atlas in action. The Hyundai-owned robotics stalwart is very much still in the early stages of commercializing the biped for factory floors. For now, however, it’s doing the thing Boston Dynamics does second best after building robots: showing off in viral video form.

Boston Dynamics’ new electric Atlas can do push-ups

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"They get more than us, Why nobody told me about this?". If you're looking for a tasty option that won't break the bank, a Chick-fil-A's kids' meal might be just what you're after. It seems like a great deal. In fact, some people argue it's a better deal than a regular adult meal. This TikToker took the audience through the ins and outs of this meal.

Chick-fil-A customer says they’ll never order a full meal again after seeing kids’ meal

One raunchy piece of advice made Haliey Welch an internet sensation — though her fame has come with a price. The 23-year-old, best known as "hawk tuah girl," has had to deal with some rather creepy fans ever since a video of Welch giving a tip about intercourse went insanely viral online.

'Hawk Tuah' Girl Haliey Welch Says She Was Offered $600 to 'Spit in a Jar' After Her Lovemaking Tip

Spending all day in their jimjams? A vibe.

Meet The Striped Pyjama Squid: Tiny, Toxic, And Not Actually A Squid

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Explore Beaufort SC

The mantis shrimp is one tough customer. Beautiful and deadly are two words you don’t typically use to describe shrimp, but the mantis shrimp is definitely in a class of its own; earning a reputation as the ‘savage boxer of the sea’ and one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. And, they're right at home here in South Carolina.

Savage Boxer of the Sea: The Deadly Beauty of Mantis Shrimp

It offers a lot of Bangkok for your buck.

A dollar accommodation might seem like a pipe dream amid worldwide inflation. However, a resourceful US backpacker was indeed able to score an Airbnb for just one dollar a night in Bangkok, Thailand, which he reviewed and shared online.

“I paid one dollar for this Airbnb and I’m going to show you guys inside,” gushed the content creator and prankster, named Mike Rari, in the “Cribs”-style video, per Viral Press.

The exact location of the rental unit is unclear, however, it’s reportedly a 10-minute drive from the Thai capital’s Chinatown.



‘Squatter Hunter’ warns worst intruders...

I stayed in a $1-a-night Airbnb — you won’t believe what I found there

The company has a target of making all of its hardware packaging without plastic by 2025. Packaging for new products it made and launched in 2023 was at least 99 percent plastic-free, according to the company’s latest sustainability report. It’s replacing plastic with paper, which can be included in curbside recycling programs unlike most plastic packaging.

Google’s new packaging for Pixel, Fitbit, and Nest devices are plastic-free.

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That’s a lot of monkeys.

Black Myth: Wukong, the Chinese-developed action game that’s smashing Steam records, has...

That’s a lot of monkeys.

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