hillary feature in nymag

READ IT.

did you know?

Did you know a baby #porcupine is called a porcupette? These cute critters have soft hair mixed with barbed quills that stick up when they feel threatened to deter predators. Porcupines sleep in trees and feed on the inner bark, twigs and leaves. They live to be 5-6 years old and have one or two young, which are born with soft quills that harden within an hour. Photo courtesy of #California Department of Fish and #Wildlife.

A photo posted by U.S. Department of the Interior (@usinterior) on May 31, 2016 at 8:23am PDT

fortnightly boat

New York Harbor is not only one of the largest and busiest natural ports in the world, but also the most complex. State law requires any foreign ship, or American ship with foreign cargo, to be escorted into the harbor with one of their pilots.

The entrance to the harbor from the Atlantic is protected by two thin pieces of land that jut out into the water: Sandy Hook from New Jersey and Rockaway from Long Island. These narrow outreaches have shallow shores that make entering the bay tricky.

Henry Hudson ran into the Sandy Hook Bar, a barrier of sand built up on the seafloor by downstream currents, when he tried to come into the harbor in 1609. It took him three days to successfully get in and explore his namesake river. Hudson enlisted the help of men who held long, straight poles off the sides of ships to test the water’s depth. The men who were experts with these pijls, as they were called in the Dutch shipping days, were called pijl loads, a title that eventually became “pilot.” (via)

on a related note, i watched the finest hours last night. it was not great but i liked it anyway.

fridays with(out) flim

C'mon weekend! pic.twitter.com/IAV1nWDD1l

— World of Wonder (@WorldOfWonder) May 27, 2016

this is a nice trip to memoryville and a look at some new stuff. they want your money but you don't have to give any.

HAPPY BEARTHDAY TO JOEL

the G.O.A.T.

happy birthday TO MEEEEEEE

pic.twitter.com/iiF0gq33Uz

— Saint Pest (@KidFury) May 25, 2016

OH NO THEY DONT

Huge, wind-powered "strandbeests" arrive in San Francisco https://t.co/jo7I18QjAw pic.twitter.com/NKBFOq213Q

— CityLab (@CityLab) May 27, 2016

Yantar?

save the turtles! next they are all going to be wanting designer shells

This tortoise lost her shell in a bushfire—but thanks to 3D printing, it was soon revived. pic.twitter.com/HieTtHcoGq

— National Geographic (@NatGeo) May 26, 2016

wise words from yantar

четверг-это мини пятница,а поэтому 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼🍷😅😅🙈💪🏻/ Thursday is a small Friday 😄💪🏻 #catsagram #catstagram #catsofinstagram #instacat #britishcat #chinchilla #chinchillasofinstagram #kitty #kittylove #petsagram #британскийкот #британец #янтарь

A photo posted by Yantar/Янтарь (@yantar_thecat) on May 19, 2016 at 11:58am PDT

straddle bus

not to be confused with the struggle bus.

brought to you by the chinese.

this is the part that i play on repeat

SONG OF THE SUMMER

Bob the Drag Queen may have sissy walked off with the crown, but Kim Chi stole my heart.

LOVE YOU KIM!!!!!!

song of the summer?

YBD: pig in a hailstorm

(via)

curly sue won the voice for team christina

no, for real.

I only found this out because I was trying to find a video of the Aguilera-Grande duet.

You know, Christina was supposed to duet with a hologram of Whitney Houston, but the Whitney Houston estate decided that the hologram didn't look good enough (side eye) so they replaced her with Ariana Grande.

hillary, ellen, and kate

(via)

update!

The #PartsUnknown crew with special guest, post-bun Cha. Photo by Pete Souza

A photo posted by anthonybourdain (@anthonybourdain) on May 24, 2016 at 11:42pm PDT

good news, looks like it was for the show.

ok, you got me

This is the cutest thing ever 🐶☺️ pic.twitter.com/CX158hKehE

— Baby Animals (@BabyAnimalPics) May 24, 2016

the guy who made this is dead.

;(

i hope someone recorded this convo

Low plastic stool, cheap but delicious noodles, cold Hanoi beer. pic.twitter.com/KgC3VIEPQr

— Anthony Bourdain (@Bourdain) May 23, 2016

ctm

Holla. pic.twitter.com/8KxxBq0SDw

— Ed Arnold (@MBJArnold) May 24, 2016

garbage, still at it.

do you like it? i think it seems fine.

aw.

Ordered my drink @Starbucks Asked the barista if she wanted my name. She winked and said. "We gotcha" #JodieFoster pic.twitter.com/ItjBZoJzP2

— Helen Hunt (@HelenHunt) May 23, 2016

"if a logo gets changed in the forest and no one is there to see it..."

michael beirut and jessica helfand discussing the new instagram logo and other stuff.

murder, she wrote slays

Murder, She Wrote: My favourite time of day @_AngelaLansbury pic.twitter.com/hR9WEIpWHu

— Jack Wilson (@UnionJack1224) May 23, 2016

britney slays

It's Monday, bitch! pic.twitter.com/kl3xv34uec

— World of Wonder (@WorldOfWonder) May 23, 2016

britney spears on the billboard music awards, giving me LIFE

sela ward for president

oldest embedded tweet on the internet

I CANT STOP LAUGHING pic.twitter.com/k9ppsBuVj7

— petty grandma (@SamiaHamps) February 2, 2016

(via)

oops

Oct. 22, 1895: Train wreck at Montparnasse https://t.co/75u7fL0raB pic.twitter.com/4pxrH4LMJ3

— Retronaut (@theretronaut) May 20, 2016

volunteer paula pell

At my alma mater and I'm feeling it. pic.twitter.com/XpEnfkuz15

— Paula Pell (@perlapell) May 20, 2016

huh.

(via)

happy friday

T.I. givin' us some aaliyah-cover vibez.

skydive into neyland stadium

Thursday got me feeling Friday feelings

pulitzer-prize-winning television critic emily nussbaum on vanderpump rules

making some wonderful cross-cultural connections in this recent new yorker piece:

Beyoncé’s sumptuous adultery opera “Lemonade” came out the week that I began watching the Bravo reality series “Vanderpump Rules,” and it turned out to be an oddly appropriate soundtrack for the show. “What’s worse? Looking jealous or crazy?” Beyoncé croons in the video, swinging a baseball bat labelled “Hot Sauce.” “I really don’t want to cry off all this makeup I just put on,” a waitress named Scheana says on the show, struggling to compose herself for a photo shoot. “Something’s telling me I may or may not have a fake friend,” Ariana, another waitress, seethes, glaring over at Scheana.

I’d downloaded “Vanderpump Rules” onto my phone, so that I could watch the show’s four seasons more efficiently: on the F train, in line at the supermarket, and while drifting off to sleep, an approach that felt less like binge-watching than like inserting an I.V. of sangria. A humble spinoff of the sprawling “Real Housewives” multiverse, “Vanderpump Rules” revolves around the employees of SUR (an acronym for Sexy Unique Restaurant), a West Hollywood venue owned by Lisa Vanderpump, a longtime cast member of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” which ended its sixth season last week. I’d fallen so far behind on that show, I’d never catch up. Rather than approach the intimidating portal of the original franchise, with its decade-long cross-series feuds, jail sentences, life-style brands, divorces, and handbag lines, I would sneak in through the servants’ entrance.

speaking of alpacas, check out these goats that live in prospect park now

Photos: These Goats Are Now Roaming Prospect Parkhttps://t.co/5bj5mQ3bZP pic.twitter.com/Tk5uWEW5tK

— Gothamist (@Gothamist) May 18, 2016

Here is Farmer John rescuing a one week old baby alpaca that had been missing for 24 hours. Alpacas love to roll in the dirt and it must've slid into an old badger hole by accident while it was taking a dust bath.

mariah carey is working on something

Mood @evanrosskatz pic.twitter.com/gb8HrrFVqM

— Ashley Alese Edwards (@AshleyAlese) May 18, 2016

Mood @AshleyAlese pic.twitter.com/2fqXKgS5GG

— Ξvan Ross Katz (@evanrosskatz) May 18, 2016

battle at bristol: SOLD OUT.

the largest crowd on record for a college football game was 115,000. the BaB has unexpectedly sold all 150,000 available tickets. there's a lot of interesting tidbits about the event right here.

looks like someone took a snap of Ms.Dangles eating lunch today

Healthy otter snacks gleefully on plain, boring lettucehttps://t.co/JxVxmvFF7D pic.twitter.com/Q89FkhBqip

— Mashable (@mashable) May 17, 2016

that's fine.

livin' her dream...?

how to deal with Tuesday, courtesy Whitley Gilbert

Marcel the shell with shoes on LOVES Captain America

and who the heck doesn't? My favorite sentence of this whole article: "Slate and her husband of three years, Dean Fleischer-Camp, announced their split last week, and “because one of us really wants to date Chris Evans” was the last reason I expected for their divorce". CTM

Read the whole article over at Jezebel.

these links make me want to s my p's and v in my m

hype. hype. hype.

here's vol bf jalen hurd running as fast as a cheetah.

23.1 Mph . Stumbled a lil, but recovered 👌🏽 pic.twitter.com/MY8ffQZCyc

— Jalen Hurd (@MrHurd_1) May 10, 2016

if you can spare a moment from your very busy day, read this article about billy eichner

everything you ever wanted to know about Billy on the street.

cosign

Happy Friday Y'all ✌️ pic.twitter.com/cGIsLGvGyd

— Marc Jacobs (@marcjacobs) May 13, 2016

snaggletoothed kit kat.

read all about him here.

eating a watermelon basketball style, by this elephant

Who loves 🍉? Our 🐘 girls sure do. Especially Ty. pic.twitter.com/b77y1k5QOe

— Memphis Zoo (@MemphisZoo) May 13, 2016

making an entrance, by RuPaul

RuPaul's Drag Race

did somebody put something DOWN here so i would FALL?!?!!

good eye, joel.

this happened.

that's meghan trainor and as far as i'm concerned she deserves every bad thing that happens to her.

pretty.

plz welcome...

Say hello to our new national mammal: The American bison https://t.co/TFWPdFbeBM
Pic by Rich Keen pic.twitter.com/c4efZe3v5X

— US Dept of Interior (@Interior) May 9, 2016

how the sausage is made

to help you get ready for this weekend

Watch a team of puppies predict the 2016 Kentucky Derby champion https://t.co/3eVG622zLQ pic.twitter.com/CC4zaOpAT9

— Mashable (@mashable) May 6, 2016

very gay news

FX orders the inevitable Ryan Murphy miniseries about Joan Crawford and Bette Davis: https://t.co/QsxiiviLXk pic.twitter.com/Hel76sAf6f

— Vulture (@vulture) May 5, 2016

serena van der woodsen's no good very bad day

"oh really"

Unfortunately for you @FLOTUS and @POTUS I wasn't alone when you sent me that video 😉 - H.https://t.co/sjfSQvkzb6

— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) April 29, 2016