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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 772)

5-6 minutes 5/4/2026

1. The weird but definitely not AI Designs of Stephanie Temma Hier

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Funnily enough, she’s only on Instagram.

2. The “little Scorpion of the French Riviera” wandered into my shop the other day and told me her story

3. Another idea for old keys

A detail in the Casa de la Torre, the Spanish home of American artist and collector Robert Brady (1928–1986). He acquired it in 1961 and spent nearly 20 years preserving its architecture while creating a home for his collection of over 1,400 artworks and artifacts from around the world, including pieces by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. The house became a cultural hub, where he hosted figures like Peggy Guggenheim, Josephine Baker, Octavio Paz, Rita Hayworth, and John Cage. If walls could talk…

4. This historic Chesapeake Bay Lighthouse for sale

Going for $450k. Found on Zillow.

5. Tagging along with the world’s most prolific hunters of messages in bottles

Photograph by Michael Friberg for The New Yorker
Photograph by Michael Friberg for The New Yorker

What happens when someone throws a message into the sea? The New Yorker’s Lauren Collins plunged into the world of a 41-year-old dad of two young kids from Utah who also happens to be one of the world’s most prolific hunters of messages in bottles. Read the article here.

6. The world’s deepest hole, abandoned by the Soviets beneath this rusty metal cap

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Drilled by the Soviets just to see what would happen, the Kola Superdeep Borehole is the result of a scientific project attempting to drill as deep as possible into the Earth’s crust.

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The deepest point reached 12,262-metre-long (40,230 ft) in 1989 and still is the deepest artificial point on Earth. The project was closed down in late 2006 because of a lack of funding. All the drilling and research equipment was scrapped. The site has been abandoned since 2008.

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Found on Wikipedia.

7. Buying a box of Bees in New York City

Andrew’s Honey on the corner of West 75th Street and Columbus Avenue, which sells many types of local honey, was the site of this year’s distribution of live bees to dozens of beekeepers in the city. Andrew Coté has held this event – affectionately called “the running of the bees” – for the past 20 years in various locations, including Bryant Park and Columbus Circle. 

More than 60 people had signed up to collect a fresh bee colony (“a shoe box of 12,000 flying, singing, venomous creatures”).

Just another day in New York City. Read the full article on Westside Rag.

8. Artist of the Week

Laurie J Proud’s Quai Des Puts Mélancoliques.

9. My Life as a Sex Worker at a Nevada Brothel

A pretty fascinating read by Paloma Karr, a pseudonymous Iranian-born bisexual New York novelist in her mid-forties, found on Esquire.

10. Worried About Teens Today? So Were Adults in the 1920s

The rise of the automobile and the growth of jobs and entertainment options in cities made people nervous that the next generation of rural youth wouldn’t stick around to do the agricultural work the nation required. As the popular adage suggested, “You can’t keep ‘em down on the farm once they’ve seen the city lights.”

More on this found on JStorDaily.

11. The actual strategy plan Walt Disney gave investors.

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A 1957 chart of how Disney would work. See it enlarged.

12. Mmmm, Art Nouveau Door Handles & Letterboxes

Documented by C Phalempin.

13. A wonderful documentary to watch for free