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Eva Tiamat Baphhomet Medusa aka the Dragon Lady, a transgender woman who prefers the pronoun “it”, has spent the last 20-years undergoing numerous body modifications in order to transform into an Western diamondback rattlesnake. Most recently, Tiamat removed its ears in order to appear more reptilian. In an interview with Fox 10 Phoenix, Tiamat explained […]

In his TED Talk “The Agony of Trying to Unsubscribe,” comedian James Veitch told a story of unsuccessfully trying to unsubscribe from unwanted grocery store emails. After a number of failed attempts, Veitch decided to write back, and things escalated from there. via TED Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog […]

Actress Winona Ryder spoke with television host Jimmy Kimmel on his eponymous talkshow about her role in the breakout hit Stranger Things, how she spent most of it crying, as any parent would do under the circumstances and how popular the series has become. Winona talks about the popularity of her Netflix show “Stranger Things” […]

In his ongoing series to quickly teach himself new skills, Mike Boyd locked himself in his garage and destroyed the key in order to learn how to pick a lock. Boyd managed to pick the lock and escape after just 47 minutes with the help of a transparent padlock training set. Follow Laughing Squid on […]

Fellisimo, the clever Japanese novelty company, has created a fun line of bunny handbags that look incredibly real and come in various styles – chinchilla, Netherland dwarf, Holland lop ear and miniature bunny. These purses are a part of the You + More brand and will be release one bag at a time over the […]

A little fruit bat eagerly enjoyed a yummy banana smoothie under the guidance of a wonderful human working with the organization behind Batzilla the Bat. The young bat had been rescued from a place without access to food and had lost too much weight, a concern that the banana smoothie was immediately addressing. Each year […]

A timelapse video by Greta Life used stabilized images of the night sky to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth. The stars in the sky stay in same relative position in the video, as the Earth and image itself rotate over time. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid […]

LET’S MELT THIS has created an oddly satisfying video of icing being melted off of tasty baked Dunkin’ Donuts with a blowtorch. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid PostsThe Oddly Satisfying Experience of Unmelting a Candy LollipopAn Oddly Satisfying Video of a Toothbrush MeltingAn […]

Filmmaker Ryan Shukis has edited together scenes from Young Frankenstein with scenes from the 2004 film Van Helsing in order to craft a modern suspenseful thriller trailer for the 1974 horror-comedy, much in the same manner as his trailer for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your […]

Dave Hax recently demonstrated how to make a DIY turbo pencil sharpener attachment for a power drill. Perfect for the office or if you’re going back to school! Modify a pencil sharpener and sharpen like a boss. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid PostsAn […]

Just a few days after her appearance on The Late Show, inventor Simone Giertz paid hilarious homage to JennaMarbles‘ dog Kermit with a 4-legged highly non-functional robot. Marbles had given Giertz a nice shoutout in one of her videos, so Giertz saw fit to return the love in the best way she knew how. JennaMarbles […]

Cracked spokesman Roger Horton reveals the truth about drug companies and the unhealthy choices patients make in the latest in a series of Honest Ads. Let’s just go back to blood-letting and bile drinking already. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid PostsA Set of […]

Jenny Nicholson has created a video where she gets into character as both Rey and Luke Skywalker and acts out what the two might talk about if Rey finds out that she is actually Luke’s daughter. If Rey is a Skywalker you and me are gonna have problems. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter […]

What’s the Mashup? has combined 75 television show dance scenes into an upbeat mashup set to “Can’t Stop the Feeling” by Justin Timberlake. We previously wrote about their 100 movie dance scenes mashup set to “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with […]

Members of the Korean Dancing Noodle band recently shared footage of them all sitting around a table and playing an EDM song with rubber chickens. via The Awesomer Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid PostsExploding a Watermelon With Rubber BandsThe United States Air Force […]

Denny’s Diner shared an amusing photo last year of a man playing a saxophone that is made up of a ton of stacked pancakes. image via Denny’s Diner via Denny’s Diner, Marc Bernardin, Archie McPhee’s Endless Geyser of Awesome Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing […]

Chris and Karen Bucklen of GandGRockers have created a custom wooden rocking horse based on the USS Enterprise from Star Trek: The Original Series. It is available to purchase from their Etsy store. The Starship Enterprise Rocker is a unique custom handmade wooden children’s Rocking Toy made by G and G Rockers in San Diego […]

In their latest “art about place” project, the FOR-SITE Foundation will be occupying different deactivated military buildings and batteries at Fort Scott inside the Presidio of San Francisco for an international, multi-media exhibition entitled “Home Land Security“. The exhibition explores the increasingly complex ideas of home and safety from the view of 18 different artists […]

Developer Simone Giertz hilariously demonstrated some of her machines to The Late Show host Stephen Colbert, who was fascinated with her self-described title of “Queen of Shitty Robots“. However, after Giertz showed him such spectacular machines as the chopping machine, toothbrush machine, lipstick robot and the applause machine, Colbert seemed to understand why she’s okay […]

Zach Haumesser, a talented puppeteer, impressionist and flight attendant for Southwest Airlines, performed the standard flight landing speech in a hilarious roster of Looney Tunes characters, much to the delight of his co-worker and his Chicago-bound passengers. Included voices were Elmer Fudd, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, Porky Pig, Sylvester, Tweety Bird, Yosemite Sam, […]

The International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center (IAU) has officially renamed the 1991 FM3 asteroid to (17473) Freddiemercury in honor of the late, great Freddy Mercury of Queen. Bandmate and astrophysicist Dr. Brian May made a heartfelt announcement of the designation via video during a bittersweet celebration of what would have been Mercury’s 70th birthday. […]

On September 4, 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced that the Giant Panda has come off the list of endangered species and has been instead listed as “Vulnerable“. This good news is due, in part, to the repopulation and protection efforts of such conservation centers as the Gengda Wolong China Conservation […]

In a short web exclusive piece, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver made up his own set of holiday-specific rules that actually make more sense than the arbitrary rule of not wearing white after Labor Day. We are all familiar with the rule that you shouldn’t wear white after Labor Day which is much easier […]

E.J. Masicampo posted a video of his two-year-old son’s adorably horrifying solution to the classic moral dilemma known as the “trolley problem.” The thought experiment asks a person to choose whether to divert a train that is about to kill five people onto a track where it would only kill one person. Masicampo’s son thought […]

Firebox is currently featuring a fun set of Tiki-themed cocktail glasses made in the image of the famous Easter Island Moai (heads only) and lend a mid-century tropical feel to particularly rum-based cocktails. That’s right, kitsch 50’s Hawaiian chic is back with a steel-drummed fanfare and Tiki Glasses are taking the world by storm. No […]

SciShow Space host Caitlin Hofmeister explained what silicon-based life could look like, where it might be found, and whether or not it could even exist. It’s possible life could form based on elements other than carbon, but they would look much different than the life we are used to. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and […]

British telecom company Lovefone is currently in the midst of converting the iconic but underused red telephone boxes of London into tiny cell phone repair shops and charging stations and plan to expand this plan across England. The advent of mobile technology has made the iconic red telephone boxes obsolete. Lovefone is bringing these listed […]

Zero Breeze is a battery-powered portable air conditioner complete with helpful travel features. Besides its primary function of cooling the air in a small area, the Zero Breeze also features two USB charging ports, an LED light for cool night-time illumination, and even a Bluetooth speaker. The device can be plugged in or run for […]

Pickle is a heartwarming and amusing short partially animated film by director Amy Nicolson, who wanted to document her parents’ penchant for opening up their hearts and their home to animals with unusual medical conditions that make them unable to take care of themselves. For no particular reason, most of the creatures in Tom & […]

On a recent episode of the AWE Me show DIY Prop Shop, host Vinny Logozio attended the Midsummer Scream Halloween festival in Long Beach, California and gave a class on how to build zombie defense weapons out of household items. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated […]

In their incredibly informative whiteboard series for Mental Floss , linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually give examples of words that don’t seem like they would come from the same source, but actually do. This is the converse to their previous video in which they looked at words that seem to […]

A photo posted by olek (@oleknyc) on Aug 25, 2016 at 7:47am PDT In order to bring attention to the more than 21 million people who were forced to flee from their homes for various reasons, prolific yarn bomber Olek covered the exterior of a small home in Kerava, Finland with bright pink crocheted yarn […]

Tested editor Norman Chan and Frank Ippolito recently met up with movie effects artist Doug Stewart to learn more about his incredible techniques for weathering cosplay costumes. Making new fabrics look old and weathered is a practiced art. Doug Stewart has been working on costumes for film productions for over two decades. Follow Laughing Squid […]

After a successful Kickstarter campaign, San Francisco art director Dan Abramson has released his collection of classic green army men toys that are in yoga poses. The Yoga Joes are currently available to purchase from his website. A photo posted by Yoga Joes (@yogajoes) on Aug 18, 2016 at 2:02pm PDT A photo posted by […]

In the animated StoryCorps essay School’s Out, the Reverend James L. Seawood shared a heartbreaking story about the day the pre-integration school that his mother ran in Sheridan, Arkansas was shut down and literally buried in a giant hole. The closure was due the dwindling African-American population who had been fired from their jobs at […]

The proprietor of the UsefulWidget YouTube channel revealed a frightening number of spiders in his yard using a clever flashlight technique that reflects the light in a spider’s eyes, making them appear as little sparkles in the grass. The channel posted a second video where spiders were hunted in the grass with a stick to […]

ION Audio has created a multi-color lighted turntable that features built-in LED lights that glow beneath the vinyl record and a USB port for converting old records into digital files. It is available to purchase from their website and from Firebox. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid […]

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Tom Scott introduced guest presenter Collin Rocka from the Collin Sphere Travel Vlog, who filled in for Scott with a video tour of Thames Town, a fake British ghost town built in Shanghai, China. The town’s real estate prices quickly skyrocketed, pricing many people out of the faux British neighborhood and leaving it largely abandoned. […]

Lately, it seems that people have been resorting to wonderfully creative means to stamp out hate speech in a non-violent manner. The FDNY used sirens and horns while a gay student at Florida Gulf Coast University named Brice Ehmig, very cleverly played her bagpipes to interrupt and drown out the homophobic rhetoric that was being […]

Dave Hax recently shared a collection of simple life hacks that are perfect for when the kids go back to school. He demonstrates how to make a rainbow highlighter pen, fix your backpack zipper, and more. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid PostsThe Third […]

Andy Schneider and Jonathan Britnell of Burger Fiction have created “Dreamer of Dreams,” a wonderful supercut tribute to Gene Wilder and his magical movie career. We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. We will miss you. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated […]

A sweet 1-year old golden retriever named Enzo hilariously ducked whenever he saw the back windshield wiper move across the window while inside his human’s car. According to his human, Enzo isn’t scared of much, just this and maybe the vacuum cleaner. Its just a funny moment when you find out your dog is scared […]

Blind film critic Tommy Edison challenged himself to guess the color of scented candles by their smell. Edison smelled seven varieties of Yankee Candles in a range of colors and scents like Vanilla Cupcake, Red Raspberry, and Mango Peach Salsa. Before the challenge, Edison predicted that he would correctly identify three of the seven. Follow Laughing […]

Pop music cover band Postmodern Jukebox recently joined forces with singer and songwriter LaVance Colley to perform a vintage 1930s cover of the song “Forget You” by CeeLo Green. Postmodern Jukebox‘s cover is available to purchase on iTunes. Here is the original song for comparison. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress […]

AsapSCIENCE broke down the statistics of the most common ways people die so viewers can predict how they are most likely to met their end. On their companion channel AsapTHOUGHT, host Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown discussed the top five regrets people have before dying. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress […]

In “Trash Cat“, the ever-hungry and very persistent Simon’s Cat made it his primary mission in life to find a way inside the bin where the yummy remainders of his human’s meal waited for him. A series of unplanned, comical events eventually and unintentionally gave the feisty feline the access he wanted, until Simon came […]

In celebration of the South Park‘s upcoming 20th season, a new teaser has been released that does a hilarious job of breaking down the past seasons of the Comedy Central series “By The Numbers.” Season 20 is scheduled to premiere on September 14th, 2016 at 10 PM EST. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter […]

Mascots is the new film by director Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show) about a strange group of costumed sports mascots competing for the Gold Fluffy award. It stars many actors who have worked with Guest on his earlier movies like Parker Posey, Ed Begley Jr., Bob Balaban, Jane Lynch, and Fred Willard. […]

Disney presents a recap of Finding Dory told using only emoji. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid PostsDisney Recaps Finding Nemo Using Adorable EmojiStar Wars: The Force Awakens Told Using EmojiZootopia Told Using Adorable Emoji