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The Weekly Whatever: Accidentally sent by Alex Jones's lawyers
August 7, 2022
Italian influences Tennessee couple want their engagement photos to have an Italian feel to them, so they have them taken at an Olive Garden. New Italian...
The (Sometimes Semi) Weekly Whatever: Montessori's Flying Circus
July 30, 2022
Politics What, you thought a Democratic president would mean an end to building a stupid border wall? A house bill is drafted to order the government to...
The (Usually) Weekly Whatever: Asking for a pardon for any and all things
July 16, 2022
Technology Amazon admits it has been giving Ring security camera videos to police without permission. Yo dawg, I heard you like DOOM. Ever wonder why digital...
The Weekly Whatever: Imagine Donald Trump riding a bicycle
June 20, 2022
Spring pastimes Meet the Polish LARPers who pretend to be American. Texas man on lawnmower uses pool noodle to fend off his pet emu. This one time at camp,...
The Weekly Whatever: 15 minutes made her a lot more than 15% with GEICO
June 13, 2022
Crapto Company spends $1.5m to buy a cryptocurrency startup, lends employees money to buy company stock, lays them off. Never mind The Sex Pistols, buy their...
The Weekly Whatever: Six story mini edition
June 5, 2022
Florida man crashes into FedEx truck while receiving oral sex, suffers "unspecified injuries to his groin area". Florida threatens to fine the Special...
The Weekly Whatever: Door control
May 30, 2022
Crapto In March, the New York Times published a puff piece about cryptocurrencies. If you followed its advice, congratulations, you've lost 40% of your...
The Weekly Whatever: Elongate!
May 22, 2022
This week's TWW is brought to you by Hawaii. Please stop visiting Hawaii. Quote of the week "...the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and...
The Weekly Whatever: Crapto crash souvenir edition
May 14, 2022
Crapto TerraUSD “stable” coin, supposedly backed by Bitcoin, crashes from $1 to $0.20; related Luna cryptocurrency crashes from $85 to $0.04. Juno...
The Weekly Whatever: And. And. And. And. And.
May 8, 2022
Technology A data broker is harvesting location data from apps, and selling information on people who’ve visited family planning centers. Chinese scientists...
The Weekly Whatever: Hot tractors in your area looking for some plowing
May 1, 2022
Real estate Illinois family finds 63-year-old order of McDonalds fries preserved inside a wall of their house. Home in Fairfax, VA comes with a stranger...
The Weekly Whatever: Covidchella 2022 edition
April 23, 2022
Update So farewell then CNN+… Crapto NFT project loses $34m permanently locked away by code bug. Decentralized finance project relies on community...
The Weekly Whatever: Un**n! R*str**ms!
April 17, 2022
The ongoing crisis A RAND study finds that conservatives swallow bullshit fake news much more than those on the left. Another study finds that a subset of...
The Weekly Whatever: Happy Appomattox Day
April 9, 2022
In case you missed it Over 1,000 scientists worldwide engaged in civil disobedience to try to get the world to take the climate crisis seriously. Mainstream...
The Weekly Whatever: The elephant orgy in the room
April 2, 2022
Quote of the week “I concede our party is not for the kind of cocaine-fueled orgies that a freshman Republican representative bragged about this week, but we...
The Weekly Whatever: Probably nothing to worry about
March 27, 2022
Probably nothing to worry about Clarence Thomas's wife attended the January 6th "Stop The Steal" rally. Thomas was the lone dissenter regarding whether...
The Weekly Whatever: Is it safe?
March 20, 2022
Perspective Many countries have structures that can be seen from space: Egypt has The Pyramids, China has the Great Wall, and America has a burning Walmart....
The Weekly Whatever: Cold War nostalgia edition
March 13, 2022
Ukraine fallout Russia arresting people for protesting with blank signs. Facebook randomly decides to allow calls for death against Russians as long as it’s...
The Weekly Whatever: Ruble for your thoughts?
March 6, 2022
Softwar qualty Hackers discover that Amazon Echo devices will obey their own verbal commands. Internet-filtering man-in-the-middle boxes turn out to be a...
The Weekly Whatever: No Tanks but Hank
February 27, 2022
California police go on the hunt for a huge bear named Hank The Tank, before discovering that it's three other bears in a trenchcoat. Attention students:...
The Weekly Whatever: Blockchain and other problems
February 20, 2022
Arrangements Australian police claim a man used a circular saw to cut off another man's leg in a public park, as part of an "arrangement". Prince Andrew is...
The Weekly Whatever: Nancy Pelosi's gazpacho soupersoldiers
February 13, 2022
Quote of the week "I am not comfortable with the transgenders, the kids that they brought in my classroom, when they said that this kid is transgendering...
The Weekly Whatever: Sleng Teng Riddim
February 5, 2022
2022 omen watch: NJ groundhog day canceled after the groundhog drops dead. Preventative measures Finally there’s a vaccine to prevent Kid Rock. California...
The Weekly Whatever: 🟨🟩🟨⬛🟩
January 29, 2022
This week's crapto theft: $80 million from Qubit thanks to a missing null pointer check. Suicide hotline has 50 paragraphs of terms and conditions that say...
The Weekly Whatever: Don't kiss the hamster
January 23, 2022
Business Better.com CEO who fired 900 workers via Zoom is back running the company. Amazon's firing of union activists deemed illegal by National Labor...
The Weekly Whatever: Who is Ray Epps?
January 15, 2022
Lost property department Norway tells military conscripts to return their underwear so new recruits can use them. Capitol rioters called Nancy Pelosi’s...
The Weekly Whatever: Better than 836AD
January 9, 2022
New year's traditions Korean-American TV journalist mentions eating dumpling soup for new year's day. An angry viewer calls in to complain that "she was...
The Weekly Whatever: Now serving delicious Soylent Green
January 1, 2022
Teacher tests positive for COVID-19 while on a plane flight, quarantines for 5 hours in the plane's bathroom. There are 89 cruise ships with COVID cases on...
The Weekly Whatever: War on Christmas is over (if you want it)
December 25, 2021
Crapto CryptoEats said it was going to take on UberEats using the power of cryptocurrency. Minutes after launch it vanished taking $500,000 of people’s...
The Weekly Whatever: Getting the job done in an expedited time
December 18, 2021
Politics Biden administration completely redacts a memo for reasons of national security — a memo about whether it can forgive student loans. Biden...
The Weekly Whatever: Log4j - it's everywhere you don't want to be
December 12, 2021
Unsurprising news Man who glued the lock on the door of a vaccination center is jailed – identified because he appeared on CCTV footage not wearing a mask....
The Weekly Whatever: "Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now Delta and Omicron!"
December 4, 2021
Note: Last week I noticed the newsletter platform had been inserting URL redirections to track clicks. This wasn’t something I had requested, and I’ve turned...
The Weekly Whatever: Sadly The Omicron Variant isn't a new Robert Ludlum novel
November 27, 2021
Pandemic news Austrian brothel offers free entry to anyone who’ll get vaccinated on site. A man goes to a COVID party to get infected so he can build...
The Weekly Whatever: Coming soon to Netflix: Unmaking A Murderer
November 22, 2021
Wildlife news Grub’s up! London McDonalds closes after maggots fall through the ceiling. The Queen has ‘entered a new phase’, is probably busy pumping out...
The Weekly Whatever: Assembled by Apple logarithms
November 14, 2021
Quote of the week “iPads, which are made by Apple, have artificial intelligence in them that allow things to be viewed through three-dimensions and...
The Weekly Whatever: Bad COP26
November 6, 2021
Quote of the week “Definitely not going to jail. Sorry I have blonde hair white skin a great job a great future and I’m not going to jail. Sorry to rain on...
The Weekly Whatever: Facebook Metastasizes
October 31, 2021
Latest news Japanese celebrate mundane Halloween with lazy but creative costumes. In spite of COVID-19, 2020’s greenhouse gas emissions reached record highs....
The Weekly Whatever: Now with notch
October 23, 2021
The worst site on the Internet Facebook carried out internal research in 2019, setting up a clean account for an imaginary politically conservative mother...
The Weekly Whatever: Forbidden sprinkles
October 16, 2021
Surprise! Alaskan Republican politician who was banned from Alaska Airlines for refusing to wear a mask now has COVID-19, and is consulting her naturopath...
The Weekly Whatever: Sadly, Facebook experiences extended uptime
October 10, 2021
Well, yes Men rescued after 29 days lost at sea say it was a nice break from reality. Andrew Lloyd-Webber says the "Cats" movie was so awful that he bought a...
The Weekly Whatever: The $54,000 question
October 2, 2021
Technology In 2019, 19 of the top 20 “Christian” groups on Facebook were being run by troll farms. It may not matter, though, as 40% of people would share...
The Weekly Whatever: Fondleslab 13 release week
September 26, 2021
Worst site on the Internet Neo-Nazis are still organizing and fundraising on Facebook. Apple threatened to ban Instagram from the app store because of its...
The Weekly Whatever: Justified Ancients of MooLoo
September 18, 2021
This week’s news about the worst site on the Internet Facebook’s own research confirms that it’s a hotbed of antivax garbage, and that its detection of same...
The Weekly Whatever: The Unification of Donald Trump
September 12, 2021
Spare a thought for the victims: The ap apologizes for Tweet marking 9/11 as the anniversary of Nickelback’s Silver Side Up. Metaphor: UK water treatment...
The Weekly Whatever: Justified Variant of Mu Mu
September 4, 2021
MAGAbook: During the election, misinformation on Facebook got six times the engagement of actual news. This should end well: America set up a massive...
The Weekly Whatever: At least it isn't horse de-wormer
August 29, 2021
Law and order Man robbed of 16 bitcoin hunts down the criminals responsible, and sues their parents. Update on a previous story: Judge rules parents must pay...
The Weekly Whatever: Kabul Needs Pillows!
August 22, 2021
Graceful product plug of the week “How would you like to be in Kabul today, as an American, and you can’t get to the airport? Where are you thinking your...
The Weekly Whatever: Chuffed to bits
August 14, 2021
“Building a version of iOS that bypasses security in this way would undeniably create a backdoor. And while the government may argue that its use would be...
The Weekly Whatever: Delta plus ungood
August 7, 2021
Law and order Apple announces plans to backdoor iMessage and scan all your photos for the government, says to think of the children. Hawaiian authorities...
The Weekly Whatever: Gangster gardening
August 1, 2021
Doom Happy Earth Overshoot Day! Over half the deer tested in Michigan have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Meeting attendees at the QAnon conference in Dallas....
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