If Twitter is a minefield, you can consider me the world's bravest soldier. At every corner on the bird app , there's something terrible to be seen. Sometimes it's an unhinged tirade from some hypocritical political figure. Other times it's a terrible take from somebody who has taken wokeness way, way too far. Other times, still, it's a minefield that consists solely of tweets from K-pop stans who insist on taking literally any subject or issue and spinning it to be about their heartthrob pop s…

Welp, it happened. I watched The Lord of the Rings: The Ring of Power . And despite my low hopes (which have nothing to do with the cast) and disdain for Amazon, I really, really enjoyed the first two episodes. They were beautiful, compelling, and exciting - and Galadriel is nothing short of a badass. As a huge fan of the incredible trilogy from Peter Jackson (not The Hobbit, y'all), it's easy to be skeptical of new media that is based on Tolkien's work. And while we can't say it measures up co…

It's time to BeReal. Caring for p lants makes for a pretty good coping mechanism. Sure, it's gratifying to keep a thing, anything alive, but there are selfish reasons for flexing our green thumbs, too. After a couple rough years of social distancing and spending most of our time at home, many of us likely developed new hobbies (read: addictions) while twiddling our thumbs at home. For some people, that hobby was baking one million loaves of bread and gaining 10 pandemic pounds. For many of us,…

If you're looking for the best memes of all time, you have come to the wrong place. If you're looking for a quick and easy distraction, perhaps you are in the right place. When the boredom strikes, I know I'll take any form of entertainment. While some of my favorite boredom-busting activities are, um, more PG than others, looking at memes is a pretty good place to start when you've run out of batteries. I mean, energy. Yeah. When my vibrator won't charge, I'm left to other devices, and in come…

If y'all have spent even a single minute on Twitter (also known by us as the 'bird app'), then you are probably well-aware that not all tweets are created equal. Most of the quips that people fling into the Twitterverse are either cringey, offensive, and sometimes maybe even both. Then there is the wealth of tweets that are so completely basic and banal that they manage to make us angry. You know what we're talking about. Those tweets that go viral on the site have either already been tweeted a…

“I wouldn’t even be mad about losing money, that’s the funniest thing ever.”

Please try to refrain from eating your wicker furniture...

Having fun on the internet seems easy, but it's actually more complicated than you'd think. Boredom has a way of removing creative faculties that help you decide on something interesting to research, or a fun game to play. Then there's the fact that the internet is far from consistent in its content offerings. Take Twitter, for example. The website was created to allow people to share short messages with groups of friends or specific networks - something similar to a group text. The site has de…

What if mattress companies like Purple, Casper, Nectar, and all the others were actually honest about how destructive and terrible they are? What? You thought that those advertisements were honest about the “sales,” the quality of their mattresses and “innovative” designs? Hahahaha. Well, you should probably watch this video, in which Roger Horton investigates all those mattress startups that look good to rapidly aging millennials and zoomers.

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Aragorn is how old?

The other day I saw a colorful chalkboard sign outside a juice bar that read, "when life gives you bananas, make a smoothie. " For some reason, it was bewildering to me. Firstly, they're totally missing the point of the classic adage they're referencing. The reason why we lemonade when life gives us lemons is that lemons are just a bit too tart to eat by themselves. The quote is about seeing the silver linings in terrible situations.. But when life gives you bananas, you eat them in front of yo…

C'mon Joey, don't play with us like this

There is a lot going on right now in the realm of fantasy television. This past Sunday, HBO debuted its Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon. It's been receiving good reviews - and enticed a whopping 10 million viewers during its premiere, making it HBO's largest premiere in history. Next on the roster? None other than The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The show has inspired a lot of discourse, and obviously, a whole lot of memes. Both the shows include BIPOC actors, and a…

Happy Monday, friends, enemies, lovers, whatever! We would say that we hope your weekend was enjoyable, but time is a construct and right now, at the very end of the summer, it feels like we're living a pretty freaking Sisyphean existence. One of our only forms of respite is to try to distract ourselves from that terrible, painful truth, and to inject some joy and maybe meaning into the monotony before we head back to the grind. This weekend, at least in the United States, some of us have a lit…

Before the episode even aired, I was dreading the infamous ‘Red Wedding’ of Game of Thrones. That's because I read the damn books. I read them incredibly quickly forsomeone who was A) working a secretary job and B) reading the lengthy tomes via PDF. The grisly scene of betrayal , in which several of our favorite characters succumb to bloody ends, is one that scarred book readers and show-watchers alike. I didn't expect that anyone would be able to inject a little humor into the horror show, but…