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Melissa McCarthy is officially reprising her role as Sookie in 'Gilmore...
Rest easy, Gilmore Girls fans: Melissa McCarthy will officially be reprising her role as Sookie St. James in the show’s new Netflix revival. The comedian announced the news on Ellen Thursday, and the...
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The world is ending later this month, and we couldn't be more ready
It’s 2016—the year you were supposed to shine bright like a diamond. You got a cool job. You started a new relationship. You began exploring your creativity in ways that you never thought you would....
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Michele Bachmann throws subway shade at Hillary Clinton, gets too turnt at...
Michele Marie Bachmann, a serial political loser who dropped out of the 2012 U.S. presidential election and failed to get her state of Minnesota to bar same-sex marriage, has taken it upon herself to...
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This is how celebrities use you on social media
I recently took all but a select handful of celebrities out of all my social media feeds. It was a careful culling, accomplished over several days, during which I weighed the costs and the benefits of...
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17 surprises we found in the Panama Papers leak
If you were on the Internet this past week, you’re probably aware of the Panama Papers, a several-terabyte leak of all sorts of highly sensitive information indicting everyone from Lionel Messi to...
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Man who just wanted McDonald's milkshake drawn into epic drive-thru nightmare
The entire point of fast food restaurants' drive-through experience, we'd all agree, is the incredible convenience. Even if there's a glitch with the intercom system or we have to root around in the...
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How a disgusting racist meme became an excellent joke about butts
One of the disturbing truths of the Internet is that meme humor and virulent racism often coexist in the same place. In most cases, the racist jokes never make it out of hate sites and seedy corners of...
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Porn site blocks everyone in North Carolina over anti-LGBT law
A lot of people and organizations are pissed about North Carolina’s new anti-LGBT law, which protects many forms of discrimination: Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, PayPal, Bruce Springsteen, and now XHamster....
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There will never be a more hipster meme than Neutral Milk Hotel's 'In the...
For better or worse, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is an indie-rock classic. Not in the Slanted & Enchanted or Bee Thousand sense: Those are both records made by human beings...
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The NFL won't livestream any of its overseas games in 2016
The NFL tried a grand experiment in Week 7 of its 2015 season. With the Buffalo Bills and the Jacksonville Jaguars set to play in London, the league broadcast that regular-season game exclusively on...
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This guy waited 7 years to drop the perfect Twitter joke
Most people active on Twitter enjoy its lightning-paced chatter and endlessly updating timelines. Then there's @MarcusLepage.Going by his avatar, Marcus looks to have been a mere lad when he joined a...
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Turkish mobile operator Turkcell wants 862 tweets censored following a...
One of the top mobile service providers in Turkey has successfully convinced a court to censor hundreds of tweets about a child-abuse scandal at a religious organization linked to the company and...
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Merriam-Webster disses Dictionary.com following heated exchange
Twitter beefs are always fun to watch unfold. Who didn't love watching Patton Oswalt insult Salon or Kanye West talk about Wiz Khalifa's pants? What's a little more unexpected is seeing...
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ISIS recommends list of secure-messaging apps amid heated U.S. encryption debate
ISIS and encryption are a combustible combination: An ideology and technology that together are driving a global debate that’s about to hit Capitol Hill.No matter what side of that debate you land on,...
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Meet the brilliant bachelor teen who staged a promposal for himself
Instead of going stag to prom, why not take yourself? Raul Rodriguez decided to seize his high school dance destiny by promposing to himself. Like, literally. "I wasn’t really expecting it, I kind of...
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There's a blacklist of social justice warriors, and I can't believe I'm not...
According to Urban Dictionary, social justice warriors are “people that need to believe they are fighting for social justice in order to feel validated regardless of whether their arguments have any...
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Ohio woman indicted for livestreaming friend's rape
An Ohio woman who thought a sexual assault was appropriate material to livestream on Periscope was indicted by a grand jury on Wednesday for doing just that. Marina Alexeevna Lonina, 18, is facing...
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The future of TV isn't Netflix and Amazon—it's Facebook and Twitter
As the TV in your living room becomes more redundant with each passing year, two announcements from the world's two most popular social-media sites threaten to shake up the televisual landscape yet...
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How an Internet comedy legend coded a program to make humans laugh
Jamie Brew, formerly of satirical newspaper the Onion and currently the head writer of its even funnier offshoot, ClickHole, is one of the few people worth following on Twitter. His account has become...
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We live in the golden age of the Twitter megathread
People who’ve been on Twitter since it debuted a decade ago are fond of saying that it's just no fun anymore, not much use, and all but totally dead.But here’s a counter-theory: Those people are wrong...
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