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The number of people using Linux on their home computers reached 5% for the first time this year, according to numbers tracked by StatCounter. And that's not including ChromeOS and other tailored cuts. The threshold, marking a certain level of ...

Fyre Festival, fully-formed in the mind of the bro but disastrously organized and lately rebooted to even less success, is now someone else's problem. The founder sold the "rights" to it on eBay; a suspicious transaction at a preferred venue. -- Read ...

Trump Administration senior leaker of classified war plans, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, announced victory while declaring retreat from Los Angeles. Half the deployed National Guard will be sent home. This was an expensive PR stunt and an ...

Disgraced Governor Andrew Cuomo insists he will run for Mayor of New York, and shows he does not know how to jumpstart a car. Cuomo is shown with a young man of color whose car appears to have broken down. Cuomo attaches jumper cables to the car, and ...

America's Commander-in-Conspiracy wants his followers to believe that the Justice Department fabricated documents that don't exist to cover up revelations they never had about a list they just confirmed was imaginary. For years, QAnon grifters have ...

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A curious creature is featured in Volume 24 of The Strand Magazine, published in 1902. A Mr. G. Chitty-Baker of Perth, Australia writes: "I send you a cutting from the Melbourne Australasian; it is considered curious in regard to the markings on the ...

Animal shelters in Southern California anticipate an increasing number of abandoned or stranded yet beloved pets as families are disrupted and people are haphazardly deported. Carson Animal Care Center has taken in Coco, a 2-year-old pug-beagle mix,

One of the most beautiful vistas in the United States has lost its iconic hotel and lodge. This is the second time in its nearly 100-year history that the hotel has been destroyed by fire. The National Park Service says the "extreme and volatile"

Irish tourist "Thomas" was visiting his girlfriend in West Virginia when he tore his calf. Ordered not to fly by his doctor, the Irishman proactively contacted his embassy and the US Department of Homeland Security to notify them of the medical ...