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Is somebody gonna match my freak? It’s the question that’s been on everyone’s mind since R&B singer Tinashe posed it in her song “Nasty,” which has gone viral since its release in April. While we’re all just trying to find someone who will, in fact, match our nasty, it’s not just the relatability of Tinashe’s lyrics that has found “Nasty” such a large audience.

Health officials are warning people not to “fry,” but to protect their skin and eyes while enjoying the outdoors this Memorial Day weekend. The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention announced that Friday marks the 16th annual “Don’t Fry Day,” a day meant to encourage people to protect themselves from the sun as the weather starts warming up over the long weekend.

The U. K. is headed for a general election on July 4, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak requested that King Charles III dissolve parliament earlier this week, sooner than many analysts expected. While the U. K. has transitioned to a parliamentary democracy over the last few centuries, the monarchy still plays a symbolic role in many aspects of the U.

As more than a trillion cicadas emerge from underground this month, experts warn that people on the autism spectrum or who are sensitive to sound may find the insects’ noise overwhelming. The large co-emergence of cicadas from both a 13-year and 17-year brood this spring is the first of its kind in more than 200 years.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a new interpretive rule on Wednesday that would provide customers using buy now, pay later (BNPL) with greater protections that would normally apply to credit cards. BNPL—which has multiple variations and is offered by companies like Affirm, Klarna, and Afterpay—allows customers to cover costs in four interest-free biweekly payments.

The internet is brimming with movie lists and best-ofs, templates that aim to impose some sense of order on a sprawling, more-than-100-year-old popular art form. These lists, even when they’re compiled by more than one person, are subjective, and that’s a good thing. There are enough values in this world determined by algorithm; let’s preserve discriminate human thought for as long as we can. When it comes to lists of the sexiest movies ever made, subjectivity takes on yet another shade of meaning.