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When Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, announced that ChatGPT would begin allowing “erotica for verified adults” starting December 2025, the world crossed a moral line that should never have been approached. His defense — “We are not the elected moral police of the world” — was meant to sound neutral and enlightened. But in reality, it was the digital equivalent of Pontius Pilate washing his hands. This plan is being sold as a matter of “adult freedom,” but make no mistake: this is about normalizing sin, monetizing lust, and expanding the reach of evil under the guise of technology. What...

Ireland has officially joined the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) as an associate member state. CERN is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world on the Franco-Swiss border, just outside Geneva. The main focus of activity in CERN is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27-km (17-mile) underground ring in which protons are accelerated and collided into one another. Associate membership will allow Ireland’s researchers to participate in CERN’s scientific programs and will make Irish citizens eligible for staff positions and fellowships at CERN. …

Controversial UPenn transgender swimmer Lia Thomas is unrepentant that he took several college swimming records away from female competitors. Thomas says that he would not do anything differently despite having his college erase his women’s swimming records, and even in the face of the school’s apologies to his female opponents for allowing him to compete on the women’s swim team. Thomas said he tries to avoid thinking negatively about swimming after he went from the height of being a record-breaking success in women’s sports, to being erased from his school’s records in an interview with Pennsylvania Public Radio station WHYY.

I have held off on covering this because I wanted to see how things shook out and whether the “research” on this was valid, but now that Glenn Beck is covering it, I want to at least bring it to your attention. Is a Manhattan-sized ALIEN SHIP hurtling towards Earth?! Well, the short answer at this point is possibly so! Allow me to explain why…. Many believe it is shaped with structured geometric formations that don’t occur naturally in nature: It is reportedly made of a never-before-seen metal alloy mixture: Here are a bunch more: In fact, here’s a short...

Everybody knows (or is) the one person in the friend group who could generously be described as an unreliable narrator. You know the type; tall tales, stories that never quite match up, and a weird fixation on arbitrary details are all telltale signs of such a friend. For one Texas woman, she’s going to have to work overtime to convince her friends that she does not fit that archetype after she tells them about what landed in her yard a couple of weeks ago. According to KHOU-TV, Ann Vincent Walter was at her Hale County farm north of Lubbock when...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) struggled to respond after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) trolled him on Saturday with a photo of a demonstrator in a giant p**** costume at a “No Kings” protest. The demonstrator in question, apparently at a rally in Portland, Oregon, held a sign that read: “Deport Deez Nuts.” “Breaking: Gavin Newsom has shown up to the riot!” the DHS account added as a caption to the photo. “You’re an embarrassment,” was all the governor could manage in reply, after months of trying to imitate President Donald Trum

The “No Kings” protests have returned, and with that the Democrat geriatrics have as well, but this time with furries alongside in the trenches! The organized events across the United States are a protest of President Trump, whom leftist activists believe is acting like a king. I attended the Washington, DC, event and captured some photos of what appears to be a strange new alliance between the boomers and the furries: (Picture on link, try not to laugh)

Thanks to allegedly nonexistent Antifa, every day is No Kings Day at the ICE facility in moonbat-infested Portland. Here’s what it looked like yesterday: video on link Someone has to pay all these guys to stand around defending ICE facilities from treasonous vermin who want to prevent the enforcement of immigration law. If you pay taxes in the USA, that would be you.

A flight en route from Hangzhou, China, to South Korea's Incheon International Airport on Oct 18 was diverted to Shanghai after a fire broke out in the cabin. A lithium battery stowed in a passenger's carry-on luggage in the overhead compartment had caught fire, the airline said in a statement on Weibo. "The crew immediately handled the situation according to procedures, and no one was injured," they said. They added that the plane was diverted for an unscheduled landing at Shanghai Pudong International Airport to "ensure flight safety". In a video circulating social media, flames could be seen emitting from...

"We're all victims now...of acid reflux disease..." "Nobody in this audience really thinks obesity is a disease. Where do you think I caught this? Got to close to a fat person."

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A nematode shown after jumping from the surface of the experimental chamber and attaching to the rear leg of a charged fruit fly. (Credit: Victor Ortega-Jiménez) =============================================================================== In A Nutshell Microscopic nematodes launch themselves into the air and use static electricity to home in on flying insects. Electrostatic attraction boosts hunting success from 5% to nearly 100% in lab tests. Wind and electric fields work together to guide worms toward their targets. This discovery reveals how invisible forces shape life at microscopic scales. ============================================================================= BERKELEY, Calif. — Parasitic worms smaller than a grain of sand have evolved their own version...

2022 NCAA women’s swimming champion William Thomas, who claims to be a woman, will be the recipient of the Voice of Inspiration Award at Rainbow Labs’ Violet Visionary Awards on Thursday. Mr. Thomas’ national title sparked nationwide backlash and is considered one of the catalysts in the battle over transgender athlete participation in girls’ and women’s sports. The award "honours an individual whose story and actions ignite hope and courage within the (sexual perversion) community," according to Rainbow Labs' website.

Actor Bradley Whitford joined the co-hosts of "The View" on Wednesday and said his father, who fought in World War II while fascism was on the rise, was "Antifa," agreeing with co-host Joy Behar. "I am living in a world where we have internment camps, where, in my community, people are jumping out of vans, and people going through a legal asylum process are being taken away without charges. And the thing that’s very upsetting to me right now, and we’re giving these internment camps funny names. Like, there's some fun to be had in the inhumanity of it all....

Only one thing could be more revolting than the leftist freaks infesting Portland: namely, those same freaks with no clothes on. As forewarned, Naked Bike Ride was deployed against federal officers defending civilization on Sunday. The scene was not pretty (WARNING: do not click for video). The Left has bred whole armies of exhibitionist moonbats to wage war against public order. Check out the turnout for their die-in blocking Portland’s Burnside Bridge: At first I thought someone had finally applied a giant can of Raid. Meanwhile, judicial moonbats continue to block Trump from deploying the National Guard to clean up...

Skynet-1A was launched in 1969. Image Credit: NASA, Image ID: KSC-69P-0941 via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain, Modified by IFLScience A military spacecraft launched 56 years ago was moved from its orbit – and nobody is quite sure who did it, or why. In 1969 the UK launched Skynet-1A, a military communications satellite placed in orbit above the east coast of Africa in order to relay information to British armed forces. It stopped working due to hardware issues around 18 months after it started operating, and the spacecraft was left to the laws of physics to orbit the Earth – it...

Space exploration has entered a new era where microbial discoveries challenge our understanding of life beyond Earth. The Chinese Tiangong station recently became the site of an extraordinary finding that reads like science fiction but represents very real scientific advancement. This discovery raises fundamental questions about biological adaptation in extreme environments. Niallia tiangongensis emerges from space station samples During routine operations in May 2023, the Shenzhou-15 crew collected samples from Tiangong’s habitation module that would later reveal something unprecedented. Scientists identified a completely new bacterial species, subsequently named Niallia tiangongensis after its birthplace among the stars. This microorganism represents the...

Scientists have discovered that a 'weak spot' in Earth's magnetic field is growing at an alarming rate. Known as the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), the region has expanded by an area nearly twice the size of Texas since 2014, and it is also slowly shifting westward toward Africa, according to a new study released on Monday. The SAA has increased by up to 25 percent, as it moves about 14 miles west each year. The expansion and movement are the result of turbulent flows of molten iron in Earth’s outer core, which generate unusual magnetic patterns that weaken the field...

VIDEO AT LINK.............. An unusual double-ring structure spotted in space with the help of citizen scientists has turned out to be a cosmic rarity. The celestial anomaly, captured by a radio telescope, is an odd radio circle, one of the scarcest and most mysterious objects in the universe, said Dr. Ananda Hota, lead author of a study published on October 2 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Odd radio circles, also known as ORCs, likely consist of magnetized plasma — charged gas that is strongly influenced by magnetic fields — and are so massive that entire galaxies...