Products that flopped because they arrived at the wrong time.

can we build one of those insane neon chinese supercities in america. just put it in nebraska or something we got room. it can be a 'ghost city' at first that's fine, rent will be cheap.

America is the wealthiest country in the world. Can we get some badass new cities already?

↩︎ Best of Twitter

2h

Couples, roommates, and friends discuss trying to keep it civil in the Trump era.

↩︎ NPR 2h

Different countries prefer their egg yolks in different colors. Farmers use a "yolk fan" to measure hue.

↩︎ The Globe & Mail 4h

“We can’t get just get a regular compliment... I know that people think that calling me chocolate all the time, or talking about ‘your skin is beautiful’ is a compliment. But why can’t I just be beautiful?”

Black women in the US marry less, and the numbers are even lower for darker skinned black women. Colorism is likely to blame.

↩︎ The Guardian

4h

Georgetown students overwhelmingly vote to pay a “reconciliation fee,” to address the university's participation in slavery.

↩︎ The Washington Post 4h

The unique, horrifying, and inspiring story of an unlikely relationship between a Guantánamo prisoner and his guard.

↩︎ The New Yorker 4h

Dan Mancina was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa when he was 13. By his late twenties, he couldn't drive anymore and started to consider himself a blind person. That's when he resumed skateboarding.

I used to run a lot. I remember running in the park, and some dude is like, “Is [your cane] tracking your distance or your miles?” I’m like no, man. I’m blind. You get everything under the sun, but the skateboarding’s random. People are just tripped out.

More video footage here and here.

5h

A poem for the week: “A Field of Onions: Brown Study,” by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal.

↩︎ The Paris Review 5h

A ranking of every single outfit that Harry wears onscreen in *When Harry Met Sally*.

↩︎ GQ 5h

As a profession, dentistry has not yet applied the same level of self-scrutiny as medicine, or embraced as sweeping an emphasis on scientific evidence.

Common dental procedures are not as safe, effective, or durable as we are meant to believe.

↩︎ The Atlantic

5h

Lest we forget: A list of Trump's crimes, collusions, corruptions, and cruelties from 2011 to 2018.

↩︎ McSweeney's 5h

In two years, California has sued the Trump administration nearly as many times as Texas sued the Obama White House in eight.

↩︎ CALmatters 5h

Despite the fact that when-you’re-here-you’re-family, I’m not looking to settle down with any of the women I bring to Olive Garden. In fact, I know that after we make out in the parking lot or hook up at her apartment, I’ll never see her again.

Olive Garden is the perfect restaurant for first dates if you don’t want the date to become something else.

↩︎ Bon Appétit

5h

Not built to withstand flooding, many US nuclear power plants are located where climate change will cause rising waters.

↩︎ Bloomberg 2d

Two teenagers have been arrested in journalist Lyra McKee's murder, which Northern Ireland police deem a "terrorist incident."

↩︎ CNN 2d

The Mueller Report's findings on ways Russian trolls used social media to manipulate Americans.

↩︎ BuzzFeed News 2d

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↩︎ TMN Membership 2d

"These shows are fucking unwatchable." Late night after Jon Stewart is a wasteland of inanity and cowardice.

↩︎ MEL Magazine 2d

Often, what you actually want is an authoritative stranger...but with no strings attached, no connections, no fear of seeing them in the grocery store and them asking if you took their advice. The opposite, in other words, of the rest of the Facebook feed.

For many women, the only reason not to delete Facebook are private, hyper-specific groups that fill a vital need.

↩︎ BuzzFeed News

2d

Andres Serrano's installation of Trump artifacts includes Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks—even a Trump University diploma.

↩︎ The Guardian 2d