These are the Bat Masks developed and sold by fashion brand Mantrap 1989 by Heathyr Lawrence. The look like bats and are hand-sewn from four panels of 100% cotton sheeting for an authentic bat look. Unfortunately for anybody who hasn’t already made a small fortune selling potions in the swamp, a Bat Mask will set you back $44. That’s Bruce Wayne kinda money! No, I’m afraid I’ll just have to stick to my current mask. “That looks like a bandana soaked in gasoline.” I feel like the gasoline offers another layer of protection against airborne pathogens. “It absolutely doesn’t though.” Sure, sure, but I feel like it does.

Keep going for several more shots as well as a short slow-motion video of a woman modeling the mask at her local Walgreens.

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This is a video of a trained vulture landing on the selfie stick of paragliding instructor Scott Mason while parahawking (a discipline he developed back in 2001), a real activity that exists combining paragliding and falconry, in which a trained bird of prey leads a paraglider to thermal updraft columns so they can stay airborne longer. How about that! With no context I would have just assumed this vulture was planning to cut their parachute lines so they crash then pick their bones clean.

Thanks to blue16, who agrees it pays to have friends in high places.

To celebrate (read: promote) the release of The Mandalorian season two, this is a timelapse video of three LEGO master builders constructing a full-scale baby Yoda out of 14,588 bricks over the course of 119 hours. *spit-takes all the LEGO pieces I had in my mouth* 119 hours?! Did they have to make each individual brick by hand too? Man, clearly these master builders charge by the hour. Now I’m not saying I could have built this baby Yoda quicker, but– “Let’s go back to the part where you had a mouthful of LEGO pieces.” Times sure were simpler back then, weren’t they?

Thanks to MSA, who informed me episode 3 of the new season is dropping on Friday the 13th. I hope it’s a scary episode!

This is a video of a very good boy singing the intro to Star Trek: Discovery. I was skeptical he was actually going to sing anything at first, but by the end I was a believer. He was really just waiting for the beat drop. *donning fishnet bodysuit and faux fur leg warmers, cracks glow stick bracelets I can respect that. My dog? My dog won’t sing anything, but she will wake herself up with a fart then growl at me like I touched her butt or something. So, you know, equal but different.

Good boy sings to the Startrek intro.. pic.twitter.com/I94NNBvrCO

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This is a video of Clearwater, Florida Man Brian Edward Kahrs demonstrating the electric vehicle he built out of a mop bucket on a skateboard, powered by a leaf blower blown into an umbrella sail. Oh, Florida Man. Florida Man, Florida Man, Florida Man. I’m not going to lie, I’m impressed. Also a little jealous I didn’t think of this first. Jealous of Florida Man — I never thought the day would come, yet here we are. What other surprises does 2020 have in store for me before it ends? I can only wait and worry. Also, I like how in their little skit the boy steals Brian’s vehicle after he pulls over to use a Porta-Potty. The kids in my neighborhood would do the exact same thing, plus push the Porta-Potty over with me in it then use salt to kill the grass in my yard in the shape of a giant penis.

This is a video of Youtuber Equalo’s quest to run Doom on a Raspberry Pi powered entirely by potatoes. He fails (the Raspberry Pi needed more amperage than the potatoes produced), but then he uses his giant 700-piece rotting potato battery to successfully run the game on a TI-84 graphing calculator. The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air song he wrote about the experience, because why wouldn’t a person?:

I think the smell of all those rotting potatoes finally got to him. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve blamed a bad smell on my behavior, but– “He tried to tell me he forgot our anniversary one year because of the smell of taking out the trash the night before.” Alright honey now that’s 100% true, I had an awesome present and everything. “Where is it then?” I forgot where I hid it when the dog farted.