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Welp, it looks like a restaurant in Maine is trying to get lobsters high before cooking them.

The owner of Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound  restaurant, Charlotte Gill, recently revealed the restaurant has attempted to get their lobsters stoned in an effort to make their deaths at her eatery more humane, according to the Mount Desert Islander.

“The animal is already going to be killed,” Gill told the Islander. “It is far more humane to make it a kinder passage.”

Gill concocted a, uh, interesting method of getting her lobsters high. Here’s an excerpt from the Islander that details her first attempt at smoking up a crustacean — a lobster she calls Roscoe: Read more…

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It’s been a particularly brutal week for women on Capitol Hill, and Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii is sick of it.

Asked about the allegations against Kavanaugh on Tuesday, Hirono expressed deep frustrations with the entire Senate Judiciary process, accusing the White House of victimizing Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s accuser.

“I think we all know when something is unfair. When something smells. We all know this. Let’s face it: This is so patently unfair to her. What really bothers me and gets me so angry is that the White House is victimizing this person […] Why should we participate in a victimization who has the courage to come forward? And she is under absolutely no obligation to participate in a smearing of her and her family.”  Read more…

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The Doona is a car seat that was designed with integrated wheels, allowing parents to easily transport their infant from the car to the street in seconds. The invention has been certified as a car seat, a stroller, and an infant carrier. Not bad.  Read more…

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SpaceX has announced the identity of its first passenger to fly on its forthcoming BFR spacecraft, headed around the moon in 2023.

Yusaku Maezawa, the 42-year-old billionaire founder of Japan’s colossal online fashion mall, Zozotown, will fly around the moon on a mission that will take four or five days in total, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced on Monday.

And who does he want with him? Artists.

Musk revealed Maezawa’s identity at a press conference from SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.

The 42-year-old Japanese billionaire posted cryptic messages on his Instagram and Twitter accounts minutes before SpaceX’s announcement.  Read more…

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Since 2016, Twitter decided it was better to show you the best tweets first, based on an algorithm. 

Not everyone was a fan of the algorithmic timeline, though, and in a surprise decision, Twitter announced that it will allow users to easily switch to a view that shows the classic chronological timeline.

Twitter has updated its app so you have this capability now, but it’s a bit of a chore. If you go into Settings and switch off “show the best tweets first,” tweets will show up in reverse chronological order. Previously when unticked this option, your timeline would show tweets that you’d miss, and also recommended tweets from accounts that you don’t follow. Read more…

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Peter Dinklage won his third Emmy for most outstanding supporting actor in a drama series at the Emmys on Monday.

Dinklage, who plays the iconic Tyrion Lannister in HBO’s Game of Thrones, was nominated alongside fellow Game of Thrones actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays his brother Jaime Lannister.

For his work as Tyrion, Dinklage has been nominated in the category seven times, winning in 2011, 2015, and now 2018.

In his acceptance speech, Dinklage thanked Coster-Waldau, who earned his first Emmy nomination for his work on Game of Thrones this year. Read more…

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Excuse me, hold up, there was a LIVE PROPOSAL during this year’s Emmy Awards. 

Glenn Weiss landed the Emmy in Directing a Variety Special at the Oscars this year. He gave a heartfelt acceptance speech, explaining that the award was “bittersweet” because his mother had passed away two weeks ago. 

Then, he thanked his girlfriend for her support, but clarified, “The reason I don’t like calling you my girlfriend is because I want you to be my wife.”

Cue the tears!!

When she got to the stage, he pulled out his late mother’s ring — clarifying to his siblings that his father gave him dibs on it — and got on one knee.  Read more…

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Blink, and you missed the most distressing/hilarious moment to happen at the 70th Annual Emmy Award nominations. 

After Bill Hader won best lead actor in a comedy series for Barry, the camera panned over the other nominees. And instead of showing Atlanta‘s creator, writer, co-director, and creator, it briefly captured what appeared to be a horrifying white man in an elegant bathrobe.

And no, your eyes did not deceive you. And no, you are not hallucinating. But yes, we might all be haunted after tonight. Because that was Teddy fucking Perkins himself, clapping lightly in a front row seat at the Emmys. Read more…

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It’s not a stretch to say that Thandie Newton was the best part of Westworld Season 2. In a mess of befuddling plots and flashback shenanigans, her performance as the single-minded, fierce Maeve was the highlight of the show.

At the 2018 Emmy Awards, Newton took home the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, beating out Game of Thrones‘ Lena Headey, Stranger Things‘ Millie Bobby Brown, The Crown‘s Vanessa Kirby, and The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Yvonne Strahovski, Ann Dowd, and Alexis Bledel. 

Newton was nominated in the same category at the 2017 Emmy Awards, but the statue went to Ann Dowd that year.  Read more…

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Chrissy Teigen, once again, is a whole mood. 

Colin Jost and Michael Che’s painfully unfunny opening monologue drew scattered applause and awkward laughs. 

In response to a particularly terrible joke, Chrissy shrunk away from the camera and cringed into her seat when the camera panned to her and her husband John Legend.

The queen of the internet did it again, upstaging the lackluster monologue by perfectly conveying everything we all felt throughout the underwhelming rant. 

Emmys viewers agreed with every face she made.  Read more…

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