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The wait is over. The Chick Fil-A shade is in the past. All that matters now is it’s Nov. 3. That means the Popeyes chicken sandwich is back. And it’s here to stay.

The baffling hype around Popeyes chicken sandwich – I just don’t how it’s better than a three-piece and biscuit? – has been spiked since late August, when it officially sold out. Up until that point, fans of the breaded and bread-wrapped chicken meal had been lining up in droves to get a taste of sweet Louisiana Kitchen bliss.

Why the excitement, you ask? Well, Popeyes released a chicken sandwich for the first time in its history back in August. It might come as a shock that the best fried chicken joint in the fast food never even tried to compete with all the lesser chicken sandwiches out there, but here we are. Read more…

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Sometimes the world can feel like a bleak place. Life takes a lot out of people and it’s hard to find something pure and untarnished to enjoy without guilt. Except for this video of a guy flipping out over his new T-shirt folder thing. This is fine to enjoy.

Australian Youtuber Christian Hull (@christianhull on Twitter) tweeted a video from his TikTok channel showing off his new T-shirt folding contraption, which appears to bring him more happiness than you have ever experienced in your entire life. 

The shirt folder makes easy work of Hull’s shirts, and he punctuates each fold with an emphatic “boom,” which considering the razor-sharp perfection produced by the contraption is entirely understandable.  Read more…

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As part of its package on Donald Trump’s social media presence, The New York Times published an in-depth analysis of the 45th U.S. president’s Twitter account and activity, and the paper supported its observations with interviews from inside the White House as well as with former Twitter employees. 

The article, titled “How Trump Reshaped the Presidency in Over 11,000 Tweets,” has a lot going on, but here are some of the more bizarre takeaways from their research and reporting. 

1. Half of Trump’s tweets since taking office have attacked a person, group, or institution. 

The Times analysis determined that 5,889 of his 11,000+ tweets since taking office in Jan. 2017 are worded as attacks against targets as varied as television programs, the city of Baltimore, Jeff Bezos, many elected officials, and disfavored members of his own administration.  Read more…

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Behold, the orange traffic cone.

A quick, new Tesla software update included “driving visualization improvements.” That means the screen in Tesla’s all-electric cars – Models S, X, and 3 – which shows the road and the surrounding vehicles and lanes is adding more detail. Specifically: traffic cones.

Cars, pedestrians, trucks, and even motorcyclists are depicted as icons that signify each of those things, and now traffic cones will come up as orange cones on the screen as well. Previously, cones were considered generic obstacles that would trigger the warning system about something being in the way, but nothing specific was shown on the driving screen. Read more…

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Maybe he just likes the attention?

Donald Trump braved a visit to his now-former home of New York City on Saturday night to check out UFC 244 at Madison Square Garden. And New Yorkers, being the willful and opinionated bunch that we are, let Trump have it with a chorus of boos.

It doesn’t sound quite as bad or dramatic as the boos Trump recently faced at the Nationals-Astros World Series game. The booing stood out especially clearly in that earlier incident because Trump’s sudden appearance at the ball game was bookended on both sides by shout-outs to members of the U.S. military.

There’s also the fact that Trump is an established fan of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He’s the first U.S. president to sit in the audience for a UFC match, and he attended at the invitation of Dana White, the organization’s president and a vocal Trump supporter. Read more…

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Do babies and children freak you out? Do you never know what to say to the children your friends just keep having? 

Saturday Night Live understands your pain, and invented a service that would honestly be a lifesaver were it actually on the market. Host Kristen Stewart goes from kid-averse to actually being able to converse by using Duolingo For Talking To Children, and while it’s definitely a joke… this might be something Duolingo should look into developing.  Read more…

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Saturday Night Live really did it. After a military canine (I call it a dog) became the unlikely hero of the recent U.S. raid that left Al-Qaeda founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dead, it was almost inevitable that the weekly sketch show would bring in a real, live dog to do some jokes.

Now it’s happened, and it went about as well as you’d expect a sketch featuring a dog propped up in front of a live studio audience would go. Unpredictable things happened, people laughed when they weren’t supposed to, and what the sketch lost in polish it more than made up for in heart and adorable fluffiness. Read more…

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To be fair, you shouldn’t eat the logo either. 

Microsoft’s Edge browser is freshening things up with a new look, and it’s a swirling blue-and-green design that to many calls to mind another thing that’s gone out of style: Tide pods.

Discovered by The Verge, Tom Warren writes that the “Edge icon was revealed in an elaborate Easter Egg hunt where Microsoft employees posted cryptic clues to a series of puzzles and  images.”

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Some days, social media is a gift. This is one of those days.

Jason Momoa, star of Aquaman and also our hearts, got up close and personal with a real, live bear at some point in the not-too-distant past. I guess this is tied to his new Apple TV+ series, but all I see is an adorable bear gently extracting a cookie from the mouth of a gentle giant.

Please enjoy.

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Five dead, and four injured. 

A Halloween house party in Orinda, California, took an unexpected and dark turn late Thursday night when gunfire erupted and partygoers fled for their lives. The house had been rented on Airbnb, and on Saturday the company’s CEO belatedly said enough is enough. 

“Starting today, we are banning ‘party houses’ and we are redoubling our efforts to combat unauthorized parties and get rid of abusive host and guest conduct, including conduct that leads to the terrible events we saw in Orinda,” wrote Brian Chesky on Twitter. 

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