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Saturday 25 May 2019

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It's an internet fight and only the funniest meme will emerge victorious. This week's challengers? "Game of Thrones," the Gay Rat Wedding and more.
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WEIRD WEB
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This Week's Best Memes, Ranked
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It's an internet fight and only the funniest meme will emerge victorious. This week's challengers? "Game of Thrones," the Gay Rat Wedding and more.
BEHIND THE CURVE
Two Days With Curvy Wife Guy, The Most Controversial Man In Body Positivity
vox.com
He's just released a music video called "Chubby Sexy." Will it silence his internet haters?
WHAT IF ALEX JONES WAS MARK ZUCKERBERG?
What Is MeWe? Conspiracy Theorists Thrive On Social Media Site
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What would Facebook look like with nothing but the content it's banned?
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
Man Posts On Craigslist Saying He's Found A Lost Cat, Turns Out It's A Wild Bobcat
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Kudos to the man for being kind and to other users on Craigslist for pointing out that he had invited the wrong kind of cat into his house.
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LOOKING GOOD
PICTURE THIS
The Child Goddesses Of Nepal, And More Of The Best Photography Of The Week
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A quest to photograph Australia's 10 deserts, recovering the memories of a 1943 massacre in eastern Europe and other best photos of the week.
STILL STANDING
THE FIXER UPPERS ARE HERE
Would You Leave Your Life Behind For A House You Saw On Instagram?
thecut.com
Such is the power of Cheap Old Houses — an Instagram account with over 400,000 followers that functions as part ruin porn, part e-commerce site — that dozens of people have bought a beautiful disaster they spotted on it.
ALL QUIET IN BAILE HERCULANE
The Lost Romance Of The Transylvanian Spa Town
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Time has performed irreversible deeds upon one of the world's oldest spa towns, declared by 19th century nobility as the most beautiful on the continent, only to be handed a cruel fate of indifference today.
GOOD WOOD
This Heavily Altered Wood Is Stronger Than Aluminum Cools Passively
arstechnica.com
A large team of US researchers has found a single solution that appears to manage everything using a sustainable material that both reflects sunlight and radiates away excess heat. The miracle material? Wood. Or a form of wood that has been treated to remove one of its two main components.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
BRUTALLY POLITE
Lock Picker Tests Company's 'Improved' Bike Lock After He Easily Cut The Original. And, Well...
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The CEO of Ottolock did not have kind words for the Lock Picking Lawyer after the YouTuber snipped through the bike lock in seconds. But Ottolock has now released the extra-strength Hexband lock. Unfortunately, it's still not strong enough.
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Hey, guess what? It's the weekend. That's nice.

Friday 24 May 2019

Mayday! Mayday!

Friday's top stories are here.
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On The Arsonist's Trail: Inside Australia's Worst Bushfire Catastrophe, The City That's Giving People Money, and more.
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THE GOOD FIGHT
LINE OF FIRE
On The Arsonist's Trail: Inside Australia's Worst Bushfire Catastrophe
theguardian.com
One day in 2009, fires swept across Victoria, leaving 173 dead. It became known as Black Saturday. When it emerged that not all of these disasters were natural, local detectives sprang into action.
'I KEEP PINCHING MYSELF'
The City That's Giving People Money
theatlantic.com
Randomly selected Stockton residents are receiving $500 a month. The experiment might prove that guaranteed income works.
WATCHDOG IN THE HOUSE
Meet Murray Cox, The Man Trying To Take Down Airbnb
bloomberg.com
The Australian native runs Inside Airbnb, which uses the startup's own data to highlight illegal listings in big cities.
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CONS AND PROS
TurboTax Cheats Military Service Members, And More Of The Week's Best Scam Stories
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The man who died many times in a decade-long con, Woodstock 50's possible future as the second Fyre Fest and more of this week's best scam and hoax stories.
SPORTING CHANCE
A SELF-MADE-UP WOMAN
The Bitter Life Of A Shattered Jockey: A Mostly True Story
deadspin.com
Mary Bacon's life was irresistibly fascinating, but the way she recounted it was also riddled with exaggerations and outright falsehoods.
LEAGUES OF LOSSES
Shady Numbers And Bad Business: Inside The Esports Bubble
kotaku.com
The esports industry is held together with wax and string, which, sources say, hasn't stopped it from flying too close to the sun.
'I REALLY WANT TO CHANGE PEOPLE'S LIVES'
Frances Tiafoe Is The Next Great American Hope
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Tiafoe grew up on a tennis court — just not in the way as stars before him.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
'YOU WANT TO SEE HIM? NO?'
German Policeman Comes Up With An Effective Way To Deal With Rubberneckers At A Fatal Crash
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Rubbernecking is bad — it intrudes on tragic situations, it slows down traffic and it's just not great. This German policeman had enough after a crash on the Autobahn, and came up with a new way to shame rubberneckers.
IN THE NEWS
Theresa May To Resign As Prime Minister
$44 Million Settlement Reportedly Near In Harvey Weinstein Sexual Misconduct Lawsuits
Trump Gives Barr Power To Declassify Intelligence Related To Russia Probe
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Founder, Faces 17 More Charges In New US Indictment
New Paper Confirms Near-Room-Temperature Superconductivity In Wild, Hydrogen-Rich Material
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Hey now, it's the weekend, get your game on, go play!