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Saturday 15 May 2021

Gluten For Punishment

An Actress Who Was Driven To Eat Bread During The Pandemic, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character,' The Most Cursed Films Ever Made, The Rise Of The Thielists
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An Actress Who Was Driven To Eat Bread During The Pandemic, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
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This week's characters include a congressman who said the Capitol riot was just like a regular tourist visit, a newspaper that couldn't recognize a clearly recognizable actor and more.
TO THIEL YOU THE TRUTH…
The Rise Of The Thielists
newyorker.com
Has the Republican Party found its post-Trump ideology?
BIDEN HIS TIME
Beneath Joe Biden's Folksy Demeanor, A Short Fuse And An Obsession With Details
nytimes.com
As Mr. Biden settles into the office he has chased for more than three decades, aides say he demands hours of debate from scores of policy experts.
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WATCH THIS SPACE
I CAME, I SAW, I FLOPPED
What To Watch This Weekend: 'The Underground Railroad,' 'Those Who Wish Me Dead' And More
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Here are our recommendations on what's most worth watching this weekend on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and HBO Max, from Barry Jenkins' "The Underground Railroad" to the Martin Luther King documentary "MLK/FBI."
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HELLO, NEIGHBOR
Celebs I Could Fight, Your Email Does Not Find Me Well, And More Of The Week's Funniest Tweets
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Despite feeling existential, we'll keep hanging on for the same reason we all still keep our Facebook accounts even though the place is trash: for the jokes.
CURSED CONTENT
DOOMED TO FAIL
The Most Cursed Films Ever Made
bbc.com
Since it first went into production in 2018, the much-delayed mystery thriller "The Woman In The Window" has appeared increasingly doomed. Nicholas Barber looks at the films that are troubled from the start.
A GENERATION DELAYED
Millennials Aren't Just Behind. They're All Over The Place
theatlantic.com
An entire generation is getting older without growing up.
A SWING AND A WIS
What Goes On At A Southern Wisconsin Sex Party?
insidehook.com
We want our sex parties to be refined and glamorous. But it's not always like that.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
THE LIMIT DOES NOT EXIST
This Mathematical Explanation About Solving An Infinity Paradox In A Hotel With Infinite Rooms Might Break Your Brain
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Here's one of the best explanations of Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel.
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TOGETHER 'FOREVER'
The Weird, Lingering Life Of Post-Breakup Objects
racked.com
Exiting a relationship leaves you with two kinds of junk: the things you can hold in your hands, and the things you can't. (From 2016)
Wishing you a cursed weekend so that next week is better by comparison.

Friday 14 May 2021

🔎 Finding Leo

The Unrecognizable Leonardo DiCaprio And Othe Best Memes, Ellen DeGeneres's Relatability Was Her Downfall, The Women Who Enabled Jeffrey Epstein, 'Americans Are Paying For The Bombs Falling On Gaza Right Now'
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BEHIND THE SCENES
'I WAS LIED TO'
The Women Who Enabled Jeffrey Epstein
politico.com
From schedulers to socialites, they helped keep the late financier's sex trafficking scheme operating, or helped rehabilitate him after he faced jail time. Now some say they're victims.
THIS IS NOT OKAY
'Americans Are Paying For The Bombs Falling On Gaza Right Now'
slate.com
"This amounts, essentially, to ethnic cleansing."
THEY BROUGHT RECEIPTS
Rebekah Jones, The COVID Whistleblower Who Wasn't
nationalreview.com
The former dashboard manager alleges a vast data conspiracy in Florida; not a word of it is true.
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HOW IT STARTED VS. HOW IT'S GOING
THAT'S NOT THE TRUTH, ELLEN
The Unrecognizable Leonardo DiCaprio, 'Nobody Wants To Work Anymore' And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked
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This week, we've also got Dakota Johnson fact-checking Ellen DeGeneres, "Guess what. It goes to the economy," the out-of-control Chinese rocket and "written by Joss Whedon."
CONSOLATION PRIZE
The PS5 Is Starting To Look Like The Revolution It Promised
wired.com
What's happening with Sony's latest console, now that it's been out for six months? Supply issues aside, it's proving to be much more than a simple evolution.
STARS: THEY'RE NOT LIKE US
Ellen DeGeneres's Relatability Was Her Downfall
nytimes.com
The widening gulf between the talk show host's approachable shtick and her actual self created an impossible cognitive dissonance.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE
Guy Records Girlfriend Every Time He Picks Her Up From Work. Here's A Supercut Of Her Reactions
youtube.com
This is the pinnacle of being overjoyed to see another person after work.
IN THE NEWS
Israel Launches More Strikes On Gaza As Fears Of A Ground Invasion Grow
Activists And Ex-Spy Said To Have Plotted To Discredit Trump 'Enemies' In Government
House Republicans Expected To Vote To Make Elise Stefanik Conference Chair After Cheney Ouster
Governor Keeps Hawaii's Mask Mandate In Place Despite New CDC Guidance For Vaccinated People
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
SOUNDS FAMILIAR
Why Songs Of The Summer Sound The Same
nytimes.com
We examined the similarity of the top 10 hits of each summer since 1970. Through the mid-'90s, each summer's hits were a relatively diverse set. But since about 2000, the songs each year have been more similar. So what happened? (From 2018)
We are also nearly unrecognizable by the end of the work week.