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Monday, July 31, 2017

Which one of you purchased the $109 Arcade Fire fidget spinner?

Arcade Fire, the band everyone was mad at last week for an obnoxious (and quickly abandoned) concert dress code, released a $109 fidget spinner Monday in conjunction with its new album, Everything Now.

What’s more, the USB spinner, which comes with a download of the album, sold out in what seemed like moments. This begs the following question: Who did this?

It’s finally here! But VERY LIMITED QUANTITIES! https://t.co/Pjsjl7dq9n http://pic.twitter.com/srPRUKRJ3z

— Arcade Fire (@arcadefire) July 31, 2017

Truly, this is not a drill. If you spent $109 on an Arcade Fire fidget spinner, please contact me. It’s not just that I’m curious, either — I am currently trying to justify buying these Lisa Frank pajamas, and I feel like you can help me get there. Thanks. Read more…

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J.K. Rowling apologizes for her tweets about Donald Trump and child in a wheelchair

J.K. Rowling knows how to tweet up a storm, especially regarding Donald Trump. But she made a mistake Friday and now she’s apologized for it.

She initially retweeted and criticized the president over a video of what appeared to be Trump ignoring a child in a wheelchair—only the complete video shows a different story.

“Trump imitated a disabled reporter. Now he pretends not to see a child in a wheelchair, as though frightened he might catch his condition,” Rowling initially wrote in now-deleted tweets, referring to the footage that shows Trump ignoring the outstretched hand of a child in a wheelchair. A different clip that circulated online in response to Rowling’s tweets shows Trump speaking with the child. Read more…

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Anthony Scaramucci listed as dead in Harvard directory, and the schadenfreude is sweet

As they say, when it rains it pours, and Anthony Scaramucci seems to be stuck outside in the middle of a monsoon without an umbrella.

The former White House communications director blew up the internet with an explosive (and expletive-filled) New Yorker interview, had his wife file for divorce, and lost his job in President Donald Trump’s administration all within 10 short days. What’s more, he’s also been incorrectly listed as dead by his alma mater.

As fate would have it, the newest addition of the Harvard Law School alumni directory arrived this week, during Scaramucci’s Shakespearean rise and fall, and he had an asterisk printed next to his name. This indicated he was reported dead since the directory was last published in 2011. Read more…

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Here’s why Sansa will definitely kill Littlefinger – and it will be awesome

If you’ve been wondering what the hell is going on with Littlefinger, you’re not alone.

Viewers have been scratching their heads at his inexplicably useless presence in every single scene he’s disgraced in Season 7. Meanwhile, theorists have been hard at work trying to figure out why showrunners who are happy to cut the throats of characters with dwindling relevance are bothering to keep Baelish around.

Until last season, Littlefinger was characterized as a scheming puppet master. But over the past two seasons, he’s become more like the Westerosi version of Lolita‘s Humbert Humbert.

There’s ample evidence that Petyr’s days are numbered, and we already smell blood in the water (or snow, rather). Read more…

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Serena Williams sheds light on the black woman’s experience during Black Women’s Equal Pay Day

It’s the last day of July which means, thanks to a pesky thing called inequality, that black women are only now catching up to their male counterparts earnings from 2016.

That’s right—according to the Economic Policy Institute, it takes seven months of additional work “in order to be paid the same wages as her white male counterpart was paid last year.”

Because of this, July 31 is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. Serena Williams is one of the many drawing attention to the dramatic wage gap. The tennis legend shared posts on social media and penned an essay for Fortune where she explained her thoughts on what it would take for the pay gap to close once and for all. Read more…

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Daenerys told Jon Snow she’s the ‘last Targaryen’ and the internet called her out

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The long-awaited meeting of the two young “Targaryen” power players finally happened.

While it wasn’t all peaches and cream, the internet was quick to point out a few ironies. Read more…

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‘Good Day Westeros’ sends a reporter to the Hall of Faces

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On Good Day Westeros we’re talking about Game of Thrones Episode 3 – ‘The Queen’s Justice’. Jon Snow and Daenerys finally meet, the Unsullied storm Casterly Rock and Olenna Tyrell tells Jaime Lannister her dirty secret. Read more…

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