“Please,” each post begins. “Don’t scroll.”
Such is the familiar plea Palestinians in Gaza are making as they appeal for support on social media platforms—primarily through the video-sharing app, TikTok—amid a war that has claimed their homes, their livelihoods, and, many fear, their futures. On its face, their ask of viewers is relatively simple: Watch the video until the end. Share, repost, comment. Donate if you can.
When these kinds of posts started appearing on For You Pages, many users dutifully obliged, helping to raise tens of thousands of dollars for Palestinian families seeking to crowdfund their way to safety in neighboring Egypt.
Like Mark Twain, Sir Henri Deterding once read a report of his death. Unlike Mark Twain, Sir Henri was shocked—not by the report but by the meagreness of his obituary notices, the fact that he was confused with an obscure brother. That was in 1924, and since then Sir Henri has had plenty of publicity, some of it furnished by himself, some by critics who called him “the most powerful man in the world.
Noah Lyles, the world’s fastest man, won a gold medal in the 100-m final on Sunday in a race that came down to a remarkable photo finish. The meet was decided by just .005 seconds, as NBC commentators originally declared Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson as the winner. “I went up to him afterward, while we were waiting. I even said, ‘Bro I think you got that one, big dog,” NBC reports that Lyles told Thompson before the scoreboard revealed that the Florida native crossed the finish line with a time of 9.
This was after taking into consideration that with every tribe in Nigeria being blessed with beautiful and alluring women, that it would take very discerning eyes to tell which possessed the most amazing women. Some of the tribes highlighted, though not in anyway restricting the others, included the Hausa, Yorubas, Igbos, Fulanis, Efik/Ibibio, and at the end of the very close voting results, the Igbo women carried the day with a slim 26%.
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Reese’s lovers may need to sit down for this. After a leaked photo of the packaging for a new Reese’s Pieces-stuffed Reese’s Cup took the Internet by storm, Hershey’s shared a video on Facebook Thursday to announce that the product will hit shelves in July.
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Before the news officially broke, a Hershey spokesperson told TIME that people were (unsurprisingly) extremely receptive to the idea of the candy concoction.
In Manhattan’s Columbus Hospital Extension, 16 years ago, an hour-old infant lay near death. A nurse, later adjudged to have been “tired,” had bathed his eyes with the wrong solution of silver nitrate, 50% instead of 1%, which had blinded him, seared his cheeks with deep furrows, and with its fumes caused pneumonia. Though his doctor had given the infant up as hopeless, a Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart, which maintained the hospital, obtained the doctor’s permission to pin on the babe’s clothing a medal of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini,founder of the Sacret Heart Order.
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Like a spendthrift consumer with too many credit cards, R.H. Macy went on a wild shopping spree in the 1980s. But after bingeing on several ill-timed and richly priced acquisitions, including two department-store chains that cost $1.1 billion, the 134-year-old New York City retailer found itself deep in debt, mired in an industry-wide slump and unable to pay its bills. The day of reckoning arrived last week when Macy’s was forced to file for bankruptcy after one of its major creditors rejected a proposed buyout by CBS chairman Lawrence Tisch.
The scariest dream my now-college-age daughter ever had was the one about the running legs—or, as they became known in our family, The Running Legs, almost audibly capitalized. She was in kindergarten at the time and the dream amounted to little more than an image of a pair of black tights, filled by an invisible lower body chasing her.
It was the first thing she mentioned when she got up in the morning and she brought it up again over breakfast—clearly distressed.
Emilia Clarke had the best reaction to watching Kristen Wiig appear on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon Wednesday night as the Mother of Dragons.
Clarke, who plays the blonde-haired bad-ass queen Daenerys Targaryen on HBO’s smash hit show Game of Thrones, posted a photo of herself crying with laughter to her Instagram.
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Kristen Wiig appeared on Jimmy Fallon dressed as the dragon queen complete with blue dress, blonde wig and a plastic dragon perched on her shoulder and hilariously answered questions while pretending to be the Khaleesi.
Sometimes when I am grocery shopping, even if I am there just for broccoli, I’ll swing by the aisle where they stock feminine products. Because, even though most of the things that disappeared during the pandemic like toilet paper, yeast, and flour have returned to the shelves, tampons are still in short supply. It’s become a strange fascination of mine, to see the large gap on the shelf, like a missing front tooth, where tampons are supposed to be.