Hollywood is a messed up place that is especially messed up for women. As MMA fighter Ronda Rousey gets more and more high profile she has to deal with a  different set of body standards than she does when she's weighing in for a match. One of those things is casting directors and stylists calling a woman with this body"fat.":

If Ronda looks bigger than your standard movie starlet, it's because she has muscles to hit you with, over and over until you surrender. But in an interview with The New York Times, she discusses how being a strong woman has translated as she segues into other forms of entertainment, like acting and fashion:

“Because somebody said something really rude to me, I came into the shoot purposely way heavier. The campaign ended up being amazing, even though I was heavier just to make a point. I swear to God if anyone calls me fat one more time in my life, I’m going to kill them.”

Yikes! And you know she could, too. But it hasn't been all brave confidence from the UFC champion. Ronda admits she struggled with bulimia as a teen, and used to wear a long sleeved jacket at all times to hide her muscular arms. She certainly doesn't seem scared to show her hard won physique off now:

“If I can represent that body type of women that isn’t represented so much in media, then I’d be happy to do that. When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don’t think that’s true. I think that’s one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

“We seem to be in this conflicting era for women, where women are doing so amazingly and taking over the athletic world, but we’re also in a time where — How can I really put it? That women without any skills that freeload are being glorified. That’s something I was raised not to be. That you’re supposed to contribute to the world, not consume from it.”

Is that a swipe at the Kardashians or something? Wow, she and Amy Schumer should talk.

A family visiting Alcatraz got footage of a Great White Shark killing and eating a seal, and if the footage doesn't grab you, this kid's commentary certainly will. It was filmed by MeredithCoppoloShindler and posted to YouTube on Saturday, where it's garnered over 470,000 views. The shark feasts on some seals right off the shore of the prison island, and throughout the whole thing a redhead kid named "Keaton" exclaims the following:

"Holy crud!"

"A frenzy!"

"It's right under us!"

"It's JAWS!"

*Sings Jaws theme.*

"That's awesome-looking!"

"Its heart is floating away. Cool!"

"That's the awesome-est thing I've ever seen in my life."

Did we just discover the next Richard Attenborough?

Question: What's the best prank ever? a) Replacing sugar with salt. b) Whoopie Cushion. c) Pretending to murder your son. d) None, pranks are for monsters. If you answered "D." congratulations, you're not a sociopath. 

If you answered "C." you're probably Youtube star Roman Atwood, whose video "Killing My Kid PRANK!!" has almost 5 million views. In the viral video, Atwood pranks his girlfriend so hard, by pretending to blow up their 3-year old son in a fiery crash, after riding an ATV off a cliff. 

He got her good! She was so mad her child died! HA HA WHAT A DUMB DUMB! The video ends with her giving Roman the middle finger and saying she’s done, but we'll see about that.

This isn't the first time the professional prankster has killed their son in front of her, it's a sequel. In his original video titled "Killing My Own Kid," Daddy Dearest sends a mannequin, dressed as the little boy, to his death by throwing him off a balcony. 

You know what they say; fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, give me that sweet, sweet Youtube money. Which will come in handy when the kid's therapy bills start rolling in. 

Noted lip-syncing troupe SketchShe is once against testing the bounds of what can be considered comedy with a very dark PSA they made with other noted Australian all-female sketch team Skit Box. Presumably their videos of three pretty women lip-syncing in a car have encouraged more and more amateurs to do it, especially since SketchShe's stuff tends to go very viral. 

There are a lot of PSAs out there that rely on the shock factor of going from a really chill, fun time out on the road to explicit carnage, and it definitely works in this. But then the rest of the SketchShe team shows up and makes some Taylor Swift cracks in athletic gear? Anyway, don't lip-sync and drive. Whatever you think of SketchShe's sketches, they are clearly parked in the driveway when pretending to be topless.

A woman Periscoped herself while drunk driving and was, thankfully, arrested. Her name is Whitney Beall, and she's a 23-year-old living in Lakeland Florida. After her friends saw the stream, they started texting her to stop, in addition to calling the police. One of the police officers who was informed of the incident used his personal Periscope account to watch Beall's stream and track down her location:

Officers said they found Beall's 2015 Toyota Corolla with a flat tire on Carpenters Way.

Investigators said Beall hit a curb as an officer initiated a traffic stop, and she did not hit the brakes after striking the curb.

Officers said they smelled alcohol on Beall and she was disoriented. Officers said Beall's speech was slow and her eyes were bloodshot and glassy.

Here's part of the stream:

And here's some more, interspersed with some reporting:

She was arrested on a DUI charge and booked in a local jail. This incident serves as a useful reminder to not be stupid while you're being stupid. 

Emilia Clarke, better known as Daenerys Targaryen, Khaleesi and the Mother of Dragons from Game of Thrones, has been named the sexiest woman alive by Esquire. The title has been previously held by Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz. She receives this honor after being named "woman of the year" a few months back by GQ. The 28-year old actress has also starred in Breakfast at Tiffany's on Broadway and Terminator Genisys. The magazine noted this wide acting range as a main factor for her sexiness:

She manages to bring together a number of opposites, to make them natural: sweetness and toughness, emotionalism with a kind of cold-blooded determination. Something in these contrasts explains her sex appeal, too. She can play queen and kid sister, dominatrix and pal.

Clarke talked about how she worked several jobs as a struggling actor before making it, which included a bar and a call center. She also described her big break auditioning for Game of Thrones. 

And then my agent calls me up and says, 'Did you ever go up for Game of Thrones?' My agent told the casting director, 'I know that the breakdown for this character is tall and willowy and blonde. I know she's short and round and brown, but I'd like you to see her.'

Perhaps the greatest part of her landing the role was that she'd never read the books, so she simply went to Wikipedia to learn everything she could about the character and plots. Luckily for her, super fans had chronicled everything she needed to know. After all, these are the same people that manage to bring some of it to real life. It's refreshing to hear that the last dragon from House Targaryen crams for job interviews like the rest of us. Learn more about her life and see the rest of the photos over at Esquire. 

Richard Gere, an actor who your mom thinks is quite good, did not go undercover as a homeless person and then give lots of homeless people $100. You might think he went undercover as a homeless person and then gave lots of homeless people $100 because that "news" is trending on Facebook, and a post about the stunt supposedly written by the actor has been liked more than one million times. (Update: The post has now, blessedly, disappeared, but a screenshot remains below.)

So, how can we figure out if this actually happened or not before we like a status one million times?

1) There's not even a blue check! Do you think acclaimed actor Richard Gere, star of The Mothman Prophecies and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, who your aunt finds very handsome, would not be verified on Facebook? If Richard Gere can't get verified, then how could all these boring normal people such as groundbreaking journalists and thinkers of our time?

2) Would the Richard Gere we know on a deep personal level really do something like this?

3) Is there Google?

According to wrong thing debunker snopes.com, Gere did play a homeless person in the film Time Out Of Mind, and the director had him pose around New York City to get footage. A quick search indicates that the photo in the Facebook post is from that movie.

Apparently, the director of the film actually was surprised that people didn't recognize Gere during filming, and one person even gave him food. And that was during the movie's filming more than a year ago. So take the essence of the viral Facebook post and divide it by a hundred and it somewhat resembles something that happened. Something much more boring.

So what did we learn here today? If you see a homeless person, it's not that guy from Nights In Rodanthe who your grandma has a crush on. And only pay attention to social media posts from actual famous people because the rest of us are pedestrian liars.

A Tennessee paramedic named Sarah Ray had just finished her wedding ceremony when she left to be a first responder at a crash scene involving her father and grandparents. Her family was on their way to the reception, and was just a few miles from the church when they crashed. Sarah received the emergency call moments later. She hopped in the car with her new husband Paul, who is also a paramedic. Naturally, she didn't think their reaction was unusual, since they were just doing their jobs:

I don’t think what we did was heroic. It's just anything that any first responder would have done. We just knew they had been in a wreck and the car had been totaled. We didn't know any injuries at the time.

Sarah's mom snapped the picture of her at the scene. This is so much better than one of those pictures with the bridesmaids jumping in mid-air, or the bridesmaids standing on a bridge, or really any staged picture with members of the wedding party. Even her employer released a statement regarding her actions:

How dedicated are you to your job? Sarah Ray, Paramedic with Montgomery County Emergency Medical Services, was photographed on her wedding night working the wreck of one of her wedding guests. Now that's dedication...she stopped to assist on the way from the wedding to the reception! Thank you, Sarah, for loving what you do!

Her father and grandmother suffered minor injuries and are doing well. Her grandfather wasn't injured, and now he has another feat of strength to brag about for the rest of his life. And we know exactly which wedding photo Sarah and Paul will be using on their holiday cards this year.

Before one of her daughters, Jill Dillard, was married about a year ago, Michelle Duggar posted a long blog entry on her advice for newlyweds. Then, apropros of nothing, she reposted it this week, causing many to wonder who exactly this advice is directed to. Especially as it contains some gems like this:

“And so be available, and not just available, but be joyfully available for him. Smile and be willing to say, ‘Yes, sweetie I am here for you,’ no matter what, even though you may be exhausted and big pregnant and you may not feel like he feels. ‘I’m still here for you and I’m going to meet that need because I know it’s a need for you.’ ”

Hmm, who is a woman in The Duggar family who is famously struggling with marriage issues? Ah, yes, Anna Duggar, wife of serial cheater and Ashley Madison user Josh. 

The Duggars love to throw shade at each other with loaded Bible verses and blog posts, but seriously now. Could Anna have been available enough to satisfy a guy who has 3 different ways of hooking up with random women through social media? If this is the kind of stuff Michelle Duggar is sharing with the public, who knows how she's expressing herself to Anna in private. According to Hollywood Life, Anna is currently in her home state of Florida with her mom and 4 kids, who are hopefully giving her some advice she can actually use: GTFO.

The internet, much like various corporations turning everything pink so they can sell you the same product twice, should not be trusted with anything relating to Breast Cancer Awareness. For some reason, today is National No Bra Day, "a day to raise breast cancer awareness and show support for all women affected." But naturally it manifests more as a day to feed the trolls and sexualize a disease that will kill 40,290 women in the US this year alone. 

People on Twitter are raising awareness of the politics and problems of "raising awareness":

Best of all, @OhNoSheTwitnt has a productive idea for something that will actually help women:

Nicki Minaj has a sitcom coming out on ABC, and as a "joke" Ellen DeGeneres created a little parody/preview. In it, a child who is supposed to be a young Nicki Minaj also has a big butt. So does her mom and dad. So does their dog. That's it. The joke is that they have big butts.

Okay, Nicki Minaj is known for having a large butt. A part of her public image is celebrating her voluptuous and sexy body in explicit ways. But is that really all there is to know about her? As Gawker points out, this is pretty crazy:

It was a joke, see, except...what exactly was the joke? That Nicki Minaj has a big butt? (OK, fine, but that’s just the truth, not really...a joke?) That black people have big butts? That black dogs have big butts? That black women’s bodies are absurd?

It’s a joke, except it reduces Nicki Minaj to just an ass. She’s served us lots of ass, but so much more than that, too. She’s given us plenty of quirks, plenty of attitude, plenty of facial ticks, plenty of wigs. This skit is at least lazy, at least casually racist. 

Even if Ellen DeGeneres or whichever writer is getting fired/having a very bad day today created this bit without racist malice, many are astounded that no one thought twice about having a little girl bend over to show her ass. Nicki Minaj flaunting her body as a grown woman is not the same thing as a child doing it. At the very least, it's fair to say this skit was not a laugh riot.

Nicki has appeared on Ellen many times, and Ellen even did a version of Minaj's Anaconda video, where again she seems somewhat more reasonably fascinated by butts. Maybe Minaj will come on tomorrow and say it's all cool. Orrrrrrrrr, "Ellen, what's good?"

If you can see the baby in these blotches of ink, you are more likely to suffer from hallucinations and possibly psychosis.

According to a new study from the University of Cardiff and Cambridge University, participants with "early signs of psychosis" were more easily able to discern the baby in the photo than the "healthy" control group.  Scientists think that's a good thing, though. (Really?) As Metro explains:

But this is actually a good thing, the scientists argue, because this is your brain trying to interpret and make sense of the world.

It is actually predicting what it expects to experience, and filling in the gaps in reality, the research by the Universities of Cardiff and Cambridge shows.

They also suggest that everyone will experience hallucinations at some point in their life, namely when people see or hear something that isn’t really there.

So you might be psychotic, or maybe not. Who knows? Here's the real picture side-by-side with the test—a "psychosis test answer key," if you will.

If the picture is currently speaking to you, that's probably another sign.

If you've got a thing for bad boys, then brace yourself for this latest round of Shia LaBeouf shenanigans. The actor and motivational speaker was stopped by police when he and a group of friends were caught jaywalking across a busy street in downtown Austin, Texas on Friday night. Yeah, you heard me, jaywalking. The most badass way to cross a street. And that's not all. The officer noticed Shia smelled of alcohol and had slurred speech.

If you think Shia backed down to police, then think again. Not Shia Freakin' LaBeouf. He straight up went OFF on the cop calling the officer "a silly man." 

Whoa, that is pretty hard core, even for a Grade A badass like Shia. 

As a favor, he gave the cops a ton of cool reasons to leave him be. According to the officer, LaBeouf said the LAPD usually lets him go because they killed one of his friends.

When that didn't work (how did that not work?), police say Shia got agitated and confrontational—first with the officer, and then with a person recording the altercation. The officer says he had to stop Shia from attacking that person and probably calling him a stinky doo doo head.

LaBeouf finally tried to help the officer out once again, by letting him know he's a military man serving our country in the National Guard. For some reason, that didn't help either. Then Shia yelled, "Do whatever the f**k you gotta do!" (Take that, you silly goose!) So the officer took his suggestion, and arrested him for public intoxication.  

The year is 2015. Much of our correspondence, be it for business or personal reasons, is conducted over the Internet. In fact, you yourself might have learned that you'd been hired for your current gig via email, and perchance made the necessary connections via LinkedIn. You might WFH, and have never met your boss IRL. But we all know that Twitter employees are probably even further along the curve, right? They're so cutting edge! Sadly, yes.

Twitter's founder Jack Dorsey is back as CEO, and his first bold move was laying off 336 employees. Until this morning, Bart Teeuwisse was a programmer at Twitter, and found out he was a victim of the personnel purge when he tried to check his email.

It doesn't get any colder than, "You've been removed from Twitter, Inc."

Allow me to zoom in:

Hopefully he gets Venmo'd a sweet severance package. At the very least, they could leave him a good review on Peeple. 

We humans like to hold on to the illusion that we have control over our surroundings. But nature likes to remind us that this is stupid nonsense, like when it gets cold and your fancy 21st century car dies like a pathetic little creature, or torrential rains turn a high school football stadium into a waterfall-fed lake in under three minutes. The latter just happened at a high school in Tacoma, where members of the delightfully named friend group "Saucy Squad" filmed their stadium's flash flood with commentary such as "Bro!" and "I got freaking Birks on!" Which is actually a pretty bro-y thing to say in Washington State.

Here's another clip from Saucy Squad member Cody Schoeler, whose Twitter description reads, "Schutt Up. The sky is the limit. CïrøcBoys SaucySquad."

File this away, Saucy Squad. While it may have been caused by rain this time, flooding the football field is also a great prank against the jocks if you guys ever get to make a comedy movie, which is what I assume the end goal of all high school friend groups is these days. 

Congratulations! You've made it through the afternoon and your day is almost done! And today is Tuesday, which makes tomorrow Wednesday, which is the Hump Day, which means it's almost the weekend! But even though you're so close, drop everything you're doing for the next minute so you can revel in the magic of this nail art. 

Redditor shapoop posted this portrait of a hand that will blow your mind.

If you don't recognize the importance of this series of nail images, allow me to refresh your memory:

Yes. That is right. Our hands can now be gifs. The future is here. It'sliterally at our fingertips.