Extra Extra: How Much Cocaine Is In Your Shrimp?

May 2, 2019, 5:47 p.m.

Because a beluga whale spy wants to defect, check out today's end-of-day links: Burger King DGAF meals, cocaine shrimp, Sonic's teeth, fringe conservatives banned from Instagram & Facebook, Bill Callahan profile, and doggy concentration.

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  • As someone who loves excessive exclamation marks, I cosign this take on the value on exclamation marks!!!
  • An alleged Russian spy (who happens to be a beluga whale) is refusing to leave a Norwegian port city "in what appears to be a high-profile defection after a week of global attention on the unnamed beluga."
  • Best tweet of the week: "My sociology professor keeps an alphabetic list of new slang terms he learns from students and I will never get over it."
  • Vox covers the rise and fall of the "queen of the mommy bloggers."
  • PornHub is apparently "extremely interested" in buying Tumblr.
  • Burger King has launched a range of boxed deals it’s calling “Real Meals,” including the Pissed Meal, Blue Meal, Salty Meal, Yaaas Meal and DGAF.
  • Brutal headline of the day: "Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley."
  • Watch the trailer for Blinded By The Light, a charming-looking film which was inspired by the music and lyrics of Bruce Springsteen.
  • How much cocaine is in your shrimp?
  • Nobody wants to publish Woody Allen's memoir.
  • Jeff Tweedy has been cast in the upcoming tenth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
  • Why are Sonic's human teeth so upsetting? Vulture asked a hedgehog dentist to explain.
  • Alex Jones, Infowars, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, Paul Nehlen, and Louis Farrakhan have all been banned from Instagram and Facebook.
  • Bill Callahan hasn't released a new album in six years—find out what he's been up to with this Pitchfork feature on him.
  • And finally, look at this concentration!!!