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The ultimate doggy paddle: Stunned fishermen find pooch swimming in the ocean
A group of fishermen off Cedros Island in Baja California, Mexico, rescued a dog they spotted swimming alone in the open ocean during an early morning fishing trip. The dog, which had no collar or harness, was found paddling about a mile from shore, apparently exhausted and heading further out to sea, prompting the crew…
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Vans, ghosts, sofas and a kiss from Katy Perry: artist France-Lise McGurn and her paint-everything ethos
Scottish artist France-Lise McGurn is presenting The Charm Offensive, a new exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts that marks a significant scale-up in her painting practice and represents something of a homecoming, since she studied painting in the city and once lived three doors from the gallery. The show explores grief, the passage of time and…
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The true story behind BioShock Infinite’s Bread Boy
BioShock Infinite’s Bread Boy went viral on Twitter in February, so we asked developer Gwen Frey to weigh in on how exactly she made this king of crumb. The reasons the Bread Boy exists in the Burial at Sea DLC point to the strange, specific problems that developers have to overcome every day. Gwen is…
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Time loops are a weird genre for an anxious time
Time loop games have become a trend over the past few years: from Twelve Minutes, to Outer Wilds, to Deathloop. But the genre is by no means new! It predates Groundhog Day and goes all the way back to World War II. Still, there’s a reason time loop stories keep coming back… looping, if you…
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Olympia’s fish narc Announces New Album ‘Uncle’
Pacific North West group fish narc will release their new album ‘Uncle’ on October 16th. The album lands this Autumn, and it finds the ever-productive Olympia (and now LA based) band finding a renewed sense of focus. Haunted by the sounds of the North West – Mudhoney, for example – fish… The post Olympia’s fish narc…
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Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas goes viral for swinging mic stand into bandmate’s head, smashing his in-ears
“I think I almost killed him,” the frontman said, with guitarist Paul Doucette telling his followers: “Rob took me the fuck out!” The post Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas goes viral for swinging mic stand into bandmate’s head, smashing his in-ears appeared first on NME.
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Inside Ossoff’s meticulously viral campaign
The Georgia Democratic senator is closely involved with all aspects of his campaign amid a tough reelection battle.
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Les Claypool talks new Primus music and Angine de Poitrine comparisons: “There is a new life in this band”
The prog icon also talks plans to make a stage play with Sean Ono Lennon, the first UK Primus shows in nearly a decade, advice for new artists, and why viral duo Angine de Poitrine feel like an antidote to the rise of AI music The post Les Claypool talks new Primus music and Angine…
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Teen jailed for deadly crash and ‘cowardly’ assault that left stranger with a lifelong disability
An 18-year-old was jailed on Tuesday over the death of his friend and an earlier episode of violence in Melbourne in 2025.
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Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored
Many hoped that the march of technology would usher in an egalitarian utopia – but some foresaw the threat it would pose to liberal society. Why did nobody listen? One of the stranger things about this dizzying, headlong moment in time is that it doesn’t have much of a past. Everything is about the future…