Riding the Bitcoin Bubble in Panama
A photo from the author’s Bitcoin-funded trip to Bocas del Toro. In March I flew from San Francisco to Panama City with less than $200 in my bank account. I wasn’t worried about my lack of funds. A...
View ArticleBrazil's Confederations Cup Ended in Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets
For anyone not from Brazil, the country's recent protests have been bemusing. Everything you're taught about the place begins with Pele and ends with Neymar, yet here are Brazilians telling FIFA to...
View ArticleShould Trans People Have to Disclose Their Birth Gender Before Sex?
The author. It’s now against the law to suck dick if you have a dick and you don’t tell the dick you’re sucking that you have a dick. Or if you used to have a dick. Or if you have a pussy when they...
View ArticleComics: Noisey Got A Bunch Of Illustrators To Redo The Dipset Logo
Originally posted on Noisey. Dipset are the best. So obviously I started drawing their logo a while ago because I wanted to make some fake merch for myself. I'd already tried buying Dipset stuff...
View ArticleFinancial Domination Is a Very Expensive Fetish
A selection of webcam photos of Cleo, the financial dominatrix. Being a financial dominatrix is a lot like being an accountant. Except for the fact that people masturbate over your penny-watching and...
View ArticleWe Have Barely Any Time in the World
Grid 2. (Screenshot via.) Time is a big deal. Obviously. It's a purely theoretical mathematical abstraction, but it controls our entire lives; when we eat, when we sleep, how long we dedicate to...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn from the Uzbek and Tajik Conflict in Afghanistan
Ethnic Uzbeks and Tajiks fought in the streets with sticks and stones for several hours in the northern Afghan city of Taloqan on Saturday before the violence escalated to gunfire, leaving three...
View ArticleThe House of Peroni Is Bringing Italian Culture to London
As cultured and aesthetically-informed as you think you might be, let's face it – it's hard to hold a candle to the Italians. Where they had ravioli and Michelangelo, we had pasties and colonialism –...
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: We'll Need to See Some ID, Officer
Photo via Flickr user fdecomite Welcome back to Bad Cop Blotter, our weekly news roundup that compiles instances of cops behaving like assholes and the occasional instance of an officer actually...
View ArticleA Big Weekend Out at... Glastonbury!
I like Big Nights Out (you know I do), but festivals – the national Big Weekends Out – are a disaster for me. I've never had a good experience, be it during the one day I spent at V Festival 2000...
View ArticleWe're Holding a Screening of 'The Act of Killing'
The Act of Killing is a new film from director Joshua Oppenheimer. The documentary follows the perpetrators of the failed Indonesian military coup of 1965, where over a million alleged communists were...
View ArticleI Got Raped, Then My Problems Started
One of my cartoons that, apparently, make me a less credible witness to my own rape. According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, one out of six American women has been the victim of rape...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: What's The Most Tasteless Thing You Would Buy if You...
(Photo via) Although everyone already knew that Manhattan was the stomping ground of the richest, most tasteless people on earth (sorry, Jay-Z), some people still managed to be shocked by the case of...
View ArticleRomania's Fish Aren't Being Asphyxiated, Just Poisoned
Photos Bogdan Balaban / 2012 Remember that time thousands of dead birds fell out of the sky above Arkansas? Well, nature is back on the warparth, with reports of thousands of dead fish floating along...
View ArticleOn the Ground in Cairo at the Muslim Brotherhood Headquarters
Since Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi took office, the Egyptian economy has erupted, with the Egyptian pound valued at the lowest it’s ever been in history. Unemployment and incidents of sexual...
View ArticleThe Creators Project: Phoenix Released a New Music Video with The Creators...
As if shooting a music video for a world-famous band isn't nerve-racking enough, the filmmaking collective CANADA upped the ante for Phoenix's "Trying to Be Cool," released today by The Creators...
View ArticlePhotos of Romanian Workers Beating Up Their Fellow Citizens
A little over 20 years ago, the people of Romania rose up against their government. Only, their uprising was a little stranger than what's been happening in Turkey, Egypt, Brazil and southern Europe...
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