This week on Twitter was all Harry Potter and cargo shorts

2025-04-27 16:17:34admin

This past week on Twitter was a bit offbeat, featuring the usual amounts of Harry Potter, while also including various oddities that people noticed about the world, among them strange ads and pictures of toilets.

Some tough questions were also posed this week, such as “How far should Ariana Grande go to wear her ponytail?” or “What’s the deal with cargo shorts?” with that second question getting particularly heated.

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Here are some of the best tweets of the past week to get you caught up on the culture.

1. #BlackWomenDidThat provides a needed history lesson

With only 1 in 10 STEM jobscurrently going to black women, the Twitter hashtag #BlackWomenDidThat was created to serve as a reminder that black women throughout history were responsible for everything from caller ID (Shirley Jackson) to leprosy treatments (Alice Bell).

Science fiction writers like Octavia Butler and aviators like Bessie “Queen Bess” Coleman were also celebrated.

2. Guy places framed picture of his toilet atop his toilet

In a turn of events that’s either too much information or missingtoo much information, a Twitter user reported that at a friend’s house, she found a toiletwith a picture of that same toilet on top of it.

Going even further, the photo of the toilet contained another photo of the toilet, on that photographed toilet. It’s yet unclear how deep this goes.

3. Olympic runner throws back to predicting the Olympics

Runner Morolake Akinosun is about to represent the US in the coming Olympic games in Rio. And to celebrate, she threw back all the way to 2011 before she had started college, when she predicted doingjust that.

While many of our predictions about the Olympics, or most anything, don’t always turn out, Akinosun managed to take her running ambitions all the way to the world’s biggest tournament.

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4. Ariana Grande pierces a hat with her ponytail

For Ariana Grande, her trademark ponytail is a top priority, and nothing will seemingly stop her from wearing it. A recent photo of Grandeshows her with both her ponytail popping out of a baseball cap, which doesn’t make sense until you realize she actually cut a hole in the hat just so the ponytail could stick through.

5. Joe Biden marries a gay couple

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden got to officiate his first marriage this week, perhaps a sign of a good career once his stint as VP is over. The two lucky men married by Biden were White House staffers Joe Mahshie and Brian Mosteller, and while Biden only has a temporary certificate from DC to conduct marriages, he seems to have a knack for it.

6. Chrissy Teigen talks diversity in Miss USA

The Miss Teen USA pageant has come under a great deal of scrutiny lately, due in part to some racist comments from the crowned/sashed champion.

But before that story broke, model Chrissy Teigen was already calling out the “diversity” of the competition’s finalists, namely that they were all similar looking blonde, white women.

7. Harry Potter fans read their first new book as grown adults

Since “The Boy Who Lived” isn’t dying out anytime soon, the insanely popular play Harry Potter and the Cursed Childhad its script released as a book on July 31. Much of the fandom had previously been too young to buy a Harry Potter book on their own, so for many fans, including actor Darren Criss, this was a very big deal.

Author J.K. Rowling has stated that this will be the final Harry Potter book, but people assumed that about The Deathly Hallows,so we’ll see.

8. Samantha Bee calls out Trump’s sexual harassment comment

Two members of the Trump family (Donald and Donald Jr.) responded, some say tastelessly, to the Fox News sexual harassment scandal by claiming someone like Ivanka Trump would be “too strong” to be sexually harassed.

Without missing a beat, comedian and Full Frontalhost Samantha Bee called out the non-sequitur of that argument by tweeting an old photo of Trump Jr. with a dead leopard, joking that the animal would’ve been “too strong” to be hunted.

9. Cargo shorts question gains allies and enemies

Twitter has been struggling lately over the debate on whether cargo shorts are ever acceptable to wear, for any reason. While some claimed that they always look silly, and should be compared to clothing choices like Crocs or socks-and-sandals, many men came to the defense of the functional, multi-pocketed shorts.

Filmmaker Judd Apatow was among the defenders of cargo shorts, saying that they help him “not look fat.”

10. Michelle Obama wishes our president a happy birthday

In a surreal reminder that the current U.S. president is over ten years younger than either of the current candidates, Obama celebrated his 55th birthdaythis week with a hopefully restive respite from the usual chaos that comes with the job.

Michelle Obama, on the official First Lady account, wished him well and posted a photo of herself playfully grabbing his chin.