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This post contains spoilers for the entire series of Adventure Time, including the Season 9 finale

Adventure Time redefined what it meant to go on a journey.

The finale of this 10-year long adventure, which aired at 6 p.m. ET on Sept. 3, could not have made this more clear: We have moved so far beyond where we started. We could never have imagined the path would end like this. And somewhere along the way, we learned to be okay with that.

The finale reiterated that good things might come to an end. But what we learn from them doesn’t have to.

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Ah, Labor Day weekend, the last best chance to get outside for some warm relaxation before fall ends our days and nights of lounging in the yard.

Bears get it, man. Hibernation is right around the corner and they want to just lay back and take a nap in the shade while they can. 

One homeowner recently learned this when she found a bear chillaxin in her hammock, just rocking the afternoon away. Maybe it’s waiting on a pal to get back with some cold beer.

You do you, hammock bear, embrace those good end-of-summer vibes.  Read more…

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On Labor Day, Nike released a powerful ad featuring Colin Kaepernick, the NFL star still in exile for standing up for his beliefs.

The ad is a simple black and white image of Kaepernick’s face with the message, “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.” Kaepernick tweeted the ad from his Twitter account Monday afternoon.

According to ESPN’s Darren Rovell, the ad is part of a campaign that will make Kaepernick one of the faces of the company’s legendary “Just Do It” campaign, which turns 30 this year. The company also released ads featuring Serena Williams, NFL receiver Odell Beckham, Jr., and one-handed football player Shaquem Griffin, who made the Seattle Seahawks for the upcoming NFL season. Read more…

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Update: The New Yorker has disinvited Steve Bannon from the New Yorker Festival. 

Proving time is a flat circle and no one ever learns anything, a scheduled appearance by former Donald Trump advisor and Breitbart mastermind Steve Bannon has generated huge backlash for the organizers of an event.

This time, though, the culprit is The New Yorker, the traditionally staid publication which has slated Bannon as a keynote guest for its annual New Yorker Festival scheduled for Oct. 5 to Oct. 7. 

Bannon will appear alongside a wide range of guests, from author Haruki Murakami to activist Brittany Packnett to Parkland student and gun control advocate David Hogg. But the chatter is all about Bannon.  Read more…

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It looks like violence in video games is still the big hurdle to bringing esports to the Olympics.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Associated Press at the Asian Games over the weekend, where esports was being held as an exhibition event, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach downplayed any hopes of bringing esports to the Olympics.

“We cannot have in the Olympic program a game which is promoting violence or discrimination. So-called killer games. They, from our point of view, are contradictory to the Olympic values and cannot therefore be accepted,” Bach said. Read more…

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sOMe tRenDs nEvEr dIe – ThEy jUsT reTuRn iN dIffErEnt fOrM.

Case in point: Delia’s (stylized on its catalog cover as dELiA*s.) More than once, the internet has mourned the loss of the teen girl clothing store with the erratically capitalized name and its incredible catalog. 

Every few years or so, someone announces the brand’s death, only for the brand to reemerge in some diminished form onlineIts slow death began in 2014, and extended to 2015.  Even now, the brand continues to hang on with a simple site. And yet the nostalgia keeps flowingThe eulogies are extensive and exhausting. Read more…

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It’s hard to believe but it’s been 10 years since Google launched its web browser Chrome as a challenger to the hell that is Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Apple’s default Safari, and the open source Firefox. 

And Chrome made sure to throw itself a little party over the holiday weekend, not only bringing cake but also teasing a surprise for Tuesday, Sept. 4. 

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This is You Won’t Regret It, a new weekly column featuring recommendations, tips, and unsolicited advice from the Mashable culture team.

There are few greater joys than having insanely soft baby skin. Some people are born with it while others — like me — have to labor to achieve desired softness. 

In my quest to join the ranks of those with satin-like limbs, I have tried many things. Over the years, various exfoliating brushes or gloves have made their way in and out of my bathroom. Name a cream or lotion, and I’ve probably tried that too. But nothing has come close to the dear friend and ally I have found in the Baiden Mitten — an exfoliating mitt that will have you feeling like a goddamn cloud.  Read more…

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What if Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure had a different title? And featured a smart pup named Dogrufus? And introduced Adolf Hitler(!) into its time-twisting adventure?

All of that could have happened in some parallel reality, at least based on Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson’s original notes for the movie, which they hatched on spec. Solomon shared a look at his handwritten notes from 1984 (*great* record-keeping) on Sunday in honor of Bill & Ted star Keanu Reeves’s birthday.

You can thank the “Keanu Reeves TheClub” fan account for Solomon’s generous peek at the genesis of this classic time-travel story. It was a request from there that prompted him to share it. Read more…

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There are thousands and thousands of stolen bugs — including one of the world’s most venomous spiders and several cockroach colonies — still missing from the Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion, in case you needed a reason to scream this weekend. 

The thieves got away with $40,000 worth of insects and lizards on Wednesday. The insectarium estimates that the thieves stole about 7,000 animals in total, a whopping 80 to 90 percent of the insectarium’s exhibits. 

Police and insectarium staff think the heist might have been an inside job. Security footage showed people walking around the museum holding plastic boxes full of some missing insects, including giant African mantises, bumblebee millipedes, warty glowspot roaches, tarantulars, dwarf and tiger hissers, and leopard geckos. When the crime was reported, the New York Times says, insectarium employees found two staff uniforms “stuck to the wall with knives.” Read more…

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