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The internet is occasionally pleasing in the sense that it's home to some of the greatest food porn you'll ever feast your eyes on, but sadly, it's also a space where people can share the most cursed culinary abominations ever created. We're not even halfway through 2019, but social media users have already witnessed a fair share of innovative food mashups that went horribly wrong. Sometimes these hideous snacks are intentionally created to troll the Twitter-verse, but other times they appear to be genuine attempts at the next best food trend that seriously miss the mark. From pizzas with downright offensive toppings to preposterously sliced bagels and an ambitious take on caviar and more, here are 10 of the most ridiculous crimes that have been committed against food so far this year.  Read more... More about Twitter , Food , Memes , Culture , and Web Culture from Mashable http://bit.ly/2Wt85Tf via IFTTT

Professor X himself has made it to Marvel's Legion on FX, and he's a dad now. British actor Harry Lloyd, best known for a season as the loathsome Viserys Targaryen on Game of Thrones , plays a young Charles Xavier as David (Dan Stevens) pieces together his father's past. Much of Legion takes place inside David's turbulent mind, where a powerful, parasitic mutant burrowed long ago. Season 3 will reveal Charles' connection to that mutant, Amahl Farouk (Navid Negahban), and what he did (or didn't do) to protect his son. Legion was always connected peripherally to the X-Men franchise, existing in the same world of mutants and humans but never interacting with or explicitly mentioning well-known characters from the main comics or Fox movies. Something tells us – that something being Charles Xavier sitting at Cerebro – that that's about to change. Read more... More about Entertainment , Television , Game Of Thrones , X Men , and Legion from Mashable ...

You know, these meat suits we walk around in for 70 to 80 years can be a real pain in the ass sometimes — or should we say, pain in the back.   The American Chiropractic Association estimates that at any given moment, about 31 million Americans are experiencing lower back discomfort — a painful, pesky, and periodically recurring condition that’s one of the leading causes of missed work days. It notes that most back pain cases are “mechanical or non-organic,” or not linked to serious medical conditions “such as inflammatory arthritis, infection, fraction, or cancer.” Sometimes a too-sedentary lifestyle or a torn ligament is to blame, but even just a too-heavy purse or backpack can result in serious lumbar discomfort.  Read more... More about Shopping , Culture , Sleep , Sleep Products , and Mattress from Mashable http://bit.ly/2JKWLvD via IFTTT

The core reason the final season of Game of Thrones was so polarizing was because the megahit fantasy series had what every television showrunner dreams of — an audience that truly cares about the show. In the course of its airtime Thrones united disparate peoples under the same banner of loving the world of Westeros and its many, many characters, so when its final round of storytelling failed to live up to fan expectations, the disappointment felt personal.  After its finale aired, however, HBO served up a coda to the show’s eight-season run in the form of The Last Watch , a documentary about the making of Season 8, starring the production designers, set dressers, extras, script supervisors, and more behind-the-scenes people that worked to create the world of Game of Thrones . With a long-ish two hour runtime, the inside look is a substantially more emotional and satisfying end to Thrones . Read more... More about Game Of Thrones Documentary , Game Of Thrones The Last Watch ...

You know what's home to millions of apps and should definitely not be subject to any kind of antitrust action? Apple's App Store. That's at least what the company argued on Wednesday, when it published a new page on its website about the App Store and its "principals and practices." Though the page looks like an informational source for developers at first glance — with app review guidelines and stats about how long it takes for apps to be approved — it also explicitly lays out most of Apple's arguments on why the App Store is not a monopoly. This isn't necessarily new territory for Apple, but the topic recently became relevant again when the Supreme Court ruled that a group can proceed with a seven-year-old class action lawsuit against the company for what it claims are anticompetitive practices. And though we won't know the ultimate result of the suit for some time, it could have massive implications for Apple. Read more... More about Tech ,...

Have you suffered the latest indignity of your old gaming laptop sputtering at the wrong moment in Fortnite ? You deserve only the best in gaming laptops if you have any dreams of achieving that Victory Royale. Obtain that extra competitive edge when you consider one of the latest models of the trusted line of ASUS ROG Strix II gaming laptops on sale at Amazon. SEE ALSO: 6 of the best gaming laptops that cost less than $1,000 Get the power you need to game everywhere with an ASUS ROG Strix SCAR II gaming laptop, on sale now for $1,299.99 at Amazon. With that $400 discount, it's the lowest price this configuration has ever been on Amazon so far. As an extra bonus offer, this ASUS laptop also qualifies for a $20 discount on Microsoft Office products at checkout , just in case you need to get actual work done between matches of Apex Legends .  Read more... More about Asus , Pc Gaming , Gaming Laptops , Mashable Shopping , and Shopping Solo from Mashable http://bit.ly/2Qx3P...

So you want to be a five-star rider.  With Uber now deactivating users with low ratings in the U.S., it's time to clean up your ride. If you're a halfway decent human being, you should be OK, but there are ways you can boost your rating closer to 5.0. Uber's updated community guidelines break down how to improve your passenger etiquette in three categories. Treat everyone with respect Think about everything from your comments to your gestures. Don't touch people, whether that's fellow riders or your driver — especially any sexual touching or gestures. Just keeps your hands to yourself.  Conversations can also veer into threatening behavior, like asking what seems like an innocuous question about a fellow rider's relationship status. Keep it casual and light and not too personal. Leave the flirting for your destination, not the ride. Read more... More about Uber , Ratings , Ride Hailing Apps , Tech , and Transportation from Mashable http://bit.ly/2I...

The Pokémon Company has announced Pokémon Sleep , a game which will allow fans to use their sleeping information to catch Pokémon. Read more here . Read more... More about Entertainment , Mashable Video , Pokemon , Video Games , and Pokemon Go from Mashable http://bit.ly/2YVFvr0 via IFTTT

Nancy Pelosi is calling bullshit.  The Speaker of the House publicly castigated Facebook on Wednesday for both enabling Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its refusal to take down a video of the congresswoman that was edited to make it appear she was drunk.  Pelosi didn't even come close to pulling her punches, arguing in an interview with KQED that the Mark Zuckerberg-helmed behemoth wasn't just an innocent victim of a foreign campaign to spread disinformation — rather, it happily played along.   "I think they have proven that they were willing enablers of the Russian interference in our election," Pelosi said, according to Scott Shafer, a senior editor at KQED. "They're lying to the public." Read more... More about Facebook , Russia , Mark Zuckerberg , Nancy Pelosi , and Tech from Mashable http://bit.ly/30RmOGR via IFTTT