Show and Tell: Overflow Edition 12/23/20

Thread:

Growing up, my Muslim family never celebrated Christmas. This year I am not going home, because pandemic, so my roommates are teaching me how to have my first proper Christmas.

I am approaching this with anthropological precision.

Here are a few observations. pic.twitter.com/1WARv5nax4

— Mohammad Hussain (@MohammadHussain) December 19, 2020

The Nativity Mamma Mia

A mysteriously
pregnant woman is
visited by three men
who worship her child

— Matthew May Whovier (@MatthewKBegbie) December 19, 2020

tchaikovsky was able to become a full-time composer bc of this one rich lady who paid him 6000 roubles a year and her one condition was that they never meet in person and he was like “ok thank god” and they just wrote each other letters twice a week for 13 years. that’s the dream

— the almond brother (@blueberryghoul) December 18, 2020

my cat fucking ate my degree!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/dIhabGALUH

— guy *whose cat ate his degree (@mamblonumber5) December 21, 2020

Jane Austen Powers. not sure where i was going with this one. they cant all be winners

— jd vance's "holler aunt" (@markpopham) December 22, 2020

We've really normalized hopping into strangers cars and just hoping for the best 😩😩😭😭

— Fiona Applebum says block Shaun King! (@WrittenByHanna) December 22, 2020

Thread:

A janitor making $4/hour walked into a Fortune 500 company boardroom. Shaking, he took a seat opposite the CEO.

"So I had an idea..." he nervously began.

Years later, that idea would become an iconic consumer brand and make him worth ~$20M.

Here's how that meeting went 🧶👇

— Ankith Harathi (@ankithharathi) December 22, 2020

Show and Tell: Coronavirus Edition 12/23/20

ma'am are you outside your entire fucking mind pic.twitter.com/uCtTSKuTrc

— mrs. claws (@kittynouveau) December 19, 2020

Me as soon as the pandemic is over pic.twitter.com/cnCic6yXeL

— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) December 22, 2020

it's the way i be knowing for me https://t.co/I1bzXRs5jv

— king crissle (@crissles) December 22, 2020

Whoa—Scientists have raised possibility that the increase in transmission is maybe due to kids. A new detail on UK 🇬🇧 mutated variant B.1.1.7–

➡️New strain may make children “as equally susceptible as adults,” said virologist at Imperial College London.🧵https://t.co/PRHEiXA4HP pic.twitter.com/Z300MuDdzj

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) December 22, 2020

Thread:

COVID Update December 21: 2020 has been filled with such a strong assortment of emotions, facts, and politics.

And I’ve tried the best I could to find & summarize the right facts in these threads. But there’s more going on that I haven’t captured. But I will try now. 1/

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸 (@ASlavitt) December 22, 2020

Multipurpose Room 12/23/20

Your one stop shop for the latest celebrity real estate listings at Variety, and the latest TV show news at The Hollywood Reporter. Also, what are you making for dinner tonight? Feel free to swap recipes below, or try something new and healthy from Forks Over Knives.

Blinded By the Light 12/23/20

Check for new blinds daily at Blind Gossip.

Check for new blinds on Mondays at Billy Masters (if there is a blind in this week's column, there is a big red question mark to the right of it).

Check for new blinds on Fridays at Popbitch.

Check for new blinds sporadically at All About the Tea, Bossip, Lainey Gossip, Naughty Gossip, Page Six, Perez Hilton, Sandra Rose, Tamara Tattles, and TV Line.

You can also follow DeuxMoi on Instagram to get your trashy blind item fix (the account is private, so you have to request to follow them).

Early Bird Special 12/23/20

A place to spill the morning gossip tea.

America Ferrera talks motherhood during the pandemic.

Adam Brody says he and wife (and former Gossip Girl star) Leighton Meester will check out the Gossip Girl reboot.

Viola Davis talks keeping the romance alive in her marriage to husband Julius Tennon.