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| Millennial sex and Trump meltdown? Join our readers' space for a live look at the week | Millennial sex and Trump meltdown? Join our readers' space for a live look at the week |
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| Should this smiley volcano be 2016's profile picture? | |
| Zofia Niemtus | |
| Zofia Niemtus is commissioning editor for the Guardian’s education networks. | |
| My favourite story of the week came on Tuesday and involved a volcano that looked like a smiley face. In fact, that was the entire thing: a helicopter flew over the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii and filmed some lava that looked like two eyes and a grinning mouth. But those 20 seconds of footage became so much more. | |
| In the comments, on Twitter and in the area around my desk, the molten smirk started to function as a fiery Rorschach test. Have a look and think about how it makes you feel. Done? Ok. | |
| Now forget about all the groups you think you belong to – humanity is divided into two camps from here on: people who thought “Awww, that volcano looks like it’s smiling!” and those who responded with “Holy shit that volcano looks like it’s smiling! We are in the End Times.” | |
| Some saw it as a message from – variously – God, Mother Nature and the devil. Others enjoyed the reminder of Fight Club, Watchmen and that Pixar short about the lonely volcano. I liked being reminded the term pareidolia and the hypnotic @FacesInThings Twitter account. | |
| My favourite response, though, came from @garwboy, who summed it up with the phrase “I see that 2016 has finally chosen its profile picture”. Be afraid. | |
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| Our most-read stories this week | |
| Sarah Marsh | |
| Every week we will draw attention to the stories people have been reading – with the aim of prompting debate around them. | |
| Among our most-read this week was a stream of stories about a man who gets more air-time (mainly for his outrageous comments) than a plane: Donald Trump. This week the Republican candidate went for Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim American soldier who died to protect his unit. Khan rebuked Trump as unpatriotic and selfish, to which Trump said: “I’d like to hear his wife say something.” Another popular comment piece asked: Trump has gone totally off the rails. Will his base finally notice? | |
| The mural of Hillary Clinton in a bikini (and later a niqab) also got people talking. | |
| Related: Hillary Clinton bikini mural covered with niqab after public decency complaints | |
| And Pokémon Go is also still garnering people’s interest, with five tricks for pro players getting a lot of clicks. | |
| Related: Pokémon Go: five tricks for pro players that are almost as good as cheats | |
| If you’re totally bored of hearing about the game, though – even if you are a player – Samuel Gibbs has some great tips on How to stop playing Pokémon Go ... | |
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| Welcome to our social! | Welcome to our social! |
| Sarah Marsh | Sarah Marsh |
| Hello and welcome to our second Guardian social. The idea is simple: every week we will open a comment thread below a live blog, creating a space for our readers to come together and discuss the week’s news and comment. It’s also a place to also share projects and ideas. | Hello and welcome to our second Guardian social. The idea is simple: every week we will open a comment thread below a live blog, creating a space for our readers to come together and discuss the week’s news and comment. It’s also a place to also share projects and ideas. |
| We will update the blog above the line with views from inside the building, including insight from our journalists on articles they’ve worked on. | We will update the blog above the line with views from inside the building, including insight from our journalists on articles they’ve worked on. |
| Last week we trialled the idea and this week we have slightly changed the format based on your suggestions. Among those of you who got in touch offering ideas into how it could work better, fripouille advised keeping comments open for longer – something we’ve taken on board. | Last week we trialled the idea and this week we have slightly changed the format based on your suggestions. Among those of you who got in touch offering ideas into how it could work better, fripouille advised keeping comments open for longer – something we’ve taken on board. |
| He added: “It was wonderful to see you and other staffers below the line ... We readers like to know we are being read and everyone appreciates receiving a response, particularly on what is designed to be a light-hearted and interactive thread.” | He added: “It was wonderful to see you and other staffers below the line ... We readers like to know we are being read and everyone appreciates receiving a response, particularly on what is designed to be a light-hearted and interactive thread.” |
| We welcome more opinions on this, so please share them in this form as well as in the comments. We want to create a community space for our readers to talk to us as well as eachother, and your involvement in how this evolves is key. | We welcome more opinions on this, so please share them in this form as well as in the comments. We want to create a community space for our readers to talk to us as well as eachother, and your involvement in how this evolves is key. |
| Join us today from 12pm-4pm for round two of our social feature. | Join us today from 12pm-4pm for round two of our social feature. |