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Teen behind the Louvre heist ‘Fedora Man’ photo embraces his mystery moment Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

You know, I think we have everything we need for a Jeunet or Wes Anderson film about this heist: A handsome amateur leading a rag-tag crew armed with a fork lift and furniture removal truck, a hacker who guesses the CCTV password is ‘Louvre’, and a teen detective played by 1998’s Jason Schwartzman.

RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit

Roger Wilco's Virtual Broomcloset: The Original Space Quest Fan Site The web's first and most comprehensive Space Quest fan site, packed with Easter eggs, trivia, downloads, and retrospectives on Sierra's classic adventure series.

My Space Quest site, Roger Wilco's Virtual Broomcloset, launched 30 years ago this month. That makes it one of the oldest video game fan sites on the web.

To celebrate the milestone, I've updated the site for the first time in ages with tons of new content. Check it out! wiw.org/~jess/roger.html

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

The cover of The Continent, dated 8 November 2025 (Issue 219), bears the headline “Tanzania’s darkest week” and features a striking political cartoon by Gado that echoes Honoré Daumier’s 1831 caricature Gargantua. At the top, the masthead appears in bold black letters on a beige background. Below it, the illustration dominates the page. It shows a woman seated on a throne-like chair, drawn to resemble Tanzania’s leader. Her mouth is open wide, and a long wooden ramp extends from her mouth, down which small, faceless figures carry large sacks labeled “Corruption,” “Incompetence,” “Fear,” and “Election Fraud.” They march upward to feed these vices into her mouth, while behind them, a long line of weary people stretches toward the horizon, waiting their turn. To the left stands a sign reading “Abductions”, beside a huge pile of skulls — a chilling symbol of death and repression. Below, masked soldiers with rifles shoot civilians on a blood-spattered ground, surrounded by the bodies of the fallen. The entire scene conveys chaos, violence, and fear. The image is a nod to Daumier’s Gargantua, which depicted France’s King Louis-Philippe as a grotesque giant devouring the people’s wealth while rewarding his cronies. Here, that 19th-century metaphor of gluttonous tyranny is adapted to Tanzania’s present moment — portraying a leader who consumes corruption, fear, and human lives themselves.

All Protocol Observed

Welcome to Issue 219 of The Continent

Protests, an internet blackout, and deadly force marked Tanzania’s Election Day. Once online again, 37 readers shared what they witnessed.

Read their stories: bit.ly/219_TC

damn it

Love them, no sponsors and they never ask you to like or subscribe.

Attack on Titan except bears.

At the self checkout it says "Would you like a receipt?" and if you press NO it says "Please take your receipt and bags" and it feels like that's the sort of thing that will get an indie game called "quite buggy" in Steam reviews.

The roar that haunts him: Japanese bear attack survivor calls for ruthless response By Tim Kelly and Tom Bateman. Picture of old J-dude in a garage showing off either a dead bear or just its pelt.

Vis-à-vis the bear situation

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I reckon if I torture enough puns they’ll eventually learn their lesson and leave my brain alone

Music production is like pub gastronomy in reverse. It used to be weird and artisanal now it’s all bangers and maths.

Will quantum be bigger than AI? The highly complex technology is increasingly being tipped to transform computing.

This is an incredible article because at no point does it even try to properly explain what it's talking about. The closest it gets to that is the line, and I quote, "quantum is about particles behaving in weird ways"

I’m always relieved when the clue is clever but you don’t have to think *too* hard to crack it open 😅

"Water-deprived pharaoh dies after mixing up directions to Eden" (8)

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succubus - female demon that seduces men

incubus - male demon that seduces women

vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

Itsaragrisil apologised in a press conference during which he broke down and wiped away tears. “I want to apologize to everyone. I had no idea how big this issue would become,” he said.

Chapter 2:

Love it when execs find the floor falling out from under them. Will he even be let back in to Patriarchy Club after this?

Chapter 1:

Japan deploys troops to combat record wave of deadly bear attacks Troops from the country's Self Defense Force arrived in the northern Akita Prefecture on Wednesday to combat a crisis that has seen 100 people attacked and 13 killed since April.

The bear situation is escalating.

The first tenant has been announced at Oxford North.

Uh. Sure, why not!

Ozy, Ozy, Ozy!
Roi, Roi, Roi!

Ozy, Ozy, Ozy!
Roi, Roi, Roi!

Putting the ‘Die!’ in Dawie die Kabouter

My main issue with mandu, potstickers and dumplings that take just a few minutes to cook is that they take just a few minutes to cook and suddenly there are none left wtf man

Epitome maybe but it’s not a wired-up doohickey or stainless-steel origami lotus flower so I threw in a couple ‘scare quotes’ to throw you off the trail, inspector!

a man without a shirt is taking a shower in a dark room Alt: Roy Batty without a hatty getting moist after remembering how he once set taco shells on fire near a tannenbaum grater. Likes the odd beer in the rain.

I’ve steamed things you people wouldn’t believe.

‘Downgraded’ to a bamboo steamer and oh man yeah that’s where the magic at.