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  • Flu season is here, and because last year's was relatively light, you better be prepared to get a cold this winter.
  • A classic Mountain Goats song about divorce has gone viral on TikTok, and all I got was this charming Vox article about it. (Watch the band perform the song on a rooftop in Queens for our Gothamist House series.)
  • Harry and Meghan have long cited social media as a toxic factor in their lives, and it seems they were onto something: "An analysis of more than 114,000 tweets about the couple has revealed a coordinated campaign of targeted harassment of Meghan on Twitter — and the 83 accounts responsible for approximately 70% of the negative and often hateful content."
  • As the Democrats have cut their plan for paid family and medical leave from 12 weeks to four, the U.S. continues to lag pathetically behind the rest of the world.
  • They dune it: Dune Part 2, a.k.a. 2une, a.k.a. 2 Dune 2 Furious, is officially happening.
  • Dave Grohl looked back on his career with Vulture, including what happened to former Foo Fighters drummer William Goldsmith (it involves a misunderstanding about ditch-diggers).
  • Mayor Bill de Blasio is apparently more interested in appeasing real estate developers than improving transit in the city.
  • Are you a Wes Andersonhead? Then you may want to consider taking a makeshift Wes Anderson world tour.
  • Whatever you feel about Midtown, you can't deny that there is lots of good food to be had there.
  • Live and let die: a group of epidemiologists have published a paper analyzing health risks in James Bond films, including "exposure risk to infectious agents during his global travels, covering everything from foodborne pathogens to ticks and mites, hangovers and dehydration from all those martinis, parasites, and unsafe sex." And the biggest danger is to Bond's paramours: they note that a "shockingly high percentage" (27.1 percent) of Bond's sexual partners die just after sleeping with him.
  • Remember that Joan Rivers Showtime project starring Kathryn Hahn? Yeah, that's not happening because "Rivers’ life rights, which are held by her daughter, Melissa Rivers, hadn’t been secured by producers."
  • And finally, as a dog owner, I can assure you this is quite impressive, as dogs do not always pull off jumps like this: