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Barry Petchesky

Year In Review

What Horrible Things Did We Do To Our Penises Last Year?

(GERMANY OUT) DEU, Germany: (Fast) Food: sausage, fried curried sausage (Photo by Yavuz Arslan/ullstein bild via Getty Images)


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Sabrina Imbler

A photo of the grass mouse Akodon albiventer

Creaturefector

These Two Grass Mice Species Look Almost Identical Except For One Small Thing (Their Wieners)

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Albert Burneko

Media Meltdowns

‘American Conservative’ Columnist: This Story Reminds Me Of A Third-Grader Whose Dick I Thought Was Weird

A member of the Ripoll Taberner family minces meat during the annual tradition of the pig slaughter (matanza de cerdo) in Llucmajor on the Spanish Balearic Island of Mallorca on November 23, 2020. - For the traditional slaughter, a pig is fattened up for a year and then killed on a cold day to ensure the best conservation of the "sobrasada" sausages. (Photo by JAIME REINA / AFP) (Photo by JAIME REINA/AFP via Getty Images)

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