Optical illusions are fun. They give you something to focus on to distract you from whatever else is going on in your life/world/the news. And right now, we need that now more than ever (srsly, someone pls help? Justin Trudeau? Obama?).
So, thank you to Twitter user Martin Taylor for introducing us to this mental nightmare from Atlanta-based magician Victoria Skye:
As the tweet explains, these lines really, really look like they're slanted. BUT THEY'RE NOT. How could our eyes lie to our minds like this???? I feel betrayed.
Not everyone is convinced though. Like this guy, who was 10000% certain the lines are slanted at an angle:
They ARE at an angle rather than strictly horizontal - you can hold a straightedge under to see. The bend/wobble is the illusion.
Dear Leader took a break from his 17-day golf vacay today in order to yell about how he won't be taking no guff from North Korea, noting that any further threats will be met with "fire and fury." By which, we are pretty sure, he means nukes.
“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” Mr. Trump told reporters at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J. “They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal state and as I said they will be met with fire and fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before.”
Do you think he said "fire and fury" enough times? Twitter is not sure.
Dad, tell me again about how the War of Fire and Fury began
Brianna Boyce was swiping her way through her most recent breakup when she came across her most recent ex-boyfriend, Adrian. But the face wasn't the only familiar thing about the profile. Adrian's photo was the same as her own — with her cropped out.
Naturally, Boyce repieced the photos together and shared it with the entire Internet. "When u find ur ex on tinder anddd [skull emoji]," she wrote. "(we're friends so no hard feelings.) Unfortunately, her ex did not feel the same way.
The photo was already going viral — who can resist a Tinder fail picture? — when her ex discovered it. He didn't think it was as funny as everyone else.
Adrian hit Brianna back with some harsh words: "We broke up because you always lied and wanted your ex back (We're not friends)."
We broke up because you always lied and wanted your ex back (We're not friends) https://t.co/75C9HYy17Y
Boyce talked to Cosmopolitan to clear up the record about her "friendship" with Adrian. "We were friends before all of this happened, so I thought he would think it was funny, just like I did," she said.
"I'm not perfect, but neither was he," she said, looking down from the high road. "We both had insecurities and faults in the relationship and that is ultimately what caused the break up. I would never publicly blast him on anything he did wrong in our relationship and I still won't."
Get yourself an ex who won't "publicly blast" you. On second thought, also get one who won't screenshot your Tinder profile.
As we speak, Taylor Swift is on the stand in a Denver courtroom for a sexual assault lawsuit that dates back to 2013.
Swift is suing DJ David Mueller for allegedly groping her inappropriately. She describes the incident as: "[Mueller] reached up under my skirt and grabbed my ass right when I was having to pose for a photo."
This isn't the lawsuit's first life — in fact, Mueller sued first, as he claims that Swift's allegations cost him his job. Now, it's Swift's turn to reach for justice in what has become a closely-watched trial.
Naturally, there aren't any pictures from the courtroom. Instead, a sketch has been released. Swift looks... not quite right. The blonde bangs are there, but she somehow looks both evil and dowdy. Her brows are arched like she has a secret she'd rather not share with the class. The all-over confusing sketch has fans wondering: Did Katy Perry draw this, or what?
Twitter is having a field day with this picture, albeit hopefully keeping in mind that this is, at the end of the day, a woman going up against her alleged assailant.
The side view, at least, is a little better. If Taylor Swift's team is as powerful as they seem to be, we have a feeling we're only going to be seeing side views from now on.
Sometimes a new haircut is a real reason to celebrate. Shannon Doherty was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, and she's spent the past two years undergoing chemotherapy. Now, she's in remission, and the post-chemotherapy milestones are rolling in.
Doherty took to Instagram to share a photo of her first haircut since completing chemotherapy. The cropped pixie is a far cry from her long, wavy 90210 look, but we have a feeling the new short style is much more special to Doherty.
"Yes he gives the best haircuts ever but the real pleasure is just absorbing some of his positive, serene energy. Thank you @anhcotran for the 'sexy Parisian' cut," she wrote on Instagram. "After two years of either bald or a crew cut, it's nice to feel a bit more like a woman again. ❤️❤️❤️"
Over 60,000 fans liked the photo, and plenty have chimed in in the comments section to congratulate Doherty on her new look and her good health.
"Huge congrats on both the cancer remission and new hairstyle. Looks awesome and to see you like this is gods blessing," wrote one fan. Another agreed: "Beautiful, pray for your full recovery."
Even the hairstyle was fan-approved: "I actually love the short hair after seeing you with long hair all these years, I think it looks marvelous !!!!!"
The "sexy Parisian" look is definitely working on Doherty, and the cancer survivor look is even better.
Most Americans have always seen North Korea as a looming threat, but after President Donald Trump's terrifying "fire and fury" comments yesterday, the possibility of war seems very real. However, Jimmy Kimmel is calling bullsh*t on those armchair politicians who think the U.S. should intervene with North Korea.
Kimmel sent a correspondent out onto the street to ask people their feelings on North Korea. After they ran their mouths about going to war, he asked them to point to the country on a map. Because surely one can locate the place they want to bomb, right? Right? RIGHT?
Yeah, you can only guess how this is ends:
But honestly, do you need to know the geographical location of a place in order to be really, really afraid of it?
Next Jimmy Kimmel should ask Donald Trump to point to North Korea on a map. Now that would be scary.
On Wednesday morning, Donald Trump woke up, stretched his fingers, and proved wrong any terrified bystander who thought his biblical ravings about unleashing "fire and fury" on North Korea wouldn't escalate any further.
My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before....
"My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal," wrote Trump, before bragging about the nuclear capability of the United States. "It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before...."
The ellipses continued, with Trump seeming to remind North Korea that the United States is a more powerful nation. "...Hopefully we will never have to use this power, but there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world!"
Both Trump and Kim Jong-Un have identical oratory styles:
"I am the greatest! We will rain fire and fury upon you!"
Even before these tweets, the internet was panicking. North Korea had threatened to strike at Guam, according to the BBC, "where US strategic bombers are based."
I'd feel a lot safer right now if Trump had hotels in Guam.
The latest flare-up in tensions escalated sharply on Tuesday afternoon, when Donald Trump blustered over the news that North Korea had advanced their nuclear capability. Asked about the development, Trump responded with a rant that was immediately denounced by experts, who feared that his thundering would increase the chances of nuclear conflict. Here was Trump's statement, via The New York Times:
North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal state and as I said they will be met with fire and fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before.
"Experts worry Trump's rhetoric could hurt the US by feeding North Korean insecurities and adding instability to an already tenuous situation," wrote CNN on Wednesday morning.
Speaking to Joe Cirincione, president of a "global security foundation," CNN quoted: "We have two inexperienced, impulsive presidents in control of these massive military machines."
He continued: "It's one thing to make a mistake intentionally, its another thing to stumble into a conflict ... either one—Kim Jong Un or Donald Trump—could miscalculate and let loose a war unlike anything we have seen since World War II."
Kids' drawings are often a source of amusement, but one in particular is going viral right now because of how absolutely hilarious it is. Amanda Mancino, who lives in Bath with her three kids, tweeted a picture of a drawing her 10-year-old daughter Luca did when her class was instructed to make up a superhero. Luca's superhero is a little different from the ones we're used to seeing, in the best possible ways.
Meet Janet, your new favorite superhero:
My child went to art day-camp today. One project was to make a new superhero. This is what my child made. pic.twitter.com/SvKUoAJJUT
In the corner of the drawing, Luca explains Janet's superpower—cutting people in half with her giant scissors. She goes on to clarify, Janet is really only a superhero to herself. That's right, people—you can be your own superhero!
We spoke to Mancino via Twitter about Janet's (and Luca's) overwhelming internet fame. She said, "The positive feedback has definitely outnumbered the negative by far. A small group have advised me that I'm raising a serial killer and should put her in therapy." (Lol.) She added, "Overall, it's been wonderful. The art people have sent has been such a gift. She wants to frame them all."
The picture really took off on Twitter, with Janet inspiring a great deal of fan art.
Tell your child that they have a big fan! I made some fanart of Janet. I hope they like it! I hope they continue to create cool things <3 pic.twitter.com/h8y0N6V422
This post made my day - I always draw with my kids - they will totally love the original better tomorrow morning as they should. pic.twitter.com/PqbZtONjBO
On Tuesday night, Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake transformed back into prepubescent versions of themselves and returned to Camp Winnipesaukee for another hilarious sketch about two best friends at sleepaway camp who can't help but belt pop music all night.
Fallon and Timberlake have been doing versions of this sketch since 2013, but they still have not managed the art of holding in their laughter. This time they are joined by Keegan-Michael Key as Councilor Fletcher and Billy Crystal as a camper from Camp Buttonwood, and both of them also struggled to stay in character, so yeah—they fit in perfectly at Camp Winnipesaukee.
After playing "Two truths and a lie," singing a lisp-y cover of "What's Up" by 4 Non Blondes and belting out Gloria Estefan's "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You," the boys all had their classic '90s freeze frame moment. All seem to be doing well—except Councilor Fletcher's balls, that is.
When are Timberlake and Fallon going to be given their own show already?
Personally, the names Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump make me super f**king mad, filled with fury about how they're aiding and abetting President P*ssygrabber. While the Trump women also anger actress Chloe Grace Moretz, she also has a slightly more sympathetic reaction: sadness.
Me the entire time Trump is president.
"I’m not them. I don’t know them," she explained to Variety. "I can only speak on what I see and it saddens me."
And what saddens her is women "not speaking up for themselves and what they believe in."
Not a good look, Ivanka.
Moretz called them on their privilege that might be what blinds them from people suffering:
I wish they were more aware of their surroundings and I wish they were more aware of what their husband and father are doing. It pains me to see people who are just speaking through this veiled curtain of privilege and they have no compass of what is real.
She took it another step further, explaining, "I think that young women deserve better role models," but she still empathizes with Melania and Ivanka as opposed to my blind hatred:
I hate to see the way that Melania is treated — I think that she is treated really badly, and I hate to see a woman who is not respected by her own husband, and a daughter who doesn’t see that she is disrespected by her father. I think that’s really sad. I think they’re also products of mental manipulation. You can’t see the forest through the trees when you’re that deep.
Melania Trump certainly isn't treated well—this is one of the first GIFs that comes up for her name.
An Australian woman who went to the hospital with stomach pains found out some pretty weird news. It turned out that the woman's small intestine was being pierced by a 7 mm piece of dental wire, CNN reports. Where had the wire come from? Oh, just from the woman's braces, the ones she'd had removed ten years earlier.
At first, the woman's pain was thought to be gallbladder-related, and the doctors sent her home once her pain had lessened. But two days, she was back at the ER again, this time complaining of severe abdominal pain.
This time the doctors did a CT scan and found that an object had punctured the woman's small intestine in a few places. Dr. Talia Shepherd told CNN, "After looking at the CT scan, at first we thought it was a fish bone, because that's a pretty common thing to find in the stomach. But when we went to ask the patient if she remembered swallowing anything, she had no recollection." That's because it happened 10 years earlier, and she probably had no clue she'd swallowed it.
Okay, here's where the details make it even more horrific. The woman's small intestine having been pierced several times by the wire led to a condition known as volvulus, where the small intestine twists on itself. The doctors decided they needed to perform emergency surgery on her.
But if you have or have had braces, don't worry—according to Dr. Shepherd, this is a very rare situation. She told CNN, "The chances of swallowing a wire from your braces is very low. There might be a higher chance if you're sedated and undergo a dental procedure. But this is a very unusual case."
It's all finally happening as Game of Thrones blasts past the halfway point of its penultimate season.
There's no time for more characters and extended plot points (and realistic timelines)—it's time for Dany to move on the Iron Throne, for the White Walkers to come south, and for Jon Snow to ride a dragon.
At least, that's what fans are letting themselves believe thanks to a quick flash in the scenes from next week.
At the :15 second mark in the trailer for season seven episode five, titled "Eastwatch," we see Dany atop her massive dragon, Drogon, as he roars in the face of her secret nephew Jon Snow.
But now some Redditors are getting hyper specific. Extrapolating from the above snapshot from the episode five trailer, they're picturing a scenario where Rhaegal sniffs out Jon Snow's regal blood and comes to his defense against Drogon.
From the trailer we see that Jon receives a raven from Winterfell. Bran has seen the Night King's army marching towards Eastwatch. He got what he came for, so he will leave Davos to oversee the mining of the Dragonglass and head towards his boat.
Dany, after coming from the battle, finds out that Jon is leaving and flies on Drogon to stop him. This is where we get the scene in the trailer in which Drogon screeches at Jon. Now as this showdown is happening, what if Rhaegal comes down and lands in between Drogon and Jon. This is one way to establish that Jon is a legit Targ by making a Dragon "obey" or "protect" him.
Most likely, the confrontation won't go exactly as prophesied by Reddit.
But the closer Jon gets to Dany's dragons—and considering the show creators' insistence that Jon and Dany are going to bone instead of fight to the death—the closer we get to watching our favorite northman take the saddle, Ikea-rug flapping in the wind, and ride off to burn some ice zombies.
Including season eight, there are only nine new episodes to look forward to.
Named for her late husband Khal Drogo (and not a play on the word "dragon," though they really do sound alike), Drogon escorted Daenerys to the loot train attack and torched the sh*t out of the Lannister army.
But Drogon did not make it through the battle unharmed. Westeros's second best snarky badass (Tyrion is #1, of course) hit the dragon with Qyburn's scorpion, causing him to fall from the sky.
Now that's a face worth stealing, Arya.
Of all the body parts, fan noticed that Drogon suffered an injury much like his namesake.
I loved how poetic it was that Drogon, the dragon named after Khal Drogo, was the one leading the Dothraki attack on the Lannisters. It just seems to perfect that not only was Drogon leading the attack, but he also suffered the same injury as Drogo, an attack to the shoulder (albeit, opposite shoulder).
Damn. Will Drogon die like his stepdad?
Drogo died from an infected shoulder booboo, that not even black magic could help.
Who knows, maybe the Scorpion Bolt could have been poisoned as well. Scorpions are poisonous...
Even though he had just slaughtered a whole bunch of people, fans really feared for Drogon.
A lot of people take on President Donald Trump on Twitter, but among the most prominent is Harry Potter author JK Rowling. Her dislike of Trump is no secret, and on Wednesday she referred to him in a tweet as "Dear Leader," which is what Kim Jong-un is called in North Korea. Ouch.
On the eve of war, tributes are paid to the Dear Leader's silver tongue and godlike wisdom.
Donald Trump has blocked so many people on Twitter (including legendary horror author Stephen King), but somehow he hasn't blocked his archenemy JK Rowling. Yet.
Alright, let's get right out in front of it: like nearly every celebrity, Kim Kardashian is most likely "aging gracefully" with a little help from a plastic surgeon. But still, her most recent throwback picture posted to Instagram proves that whatever she is doing to her face, it is totally working.
On Tuesday, the 36-year-old mother of two uploaded this throwback picture of herself at age 15, and she looks exactly the same:
A post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on
When is National Ice Cream Day? (This pic was taken by Shelli Azoff when I was 15. First trip to Europe on tour with the Eagles) Allison & I made a journal of this trip. I'm gonna look for it & post it on my app!
The picture was taken around 1995, and shows a young Kim eating some ice cream while wearing a plain white t-shirt and every '90s girl's staple: a giant plastic hair clip.
Anyone else still really bummed about Chris Pratt and Anna Faris and want to wallow in it because it doesn't actually effect your life like Donald Trump threatening North Korea? There's nothing like a celebrity breakup telling us that love is dead to distract us from the fact that we might all be soon.
Let's go back in time to the year 2014. Pratt was fresh out of making Guardians of the Galaxy the surprise hit of the summer, had traded his Andy Dwyer dad bod for chiseled hunkitude, and less was publicly known about North Korea's nuclear capabilities. Hosting the season 40 premiere of Saturday Night Live, Pratt famously serenaded Faris, and reminisces, "we had sex and a baby popped out."
It's been 11 months since Angelina Jolie announced she was filing for divorce from Brad Pitt, her partner of 12 years and the father of their six children. But despite some initial bad blood, the couple are now planning to co-parent their kids, and interestingly enough, Jolie hasn't made any further steps towards having the divorce finalized. It's almost enough to make some people believe that maybe they're not actually going to go through with the divorce at all.
On Wednesday, Us Weekly reported that Pitt and Jolie's divorce is "in limbo." A source allegedly revealed to them that Jolie is "second-guessing" her decision. "The divorce is off," the source said. "They haven’t done anything to move it forward in several months and no one thinks they are ever going to.”
After the initial announcement of the divorce, one insider claims that Jolie was so sick of years of fighting with Pitt that people in Jolie's inner circle were "running a smear campaign" against Pitt.
But things seem to have changed (or just gone back to how they were), because the source told Us, "She's still so in love with him."
Jolie's supposed change of heart could also have something to do with Pitt's decision to get sober. According to the source, "He got sober to try and win her back. He knew he had a problem that he had to take care of. And that's all she ever wanted."
So now that everything has calmed down and almost a year has gone by, the source says, “Everyone thinks they are going to get back together. It wouldn’t be surprising if they announced that they’re calling it off and trying to work things out.”
Actors Chris Pratt and Anna Faris just announced their split on Tuesday, and we could really use some sign that love isn't dead forever, and that long-term couples can make things work. Please, guys, get back together. DO THIS FOR US.
Looking for an incredibly creepy mansion at which to hold your next Eyes Wide Shut-style orgy? Look no further! The childhood home of Donald Trump can be yours to rent through Airbnb (along with 20 of your closest friends), for $725+ a night! What a dream.
Not much has been changed since the Trumps lived here, the kitchen is original and the opulent furnishings represent the style and affluence in which the Trumps would have lived. This is a unique and special opportunity to stay in the home of a sitting president.
Located in Queens, the home is just a short trip into New York City aboard the F-Train, which is easily walkable, just a few blocks away.
The President Donald J. Trump Childhood Home sleeps 20 guests in its 5 Bedrooms, has a full kitchen, internet and Cable TV. The Trump Childhood home has space for a meeting or conference and is the perfect accommodation for a New York Vacation.
A unique and special opportunity indeed. Looking at the pictures, one can easily picture a young baby Trump scampering about he house grabbing at pussy cats, burning ants with magnifying glasses and crying that he wants a golden goose that lays gold eggs for easter. Or simply gaze at myriad pictures of the President himself.
Like this fake Warhol!
And these portraits lovingly surrounding a flag folded the same way it gets folded for people who actually served in our armed forces when they die. The people without magic rich person bone spurs.
Or this picture of him talking on the phone in his limousine, like a regular salt-of-the-earth American.
Or a very meta framed portrait of Trump on Jimmy Fallon, in which Jimmy Fallon is holding a picture of the house.
Get your freak on, on the living room chaise! We've heard he likes to watch.
Check out these fabulous prison-quality bunkbeds! Such opulence!
And the pièce de résistance, a little bit of Trump history: a framed plaque commemorating the very bedroom where Fred and Mary Trump boned. You too, could have sex in that very room. Imagine!
Nothing more fun than getting it on while thinking of Daddy Trump getting all sweaty and grunty while Mumsy lies back and thinks of England.
And, you know, just creating the man who would later bring about a nuclear apocalypse. Ah, history!
