16 best tweets of the week, including ship memes, March Madness, and gribbles and scrumps

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Tim Marcin
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Well would you look at that: another week is in the books.

We're more than a year into the pandemic and at this point we're all aware that time is sort of messed up while the world is locked down. But rest assured, I'm like 99 percent sure it is actually Friday today. (Let's be real, I could never be 100 percent certain.)

So, that in mind, we collected the best tweets from this week. Why? Because we wanted to, that's why! And we do it every week, so we simply cannot stop now.


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Here they are, our 16 best tweets of the week.

1. Heavy, important reading we all must do

2. "Damn, this child chose digital radishes over me" is a stunning blow to the ego

3. Personally, I love the Stuck Ship memes

4. Another ship meme

5. And a wonderfully bad ship pun

6. Yes, this is a specific literature joke about the whole shrimp tail, Cinnamon Toast Crunch debacle. Just enjoy it.

7. OMG, remember this early pandemic meme?

8. Wherever you think this clip is going, it is not going there

9. True, frankly

10. Gribbles and scrumps

11. Just...perfect

12. Great to see some people still respect artistic vision

13. "If you hear any noise, it's just me and the boys boppin'"

14. Obligatory dril tweet

15. YES, another ship tweet

16. And finally, this

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Tim Marcin
Associate Editor, Culture

Tim Marcin is an Associate Editor on the culture team at Mashable, where he mostly digs into the weird parts of the internet. You'll also see some coverage of memes, tech, sports, trends, and the occasional hot take. You can find him on Bluesky (sometimes), Instagram (infrequently), or eating Buffalo wings (as often as possible).

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