When the apocalypse comes to claim us all, at least we’ll still have the 10-second memories.

When it offered the opportunity to try out some theories.

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When it gave us this very important dog saga.

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“I love you bye.”

Meet 19-year-old Abby Jo Hamele, she's an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

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Hamele told BuzzFeed News that she had her wisdom teeth removed about a week ago.

The recovery, she said, required "a lot of hydrocodone."

Kevin-

I believe that i relmebmer you said we, as us students, would be able to send you our papers for classss for you to look at over before we turn them in to cColin if we got them to you by the 22nd of Novermber.

I unfortmately got my wisdom teeth sliced outr and have not not been reacting very well to the surgeryy nor the medicatioon i were given/ so I do not thimk that I will be able to habe my paper finisherd by Tuesday at all.

Is tehere any way I would be able to send you my paper at any later date??? I wnt to do very good on this paper you know becayse i like to do well in my classes.

please sir I workled very hard and thouught that I would be abel to finish it on timme but my doctor said I will most likelly not be normal again until at least Thanksginvg turkey. If you say no then that is okay but i would be sad and i would reallyyyy lik e it if you said yes. Thank you Kevin, my dude.

Abby Jo Hamele (pronounced hah-mil-lee) (if you were wondering)

P.S. I will answer youpr questions in class forever so theere are not any more awkard silence. and i will buy you expo markers that work (even thougjh our tuition should pay for markers that work)

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The Queen.

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In the season finale of Netflix's new series The Crown, Queen Elizabeth (Claire Foy) asks her husband, Prince Philip (Matt Smith), to go to Australia to open the 1956 Olympic Games in her name. He pouts and says no, he won't go, and Elizabeth pleads with him: "Please, Philip, everyone just wants you to be happy." Later, when Philip is dancing with the Queen Mother (Victoria Hamilton) at a party, she too urges him to go on the trip. When he protests, again, she murmurs, "You have more freedom than any consort in history, and you repay it by scowling and skulking."

Indeed, Philip has spent most of the 10 episodes of this season "scowling and skulking," as the queen mother puts it. It's not clear whether we're meant to sympathize with Philip — whose naval career and relatively carefree life in Malta are cut short when Elizabeth becomes Queen much earlier than anyone expected — or roll our eyes at him. Smith certainly seems to think of him as a sympathetic character; he recently told Refinery29, "He's a rock star. He's a maverick. He's kind, he's witty, he's groovy. He's the sort of alien of the group who says everything and he does say things that he shouldn't." Perhaps more surprisingly, Foy agreed: "I don't think anyone could think he's an asshole from the show."

Whether you think that or not, it's hard to watch The Crown without feeling as if the Queen’s marriage is kind of a royal metaphor for every relationship between a successful woman and a man who can't handle that success. And while some of the tension between the characters could be attributed to the ways in which their relationship challenged the gender norms of the 1950s, it's also sobering to realize how much has not changed. Today, in 2016, looking back at this relationship — a prominent, visible one — it's worth asking how much progress we’ve really made in terms of the struggle between powerful women and the men who (don't?) support them.

It's also hard to watch Philip and Elizabeth’s relationship unfold onscreen in the current political moment. Would our feelings about Philip be different if Hillary Clinton had won the election? In a Daily Beast article that came out prior to the election, Kevin Fallon wrote, "There’s an undeniable thrill in watching the rise of one of the most visible female figures in modern history at a time when, just days after The Crown debuts on Netflix, the United States could be electing its first female president." Alas.

In the opening minutes of the first episode, which takes place in 1947, King George VI (Jared Harris) coughs up blood in a bathroom in Buckingham Palace. In the following scene, Philip renounces his Greek citizenship (he was the grandson of the exiled Greek king) and takes British citizenship so he can marry Elizabeth. Already, it is implied, Philip is making sacrifices for the woman he loves. But it's hard not to read Philip's decision to marry Elizabeth somewhat cynically. "Well done," his uncle, Lord Louis "Dickie" Mountbatten (Greg Wise), says to him quietly after the naturalization ceremony is over, and here we have the sense that Philip is entering into this marriage in no small part to restore his own family's name. In 1952, King George VI died, and Elizabeth ascended the throne at the age of 25.

Prince Philip kneeling before Queen Elizabeth at her coronation.

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Philip seems immediately threatened by this turn of events. He's annoyed that they must move from Clarence House, which he's just redecorated (even though he complained that the task was emasculating), to Buckingham Palace. He's furious that the family name (and the name his children will take) will be Windsor — Elizabeth's family name — rather than Mountbatten. (In real life, Philip pouted, "I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children. I’m nothing but a bloody amoeba.") And when Elizabeth asks him to chair her coronation committee (because she wants him to have something to feel in charge of), he agrees to do it only on the condition that he has full control, usurping the traditional role of the Duke of Norfolk; he then throws a fit when Elizabeth tells him he'll have to kneel to her at the coronation.

But didn't you know what you were getting yourself into? is the logical question one might have asked of Philip, and yet it seems that the answer is no, not really. Certainly, neither of them expected that Elizabeth would become Queen so soon. If she'd stayed a princess longer, he might have been able to develop more of a public identity himself (not to mention a career), instead of being forced to adhere to a strictly defined consort role. And over the course of the season, we see just how much stress the relationship causes for Elizabeth, who often feels torn between duty to the crown and duty to her husband. It was a highly unusual situation for a woman to be in — her "job" was one of the most important roles in the country, but a woman in a less rarefied position at the time (even a royal position) would have been expected to follow her husband's wishes.

Prince Philip in Kenya.

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Those historical circumstances don't make it any less cringe-inducing to watch Elizabeth try to apologize for Philip's immaturity. When they go on a trip to Kenya, he snidely "compliments" the hat of a chief of the Maasai tribe. "It's a crown," Elizabeth hisses at him. In fact, the real Prince Philip's public life is full of racist gaffes like this one, and worse. In 1965, he called Ethiopian art "the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school art lessons." During a 1986 trip to China, he told British exchange students that if they stayed in China much longer they'd "all be slitty-eyed." As recently as 2009, he asked a black dance troupe that had performed at the Royal Variety Performance whether they were "all one family."

It's hard not to look at Philip's behavior as a glaring example of the ways in which men and women are treated differently as power spouses. And sadly, not that much has changed. Even in 2016, women are still often asked or expected to choose between success in work or in their relationships, because it's seemingly impossible for a male mate to play second fiddle to a woman's professional responsibilities. Divorce rates have been shown to increase when a woman makes more money than her husband; women who earn more than their husbands actually do more housework than women who earn less — as though forced to overcompensate for the "imbalance" they've brought to their marriage.

The Crown is positioned as comforting, gorgeous escapism; it allows audiences to dream of the beautiful old past. It is not violent, or scary; indeed, the tensions and conflicts — though high-stakes — seem almost boring in a way that also serves as a balm to election-injured souls. And yet here we are, watching yet another man throw tantrums because he can't quite stomach the idea of his own unimportance. In that way, at least, Prince Philip was ahead of his time.

This quiz is choco-LIT.

A group of Australian teenagers who re-created the active ingredient of a $750 AIDS drug for just $20 have been told by the drug's owner, controversial entrepreneur Martin Shkreli, that they have a long way to go before he views them as competition.

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Shkreli, the 33-year-old biopharmaceutical millionaire, made headlines in 2015 for buying the rights to lifesaving AIDS drug Daraprim and increasing the price from $13.50 per pill to $750.

Students from Sydney Grammar School were able to re-create the active ingredient of Daraprim, pyrimethamine, in their school lab.

"It wasn't terribly hard but that's really the point, I think, because we're high school students," 17-year-old student Charles Jameson told the BBC.

The story was reported as a blow for Shkreli in several media outlets.

Shkreli took to Twitter and YouTube, citing manufacturing, labour and equipment costs, as he told the Australian teenagers that yes, anyone can make the drug, but they "have $4,999,980 to go" in order to be ready to sell their $20 creation.

"These Australian students are proof that the 21st century economy will solve problems of human suffering through science and technology," said Shkreli in a YouTube statement.

"Medical science has brought tremendous advances... we should congratulate these students for their interest in chemistry and all be excited about what is to come in this stem-focused 21st century."

It takes just a few steps and it’s totally worth it.

Many people don't realize that you can report fake news when you see it on Facebook. This helps stop it from spreading. The problem is that the option is kind of hidden. So here's how to use it.

When you see false information like this hoax, click on the "v" menu in the upper-right corner of the post.

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That pops up a menu. Choose "Report post."

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Then choose "I think it shouldn't be on Facebook."

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It’s never just black and white.

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Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Emily (Kelly Bishop) in Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.

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“Lorelai Gilmore, are you seriously suggesting that your father go to a complete stranger and talk about his personal life?” an appalled Emily Gilmore (Kelly Bishop) asks in a Season 2 episode of Gilmore Girls.

Gilmores, the haughty family matriarch makes clear to her daughter (Lauren Graham), do not need psychiatrists. To Emily, psychiatry is for “disturbed people, deviants, people with multiple personalities who see things and hear dogs talking to them.”

But nearly 10 years later, in the Netflix revival, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, Emily decides to do exactly what Lorelai once suggested: Go to a complete stranger and talk about her personal life.

Grief-stricken over the death of her husband, Richard (Edward Herrmann), who died of a heart attack four months before the revival begins, Emily decides to give therapy a shot.

“I think in that moment, she was in a great deal of pain and looking for an outlet and … a way to alleviate that pain,” Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview.

Emily, mid–decluttering rampage in Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.

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Although she initially seems relatively functional in the wake of Richard's death — doting on Rory (Alexis Bledel) and bickering with Lorelai over a massive portrait of Richard — it soon becomes clear that the typically composed Emily is struggling to cope with the loss of her partner. “I don’t know how to do this. I don’t know what to do or where to go. I’ve forgotten which side of the bed to sleep on. I was married for 50 years. Half of me is gone,” she tells Lorelai in the midst of her decluttering rampage, an attempt at “bringing joy” into her life again.

“There are times when you just can’t figure shit out by yourself, and you need somebody to talk to. A lot of times your family’s not the best person to talk to about this stuff because their agenda is going to be very different,” Sherman-Palladino said with a laugh. That’s why, after some protesting — “I’m not crazy!” — Emily finally reaches out to a therapist, Claudia (Kerry Butler).

After a few successful appointments, a delighted Emily invites Lorelai to “come by” to meet her new confidante, tricking her daughter into starting therapy herself. The way Sherman-Palladino sees it, it’s Emily’s latest effort to “manipulate her daughter again.” “That’s what everything is all about when it comes to Emily,” she said.

From there, Lorelai begrudgingly begins going to therapy with her mother, but their sessions are far from productive. The pair does nothing but bicker or sit tensely in silence, and, eventually, Emily stops going altogether.

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Lorelai, however, chooses to continue seeing Claudia, opening up about her father’s death and other issues in her life. Although the sessions started because of a concerned Lorelai encouraging her mother to find an outlet, Lorelai realizes she needs someone to confide in too. In the end, she is the one who benefits most from the sessions she initially opposed, which is what Sherman-Palladino and executive producer Daniel Palladino had always intended.

“That was sort of the beginning of her realizing that maybe Luke was happier than she was … that she didn’t feel as happy as he did,” Palladino explained. “And that sort of starts the whole journey that culminates with the whole Wild trip.”

Ultimately, Lorelai does come to terms with her grief on a journey to the Pacific Coast Trail inspired by Wild. On a hilltop thousands of miles away from her loved ones, she calls Emily and weeps openly to her mother, finally sharing her favorite memory of her father, a story she couldn’t muster up immediately after Richard’s funeral. It’s the first time she overtly vocalizes her grief to any of her loved ones, let alone her mother.

“Lorelai, who’s always so strong and always follows her own individualistic path … she was the one who really ended up needing to talk to somebody,” Palladino said. “And she got some stuff out of it.”

Reporting by Krystie Lee Yandoli.

*Holier* than thou.

If you're thinking of a facial piercing, consider your options.

Are you thinking of a simple eyebrow piercing? Or maybe something in the lip department?

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Note how ~painful~ your piercing might be.

Don't love pain? Avoid the nipple or the septum. But also remember that everyone's body responds to pain differently.

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Considering an ear piercing? Figure out the perfect spot.

See what each of these piercings would look like by watching a video here.

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Understand gauge sizes to stretch your ears safely.

Ear piercings done with a piercing gun are usually 18g or 20g while basic ear piercings from a salon are usually 14g. To get more info, go here.

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So. Hip.

Beginning this fall, the University of Wisconsin Green Bay is Snapchatting applicants their acceptance.

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"It is an opt-in situation. Snaps are not sent to students that are not accepted," she added.

The school also sends a traditional acceptance via the ~traditional~ mail.

The university first began using Snapchat when they realized it was the perfect way to connect with prospective students.

This social media specialist said that the Snapchat acceptance comes "after a couple years of dreaming about it."

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Do you really know your Christmas jumpers?

Including one that inspired Beyoncé, a stealth Wes Anderson release, and a super-stylized story of a witch in search of love.

The scene (and movie) that influenced Lemonade

Let's take a moment to thank Beyoncé. It's always a good idea in general, but for this instance especially. Daughters of the Dust, a restoration of Julie Dash's long out-of-print 1991 film, was already in the works when Lemonade dropped, but the decision to speed it back into theaters surely had something to do with the way it was such an unmissable influence on Beyoncé's visual album.

In particular, there's that whole black-and-white sequence in Lemonade in which women like Zendaya and Amandla Stenberg gather in long white dresses under and perched in the boughs of a tree, a direct quotation of a scene from Dash's film. But the ties go deeper than visuals. With Lemonade, Beyoncé clearly aimed to do what Dash already had — to make a lyrical, fiery work speaking to the complexity of black womanhood, to generational ties and a connection to the land, and to anguish of the past and hope for the future.

Daughters of the Dust is a dreamlike movie about the Peazants, a Gullah family who prepare to leave their home on St. Helena Island, off the South Carolina coast in 1902, migrating north for what they hope will be better opportunities. There's more richness to it — to its treatment of faith, to its look at the Great Migration, to the welcomes its returning granddaughters receive, among them the "fallen" Yellow Mary (Barbara-O) — than one viewing can reveal. And then there's the extravagant beauty of its cast, walking on the beach, visiting graves, and gathering for one last supper. It's a beauty that the film's original theatrical release — Dash was the first black female filmmaker to get a proper one — didn't fully reflect. As archivist Tim Lanza told the New York Times, the restoration included working with cinematographer Arthur Jafa to correct the color grading. "The big issue for Julie and A.J. was capturing the variety of African-American skin tones. That was not something presented in the first version available," he said. Now everyone has a chance to catch this historic film as its creator intended.

How to see it: Daughters of the Dust is playing in select theaters around the country.

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The all-ladies tea room in The Love Witch

You probably shouldn't walk away from the intensely stylized The Love Witch wanting to live in its confines — most of the characters who do end up deluded, bereft, or dead. But Anna Biller's ode to '60s Technicolor offers such a delightful array of fantastical, period-inspired stylings and decor that it's hard not to at least want to visit, especially when you lay eyes on the the tea house where Elaine (Samantha Robinson), the witch of the title, meets to chat with a friend in her Victorian-by-way-of-the-'70s Gunne Sax finest while a harpist plays in the background.

Elaine just wants to be loved, and she's not afraid to use magic to get her way when it comes to seduction — though when her victims end up mewlingly obsessed with her, she rolls her eyes and disposes of them, off in search of a real man. The movie's sensibilities are far less retrograde than its heroine's, though there's also a tragic edge to Elaine's desires and glimpses of her past that hint that for all her pathological tendencies, she too understands that the path she's pursuing isn't leading her anywhere happy.

Come to The Love Witch for the fantastic eye makeup, stay for the subversive commentary on internalized patriarchy.

How to see it: The Love Witch is now playing in select theaters.

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That dead boy at the bottom of the ocean in Evolution

No one would want to live in the isolated seaside settlement in which Evolution takes place — it's the spookiest, most sparsely lovely place to ever be populated entirely by single women and the young boys they take care of. Evolution unfolds from the perspective of Nicolas (Max Brebant), who's only starting to understand the arrangement in which he's living is a little...off. After all, the films begins with his gorgeously shot swim in the ocean getting cut short by a disturbing find: a dead boy down in the rocks with red starfish on his stomach.

Nicolas is assured by his mother (Julie-Marie Parmentier) that it was all just his imagination, but he starts to wonder about her, about the medical facility down the shore, and about the procedures he's been made to undergo. French filmmaker Lucile Hadzihalilovic has no interest in offering explicit explanations for what we see, opting instead to let her stunning, nightmare fuel imagery carry her poetic saga through to its enigmatic end. It's body horror, sure, but it could also be looked at as a very troubling coming-of-age story.

How to see it: Evolution is now playing in select theaters.

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Zoe Kazan carrying a torch out into the dark in The Monster

Zoe Kazan plays a bad mom in The Monster, bad enough that the title refers to her as much as it does the toothy beastie that threatens her and her daughter Lizzy (Ella Ballentine) when they're stranded on an abandoned road at night. In the flashbacks that the movie slips in and out of between the ominous build and inevitable attacks, we see that Kathy (Kazan) has been at best a neglectful alcoholic and at worst at abusive one. When the film begins, Kathy's readying to drive Lizzy for a stay at her father's house that they both understand will probably end up being permanent.

The Monster is written and directed by Bryan Bertino, the guy behind the masterfully creepy 2008 home invasion thriller The Strangers. The Monster isn't as deftly done as that earlier work — its creature is better when it's unseen. Still, it reaches ambitiously toward being a portrait of a parent who loves her kid but is coming to terms with the fact that she's the one her kid needs to be saved from. The torch, and the moment Kathy steps out into the dark with it, is a gesture that's both foolhardy and filled with heartsick good intentions of, for once, doing something right.

How to see it: The Monster is available for rent or purchase on demand.

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SLAY bells are ringing.

There must be something in the ~crisp~ fall air that gets people thinking... SHOULD I GET BANGS?! So, three women who never had bangs (with the exception of a bad middle school haircut) got bang transformations:

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Each woman went into the transformation with different concerns. Maggie was nervous because she wasn't sure if they would make her look younger.

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Courtney was worried that her bangs would look different when her hair wasn't straightened.

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And Kirsten just wasn't sure if she was ~cool~ enough to pull it off.

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So many tokens well spent.

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Whether you watched the series or not, this game was a staple of the '90s arcade scene.

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NBA Jam

Everything about NBA Jam brought out the competitive spirit in gamers. From the "Boom shaka-laka!" shouted after a filthy dunk, to hitting a few shots in a row and getting your player on fire, this remains one of the most unique, iconic sports games ever.

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Mortal Kombat/Mortal Kombat II

So many quarters were fed to this machine as you mastered your favorite character's moveset, hoping to learn the different Fatalities.

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Street Fighter II

Even button mashers got lucky from time to time, randomly pressing their way to a victory.

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The 10-episode series premieres on Hulu in April.

The work of fiction was turned into a film in 1990...

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Elisabeth Moss stars as the main character.

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*starts sobbing uncontrollably*

When all you wanted to do was dry your hands.

When you realize that, despite your greatest efforts, your sleeve still got wet while washing your hands.

When you just want some bread and butter, but the butter isn't having any of it.

When your spoon falls into the soup.

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Here are the most interesting and powerful photo stories from across the web.

"Postcards from a Modern-Day Hippie Paradise" — Vice

"Since 1972, the Rainbow Family Gathering has been a place where free love is expressed without rules, reservations, or clothes, for that matter. From 2011 to 2014, photographer Denis Vejas traveled to their annual meeting places to document what a neo-hippy-anarchist utopia would look like in an age of digital culture and global consumerism. Think Burning Man, but without the celebrities and the AT&T sponsored cool-down tent." —Gabriel H. Sanchez, photo essay editor, BuzzFeed News

Denis Vejas

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"Black Skies Above Mosul" — The Atlantic

"The media has been saturated with images from the front lines of Mosul ever since the new offensive began. What sets this photo essay apart is the focus on those who are living in this war zone in the shadow of endlessly burning oil fires. These pictures capture the men, women, and children who are trapped under sunless skies and blackened clouds, covered in soot as they make their way past shallow pools of oil. Most haunting are the photos of children playing and livestock grazing, all stained in this carcinogenic residue from head to toe. This is their new normal." —Laura Geiser, photo editor, BuzzFeed News

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"NYC Newsstands" — Nei Valente

"In the fall of 2007, roughly 200 privately-owned businesses were seized by the city of New York, torn down, and replaced with identical steel and glass boxes imported by Spanish company Cemusa. This has become an all too familiar refrain — once ubiquitous aspects of daily life fading into obscurity. For his 2016 series, photographer Nei Valente traveled the city, capturing the idiosyncratic charm of the humble newsstand and the businessmen stationed within them. The photos themselves reveal a savvy adaptability: As the primary earnings vehicle (newspapers and magazines) have diminished, the stock of candy bars and cell phone accessories has increased. Valente’s presentation of the work, the almost seamless texture of products created by running the photos up against one other, is particularly captivating." —Ben King, deputy design director, BuzzFeed News

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Is this good news or bad news?

Don't call it a comeback! Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick have gotten back together!

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The famous on and off again couple broke up in June 2015, making this their longest split yet.

Scott's constant battle with alcohol and depression had become too much for Kourt.

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It wasn't clear if the two would ever get back together, Kourtney especially seemed to be flourishing as a single woman.

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But according to E! News, Scott has managed to mellow out a lot and hasn't been partying. A source also told the site, "both want to make it work for them and their kids."

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Daaaaamn daddy, how’d you fit all that in there?

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There’s still joy on the internet sometimes!

This dog, who is stubborn in the best way.

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This dumb but hilarious joke.

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This talented lady.

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This adorable adopted deer.

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