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The Verdict
Wordle is for dummies. Play this word game instead
I laugh at your cute little five-letter word puzzles, and I raise you Contexto.
- by Robert Moran
If you only watch one event during these Winter Olympics, make it this one
It is inelegant, it is treacherous and it is joyfully unproblematic.
- by Mali Cornish
Scout endured a harrowing night in a small town. Then they wrote an award-winning show
As soon as the misery set in, Scout Boxall began looking for a way to get something positive out of it.
- by Daniel Herborn
Why are we paying hundreds to answer ‘what’s your job’?
The rise of the crowd-work comic: because thinking of a second joke is just too much effort.
- by Luke Heggie
Are podcasts the new men’s therapy? Welcome to the modern manosphere
Comedian Akaash Singh has a theory about why men are flocking to podcasts like his.
- by John Bailey