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Saturday 21 August 2021

Your Job's A Joke, You're Broke Bobby

A Guy Whose Friends Rank Themselves By How Rich They Are — Including 'Broke Bobby,' Who 'Only' Makes $125K/Year — And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character', The Second Coming Of Brendan Fraser Is Upon Us, Let People Enjoy This Essay
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MAIN CHARACTERS, GOOD AND BAD
YOUR TURN FOR THE CHECK, BOBBY?
A Guy Whose Friends Rank Themselves By How Rich They Are — Including 'Broke Bobby' Who 'Only' Makes $125K/Year — And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
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This week's characters include a woman with the hottest take about Malala, a college promoting a questionable tradition during a pandemic and more.
THE FRASER REBOOT
The Second Coming Of Brendan Fraser Is Upon Us
gq.com.au
Hollywood failed him. But now, he's staging his renaissance.
HOW ONE COMIC RUINED THE DISCOURSE
Let People Enjoy This Essay
gawker.com
How the mindset of an irritating web comic infected criticism.
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EDITOR'S PICK
LIVED, LAUGHED, LOVED
Learning The Greek Alphabet, Getting Mad At Frankenstein And More Of The Week's Funniest Tweets
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This week, we're getting decidedly philosophical on Twitter. Hope you're hungry for a little food for thought.
THE INSIDE SCOOP
'GET TO THE AIRPORT NOW'
A Photographer Gives An Inside Look At The Fall Of Kabul, Her Longtime Home
nationalgeographic.com
Kiana Hayeri chronicles the Afghan city's tension, her evacuation, and the guilt she feels for leaving people behind.
WHEN YOU GOTTA GO, YOU GOTTA GO
Did The Prime Minister Of Australia Sh*t Himself In A McDonald's?
melmagazine.com
For the last three years, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison can't seem to dodge a very pressing question: did he shit himself at McDonald's in 1997?
TWO BITES, ONE FRUIT
Apple's Double Agent
vice.com
He spent years inside the iPhone leaks and jailbreak community. He was also spying for Apple.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
'I DIDN'T REALLY SLEEP THAT NIGHT'
A Woman Decided To Share A Video Of A Man Freaking Out At Her On The Subway On Reddit. Here's What Happened Next
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A woman gets a surprising reaction from Reddit after sharing a traumatic experience on a New York City subway train.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
MOLE HUNTING
When The FBI Spent Decades Hunting For A Soviet Spy On Its Staff
smithsonianmag.com
A tip provided by a double-agent for the KGB set off one of the most self-destructive mole hunts in FBI history. (From 2013)
The only rule of weekends is we don't talk about weekdays.

Friday 20 August 2021

Yak To Basics

Yik Yak Is Back And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked, What I Learned While Eavesdropping On The Taliban, Find Out How Old You'd Be On Jupiter, Mars, Venus And Other Planets Using This Nifty Calculator
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KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
LISTEN CLOSELY
What I Learned While Eavesdropping On The Taliban
theatlantic.com
I spent 600 hours listening in on the people who now run Afghanistan. It wasn't until the end of my tour that I understood what they were telling me.
SPACE AGE
Find Out How Old You'd Be On Jupiter, Mars, Venus And Other Planets Using This Nifty Calculator
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Author Irene Diomi built a simple calculator using NASA data to estimate and compare one's age on Earth with other planets in the universe.
COMMITTED TO THE BIT
What I Learned From An Unlikely Friendship With An Anti-Masker
theguardian.com
Frank's views were disturbing, a brazen assertion of white privilege. But with our fates more clearly tied together than ever, I needed to understand him.
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FRIENDS IN WEIRD PLACES
RETURN OF THE YAK
Yik Yak Is Back, Zuck's VR App And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked
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This week, we've also got Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality app announcement and Greek mythology jokes.
HORN ALONE
The Desolate Horniness Of Nextdoor's Lonely Hearts
melmagazine.com
Even when someone lives so close to you, they can seem so far away
A TINY ANGEL
I Spent Five Months Trying To Coax A Cat From My Ceiling
theatlantic.com
The whole time, I misunderstood what was keeping her up there.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS HUNGRY?
Here's A Supercut Of A Real-Life Garfield Cat On A Food Rampage
youtube.com
A food-obsessed cat has to be restrained before they eat their owners out of house and home.
IN THE NEWS
OnlyFans To Block Sexually Explicit Videos Starting In October
Britney Spears Under Investigation For Alleged Battery
New Zealand To Extend National Lockdown Over Single COVID-19 Delta Variant Case
Tropical Storm Henri Is Expected To Become A Hurricane And May Bring Rain, Wind And Storm Surge Impacts To Parts Of Northeast
Child COVID-19 Hospitalizations Soar, Filling Pediatric Wings, Data Show
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
A LOT TO BEAR
The Complicated Legacy Of A Panda Who Was Really Good At Sex
fivethirtyeight.com
His name was Pan Pan. It translates to something like "hope," an identity that likely meant one thing when he was an abandoned, sick cub on a Chinese mountainside and something very different later in his life. (From 2017)
Ah, to be a cat living in a ceiling… no thoughts, just giving the house haunted vibes.