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  • New York City is not among the top ten "most livable cities," but four cities in Australia are, so I think we all know where we need to move next.
  • Headline of the day: "I Scream. You Scream. Bees Scream, Too."
  • Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old who is accused of fatally shooting two racial justice demonstrators last summer, broke out in tears on the stand today while the judge clashed with prosecutors.
  • Paul Thomas Anderson spoke to Variety about his new film Licorice Pizza, being called “a true auteur," and his love for Marvel movies: "Shang-Chi was good fun. There’s a terrific energy about it, but I also live in a Marvel-obsessed household, so continuing the journey of these Marvel stories is exciting to us. I liked Venom 2.”
  • Kids on the Lower East Side talked to the New Yorker about getting vaccinated: "It just felt really weird. Like something’s pointing into your skin. It feels like a really sharp pine cone."
  • Lindsey Buckingham reviewed 10 of his Fleetwood Mac and solo albums for Uproxx, and he's a little harsh on Mirage.
  • If you mute the word "trauma," will you even see anything on Twitter?
  • I never thought I was a sicko until I saw myself reflected in this Mel Magazine article about sickos who enjoy drinking orange juice right after brushing their teeth.
  • The Times has an insane story about a couple suing a Los Angeles-area fertility clinic for mixing up their embryo with another couple's embryo, which resulted in both couples giving birth to and raising the wrong child for almost a year.
  • If you ever start to get down on yourself about how you're doing at work, just be glad you're not Adam Schefter.
  • And finally, it's butter dog (the dog with the butter on him):
@buddadog2020 Happy national budda dog day #anniversary #buddadog #fyp ♬ original sound - Greg Zhoba