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Pizza Hut Japan’s new “Too Much Coriander” pizza

A pizza, viewed from above, covered with a pile of coriander (a.k.a. cilantro).

Whether you think that coriander (a.k.a. cilantro) tastes like citrus and curry or soap, you have to admit that Pizza Hut’s limited-time, only-in-Japan “Too Much Coriander” pizza looks a lot healthier than anything else they’ve ever made.

Underneath the pile of leaves and above the dough, there are also prawns, tomato paste, and yangnyeom sauce (the sauce you put on Korean fried chicken, with a gochujang base, but then made sweeter and more garlic-y).

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Bumper sticker of the day

Bumper sticker with the text “How am I driving? How does an engine even work? How can a loving god cause such agony”
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Seen last Sunday in Orlando.

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“Thirty days hath February…”

Isn’t that how the rhyme goes? “Thirty days hath February…”

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Stranger than Fiction

Wasn’t the U.K. part of such an organization at one point?

John Stuart Mill was right: “Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are Conservatives.”

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Paranoid social media post of the day

Meme: Screenshot from Nextdoor showing a Star Wars Rebel Alliance flag flying from a house, with the question “What does this represent? I saw this flag flying in my neighborhood. Does anyone know what this means? Should I be worried?” I added a caption: “Technically, it’s an Antifa flag.”
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The photo and question above are taken from everyone’s favorite suburban white flight and paranoia social network, Nextdoor.

Luke Skywalker in his X-wing fighter, wearing a helmet with the Starbird symbol on both sides.

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ve probably already identified the flag as that of the Rebel Alliance, a.k.a Alliance to Restore the Republic, from Star Wars. The red symbol — known by hardcore fans as the “starbird” — first appeared on the helmets of the fighter pilots who made the desperate attempt to destroy the Death Star in A New Hope (a.k.a. “the original” to those of us who saw it in the theatre during its original release). It’s since found its way into all sorts of Star Wars stories.

From a Star Wars comic book: Bail Organa and Princess Leia unveil the new Rebel flag with the red starbird. Leia says “A symbol of hope.”

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I’ll admit it; I laughed.

Tweet: In 1920 we took children out of the coal mines. In 2020, the most popular video game is Minecraft. The children yearn for the mines.
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The “Gen Z” version of “Harry Potter” seems lowkey sus

Here’s the text with link annotations for the Zoomer blabber…

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, liked flexing that they very basic, thank u. Tbh they were the last people you’d think would be sus, but they were all fax no printer.

Mr. Dursley was adulting at a firm called Grunnings, which made drills.

He was a dummy thiccc (w/ three Cs) man with hardly any neck, although he had an absolute unit of a mustache. Mrs. Dursley was a total Karen with zero chill and had hella neck, which came in very useful when she was stalking her neighbours and not minding her own.

The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley who they thought was the main character. The Dursleys were mostly thriving, but they also had lowkey tea which didn’t pass the vibe check and their greatest fear was to get called out and cancelled. They were girlbossing too close to the sun and didn’t think they could…

Don’t drag Gen Z kids for using the word “unalive.” As un-erudite as it sounds, it has a clever origin: it was coined to get around automated social media filters that block words like kill, death, and similar terms, yet doesn’t its meaning is easily grasped by people who’ve never encountered the word before.