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  • Martin Scorsese said that Marvel movies are "not cinema" and compared them to theme parks, and a bunch of nerds were very upset by that.
  • Why doesn't anyone have a pet bird anymore?
  • Mitt Romney criticized Trump on Twitter, now let's see if that leads anywhere: "By all appearances, the President’s brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling."
  • Well here's a headline you can't unread: "Woman’s ‘box of sex toys’ contained her lover’s decapitated head."
  • The Ringer writes about how a Twitch-streamed no-limit hold’em player found himself at the heart of one of the most fascinating gambling controversies in years.
  • Trump has been obsessed with his alligator-moat idea for at least 35 years.
  • Actress Diahann Carroll, the Bronx native who won a Tony Award, got an Oscar nomination and starred in Julia and Dynasty, has died at age 84.
  • The lead researcher who said everyone could eat all the meat they want may have forgotten to disclose his past relationship with a powerful industry trade group.
  • Phoebe Waller-Bridge loves the subway here, but that may just be because she's barely taken it.
  • Here's an incredibly depressing report about TheMaven's plan to turn Sports Illustrated into a shitty content mill.
  • A movie theater in Huntington Beach, Calif., showing Joker was closed down on Thursday night after a “credible” threat was reported to police, which is EXACTLY what the Clown Prince of Crime wants.
  • Is beloved Bed-Stuy bakery Scratchbread reopening soon?
  • And finally, shut it all down, this is fucking ridiculous: