Ready to go, Mr. Squeaky?

A series of tubes: Hyperloop One, which has proposed whisking people and cargo at high speeds through a tube, successfully demonstrated its propulsion system.

We’re not sure where the proponents of Hyperloop One got their idea, but we’re afraid to ask what they did as kids with their model rockets, Habitrails and hamsters.

Keeping up appearances: Meghan Trainor, who sang about body acceptance in “All About That Bass,” removed the video for her latest song, “Me Too,” from YouTube and Vevo after she discovered that her image had been digitally altered to make her waist slimmer. “The photoshopped the crap out of me,” Trainor said. “My waist is not that teeny.”

M-Train, if you’re done with your copy of Photoshop, we have some photos of ourselves on the beach that could use a little touch up.

3, 2, 1, we have ignition: State officials have decided not to raise the speed limit on I-90 in Eastern Washington from 70 mph to 75 as some legislators on the dry side had proposed.

Boo, hoo, Eastern Washington. You’ll have to excuse us, but after weeks of creeping traffic caused by the SnoCo Squeeze and the closed Seattle Viaduct, traveling at 70 mph would feel like we’re rocket-propelled hamsters in a Habitrail.

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