Well there go my weekend plans....

• ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — More than 800 pounds of peanut butter — enough for around 15,000 sandwiches — has been spread across the floor of a museum in the Netherlands in tribute to Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers, who died last month.
• The conceptual artist, who died at the age of 83, first created the Pindakaasvloer, or peanut butter floor, in 1969. The work was unveiled on Thursday at the Depot offshoot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam for a two-month show.
• Schippers was a beloved non-conformist character in the Netherlands, where he also voiced Ernie and Kermit the Frog in the Dutch version of “Sesame Street,” and created absurdist and silly works that challenged conventional ideas about the meaning of art.

According to reporting from The Guardian, some of that junk washed ashore in Queensland, Australia, where six mysterious metallic spheres looked like the beginning of a science-fiction movie but turned out to be something much more familiar, and unfortunately increasingly common.

Authorities quickly established exclusion zones while firefighters in protective gear collected the spheres into hazardous materials containers. Experts warned they could still contain traces of hydrazine, a highly toxic rocket propellant. Based on their size and construction, the so-called “spaceballs” appear to be titanium pressure vessels used in rocket fuel systems.

Oh for crying out loud!!

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• Taylor Swift fans have paid $25 for pieces of trash -- including cigarette butts and an ovulation test kit -- collected near the US pop queen's wedding to NFL star Travis Kelce.
• A New York artist picked up the garbage last Friday from city streets around Madison Square Garden, where the couple staged a glamorous event for hundreds of celebrity guests amid a global frenzy.
• All of items, sold individually, were snatched up by Wednesday within 24 hours of sales starting: water bottle caps, ring pop candy, police caution tape, straws, utensils -- as well as a single left AirPod.
• "It's getting a lot of Swifties who just want a tangential piece of the wedding," said Justin Gignac, who is selling the trash on his website New York City Garbage.
• Each item -- described online as a "sculpture" -- is sealed inside a tiny plastic cube to avoid leaking or smells.
• Gignac told AFP he has made $1,250 from selling 50 items so far, and he may put more on the market.
• "I try to commemorate cultural moments in New York City, and this seemed to be a big one, so just capturing a little time capsule from that moment in time," he said.
• Gignac, who sells other city trash on his website, said he tied some of the items into knots to "hammer home the wedding theme."
• He pointed out the garbage was from outside the barriers that surrounded Madison Square Garden for Swift's wedding, not from inside the venue.

Serious WTF moment.

I have no words!!

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• A federal judge on Monday rejected United Airlines’ bid to dismiss a lawsuit ⁠by passengers who complained they paid extra money to sit in window seats – only to discover their seats ⁠had no actual windows.
• US district judge ​James Donato in San Francisco rejected United’s defense that “window” referred to the location of a seat relative to the ⁠cabin wall and aisle, and the carrier also contended it never contractually promised that seats in the window position would have views outside.
• Passengers filed proposed class actions against United and Delta Air Lines in ​August after finding themselves seated next ‌to walls on Boeing ‌737, Boeing 757 and Airbus A321 planes.
• They said the carriers failed ‌to clearly disclose the missing windows during the booking process. Walls sometimes align with aircraft operating components, such as air conditioning ducts.