Laughing Squid

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Laughing Squid

Laughing Squid laughingsquid.com

a daily dose of unique and curious things

Wikidata: American art and culture blog

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

Audience

In English

02 · Privacy

What Laughing Squid tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

20 of the 60 sites closest to Laughing Squid match.

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   Jason Kottke kottke.org English No trackers

   kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products

   Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.

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   Mental Floss mentalfloss.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

   Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More

   Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.

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   Cheezburger cheezburger.com English 1 tracker

   Home - The Big Cheezburger Network - Made from the finest of internets - Cheezburger

   You get a Cheezburger, and YOU get a Cheezburger. EVERYONE GETS A CHEEZBURGER. The original internet funny site.

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   Bored Panda boredpanda.com Top 10K English No trackers

   Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas

   Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.

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   Stereogum stereogum.com English No trackers

   Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More

   The world's best music blog.

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   Digg digg.com Top 10K English No trackers

   Digg - News, before it trends

   See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.

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   Refinery29 refinery29.com English No trackers

   Refinery29 UK

   Where style meets substance - fashion, entertainment, news, and wellness daily

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   GitHub github.blog Top 10K English No trackers

   Home - The GitHub Blog

   Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.

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   TIME time.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

   TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates

   Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.

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    Stack Overflow stackoverflow.blog English 1 tracker

    The Stack Overflow Blog - Stack Overflow

    Essays, opinions, and advice on the act of computer programming, from Stack Overflow.

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    Anime News Network animenewsnetwork.com English 1 tracker

    Anime News Network

    English/French website about anime, manga, and Japanese culture

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12. 12
    Veranda veranda.com English No trackers

    VERANDA - Beautiful Home Decorating Ideas

    Home design and interior decorating is what VERANDA magazine is all about.

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    Highsnobiety highsnobiety.com English 1 tracker

    Discover and Shop What's Next | Highsnobiety

    Highsnobiety is a global fashion and media brand passionate about product and the stories that shape them. Discover and shop what's next.

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    XDA Developers xda-developers.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    XDA

    The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.

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    A List Apart alistapart.com English No trackers

    A List Apart – For people who make websites

    For people who make websites

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    Aeon aeon.co English 1 tracker

    Aeon | a world of ideas

    Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world’s most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.

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    spirit-of-metal.com English 1 tracker

    Spirit of Metal webzine : bands, album's review, interviews, live reports, mp3, photos, biographies...

    Spirit of Metal webzine : bands, album's review, interviews, live reports, mp3, photos, biographies...

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    Pinkvilla pinkvilla.com English No trackers

    Pinkvilla: Latest Entertainment , Box Office Collections, Movie Reviews, Latest Videos, Korean, Fashion & Lifestyle & More

    Get all the latest trends & breaking on entertainment & Lifestyle. Catch latest updates on Bollywood, Hollywood, Box Office, Movies, Reviews, K-Pop, TV , Fashion, Lifestyle & more.

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    AOL aol.com Top 1K English No trackers

    News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com

    Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.

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    Country Living countryliving.com English No trackers

    Country Decor, Craft Ideas, Comfort Food, and Antique Appraisals - Country Living Magazine

    Home decorating ideas, recipes, plus antiques and more from the editors of Country Living

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Laughing Squid’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Laughing Squid uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Laughing Squid adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.