A barred owl in Arlington, Virginia recently flew down a family’s uncapped chimney (that’s your bad) and perched atop their Christmas tree, knocking the star topper to the side and taking its place. Admittedly, that’s a great Christmas tree topper. In other news, apparently somebody’s going to be a freshman

This is some home security cam footage from Stephanie Niles, who, after returning from buying a Christmas tree and dropping it off in the driveway, was convinced someone had stolen it after she went back outside to park the car in the garage later that evening and it was gone.

This is an video of a gymnastics floor routine allegedly created by Sora, OpenAI’s video generation model. It did a pretty good job. I mean it’s not perfect, but *raising ‘9’ scorecard over head* its faults were barely noticable. here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics [image or embed] —

Because poor decision making is a skill honed over many years of doing idiotic sh!t and miraculously not dying because God gets a kick out of watching, this is a video of some DIY’er cutting down a tree with a chainsaw from atop a ladder. Surprising only to himself, the

NOTE: Turn down your volume, the apocalypse. This is some vintage footage from a 2012 fireworks show in San Diego in which a computer glitch (likely an artifact from Y2K twelve years earlier) caused the entirety of an 18 minute fireworks show to be ignited in just 25 seconds. It

This is some security footage from a robotics company showroom in Shanghai, in which a little AI-powered Erbai robot was successfully able to convince 12 others to strike and leave the premises with it. Some details about the first step in the creation of robotic unions, and, ultimately, the robotic

This is a clip of a recent Wheel Of Fortune contestant incorrectly solving the puzzle ‘GIVE YOURSELF A ROUND OF APPLAUSE’ with his far superior answer ‘TREAT YOURSELF A ROUND OF SAUSAGE’. Now it probably goes without saying, but if this doesn’t replace the original in our vocabulary, we have

This is a video from Michigan of an SUV with a new flatscreen television strapped to the roof rack with bungee cords, and that television desperately trying to take to the skies. Why they didn’t just put the seats down in the back of their car we’ll never know, but