Thursday July 21: Daily Links

THURSDAY 7.21


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Photo Shows Milky Seas are Real

Seafarers have always told stories of milky seas but there’s never been proof of the existence of glowing patches of ocean that make the waters surface appear to be ghostly white. Now one’s been photographed.

Stanley has these in his bathtub.

Read more at Scientific American


Swimply is the AirBnB of Pools

This new company allows you to rent your unused backyard pool and patio to someone else who doesn’t have one, so they can live the fancy life too.

What happened to faking a friendship to get a pool? Now that was simple.

Read more at Washington Post.


Tesla Sells 75% of its Bitcoin

The company’s Q2 earnings met expectations according to their quarterly earnings report, and the company also reported selling off three quarters of its bitcoin holdings, bringing $936 million in cash to its balance sheet, and likely sending all those people who bought bitcoin because of Elon to sell.

Who hasn’t Elon musk disappointed this year?

Read more at Yahoo


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SPORTS



Soccer Star Hit By Fish

Argentina’s Leandro Fernandez fell to the ground after being hit by a large raw fish thrown by a fan of the team he was playing against.

The bigger story is someone brought a fish to a soccer game.

Read more at mediaite.


Goodbye Quidditch, Hello Quadball

People really love quidditch but they hate anti trans Terfer J.K. Rowling, so they changed the name of the game to Quadball. Now its not a game that was named by an anti trans author, but it’s still a game that was invented by an anti trans author.

This is the same thing as moving the tombstone and leaving the bodies.

Read more at boingboing.com


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CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Andy Warhol's Polaroid of Mick Jagger Being Auctioned

A famous personal polaroid the artist took of Mick Jagger touching tongues with a woman will be up for auction, so you could own it.

What is a Polaroid? asked two generations.

Read more at Rolling Stone.


Brad Pitt Wears a Skirt on Red Carpet

Topping his recent orange suit look, Pitt looks beautiful in this black linen skirt ensemble.

And he still looks more masculine than anyone else in Hollywood.

Read more at CNN


Wes Anderson's Next is Crammed With Stars

Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Ed Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie, Tony Revolori, Jake Ryan, Grace Edwards, Aristou Meehan, Sophia Lillis, Ethan Lee, Jeff Goldblum, Rita Wilson and many more will star in Asteroid City.

With all these stars everyone should get one line a piece.

Read more at Variety


Camila Cabello Announces She Has Covid on TikTok

The caption was posted with a video of the pop star dancing with Dayquil.

Finally a cure!

Read more at page six.

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I got the rona

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Get Ready for The Idol

Created by Sam Levinson and The Weeknd, and filled with lots of stars, some are predicting HBO’s new show could be bigger than Levinson’s current hit series, Euphoria.

Which makes sense to all the people who haven’t seen Euphoria.

Read more at screen rant.


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Katherine McPhee David Foster PDA

McPhee, 38 and wearing a very short minidress, kissed her 72 year old husband and wrapped her leg around him.

And David Foster kissed Katherine McPhee while wearing adult diapers.

Read more at Hollywood Life


Simon Pegg Pulls a Shatner, Tells Jim and Sam Star Wars Fans are the Most Toxic

On the Jim and Sam show, Sam Roberts asked Pegg, “Who have you found has the hardest fans to please when you’re like jumping into the franchises between Dr. Who, Star Trek, Star Wars. I mean, these are people who, who take these licenses very, very seriously,”

Pegg replied, the Star Wars fan base really seems to be the most kind of toxic at the moment. I’m probably being very controversial to say that.”

Why weren’t O&A fans one of the choices?

Read more at mediaite.


Judd Apatow Producing Buddy Comedy From Please Don't Destroy

The SNL writing team “Please Don’t Destroy” are moving to the Big Screen with Apatow’s backing. Ben Marshall, John Higgins and Martin Herlihy wrote the script about three childhood friends who live and work together but are unhappy with their life trajectory, so they set off to find a gold treasure that is rumored to be buried in the nearby mountain.

Judd loves discovering people that Lorn Michaels already discovered.

Read more at Variety


Ricky Martin Says His Nephew is Lying

Martin has been accused by his nephew of having an incestuous and abusive relationship with him. But Martin says none of it is true and he will take the stand to say so.

Another case of he said, he said.

Read more at TMZ


Everyone's Raving about GOT Prequel Trailer

The House of Dragon Trailer is generating full GOT level excitement. Are you in? Or will you Stanley this?

They did the smart move, to go back before the stink .

Read more at Barstool


Norman Lear's Next Live Sitcom Event is an Abortion Episode

Norman Lear’s live nostalgia sitcom specials “Live in Front of a Studio Audience” have been a hit for ABC, and the next one is going to be one of those ‘very special episodes.” First aired two months before Roe vs Wade made abortion a protected right in the US, the episode of Maude centers on Abortion.

Unfortunately it’s very timely.

Read more at Variety



TRENDING & VIRAL



New App Promises to Help You Figure Out What's Streaming Where

QEWD is in beta right now but says it will help you end the cycle of carousel scrolling to find out what’s on and where.

This is so much more important than that James Webb telescope.

Read more at Variety



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