Listen, you're busy – you've got things to do, places to be, plans to cancel with your friends by texting "so sorry!!!!! work crazy right now. another time? x" only to go home and watch an entire Archer season on Netflix – and as such you might have missed some of the juicier morsels from the extended VICE network this week. So, thankfully for you, we've curated a nice little list for you to spend the weekend catching up on. Save all these to your iPad and dive in:
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The Psychoactive Substances Act Is Mostly Helping London Police Arrest NOS Sellers
Data obtained by VICE under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that 71 percent of arrests since the bill came in were for nitrous oxide offences.Read on VICE.
Sexual Abuse in Football: How a Flawed System Still Places Youngsters at Risk
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Allegations of historic child sexual abuse have become football's biggest talking point in recent months, but the issue of institutional exploitation is not a problem of the past.Read on VICE Sports.
Do I Have to Choose Between Nightlife and Adulthood?
Why should I reject Moodymann in favour of a poached eggs and trips to Homebase? I'm going to live forever aren't I?
Read on Thump.
The Woman Making Art out of the FBI's Surveillance of Her Black Panther Father
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Civil rights activist Rodney Barnette was under government surveillance for over 10 years. Now his daughter, Sadie, has turned his 500-page FBI file into art.
Read on Broadly.
We Asked People About the Songs They Find Too Hard To Listen To
Break ups? Break downs? Funerals? We all have musical ghosts and they're destined to haunt us forever.Read on Noisey.
'Rogue' Government Twitter Accounts Should Verify Themselves
Photo: National Park ServiceAltNatParkSer and other 'rogue' science agency Twitter accounts have done nothing to gain the public's trust.Read on Motherboard.
Remembering the British Teenage Phenomenon of 'Skins Parties'
Screen via E4 Skins season one advert
Thanks to the E4 show, teenagers around the country had house party benchmark, which involved drugs, criminal damage and police intervention.
'They Died in a Cage': Honouring the Memory of Trans Prisoners
Photo by Chris Bethell
As part of an international day of solidarity, dozens of people gathered outside one of London's grimmest prisons to hold a vigil for the transgender people who have died in custody throughout the world.Read on Broadly.
Has Football Developed an Unhealthy Obsession With Grief
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Football is being consumed by grief, with public acts of mourning fast becoming a weekly occurrence. But the increasing frequency reduces the impact of these displays and, over time, could serve to rob them of meaning altogether.Read on VICE Sports.
I Cooked an Entire Dinner of Trump's Favourite Dishes
Photo by Michael Segalov
I look at the meatloaf, haddock hot dog, and Trump Tower Burger and—much like the American electorate—I can't quite believe what I've done.Read on Munchies.
The Story of Brighton's Most Legendary After Hours Club
Once the preserve of hemp fans and people who smoke apple bongs, veganism is now overrun with "bros"—guys who think meat is for pussies and call tofu "the tits." But does such frat boy rhetoric actually help the movement?
Read onMunchies.
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