Friday, May 22, 2026

New video game Humble Bundle featuring 4x strategy games

Xplore, Xpand, Xploit, Xterminate starting at $12 for six games plus a bunch of dlc and coupons (steam scores displayed).
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Today's news and jokes

how have I never noticed the similarity before

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— Kelly Knox (@kelly-knox.com) May 20, 2026 at 10:53 AM




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Kids' illustrations turned into tattoos (art roundup)



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Third-party Magik action figure




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Thursday, May 21, 2026

3D-printable popcorn bucket for "Backrooms" (and a fun ad in the wild)





Download link.


And some clever marketing:



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WH40K video game Humble Bundle

Starts at three games for $5 (Inquisitor, Blood Bowl 2, Space Hulk).

There's also a new bundle featuring a broad selection of simulator-type video games ("Plane Accident," "Youtubers Life" 1 and 2, "Barn Finders: Amerykan Dream" (?)), $12 for 19 games.
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Never jump

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Behind the scenes photos from Apple's excellent comedic horror series "Widow's Bay"



Really fun series about a milquetoast mayor realizing his quaint island (it could be the next Martha's Vineyard!) is absolutely overflowing with ghosts and monsters and serial killer ghost monsters (Hiro Murai has directed so many of my favorite shows). From an interview with creator:
There's a scene [in Weapons] where - yeah. When - the scene when she's sleeping in the car, and the audience sees the woman coming out of the house, walking strangely to the car, and then you just hear the back seat open. I think that's the - it's terrifying, but I think that's the funniest thing in the entire world. 
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MARTÍNEZ: What's the writing room like? 'Cause I'm wondering with a series like this that has horror, it has suspense, it has mystery and, obviously, lots of laughs, too, are there some writers that are better at one part of that?

DIPPOLD: You know, I'm so glad you asked that because that was one of the more challenging things that ended up being the most rewarding. I had this great writers' room. There's seven other writers. Some of them came from more mythology-heavy shows like "WandaVision." And then I had, you know, a couple of old-time friends in comedies that - some of the best comedy writers I know from, like, you know, "SNL." One was from "Key & Peele." And so at first, that was a challenge, to sort of navigate the room and try to tell one cohesive story. What was very rewarding was by the end, the mythology writers were pitching jokes that were hilarious, and they all knew the show. And the comedy writers were passionately, heatedly debating and arguing for things on the mythology. And it was very fun to see that come together.
AVC: Was there something you were able to improv in or have any favorite scenes from the episode? 

KO: It was a late addition, but I loved this bit in episode one where she’s talking to Shep in the hospital room, and Tom walks in and says something about them being able to listen to you when they’re in a coma, so Patricia responds by saying, “I apologize for wasting his time.” That was a last minute throw-in line. There’s also a scene at the start of episode seven that we have to play it straight, but it was impossible to get through for me.

In episode four, I loved the physical stuff, like the final scene on the beach where they’re all walking into the water. It looked spectacular in person. I felt like a kid in the playground pretending to save everybody. 



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The Portland Cherry Bombs have a great mascot








Good jerseys, too.

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

40% off prints at Brandon Bird's shop

code MAY40. Three of my favorites.

Terrific new Pablo Torre podcast about the techniques used by a popular "mentalist"

He was the person scheduled to perform at this year's White House Correspondents' dinner instead of a comic--and apparently makes frequent appearances on major podcasts and tv shows. 

Pablos's latest podcast goes into detail revealing how some of his popular tricks work, and asks whether the techniques stray from the common definition of magic tricks to outright fraud. (Torre's guest previously posted a much longer expose that's supposedly good.) 

(The Columbo episodes about a mentalist and magician are good fun, and were great inoculation against falling for such nonsense.) 

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"A military-backed takeover at one of the world’s biggest cobalt operations highlights the dilemma facing wannabe investors in the rich mineral veins of the Democratic Republic of Congo"

William Clowes for Bloomberg's Africa newsletter:

The Katanga region of southeastern Congo is the source of most of the world’s cobalt and more copper than any country other than Chile. The geology, though, has created an operating environment that can at times resemble something out of a dystopian Mad Max movie.

The latest episode is the experience of a Eurasian Resources Group unit called Metalkol.

Intruders have hijacked a large part of its deposit and started to exploit the site on a near-industrial scale. 

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Noah Hawley wrote about attending one of Jeff Bezos's deluxe salons in 2018

Suitably spiced with various flavors of horror:

That’s how the weekend started. Here’s how it ended: My wife broke her wrist slipping on wet grass, and both children and I came down with hand, foot, and mouth disease. This is not a joke. One of us went home with her arm in a sling; the other three developed itchy, painful red blisters all over our faces and extremities. If you’re looking for a sign from God as to whether hanging out with the richest man on Earth is right for you, pay attention when he sends you not one plague, but two. Suffice it to say we have never been back to Campfire, nor have we ever been invited.

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Camouflaged Peeta (and other Hunger Games vinyl figures) up for preorder

Shirtless Finnick and curteseying Katniss, and various other properties, including WH40K emperor in his throne.

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New video game Humble Bundle featuring "perplexing puzzles"

Starts at two games and three coupons for $5.
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Today's news and jokes

@sports.illustrated Not one, but two mistakes 😅 #nfl #seahawks #jaxonsmithnjigba ♬ original sound - Sports Illustrated
(the mistake was actually a spelling error; the trophy’s engraving spelled “Offensive” as “Oefensive.”)

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The Mandalorian's Fornite snagging a Tie Fighter emote is fun



You can download the Mandalorian loading screen here.


And speaking of silly tie-ins:




Finally, Cyclops lets loose in Marvel Rivals:





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Tuesday, May 19, 2026

The Los Angeles mayoral race summarized




Also:

(I think he said politicians shouldn't wear black dress shirts)
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Somewhere in San Francisco, buried one foot underground, rests a treasure chest filled with 10,000 $1 coins

Reddit (posted three weeks ago):

One year ago we announced here that we buried a $10,000 treasure chest. Many hunters went searching and it was found in just 11 hours.

We did it again. It's located within 7 miles of San Francisco city hall, weighs more than 150 pounds, and is buried one foot deep. 

Hopefully this one takes a little longer than 11 hours. 

Edit: Update: The treasure is NOT on Angel Island or in Francisco Park.

Why are we saying this? Civic duty, mostly. 

NYT:

[A student], 16, was sitting in his high school history class when his dad texted him a link to the hunt with two words: “It’s on!”

Soon, he had skipped school and was at the old U.S. Mint building at Fifth and Mission Streets, squirreling through a hole in the wrought iron fence and digging in the garden area. But a barefoot woman injecting herself with a hypodermic needle on the steps yelled that he was causing a disturbance, and he reconsidered.

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New Image comics Humble Bundle

It's the "big bundle of misfit heroes and hilarious hijinks", starting at $5 for three volumes ($18 for 49 volumes).

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Glow in the dark Blanka by Jada Toys up for preorder

This one is an EE exclusive (great line of figures).


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Venomous review of The Mandalorian and Grogu

Bilge Ebiri for Vulture:

Rotta’s voice allegedly belongs to The Bear star Jeremy Allen White. I say “allegedly” because not only does his voice not sound like White’s (it has clearly been processed to sound slower and lower), it also retains none of the actor’s characteristically haunted delivery, thus rendering the casting pointless. Between the Mandalorian’s stiffness and Rotta’s torpor, we may wonder why we ourselves are supposed to care about anything that’s happening onscreen.

And another:

The ugliest expensive movie I have ever seen

The Disney+ opening montages where they only show helmeted or robotic figures are really loathsome. 

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Today's news and jokes

(I don't know about this series, but the Book Ones were extremely, bizarrely uncomfortable)

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Repainting an Optimus Prime figure so it looks cel-shaded

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Good staircases, good wires



The most satisfying wires of all time spotted at the Paramount lot

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— Kellan jett (@kellanjett.bsky.social) May 17, 2026 at 5:23 PM

Monday, May 18, 2026

The G.I.Joe-inspired Operation Recall figures are up for preorder

The first two waves are for preorder at the BBTS--these are a crowdfunded 3.75" line of entirely new characters inspired by the original G.I.Joe line.
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Kate Beaton posted a bunch of art from her new book, along with heartfelt comments about the story

"Rebecca" is illustrated by Sydney Smith. Up for preorder at Amazon (I didn't see it at my library sites).
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How to paint arm hair on a miniature (and all the other details on one of the new Catachan Kill Team figures)

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