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The fortress of Palamidi (1714), Greece [OC] (1024 x 683) : ArchitecturePorn
The fortress of Palamidi (1714), Greece [OC] (1024 x 683) via /r/ArchitecturePorn http://t.co/o8mEcztDyv http://t.co/R5UaK49qxJ
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Reddit, meet Waffles via /r/aww http://t.co/Xby6hNA12B http://t.co/KQlTMcFhTv
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Lovely Day by rosetrace http://t.co/Z9juzQP0Xa http://t.co/ggP5yUyWSb
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Hohenschwangau Panorama bw 🙂 by Michail Christodoulopoulos / 500px
Hohenschwangau Panorama bw 🙂 by michailchristodoulopoulos http://t.co/UxxqytgcRm http://t.co/WZ2RLuPLp1
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Controlling ants with incoming call : gifs
Controlling ants with incoming call via /r/gifs http://t.co/AHReFbvSGe http://t.co/zu1HjF84iw
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An albino deer lives in the forest near my house. : mildlyinteresting
An albino deer lives in the forest near my house. via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/EQvKHylX5T http://t.co/KWsZdxgfzN
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Rakaposhi, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan By Muzaffar Bukhari [4928 x 3264] : EarthPorn
Rakaposhi, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan By Muzaffar Bukhari [4928 x 3264] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/RQmI0M86SH http://t.co/kIBvzSFFst
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This cricketer doesn’t conform to your rules : firstworldanarchists
This cricketer doesn’t conform to your rules via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/Ww6vrVZ46j http://t.co/kM8l1S0B8B
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The Three Musketeers by Harry Eggens / 500px
The Three Musketeers by Harry-Eggens http://t.co/JGlRkzc4Tm http://t.co/wPzz8NEp8b
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Scientists warn against ‘cruel and pointless’ badger culls | Environment | The Guardian
Scientists warn against ‘cruel and pointless’ badger culls http://t.co/VLBoMGv2mn
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‘Citizen Mars’ Web Series Features Would-Be Red-Planet Colonists
‘Citizen Mars’ Web Series Features Would-Be Red-Planet Colonists http://t.co/PkdVmgOcws
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The advantages of a small car. : interestingasfuck
The advantages of a small car. via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/oWrLkqGwFe http://t.co/ad1Ky4kYX1
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I found a leopard dog in Thailand. He is so relaxed : aww
I found a leopard dog in Thailand. He is so relaxed via /r/aww http://t.co/zpOIejnSMA http://t.co/SeQlUBDOfQ
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Teton reflection by Jean-Francois Chaubard / 500px
Teton reflection by Jean-FrancoisChaubard http://t.co/iePjJNta7I http://t.co/5Qi5qMOLTY
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My Grandad in a boat with a tophat, 1960’s : OldSchoolCool
My Grandad in a boat with a tophat, 1960’s via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/76njYzcnYp http://t.co/LJEHddFoNB
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Kirk’s Kisses: Women of Star Trek Featured in Kickstarter Campaign
Kirk’s Kisses: Women of ‘Star Trek’ Featured in Kickstarter Campaign http://t.co/3Lu6zBnfg1
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Poster poems: the alphabet | Books | The Guardian
Poster poems: the alphabet http://t.co/ob09LzT5HV
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XIV Temperance by Oliver Wetter : ImaginaryMindscapes
XIV Temperance by Oliver Wetter via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes http://t.co/KgMTzpqMZm http://t.co/bT4ThjD3MN
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sunset on Lake Constance (x-post from /r/pics) [OC] [4928×3264] : waterporn
sunset on Lake Constance (x-post from /r/pics) [OC] [4928×3264] via /r/waterporn http://t.co/1eixcxZ6HT http://t.co/rxn6cuFxOx
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Bridge to the Unknown : FoggyPics
Bridge to the Unknown via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/2YWgg1IQxo http://t.co/qOb53gD6xA
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Where the magic happens: children’s bookmaker’s studios – in pictures http://t.co/hDywho3z8y
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Bridge to the Unknown : FoggyPics
Bridge to the Unknown via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/M58NkPKjEn http://t.co/WMbbqgVBAn
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Coworker trying to tell me what to ignore gets put in his place : firstworldanarchists
Coworker trying to tell me what to ignore gets put in his place via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/oDcO7oIMF3 http://t.co/MpcyVYpJIF
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********************* by seema kapoor / 500px
********************* by kseema http://t.co/cTzxsoH5yy http://t.co/oT5T7EY62W
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Twilight from Eight Arch Bridge, Pembrokeshire [OC][2048×1895] : EarthPorn
Twilight from Eight Arch Bridge, Pembrokeshire [OC][2048×1895] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/8BjnfjB1nq http://t.co/gKdb52oHDp
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EU car pollution laws have improved UK’s air quality, say carmakers | Environment | The Guardian
EU car pollution laws have improved UK’s air quality, say carmakers http://t.co/uAmZ7mLWfk
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hmjb while i become a ninja warrior : holdmyjuicebox
hmjb while i become a ninja warrior via /r/holdmyjuicebox http://t.co/PyuCa2D8nN http://t.co/OUOzcYFuPC
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MRW dad gets my nose : shittyreactiongifs
MRW dad gets my nose via /r/shittyreactiongifs http://t.co/wILP8VGjqr http://t.co/kfv8CMljit
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MRW a fly won’t leave me alone : reactiongifs
MRW a fly won’t leave me alone via /r/reactiongifs http://t.co/8l5HaapA37 http://t.co/N1YfcAKxYL
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Homicide rates in Europe and the US [Reupload] [846×408] : MapPorn
Homicide rates in Europe and the US [Reupload] [846×408] via /r/MapPorn http://t.co/SLqoOKHpTA http://t.co/rRWYx5fQIu
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the co0L mr skeltal is here to c0olect souls, give thanks instead! : ledootgeneration
the co0L mr skeltal is here to c0olect souls, give thanks instead! via /r/ledootgeneration http://t.co/HgHQHb7LVo http://t.co/JLbSOYnqHb
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Snow-White Queen Cat : lolcats
Snow-White Queen Cat via /r/lolcats http://t.co/QuLY4csPYm http://t.co/TH5CVryzwQ
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Road through Joshua Tree Park, CA [OC][6000×4000] : EarthPorn
Road through Joshua Tree Park, CA [OC][6000×4000] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/8jCSZNwn7Z http://t.co/mA1igI4stj
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Volcanic Wasteland by Siggi B / 500px
Volcanic Wasteland by sigurdurfbjarnason http://t.co/IioGVvjcHK http://t.co/lO8sWqyiq4
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Donald Trump and the Iran Deal – The Atlantic
How Donald Trump Helped Pass the Iran Deal He Opposes http://t.co/yZQP28qzs6
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Ben Carson’s Surge in the GOP Polls – The Atlantic
Ben Carson Gets His Bounce http://t.co/mvSSjWQxyQ
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Donald Trump 2016! via /r/Liberal http://t.co/QB5khdozx9 https://t.co/uCsMwxEXPb http://t.co/bbm1CUQtrb
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Donald Trump 2016! via /r/Liberal http://t.co/QB5khdozx9 https://t.co/uCsMwxEXPb http://t.co/bbm1CUQtrb
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MRW I see dat qt3.14 in da clubb : shittyreactiongifs
MRW I see dat qt3.14 in da clubb via /r/shittyreactiongifs http://t.co/cPVgDHtYjj http://t.co/iPCmgZrORz
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Not everyone reaches their dreams. : funny
Not everyone reaches their dreams. via /r/funny http://t.co/UrukdFkTfN http://t.co/4hcu8eqYGG
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Face value: Simon Schama on the power of portraits | Books | The Guardian
Face value: Simon Schama on the power of portraits http://t.co/aGAnID7sPw
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Is it OK for psychologists to deceive? – Antonio Melechi – Aeon
Is it OK for psychologists to deceive their test subjects? http://t.co/CVmqOss5LZ
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Australian desert
Australian desert http://t.co/wwMsCQFMU2 http://t.co/qzSpkMX8L8
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Docking replay
Docking replay http://t.co/vZV3F7pq5D http://t.co/fg4NEYm1hB
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Basically Kim Davis : AdviceAnimals
Basically Kim Davis via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/N4vrosU98a http://t.co/siZ5NsYUvc
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Joan Aiken’s Armitage family stories collected for the first time | Books | The Guardian
Joan Aiken’s Armitage family stories collected for the first time http://t.co/avcDxGmT4F
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Red corner by Andrew Vasiliev / 500px
Red corner by vavfoto http://t.co/U6VY8NnecB http://t.co/eebP8NJdd9
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Shine a Light on Me by Martin Podt / 500px
Shine a Light on Me by martinpodt http://t.co/uhT8AFY3R1 http://t.co/OiLaH39K2g
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Twirling Umbrellas : perfectloops
Twirling Umbrellas via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/om2Qwz4mB4 http://t.co/iEdRnvuClQ
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Volcano in the Philippines, Mt Pinatubo [OC] [3264 x 2448] : EarthPorn
Volcano in the Philippines, Mt Pinatubo [OC] [3264 x 2448] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/LqsMdVmBEI http://t.co/RYU4xbrA5s
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Maggia River in Ponte Brolla, Switzerland [OC][4160×2336] : EarthPorn
Maggia River in Ponte Brolla, Switzerland [OC][4160×2336] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/tYFRdmEa6G http://t.co/kzMIpDaOsW
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After looking for hours I finally found her crying in my neighbors yard : cats
After looking for hours I finally found her crying in my neighbors yard via /r/cats http://t.co/ztIIXyLjGT http://t.co/w2pwbCDb7Z
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Jesse Eisenberg: By the Book http://t.co/KNAIJ3Amcm
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Docking replay http://t.co/9PbjVkZ1Sg http://t.co/h0tmfH2pl9 http://t.co/vOZAl8uoLy
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 09 – iriss mission docking
Docking replay http://t.co/9PbjVkZ1Sg http://t.co/h0tmfH2pl9 http://t.co/vOZAl8uoLy
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*** by Laura Pashkevich / 500px
*** by P_Laura http://t.co/HcdsR0vtLV http://t.co/gsY2OsWPI9
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Here’s a Mega-list of All the Labor Day Marathons You Can Watch (USA) : television
Here’s a Mega-list of All the Labor Day Marathons You Can Watch (USA) via /r/television http://t.co/2Ff3mZ8raW http://t.co/Crg4zw0hdb
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IMG_0223.jpg by David Marfil Raurell / 500px
IMG_0223.jpg by DavidMarfilRaurell http://t.co/fhU7xJhutG http://t.co/9f3D2OX2GJ
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Preikestolen by Igor Sukmansky / 500px
Preikestolen by IgorSukmansky http://t.co/Uv1qCXdZpH http://t.co/CON9XdZw8K
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In the morning(4) by Park ddoven / 500px
In the morning(4) by Parkddoven http://t.co/uNdthOxLqE http://t.co/d8ZsLCW9Rr
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Little family by cassilda dias / 500px
Little family by Photonatur http://t.co/NORMMjFW3M http://t.co/srCzsQhhgG
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Gilbert Summit, CA NV [OC][4453 x 2969] : EarthPorn
Gilbert Summit, CA NV [OC][4453 x 2969] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/dqyM3LJugS http://t.co/jZngebf5Bx
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Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India [4608×3072] [OC] : EarthPorn
Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India [4608×3072] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/xiTTRFiQwB http://t.co/viSaS8bZkW
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Where’s Waldo? by Stephen Oachs / 500px
Where’s Waldo? by stephenoachs http://t.co/MwvnReLBFH http://t.co/8kI9swztO3
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My spirit animal http://t.co/Klw8tMs30m http://t.co/abN1hz8u0h
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Lavender fields : interestingasfuck
Lavender fields via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/4VMfqFMGkg http://t.co/eAxJUBmQ03
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This guy in the bathroom gets it : firstworldanarchists
This guy in the bathroom gets it via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/LigGyHqn72 http://t.co/YgzPY6rwFq
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During my morning walk : FoggyPics
During my morning walk via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/albwYTa9TK http://t.co/60y5jxyTJr
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Blind and Lazy…But Best Friends : LazyCats
Blind and Lazy…But Best Friends via /r/LazyCats http://t.co/Dox1KpkIXw http://t.co/18sKW6i0KX
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The First Animated Feature Film: The Adventures of Prince Achmed by Lotte Reiniger (1926) http://t.co/yS46Zi83ag
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Pictures of the surface of Venus by the soviets in the 70’s [998×500] http://t.co/yTO1hYfYmo http://t.co/kqZEJoN34W
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Take a Labor Day Tour of Blue-Collar Art http://t.co/jpD0CnpGIc
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Abandoned ski jump on Vlasic, Bosnia and Hercegovina [OC] [1168×848] : AbandonedPorn
Abandoned ski jump on Vlasic, Bosnia and Hercegovina [OC] [1168×848] via /r/AbandonedPorn http://t.co/hSMa5pZmOE http://t.co/l1gpu2Tnw1
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Istanbul and the Bosphorus Strait, Turkey [850×567] by Marji Lang : CityPorn
Istanbul and the Bosphorus Strait, Turkey [850×567] by Marji Lang via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/Clqe5VvAlN http://t.co/4Or4B9yzuI
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Ice contrast by Alessandro Di Cicco / 500px
Ice contrast by Aledicicco http://t.co/u7nDzeY66f http://t.co/ROXtgai8uJ
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Majestic Merges via /r/woahdude http://t.co/NFL0Iy6y0B http://t.co/X0L98VcdrX
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Coming up: Massachusetts and Austin! http://t.co/ksDmZSz4eO http://t.co/S5IioFWuF8 http://t.co/Q5rhBLb4Fd
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Trees on Mars by Tom K / 500px
Trees on Mars by 500V4 http://t.co/ZZwPe17eCK http://t.co/RfzEduxL2e
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Road trips via /r/funny http://t.co/xzRn9WaAaS http://t.co/XIN9grHthQ
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Fort de Chartreuse, Liege, Belgium [3771×2121] : AbandonedPorn
Fort de Chartreuse, Liege, Belgium [3771×2121] via /r/AbandonedPorn http://t.co/tL1n1cB0zw http://t.co/iOYUYc1aNW
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The pushback against unfair labor practices : progressive
The pushback against unfair labor practices via /r/progressive http://t.co/k8inW3ZAot http://t.co/DS7KiFT84C http://t.co/IXQpXbKF9l
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The pushback against unfair labor practices – The Washington Post
The pushback against unfair labor practices via /r/progressive http://t.co/k8inW3ZAot http://t.co/DS7KiFT84C http://t.co/IXQpXbKF9l
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Who let the dog out … ? by Manfred Hoelscher / 500px
Who let the dog out … ? by Manninx http://t.co/uIjbUf3BuC http://t.co/WKiLJ1dkvp
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10 moving photos of Europe’s migrant crisis – BBC News
10 moving photos of Europe’s migrant crisis http://t.co/PSgvCKG71B
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#1155; The Passive Pining Stratagem http://t.co/P3krbDcxUY http://t.co/MELkUWS0HF http://t.co/wnX7fpmvdE
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Rainy Days by Ricardo Mateus / 500px
Rainy Days by Ricardo_Mateus http://t.co/ysuSm4G7bw http://t.co/w91CzBr5um
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The New Age of Wonder: Freeman Dyson on the Future of Science and Why Biologists Are the New Poets http://t.co/PvruDRTaqd
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Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata looking through a water bubble in ISS. : space
Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata looking through a water bubble in ISS. via /r/space http://t.co/wYl2BZzkOe http://t.co/9qM8u2guUj
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Richmond, VA [1024×683) : CityPorn
Richmond, VA [1024×683) via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/BrB5W81LrV http://t.co/62SLo8McoL
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New FCC rules could ban DD-WRT and wireless router modification : technology
New FCC rules could ban DD-WRT and wireless router modification via /r/technology http://t.co/ZthfwlwU4q http://t.co/6GYJl36iJu
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Main living area of a geodesic dome house [1024×768] : RoomPorn
Main living area of a geodesic dome house [1024×768] via /r/RoomPorn http://t.co/ZAVBp2Ic4n http://t.co/5IYU579S4c
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I think she likes it here : cats
I think she likes it here via /r/cats http://t.co/zLRiYD0Rh4 http://t.co/QvESIUuH3l
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67 Years married – Queen Elizabeth II & Prince Philip : pics
67 Years married – Queen Elizabeth II & Prince Philip via /r/pics http://t.co/orvQiaja7h http://t.co/t0xOvYSIKg
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Mexican Morgan Freeman serving you tacos : pics
Mexican Morgan Freeman serving you tacos via /r/pics http://t.co/FMci62GDNw http://t.co/eujQdknorr
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The Prince of Whales is uninterested in the Earl of Wiltshire : cats
The Prince of Whales is uninterested in the Earl of Wiltshire via /r/cats http://t.co/ACJhsuTDSF http://t.co/3ElUmVoFz3
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Older than the dinosaurs: Lamprey fish return to UK rivers after 200 years http://t.co/YlquG9QW59
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MRW I start thinking someone’s cute : TrollXChromosomes
MRW I start thinking someone’s cute via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/J2KA7f8VAL http://t.co/ruFThcynNb
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One summer evening by Michal Breiner / 500px
One summer evening by michalb http://t.co/K0IiBaurUO http://t.co/5oqJRDB1Zn
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[1616×1080] [oc] Morro Rock, Ca. : EarthPorn
[1616×1080] [oc] Morro Rock, Ca. via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/gjMwZHQeXX http://t.co/ArTbzr2UgP
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Camouflage via /r/pics http://t.co/YKmvEhQtaK http://t.co/Q5h9yemcfu
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I think you should move your sprinkler every once in a while : pics
I think you should move your sprinkler every once in a while via /r/pics http://t.co/OLx9DRc1J0 http://t.co/JcVLEuUobb
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There’s something unsettling about this : perfectloops
There’s something unsettling about this via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/qCm1y4iTGW http://t.co/c44fmJuPIE
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My first try at a panorama [OC][7007×5749] : ExposurePorn
My first try at a panorama [OC][7007×5749] via /r/ExposurePorn http://t.co/21aH27QGem http://t.co/icQjIsz5nq
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/eYNIXIfclb http://t.co/cPEgauQx7H
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Perfect robot samurai slice. : oddlysatisfying
Perfect robot samurai slice. via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/vQqmzhnjIy http://t.co/Zt9Skx7Mva
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Pool by SylvioTesta http://t.co/qdeNxP7n0b http://t.co/rfGcH31Dep
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My grandpa sitting on his car after he came home from the war. 1947 : OldSchoolCool
My grandpa sitting on his car after he came home from the war. 1947 via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/ST51M8ZC5n http://t.co/zPFtvVXAnA
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Denali Got Renamed, and Now, Has a New Height http://t.co/i353ZNvujK
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Hermit crab by Oleg Bazhenov / 500px
Hermit crab by OlegBazhenov1 http://t.co/WKu7W08ZS8 http://t.co/hD7RTbzwAF
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APOD: 2015 September 3 – Arp 159 and NGC 4725
Arp 159 and NGC 4725 via NASA http://t.co/E2E9M8f4eN http://t.co/uZjeVxBoVd http://t.co/FVwlgGlfBB
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Arp 159 and NGC 4725 via NASA…
Arp 159 and NGC 4725 via NASA http://t.co/E2E9M8f4eN http://t.co/uZjeVxBoVd http://t.co/FVwlgGlfBB
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Tally in Mid-Meow via /r/cats http://t.co/F2piSUAZJ4 http://t.co/MHyyhQfxAC
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I must feed my people via /r/aww http://t.co/1ODe5kdzWu http://t.co/rJI1zzEJ4I
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[OC] (Nearly Empty) Hills Creek Reservoir Oakridge, Oregon [3264 X 1863] : EarthPorn
[OC] (Nearly Empty) Hills Creek Reservoir Oakridge, Oregon [3264 X 1863] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/p9gjOVBh0z http://t.co/EZ5b0tKBjt
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Study Reveals Consistent Predator-Prey Pattern http://t.co/tFjV753r24
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Mt. Sutro in San Francisco : FoggyPics
Mt. Sutro in San Francisco via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/hwTfkrNE17 http://t.co/dzcvDbVCsc
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Our little kitten had a big surgery, and now he wears a wee t-shirt. : aww
Our little kitten had a big surgery, and now he wears a wee t-shirt. via /r/aww http://t.co/c0GE5vqSje http://t.co/8vRNozNNSF
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Just put them all on one page! – Imgur
Just put them all on one page! http://t.co/fTNbQwtNDD http://t.co/KRFUnWrKMQ
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/ZdMUp3l4Fm http://t.co/jXaQee8u49
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Cyberintelligence http://t.co/9jL3IuJg1d http://t.co/oYl7nLmXuj http://t.co/foXJqWbNt3
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Cyberintelligence http://t.co/9jL3IuJg1d http://t.co/oYl7nLmXuj http://t.co/foXJqWbNt3
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Friendship Between Putin and Xi Becomes Strained as Economies Falter http://t.co/XOWwl7LaKT
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Thermal imaging of a handgun firing : gif
Thermal imaging of a handgun firing via /r/gif http://t.co/rRyh9IE3LO http://t.co/qTOS4dV9na
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Beautiful silence by Jari Johnsson / 500px
Beautiful silence by johnsson http://t.co/xdRWgv6Bzs http://t.co/oN5RMjuwl0
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Arvo Pärt Enthralls the World – The New Yorker
This Week http://t.co/anZ0Mc0TQS
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A troll is her own person : TrollXChromosomes
A troll is her own person via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/h87oIU6JLl http://t.co/TUIxacfvIC
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Friendship between a cat and a parakeet : StartledCats
Friendship between a cat and a parakeet via /r/StartledCats http://t.co/u9Wb1F1L2S http://t.co/o8tjl3qHgo
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Murdannia keisak or Wart-Removing Herb [3239×2145] [OC] : BotanicalPorn
Murdannia keisak or Wart-Removing Herb [3239×2145] [OC] via /r/BotanicalPorn http://t.co/pNiYcZLK8O http://t.co/HWlMuGIxug
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Kentucky clerk ordered to jail fo..ARGHH.. – GIF on Imgur
Kentucky clerk ordered to jail fo..ARGHH.. http://t.co/6D6MkFschp http://t.co/YiTj4znoQQ
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Moment in space LXXXIII by Tuomas Pekkarinen js – Just Space
Moment in space LXXXIII by Tuomas Pekkarinen js http://t.co/LMy6iyTvzw http://t.co/3oW9aTK2Xy
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Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady NY by pecoraphoto [800 X 533] : RoomPorn
Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady NY by pecoraphoto [800 X 533] via /r/RoomPorn http://t.co/ZGoLXW4xc3 http://t.co/y9GTmFDNPU
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Humanizing Hillary via /r/democrats http://t.co/0GZlCEkD2O http://t.co/oXexIxktrq http://t.co/RWMA8kvLVd
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Humanizing Hillary : democrats
Humanizing Hillary via /r/democrats http://t.co/0GZlCEkD2O http://t.co/oXexIxktrq http://t.co/RWMA8kvLVd
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Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis) in Spring Blossum [2048 x 1365][OC] : AnimalPorn
Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis) in Spring Blossum [2048 x 1365][OC] via /r/AnimalPorn http://t.co/I3pBIza5vo http://t.co/IxQhkOLJIs
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Getting a tattoo in 1942. : OldSchoolCool
Getting a tattoo in 1942. via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/p3R2CPG78o http://t.co/s2nefkPYGV
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Woman In Black by TJ Drysdale / 500px
Woman In Black by tjdrysdale http://t.co/88WtmPj4si http://t.co/PDGGc5MqGw
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FailArmy Coub via /r/gif http://t.co/x8FxtOnWog http://t.co/VypjLwngue
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Triggered via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/22j1wL4LfI http://t.co/OhciZmt122
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Mr. Robot had a perfect season on Rotten Tomatoes : television
Mr. Robot had a perfect season on Rotten Tomatoes via /r/television http://t.co/oWcraR8sNu http://t.co/PnY17ghfaF
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explore and race through Wikipedia, oddly addicting : InternetIsBeautiful
explore and race through Wikipedia, oddly addicting via /r/InternetIsBeautiful http://t.co/VcOfwtZteA http://t.co/uu9oXBLMYD
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Meet my kitten Sprinkles! : cats
Meet my kitten Sprinkles! via /r/cats http://t.co/KifPdFM02n http://t.co/JO3CDJNJ2x
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Think PETA is a great organization? Take a look. : pics
Think PETA is a great organization? Take a look. via /r/pics http://t.co/T6XHywDj46 http://t.co/0R4SmcTEET
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RIP Logan, I’ll miss you buddy : cats
RIP Logan, I’ll miss you buddy via /r/cats http://t.co/bS0zJ2mwVh http://t.co/4UybeQZ6jX
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Overlooking Akaroa, New Zealand [OC] [4456×2650] : EarthPorn
Overlooking Akaroa, New Zealand [OC] [4456×2650] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/i42acyxcvt http://t.co/4ePC1cdwnw
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Lake Louise, Canada [1920×1080] : waterporn
Lake Louise, Canada [1920×1080] via /r/waterporn http://t.co/btCKujh4bM http://t.co/R0pyfjREHQ
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/r/Cats, meet Cookie and Cloud : cats
/r/Cats, meet Cookie and Cloud via /r/cats http://t.co/OexTVAUSRt http://t.co/YkfDdBiZ4L
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Rare sunny day in Depoe Bay, Oregon [2952×5248][OC] : EarthPorn
Rare sunny day in Depoe Bay, Oregon [2952×5248][OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/meAWej6vmU http://t.co/rCrjm3xz4F
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Old Coast Road, Big Sur, California. Adam K. Myers [OC] [2240 x 1488] : EarthPorn
Old Coast Road, Big Sur, California. Adam K. Myers [OC] [2240 x 1488] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/VM1e30OUec http://t.co/Z16wBa5g5o
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after work fix by domchapman / 500px
after work fix by domchapman http://t.co/W8FUToLkAa http://t.co/tEQuCdooxi
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Bergen, Norway [OC] [3264×1836] : CityPorn
Bergen, Norway [OC] [3264×1836] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/DOV28Euv1G http://t.co/ScipPY5utF
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Grandfather & Grandmother – USS Hopkins ~1942 : OldSchoolCool
Grandfather & Grandmother – USS Hopkins ~1942 via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/NjZGl5iiQ8 http://t.co/SJEfp5tLgK
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Grand View Point Overlook, Utah [OC][2000×1333] : EarthPorn
Grand View Point Overlook, Utah [OC][2000×1333] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/VLw9z8ztOf http://t.co/7fjua0D2oz
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I love you Costco via /r/funny http://t.co/InpB6K3O2Y http://t.co/nBMz82KRdq
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Me_irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/7e3kjrQ2px http://t.co/sPXm1YROXP
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Abandoned church in France [2048×1365] by El Vagus : AbandonedPorn
Abandoned church in France [2048×1365] by El Vagus via /r/AbandonedPorn http://t.co/JDPCFFrSUc http://t.co/onfPd3ynH3
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The IAC Building in New York City [2048×1365] : ArchitecturePorn
The IAC Building in New York City [2048×1365] via /r/ArchitecturePorn http://t.co/a7zubGkPsp http://t.co/TvBiSt8o1G
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D: via /r/cats http://t.co/9cjTvTYaOq http://t.co/eV3GDzxcsu
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One of Many by Mitul Shah / 500px
One of Many by typicalmitul http://t.co/uL4hhBrjm7 http://t.co/T0mczeHojE
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I hope this kind of behavior doesn’t catch on. : AdviceAnimals
I hope this kind of behavior doesn’t catch on. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/kLYKkf28YL http://t.co/AQBdx7CV82
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Bertrand Russell, mathematician & philosopher, circa 1960. via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/4i745gsdnL http://t.co/QejVN7ktPu
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Cross eyed blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/IRCKlojY1Q http://t.co/OQebaQpatX
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HMB while I microwave a lava lamp : holdmybeer
HMB while I microwave a lava lamp via /r/holdmybeer http://t.co/F4WeTlSRId http://t.co/NZKpkneSwU
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The IAC Building in New York City [2048×1365] : ExposurePorn
The IAC Building in New York City [2048×1365] via /r/ExposurePorn http://t.co/CDsURMvtEN http://t.co/qjX6AdN3uW
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/aWBQObQ7qb http://t.co/moCphujKuQ
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! http://t.co/JvazSTpp3i
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1 Vegas from the street [OC] [7952×5304] : CityPorn
1 Vegas from the street [OC] [7952×5304] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/S2QXYNRNIb http://t.co/zJ2XDuDGOU
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Milwaukee, WI [1800 x 1198] : CityPorn
Milwaukee, WI [1800 x 1198] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/ZEq6qIHDBL http://t.co/QJUmQN51Ld
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Our cat, Balerion, looks like hes had too much catnip : cats
Our cat, Balerion, looks like hes had too much catnip via /r/cats http://t.co/WxvnYePbcP http://t.co/rVEW2tioFH
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Coworker made this for me. I guess he’s trying to send me a message. – Imgur
Coworker made this for me. I guess he’s trying to send me a message. http://t.co/HOqS47rpfF http://t.co/Fx084wAa4R
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Center of the Milky Way js – Just Space
Center of the Milky Way js http://t.co/qqZmlIpu4X http://t.co/7PFfNdqaXb
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The Foothills Quartet get it : firstworldanarchists
The Foothills Quartet get it via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/a23FCVRYxa http://t.co/qXtdpcZkrf
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Places where bodies of water meet. : interestingasfuck
Places where bodies of water meet. via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/eoQoejiKSc http://t.co/nklymzGuhY
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Coastal Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) [1600×1600] : AnimalPorn
Coastal Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) [1600×1600] via /r/AnimalPorn http://t.co/R8Be7XizrU http://t.co/Bxa7M44Egg
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Better with a face via /r/gifs http://t.co/sbz3VLs7UA http://t.co/CLACuKhvYS
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A lady I work with pulled this shit today. : AdviceAnimals
A lady I work with pulled this shit today. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/loEQ6Heaeb http://t.co/SXk5fXg4pY
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This book gets it : firstworldanarchists
This book gets it via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/rrsmMI9VAn http://t.co/0hizlOWFhF
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Attic Apartment in Stockholm, Sweden [1000×660] : RoomPorn
Attic Apartment in Stockholm, Sweden [1000×660] via /r/RoomPorn http://t.co/rDSHotUHAh http://t.co/abShZxfGhv
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Dirt road racing via /r/woahdude http://t.co/UmKIjjf59B http://t.co/zPsZhTd2uc
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Semuc Champey, Guatemala [OC] [2340×4160] : EarthPorn
Semuc Champey, Guatemala [OC] [2340×4160] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/Kv5as6nhau http://t.co/SsrTpiYqaP
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Oh, 4chan… http://t.co/gMY3YTniSI http://t.co/bkM85v3epe
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Winter in Washington, D.C. [OC][2048 x 1365] : CityPorn
Winter in Washington, D.C. [OC][2048 x 1365] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/2knt15bZaN http://t.co/a05Mcvne8p
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Bondhusvatnet by Bent Velling / 500px
Bondhusvatnet by BentVelling http://t.co/OIKyq66xjs http://t.co/FOx5HXbiVD
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Amelia was startled by the thunder and didn’t want to let go 🙂 : cats
Amelia was startled by the thunder and didn’t want to let go 🙂 via /r/cats http://t.co/M97sQWVkZQ http://t.co/kzKPw1Xeqq
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/SKpzGHdzTe http://t.co/C42EnWiabI
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My sloth wallpaper today – don’t miss your naps! : sloths
My sloth wallpaper today – don’t miss your naps! via /r/sloths http://t.co/VPkj9CE4C7 http://t.co/EqXtlN7to3
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Mordor by guerel sahin / 500px
Mordor by guerelsahin http://t.co/pfQ9M7TlvE http://t.co/oZRnGkq1TI
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Chipotle’s new slogan is like a promo for consensual sex : TrollXChromosomes
Chipotle’s new slogan is like a promo for consensual sex via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/6j4Gztn6pB http://t.co/P9csiXzrJb
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Twin Falls, ID [2777×2121] [OC] : EarthPorn
Twin Falls, ID [2777×2121] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/eMxvZzQo65 http://t.co/tL2EMpXqq2
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These two toilet paper rolls make an optical illusion : mildlyinteresting
These two toilet paper rolls make an optical illusion via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/5WQh6RBkSF http://t.co/WLuVeGL3NZ
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Went to the dog park yesterday, saw this : aww
Went to the dog park yesterday, saw this via /r/aww http://t.co/Ta0eoEM60o http://t.co/1tNJ9sBvOT
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Tali likes to loaf in the kitchen when I cook : Catloaf
Tali likes to loaf in the kitchen when I cook via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/gUqjICWuiL http://t.co/0UPeDJRvN9
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Analysis Confirms Plane Debris Came From Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 http://t.co/KHcLTT4wSV
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Almost 5000 minors were in hacked Ashley Madison database : technology
Almost 5000 minors were in hacked Ashley Madison database via /r/technology http://t.co/Q4GKL9JMQY http://t.co/Ar5htaNfoc
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HT7_1733 by Thomh http://t.co/6BBDnwpWwt http://t.co/zHe01hN8x7
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Airglow & The Milky Way Galaxy [1100 x 619] http://t.co/gOSCDj2dep http://t.co/X68sM13X68
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Gibbous Moon [2124×2164][OS[OC]
Gibbous Moon [2124×2164][OS[OC] http://t.co/kdyDkh0rfQ http://t.co/g5MVkto9ZF
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Sex [OC] via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/h8QbNXtwZD http://t.co/4AjB2SsztW
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Meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/XUDqCohrby http://t.co/Wu7dBX0uy9
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My new kitten seems quite chill in the car : cats
My new kitten seems quite chill in the car via /r/cats http://t.co/mjgjn24qxt http://t.co/lVYouJKNBd
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A Cabin,Aurora Borealis and the milkyway…. – Just Space
A Cabin,Aurora Borealis and the milkyway. Ilulissat, West… http://t.co/resKtkboi4 http://t.co/cpH3e8B4CT
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Phosphorescent by Charlie-Bowater : ImaginaryMindscapes
Phosphorescent by Charlie-Bowater via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes http://t.co/iyTa9HnnQh http://t.co/rH5tze7OB8
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Street light [OC] : perfectloops
Street light [OC] via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/oQSDfTHoWJ http://t.co/jE3GU90RW2
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Mojave National Preserve, California (OC) (1400×800) : unitedstatesofamerica
Mojave National Preserve, California (OC) (1400×800) via /r/unitedstatesofamerica http://t.co/A3X42s8WYu http://t.co/YFiAIlNtjL
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The Lonely-Man-Becomes-a-Crustacean Trailer: The Lobster | WIRED
The Lonely-Man-Becomes-a-Crustacean Trailer: The Lobster http://t.co/ljKUqiNrFl
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From Fire to “Ya-Fired” : trippinthroughtime
From Fire to “Ya-Fired” via /r/trippinthroughtime http://t.co/phWomLOuXQ http://t.co/dLkJ7cK1b2
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You guys liked Pebbles and her makeup, her sister Cocoa shows leg. via /r/cats http://t.co/OCCGMRjbal http://t.co/FcO6BVKj5z
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Iceland by Etienne Ruff / 500px
Iceland by etienneruff http://t.co/95fTu8kmKI http://t.co/ZF6HJfNy45
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How to catnap, Bangkok style : cats
How to catnap, Bangkok style via /r/cats http://t.co/0ab4bveuUC http://t.co/g9C5XHD9DS
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Tram, top view [OC] : perfectloops
Tram, top view [OC] via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/NhLFrJYyY4 http://t.co/xvUTgIVd7H
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The Pleiades Open Cluster js – Just Space
The Pleiades Open Cluster js http://t.co/FzDkWk5sux http://t.co/iBHwj36wvs
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2015 Fall Foliage Prediction Map : InternetIsBeautiful
2015 Fall Foliage Prediction Map via /r/InternetIsBeautiful http://t.co/PJVmk0OUjR http://t.co/w3NHrcPhZz
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The All-knowing Loaf : Catloaf
The All-knowing Loaf via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/mVDyQlf4rL http://t.co/im4CSRYR8Z
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Damsels these days : trippinthroughtime
Damsels these days via /r/trippinthroughtime http://t.co/C5tWl9sNEm http://t.co/KVGd9Gwxl2
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The Old White Buck [OC] : ImaginaryLandscapes
The Old White Buck [OC] via /r/ImaginaryLandscapes http://t.co/eFGDN030Rw http://t.co/oIGNt9iIrt
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Hammocking under the stars [6016 x 4016] : ExposurePorn
Hammocking under the stars [6016 x 4016] via /r/ExposurePorn http://t.co/TyfkZPixpT http://t.co/3hmmmWMZRH
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tom hardy took his dog to the legend premiere : aww
tom hardy took his dog to the legend premiere via /r/aww http://t.co/XoRdVB1bau http://t.co/bFNT5ol0gU
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Ice beach, Jokulsarlon, Iceland by Sven Broeckx / 500px
Ice beach, Jokulsarlon, Iceland by svenbroeckx http://t.co/kg0NTSmjPA http://t.co/9V4OWjjPPC
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Forest Fire by Alister Benn / 500px
Forest Fire by AlisterBenn http://t.co/uPg2scK38v http://t.co/3DoDj4QVOq
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My boy, Banksy via /r/cats http://t.co/A44dY5gSi1 http://t.co/H9UQhtOoKS
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Tonight I am genuinely furious at my country’s government – Imgur
Tonight I am genuinely furious at my country’s government http://t.co/YzC154CDqP http://t.co/jmDGcv8N3r
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How Pi works. : interestingasfuck
How Pi works. via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/2PJC3KBVwD http://t.co/oSlZEdBcNN
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My cat’s helping me study for a quiz tomorrow. : cats
My cat’s helping me study for a quiz tomorrow. via /r/cats http://t.co/p7GFgrcrk5 http://t.co/LbqrGihkJW
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I study in this building : pics
I study in this building via /r/pics http://t.co/XGCiep23kt http://t.co/8oQu6lC5eQ
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Boscastle, England [5983×3980] (Alessio Putzu) : EarthPorn
Boscastle, England [5983×3980] (Alessio Putzu) via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/NPYcFAf0GJ http://t.co/IRJ436QO8M
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Kim Davis is in jail, Trolls! : TrollXChromosomes
Kim Davis is in jail, Trolls! via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/tgyxwfwS0e http://t.co/9qKBYvK80O
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: iriss blog
iriss blog http://t.co/m7ktQTJZuS http://t.co/yObC2FHurP
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Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) [2366×2011] : AnimalPorn
Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) [2366×2011] via /r/AnimalPorn http://t.co/Euny0f9y3E http://t.co/TBroUTYuOG
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underneath the water by Artur Dudka / 500px
underneath the water by ArturDudka http://t.co/l28stLHIlj http://t.co/uJlVcmwmxo
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Adblock IRL via /r/pics http://t.co/FkZDH6fyyM http://t.co/6owDfYVxKa
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A Man from Gilgit, Pakistan [2048×1363][OC] : HumanPorn
A Man from Gilgit, Pakistan [2048×1363][OC] via /r/HumanPorn http://t.co/VZfKLEdcKC http://t.co/D2AWRkVdgk
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HMB While I Crowdwalk : holdmybeer
HMB While I Crowdwalk via /r/holdmybeer http://t.co/EdAKpF0qfd http://t.co/qU82oqUpEN
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Smart girls http://t.co/xRzXa5lqIJ http://t.co/FhId2tCKpo
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SWIM & HIDE [OC] : perfectloops
SWIM & HIDE [OC] via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/Wx1c7v4s2W http://t.co/iIm2qDlIso
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The Man Who Coined ‘Form Follows Function’ Was Born Today | WIRED
Happy birthday, Louis Henry Sullivan. The father of the skyscraper, patriarch of modernism, coiner of everyone’s favorite design phrase, “form (ever) follows function,” was born on this day in 1856.
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Modern fireplace in a rustic, old world home [1108 x 1467] : RoomPorn
Modern fireplace in a rustic, old world home [1108 x 1467] via /r/RoomPorn http://t.co/KF6rjY1su4 http://t.co/hZhez59Pv7
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Can you Fight with me ? : cats
Can you Fight with me ? via /r/cats http://t.co/EI6LAp8PnT http://t.co/znJ88OIEe4
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Keeping the loaf warm. : Catloaf
Keeping the loaf warm. via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/Hkw9tJCVfo http://t.co/0hFiQsoGI3
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baby gorilla (2) by Toshihiro Shoji / 500px
baby gorilla (2) by Toshihiro_Shoji http://t.co/9Rg72mDzxO http://t.co/kK9Y3chzzR
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Leon Gorman, Longtime CEO Of Outdoor Outfitter L.L. Bean, Dies : NPR
The longtime head of outdoor outfitter L.L. Bean has died. Leon Gorman was president of the company for 34 years. The grandson of L.L. Bean himself, Gorman grew the company from a struggling mail order outfit that catered to sportsmen to a $1.6 bill…
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DOJ Report: Ferguson, Mo., Police Mishandled Aftermath Of Michael Brown’s Death : NPR
The Department of Justice report shows police overreacted and mishandled the aftermath of the shooting death of Michael Brown. Now policymakers and activists want to figure out how to prevent something similar from occurring in the future.
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Scientists Find Fern Whose Parents Are Separated By 60 Million Years Of Evolution : NPR
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Native American Goes Back To His Roots To Solve Garbage Problem On Reservations : NPR
The Navajo and Hopi tribes produce about 300 million pounds of waste a year. And there are few places to dump it, let alone recycle. The tribes do not have landfills — only overflowing waste transfer stations — so there are hundreds of illegal dump …
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Judge Rules NFL Was ‘Fundamentally Unfair’ To Tom Brady : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to lawyer Alan Milstein about deflategate. A federal judge threw out Tom Brady’s four-game suspension over his role in the scandal Thursday.
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Religion Takes Spotlight In Final Days Of Nashville Mayoral Race : NPR
Mayoral races often focus on issues such as traffic and development. And Nashville’s current contest has camped out on those themes.
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Bat Dog For Greensboro, N.C., Minor League Baseball Team Plays Last Game : NPR
Her name is Miss Babe Ruth and last night in North Carolina, she took to the field for the final time for the Greensboro Grasshoppers. The dog has been a fan favorite for years retrieving bats and taking balls to umpires at the minor league ballpark.
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Kentucky Clerk Held In Contempt Of Court For Refusing To Issue Marriage Licenses : NPR
Kim Davis was held in contempt and taken into custody Thursday after she defied a Supreme Court order to issue marriage licenses. She says same-sex marriage goes against her religious beliefs.
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Hungarian Police Attempt To Force Migrants Into Refugee Camp : NPR
Hungarian police attempted to force migrants into a refugee camp today when their train was stopped before it reached the Austrian border.
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Federal Judge Throws Out Tom Brady’s Suspension Over Deflategate : NPR
A federal judge nullified the four-game suspension by the NFL against Brady Thursday for his connection to deflated footballs used during the conference championship game last season.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Says Migrants Are Germany’s Problem : NPR
At tense meetings in Brussels Thursday, the Hungarian prime minister said refugees threaten Europe’s Christian identity. He also said the migrants should be Germany’s responsibility because most of them want to travel there.
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In A New Band Of Old Friends, Dan Auerbach Finds A Few Surprises : NPR
Listen to the debut album by The Arcs and you’ll hear the sound of a man who has been to the top of the pop-music mountain and enjoyed its view, and is now leaping off the edge with nothing to lose.
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This Teacher Wants To Excite Your Inner Scientist : NPR Ed : NPR
Imagine a space shuttle speeding toward earth at 17,500 miles per hour, the friction outside heating the vessel up to more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit as it enters the atmosphere. Those kind of temperatures normally melt metal. So what protects NA…
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California Considers Sweeping Proposals To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions : NPR
Some of the world’s most ambitious climate change legislation is currently under consideration in America. But the lawmakers in question aren’t in D.C. — they’re in Sacramento. California lawmakers are intensely debating far-reaching goals to curb g…
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PARIS — French prosecutors said on Thursday that further analysis of a piece of an airplane wing that washed up on a remote Indian Ocean island had allowed investigators here to deter
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Guy’s Floating Cardistry Performance Is A Work Of Black Magic – Digg
Never in life have we been so amused by so few cards.
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Top Ten Labor Day Songs | The Nation
In honor of the Labor Day holiday, I’ve revised a previous attempt at the impossible task of naming the best songs ever written about working people. The list is highly debatable; songs about working and working people cut across musical genres and …
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1 Self Portrait = 854 updoots : ledootgeneration
1 Self Portrait = 854 updoots via /r/ledootgeneration http://t.co/DYbhdigxmT http://t.co/M3Tg60JJHG
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Some Awkward Dogs in The Strange Moments : AnimalsBeingBros
Some Awkward Dogs in The Strange Moments via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/DUL3qn13eq http://t.co/5bm9DLjKFA
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Irish beauty by Inese Stoner / 500px
Irish beauty by IneseStoner http://t.co/nPwlUT4UzC http://t.co/ukZZhVVlRM
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No, Rand Paul. Jobs Will Not Fix The Heroin Epidemic. | ThinkProgress
In the last decade, deaths from heroin-related overdoses have quadrupled in the United States. Presidential candidates touring the country, visiting the hardest hit states, have started to address the issue, calling for policies and funding to comba…
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US clerk detained for denying gay marriages – Al Jazeera English
A county clerk in the US state of Kentucky who refuses to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples on religious grounds has been detained for contempt of court by a US federal judge.
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NEW YORK—Celebrating his legal victory as fresh steam swirled around his bare body, a naked, dripping wet Tom Brady was absolutely thrilled with the decision to overturn his four-game suspension, the imagination of federal judge Richard Berman confi…
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What Do The App Store, PlayStation 2 And The Roman Empire Have In Common? | TechCrunch
If you casually follow tech industry headlines, you might be convinced that the app store model is the bright future of software distribution. After all, Apple continues to break records with growth numbers.
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The Catholic Church Isn’t Going to Recognize Transgender People as Godparents | VICE News
The Catholic Church said that it is “impossible to allow” transgender people to be godparents, according to a Spanish bishop who was informed by the Vatican after he asked for specification on the issue.
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Everything You Need to Automatically Start Programs on Your Electronic Projects
Whether you’re working with the Raspberry Pi, an Arduino, or a Beaglebone, a lot of the time you’ll want to load up programs automatically on boot. There are a variety of ways to do so, but over on Adafruit, they guide you through the best practices…
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Black Mass director Scott Cooper might make a movie about wolves · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to The Wrap, Black Mass director Scott Cooper is currently in talks to direct American Wolf, a movie that—based on its name—will probably end up being major Oscar bait.
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Some joker made a portrait of Bill Cosby out of rapeseed · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Now that the internet has brought the world together into one big, meme-based family, everyone is aware of a pop-cultural event on the scale of the sad, ongoing saga of Bill Cosby and the many sexual-assault allegations that have been leveled agains…
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Donald Trump on Kanye West: ‘He loves Trump’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump announced his deep affection for rapper Kanye West who he says, in turn, loves him back. Trump made the comments during a press conference at Trump Towers in Manhattan, where he pledged his allegiance to the Republican party.
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BBC Sport – Greg Rutherford wins Diamond League long jump title
Greg Rutherford has won the IAAF Diamond League long jump trophy to add to his world title. The Briton, 28, beat America’s Marquis Dendy with a jump of 8.32m at the Letzigrund stadium in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Ethiopian kids are using Pearl Jam’s “Even Flow” to learn English · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Despite the fact that the band literally has a song about a kid who spoke in class today, it seems there’s a different Pearl Jam track being used in the classroom to help young people learn English.
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Gilmore Girls gets narrated through Onion headlines · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
If you’re anything like us, The Onion is constantly narrating your life with clever quippy headlines. (And not just because Onion Inc. is The A.V. Club’s parent company.
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Novelist Anthony Horowitz put his foot in it over the weekend when he noted that he thought the black British actor Idris Elba was “too street” to ever play James Bond.
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Heavy-metal demon fighting abounds in the Deathgasm trailer · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
The power of heavy metal meets the dark energy of demonic possession in the trailer for Deathgasm.
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How Not To Give Employees A Raise
Some days, I get an irresistible compulsion to tear out my hair. My latest outbreak was triggered by a New York Times opinion piece by Peter Georgescu, the former chairman of the giant PR outfit Young & Rubicam.
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We’ll Never Have a Tech Utopia | The New Republic
Ever since Marty McFly took to a hovering skateboard in Back to the Future II, we’ve taken the hoverboard for a symbol of not only the future, but where technological progress should take us. Recently, Lexus made waves after the company unveiled its…
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ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen’s 10-day ‘iriss’ mission starts in September. This blog will offer behind the scenes access to what is going on in space, at Columbus Control Centre ground control and the researchers working around Europe. In the me…
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Can the Evangelical Left Rise Again? | The New Republic
Last week, after President Jimmy Carter announced that he will undergo treatment for brain cancer, admirers traveled for miles to attend his Sunday school class in Plains, Georgia.
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Google’s Latest Chrome Update Emphasizes Speed And Lower Memory Usage | TechCrunch
Chrome started out as one of the least memory hungry browsers on the market, but over time, it developed a bit more of an appetite for RAM. Now, however, Google is starting to get back to the basics and the latest Chrome release (version 45) focuses…
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Acer’s Arduino-based Cloud Professor wants to get kids into the IoT | Ars Technica
BERLIN—How do you get a younger generation, one raised on a seemingly endless supply of smartphones, tablets, and PCs, into not just using such devices, but finding out how they work too? Small development boards like the Raspberry Pi have done wond…
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Gay marriage supporters chant ‘love wins’ outside a federal courthouse in Kentucky, after a judge ordered a defiant Kentucky clerk to jail after she refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
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The Princeton Review’ College Test-Prep Prices Are Higher for Asian Students – The Atlantic
Every year, thousands of high-school students get ready for the SAT by using The Princeton Review’s test-preparation services. But few, if any, realize that the prices for The Princeton Review’s online SAT tutoring packages vary substantially depend…
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Check Out the First Footage of the Probably Non-Vampiric Vampire Squirrel
Rheithrosciurus macrotis has multiple names. One name is the tufted ground squirrel and the other is the “vampire squirrel.” You can’t really blame people for liking the second name better. Take a look at the first video ever to capture the squirrel…
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Despite What Ignorant People Say, Terry Pratchett Is Destined For Enduring Fame
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer probably won’t be read 100 years from now, argues The Prestige author Christopher Priest. But Stephen King and J.K. Rowling have a decent shot at posterity. Also: Terry Pratchett, whose final Discworld book just came out,…
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Snowden: Other People Get Fired and Prosecuted For What Hillary Clinton Did | WIRED
The NSA was sloppy about guarding its classified secrets from Edward Snowden, but no one at the agency is in danger of being prosecuted for that security lapse. What Hillary Clinton did with her private email server, however, is criminal, says Snowd…
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Daniel Radcliffe Invents ‘Grand Theft Auto’ in ‘Gamechangers’ Trailer | Rolling Stone
Daniel Radcliffe and Bill Paxton will start in an unauthorized biopic of Sam Houser, the Rockstar Games co-founder who invented the massive video game franchise Grand Theft Auto. The Gamechangers will air on September 15th on BBC Two in the U.K.
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NetNewsWire, the Classic RSS Reader for Mac, Returns with Modern Features
Mac/iOS: Long ago, NetNewsWire was the default pick for RSS reader on the Mac. Then it disappeared for a while. Now, it’s back, with all the trimmings (and price) of a modern RSS reader. That includes a new iOS app. NetNewsWire works exactly as you’…
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25 Reasons to Love College Football in 2015 | Rolling Stone
Heading into this college football season, defending national champion Ohio State is the overwhelming favorite. But beyond that, there are few sure things, and there are players and programs that could shock and intrigue throughout the fall.
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SPARTANBURG, SC—Struggling to regain his composure and come to terms with what he had just witnessed, market researcher Nathan Pendersen emerged from a Denny’s focus group Thursday shaken after finding out what Americans really want to eat for break…
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Donald Trump and Partisan Loyalty Oaths – The Atlantic
Would he or wouldn’t he? In the end, Donald Trump signed the Republican National Committee’s pledge, but he did it his own way, in that inimitable, inch-high Sharpie scrawl, at once as angular and overstuffed as the man himself.
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Watch Arcade Fire, James Murphy Record ‘Afterlife’ in New Doc | Rolling Stone
Arcade Fire and James Murphy work on the intricacies of “Afterlife” in the latest preview of the band’s upcoming documentary, The Reflektor Tapes, which chronicles the making of their last album, Reflektor, and subsequent world tour.
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US man loses job offer after sending naked selfies to boss – BBC News
Police say the unnamed man sent two nude photographs between 11-13 August to the human resources manager before phoning her. The female manager for the unidentified St Charles company received the texts while at home and contacted police.
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Czech Republic Criticized After Officers Mark Migrants With Numbers http://t.co/XAPbrgX1AV
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The Rosette Nebula js – Just Space
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The tragedy of Cooper Union | Fusion
The best piece of in-depth investigative reporting you’re likely to read this week comes not from any journalist, but rather from the office of Eric Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general.
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Here’s why farm kids have fewer allergies and less asthma | The Verge
Kids who grow up on farms are far less likely to develop asthma or allergies compared with the average child — and now scientists think they know why. A study published in Science today shows that bacteria found in farm dust trigger an immune system…
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September 1st, 2015 marked a curious footnote in Harry Potter marginalia: according to the series’ elaborate timeline, rarely referenced in the books themselves, it was the day James S. Potter, Harry’s eldest son, started school at Hogwarts.
September 1st, 2015 marked a curious footnote in Harry Potter marginalia: According to the series’ elaborate timeline, rarely referenced in the books themselves, it was the day James S. Potter, Harry’s eldest son, started school at Hogwarts. -
In an attempt to draw attention to a state budget impasse and its effects on education funding, a group of Pennsylvania state Democratic legislators have come together in the spirit of dance. Not just any dance.
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Doctors Mount Opposition As Quebec Prepares For New Assisted Death Law | VICE News
As Quebec gears up to become the first Canadian province to legalize physician-assisted death, vocal opposition from medical practitioners — and a government that’s threatening them with sanctions — suggests the roll-out could be complicated.
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INNOVATE2016: The Next Generation Of Politicians Must Understand Innovation | TechCrunch
What’s the one certainty about the 2016 election? According to Averell “Ace” Smith, one of California’s major Democratic party operatives, it’s that the Democrats will win the election. Ha! But for all Smith’s partisan bias, he’s got a very interest…
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Zimbabwe minister Martin Dinha faces corruption charges – BBC News
A Zimbabwean minister is facing corruption charges over allegations he extorted a white farmer in order to protect him from eviction.Martin Dinha, the minister of state for Mashonaland Central province, allegedly received US$60,000 (£39,000) from to…
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Syrian refugee crisis: aid groups and senators call on US to take in 65,000 | US news | The Guardian
Aid groups and at least 14 senators have called on the US government to take in more than 65,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2016, far more than the approximately 1,500 Washington has admitted since the conflict began in 2011.
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The Man Who Listens to Animals – The New Yorker
Since 1968, Bernie Krause, a seventy-six-year-old musician, writer, and self-described “soundscape ecologist,” has visited every continent, often carrying cumbersome and heavy equipment. His mission: to record Earth’s remaining tracts of wilderness …
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Ad Blocking Is Coming to Your Phone, Will Soon Be Everywhere | Motherboard
Online ads are fast becoming an endangered species, and as ad-blocking technology becomes more popular, it is finally reaching one of advertising’s final frontiers: mobile browsers. Adblock Plus (one of the most popular ad-blocking plugins) is debut…
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Booker, Warner, Heitkamp support Iran pact. 99 House members on board. Foes plan counter-attack
Mr. Booker made clear in his long analysis of the agreement that he found many of its provisions problematic and that he would seek to keep pressure on Iran. On Wednesday, Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland became the 34th senator to favor the agreem…
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Ten or so years ago, you said that food in this country was like what sex was in the ’70s: our last decadent act. Are we out of the ’70s yet? I think we’ve moved into the ’80s. The decadence is being replaced by a potentially appropriate austerity.
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Dropping science. : TrollXChromosomes
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Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton Aide, Testifies Before House Panel http://t.co/apuaP7mMqW
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How to Tell If Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You : cats
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Lovely bros. : AnimalsBeingBros
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What Would You Ask Your Ex? – Digg
Ali and Andrew dated for seven years. Now, two years later, they sit across the table from each other and ask some heavy questions. Their conversation is part of an interactive documentary series called “The And.
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Will Self-Driving Golf Carts Steer Way for Autonomous Cars?
As Google expands testing of its autonomous cars, self-driving golf carts have been zipping around college campuses and public gardens. The carts are slower, but they might just win the race to put driverless vehicles on the road.
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[This is NSFW.] Artist Hilde Krohn Huse needed a minute or two of film of herself hanging naked upside down from a tree branch for a project she was working on. But when the rope tightened around her ankle too much, things went a little wrong.
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When Single Male Rodents Settle Down, They’re Changed Forever
Sex can change a lot about a relationship. For male prairie voles, it can even change their brains. Prairie voles, small, furry rodents native to North America, are one of the few mammals that form (mostly) monogamous partnerships.
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Nuclear Weapons Complex That Couldn’t Keep Out 82-Year-Old Nun Is Still Unsafe | Mother Jones
But the high-tech system installed at a cost of roughly $50 million over the past decade at the Department of Energy’s Y-12 complex is still riddled with flaws that impede its operation, according to a newly released report by the department’s top a…
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Why The Fight For Dyett High School Is A Fight For Democracy
Jitu Brown is a mountain of a man, tall and broad shouldered – the kind of person whose presence you notice when he walks into a room and whose deep, resonate voice commands your attention.
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Dealmaster: Buy Fallout 4, get a $25 gift card | Ars Technica
Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, the Dealmaster is back with a big list of deals for your consideration. Today’s top item is Fallout 4 on PS4, Xbox One or PC plus a $25 dell gift card for $59.99.
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Airlifting Pregnant Caribou Away From Wolves
On a clear sunny day in March, in a snow-covered area of the South Peace River region of British Columbia, a female caribou is on the ground, struggling to get back on its feet.
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Matt Damon – Making ‘The Martian’ Was Amazing | Exclusive Interview
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Help! My Partner Is Addicted to Collecting Toys and It’s Freaking Me Out
Hey, folks! Sorry to dispense with my normal nonsense, but I got a really important letter that I‘m very excited to share. I don’t get a ton of letters dealing with real issues, but I’m always happy to try to help.
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Midday open thread: Living on $2 day; Moonshot for Russia; crusade against Michelle Obama fails
The moon and Roscosmos have a complicated past. During the Apollo-era space race, the former Soviet Union landed robotic rovers on the moon — but a series of rocket failures and explosions halted progress on any human-carrying missions.
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BBC Sport – US Open: GB’s Jo Konta beats Garbine Muguruza in epic match
Britain’s Jo Konta stunned ninth seed and Wimbledon finalist Garbine Muguruza in an epic contest at the US Open. Konta, ranked 97th, won 7-6 (7-4) 6-7 (4-7) 6-2 after three hours and 23 minutes – a record for a women’s match in New York.
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BBC Sport – Lewis Hamilton opposed to Mercedes supplying Red Bull
Lewis Hamilton has expressed his opposition to the idea of his Mercedes team supplying Red Bull with engines in the future. Red Bull are pushing to use Mercedes engines having lost confidence in their current supplier Renault.
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A storm rolls in over the Grand Tetons. (cellphone pano) [OC][4569×1920] : EarthPorn
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White Tail Doe spotted outside Portland, Oregon [OC](2000×1333) : AnimalPorn
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America Should Not Help Europe With the Migrant Crisis | The New Republic
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As dramatic scenes unfold across Europe in the worsening migrant crisis, Americans are wondering why the U.S. is not intervening to help deal with the thousands of refugees pouring into the European Union. Europe’s Halting Response to Migrant Crisis… -
I don’t even like coffee : firstworldanarchists
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The Wave : surfer inside by Jon Davatz / 500px
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Under Arrest by giovanni zacche’ / 500px
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Keith David lands the lead in OWN show · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Deadline reports that Keith David (Enlisted, Community, and tons of other things you probably like) has nabbed the lead in Greenleaf, a new scripted series for OWN. David will play Bishop James Greenleaf, the patriarch of an illustrious family and t…
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Donald Trump pledges allegiance to Republican party – video | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump announces he will not run as an independent if he fails to win the Republican nomination, as a coordinated party effort appears to have staved off an eventual third-party run by the real-estate mogul.
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Clean, Repair, or Customize Your Game Controllers with a Little Disassembly
Nothing destroys a killing spree like spilling your Diet Mountain Dew all over your controller and making it all sticky. Or, maybe you’ve just used it too much and worn out the buttons and thumbsticks. Whatever the case, many gamepads are very user-…
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More Former Gitmo Detainees Are Suspected of Fighting Again — And More Are Killed | VICE News
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on Thursday released its latest report on so-called Guantanamo recidivists — detainees who are confirmed of re-engaging in terrorist activity after being released from the detention facility.
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There is a place [where] fictional characters meet. Outside of time, outside of all logic, this place is known as Hell’s Club. So reads the opening titles to Antonio Maria Da Silva’s Hell’s Club, a kinetic mashup of many movies and characters all co…
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Jason Momoa to star in a home invasion thriller, but with lumberjacks · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Jason Momoa’s various maritime duties may have prevented him from being a part of The Magnificent Seven, but it looks like he can still find time to do very manly things elsewhere—specifically, the Pacific Northwest.
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‘Shy’ king cobra on the loose leads Orlando school to lock children inside | US news | The Guardian
Children at a Florida school were locked indoors on Thursday as wildlife officials scoured the grounds for a venomous 8ft-long king cobra that broke free from a cage and slithered away from its owner’s home.
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Sony settles in hack attack class-action lawsuit · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The infiltration and hack of Sony’s servers last year ignited a firestorm over inappropriate studio executive comments, dumb ideas for movies, and almost spared us from having to see The Interview.
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It’s been three months since Janet Jackson let it slip that she putting together her first new album since 2008’s Discipline. But until this point, further details about the project have been hard to come by.
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P-phubbing Is Ruining Your Relationships
Have you ever p-phubbed? You know, snubbed your partner by checking your phone during your date? Or leaving your iPhone out within reach while you’re on the sofa snogging? Now two researchers say there’s strong evidence that your p-phubbing is wreck…
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The World’s Largest Arcade Machine Is Over 14 Feet Tall | Motherboard
Jason Camberis says he was tired of seeing “all bad news” on the television, and wanted to bring some joy into the world. So he built a massive arcade machine, the proportions of which are meant to make you feel like a little kid again, barely able …
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Dissident Architects Can Leak Building Plans on This Dark Web Site | Motherboard
Every new high rise tells a tale of winners and losers. In today’s cities, the winners are often investors who have the cash to finance a condo in a rundown area, and the losers are the people whose rents skyrocket well past the point of affordabili…
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iPhone Resale Values Peak in Week Before Apple Event | Motherboard
Apple is supposedly (maybe?) announcing its next generation iPhone at its upcoming press event on September 9. That means, if you want to get the most cash possible for your old phone, you should sell it this week, according to figures from several …
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An Autonomous Starfish Terminator Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef | Motherboard
Crown-of-thorn starfish (Acanthaster planci) are known to chomp their way through coral reefs, and have been pegged as the culprits behind a 50 percent decline in coral coverage on the Great Barrier Reef.
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Chaco Canyon, NM [OC] [1836×2448] : EarthPorn
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Linda by Stepan Kvardakov / 500px
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H&M offers over a million bucks for your recycling ideas | Grist
As I was buying a pair of pants at H&M not long ago, the cashier ringing me up said, “Oh, I love these. I had a pair last almost three months.” “They’re $10,” the cashier responded, and she had a point.
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An Interview With the Legend Behind the “Why You Always Lyin’” Video | Complex
Nicholas Fraser is a 21-year-old college student living in Queens, N.Y. and earlier this month, he created a Vine that could, potentially, be the Song of the Summer. In the ode to liars, Fraser—who is on Vine and Instagram under the username @downgo…
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Ant drinking water : interestingasfuck
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Johanna Konta defeats Garbiñe Muguruza to reach US Open third round | Sport | The Guardian
Britain’s Johanna Konta pulled off the biggest win of her career as she knocked out ninth seed Garbiñe Muguruza to reach the third round of the US Open.
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Deflategate ruling shows Roger Goodell he must be above the news cycle | Sport | The Guardian
Roger Goodell is not a commissioner drunk with power as he is often portrayed. His draconian punishments are not personal. In private he has shown great empathy for some of the men he has disciplined harshly. But he has one great flaw in how he has …
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Scorpions’ ‘Wind of Change’: The Oral History of the Epic Power Ballad | Rolling Stone
In the 1980s and very early Nineties, every hard-rock and metal act worth their leathers scored big with a power ballad or two.
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Canada Denies Report Its Warplanes May Have Killed Up to 27 Civilians in Iraq | VICE News
According to a media report from Canada’s national broadcast corporation, Canadian bombs killed anywhere from 6 to 27 Iraqi civilians — a revelation that, if true, would be the first known incident of air munitions from that country to kill innocent…
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Four More Games Of Tom Brady Is Worth Half A Win For The Patriots | FiveThirtyEight
Somebody ought to teach Roger Goodell how to suspend a guy properly. On Thursday, Judge Richard Berman overturned Teflon Tom Brady’s four-game suspension in connection with the Deflategate scandal.
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Apple Continuing To Strengthen Its Smartphone Market Share In The U.S. | TechCrunch
More and more Americans are buying into the Apple smartphone ecosystem, largely at the expense of Samsung. A further breakdown shows Apple taking its bite largely out of Samsung’s piece of the pie. Samsung trails behind Apple with 27.
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On some desolate planet, two mining robots encounter each other.
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Keith Richards doesn’t care much for that hippity-hop nonsense · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Noted Sgt. Pepper’s hater Keith Richards is at it again. In an interview with, weirdly enough, Rolling Stone, the Rolling Stone said he’s always “thought [Metallica and Black Sabbath] were great jokes,” and that rap sucks because it’s “so many words…
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BUDAPEST — Desperate migrants poured into the Keleti train station in Budapest on Thursday morning but were prevented from traveling to Germany as Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, said that the migration crisis was a “Ger
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Curated videos of the internet, delivered daily! : InternetIsBeautiful
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A pipe and a door in Beijing [OC] [12127 x 4884] : CityPorn
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Procedural Minerals [1920×1080][OC] : woahdude
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Even glass mason jars can pick up odors over time. Fortunately, you already have what you need to de-stink them right in your kitchen. Instructables user peekaboo shows us that all it takes to de-stink a mason jar is a healthy pinch of salt and a li…
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California’s Justice System Numbers Show a Big Problem When It Comes to Race | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching policing in America. Check out the Officer Involved blog here.
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Conservative Heads Explode Over Kentucky’s Bigoted County Clerk | Rolling Stone
Kim Davis, a clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, has been dominating the news cycle all week with her stalwart refusal to do her job.
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Los Angeles County to Create ‘Electronic Music Task Force’ | Rolling Stone
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion Tuesday to reinstate a task force that would explore ways to make electronic music festivals safer.
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BB-8 and Puppies is the Cutest Thing You’ll See This Week
Images, videos, and reviews of the Sphero BB-8 from Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit the Internet today, and they’ve got fans in a frenzy. Some are even salivating over this high-end $150 toy. Some … like this adorable group of puppies.
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Black Sabbath Announce Final Tour ‘The End’ | Rolling Stone
Black Sabbath have announced “The End,” their farewell tour set to kick off in January. The group is promising concerts that “surpass all previous tours with their most mesmerizing production ever.
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BREAKING: South Carolina Seeking Death Penalty For Charleston Killer | ThinkProgress
On Thursday, South Carolina prosecutors confirmed that they will push for the death penalty for Dylann Roof, the young man who shot and killed nine African-Americans at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston last June.
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Defra confirms badger culls ‘now under way’ in pilot areas – BBC News
Badger culls in Dorset, Somerset and Gloucestershire have got under way, the government has confirmed. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has not said exactly when the culls began in the three counties.
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I Found a Female Serial Killer in My Family Tree | Atlas Obscura
Thanks to online resources like Ancestry.com, tracing your family tree has never been easier. Which means it has never been easier to discover skeletons hidden in the family closet—obscure distant relatives; long-held secrets. A mass murderer.
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A majority of millennials don’t think they are millennials – The Washington Post
One of the first big media explorations of the term “millennial” came from the pages of Advertising Age magazine.
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Kentucky Clerk Who Refused to Perform Gay Marriages Has Been Found Guilty of Contempt | VICE News
Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples, was found guilty of contempt by a US federal judge on Thursday and was taken into custody.
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Donald Trump Won’t Run a Third-Party Campaign: ‘I Have Signed the Pledge’ – ABC News
Donald Trump is all in. The Republican presidential frontrunner said he will commit to supporting the eventual Republican nominee, ruling out a third-party bid for the Oval Office that would likely draw general election voters away from the Republic…
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Machine Automation Is Replacing Human Workers – The Atlantic
Pretty much from the moment machines could handle any sort of repetitive task, humans have worried about their own impending uselessness.
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Migrants refuse to leave train near Hungary camp – BBC News
Scuffles have broken out west of the Hungarian capital, Budapest, after police tried to force migrants off a train at a refugee camp. Amid chaotic scenes, police ordered journalists from the scene at Bicske, declaring it an “operation zone”.
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Donald Trump ‘not to run as independent’ in US election – BBC News
US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has agreed not to run as an independent candidate if he loses the Republican nomination for the 2016 elections. He had earlier refused to rule it out.
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Maybe Trump Should Just Borrow Obama’s Campaign Logo | WIRED
Donald Trump’s official campaign logo—a banner reading “Make America Great Again!”—isn’t as typographically offensive as, say, Jeb’s logo. But it is pretty generic and, as far as logomarks go, not that adaptable.
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Twitter Is Using Machine Learning to Improve Its Machine Learning | Motherboard
One the of challenges with machine learning, according to Whetlab CEO Ryan Adams, is that “it often feels like there’s a lot of black magic involved”—lots of levers and slider and buttons and knobs that take an army of PhDs to configure.
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Why You Can’t Buy Ashley Madison Credit Card Data on the Dark Web | Motherboard
After the Ashley Madison hack, the CEO of the site’s parent company resigned, and criminals started extortion campaigns against users of the site.
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Let the Free Market Solve the College Sports Problem | The New Republic
Theodore Ross’s “Cracking the Cartel: Don’t Pay NCAA Football and Basketball Players” is a seemingly deep dive into the economics and policy of college sports. After diagnosing many of the perceived ills of college sports, Ross presents his solution…
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The character we know as “Woody Allen,” the persona we see in his films, the stammering neurotic weighed down by existential angst and a desperate horniness laced with intellectuality, was created not in his movies, but in his stand-up, recordings o…
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In a major setback for the N.F.L.
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ASHLAND, Ky. — A federal judge here on Thursday ordered a defiant county clerk jailed for contempt of court because of her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite a United States Supreme Court ruling.
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George Osborne accused of ‘disastrous’ assault on green agenda | Environment | The Guardian
Ed Davey, the former energy and climate change secretary, has accused George Osborne of putting tens of billions of pounds’ worth of private sector investment at risk with an assault on the green agenda he pioneered.
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When you’re too busy slaying cisgender white males : trippinthroughtime
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Kim Davis Jailed for Contempt in Kentucky Gay Marriage Dispute http://t.co/1TXC0SXeyj
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Butterfly by Fabrice Kurz / 500px
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Rankin shot Chapman in the head and chest outside a Walmart superstore on the morning of 22 April. The pair had engaged in a physical struggle after Rankin tried to arrest the 18-year-old on suspicion of shoplifting, according to police.
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This Is Why Cursive Is Dying Out
Why does this keep happening? This little drawing is by artist Jim Benton. You can find more of his work on GoComics and in his book.
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Eric the bird is a “fucking legend” and the dog is a “fucking cunt,” so he says – Boing Boing
Eric the Bird calls the dog he lives with a ” fucking cunt.” This Corella is indeed a “fucking legend,” as he declares himself in the video below.
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HBO’s developing a dark comedy about smuggling and sailing · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Looks like HBO is tired of Game Of Thrones being its only (current) scripted show with smugglers running around on boats. (Unless Ballers has taken a particularly dark turn we’re unaware of.
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Spotify announces its Song Of The Summer · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The summer is almost over, and if you’ve spent the season debating 2015’s Song Of The Summer with your friends, fear not: Spotify is here to settle the matter definitively.
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In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: With Labor Day on the horizon, we’re once again talking about our favorite “baby” songs.
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise features a cast of playable sociopaths set loose in an urban jungle overflowing with graphic violence, misogyny, racism, and a complete disregard for the most basic requirements of social cohesion.
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Venice awarded one of Robert Altman’s best movies · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: The Venice Film Festival begins, so we’re recommending some of the best winners of the fest’s highest honor, the Golden Lion.
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Most Millennials Reject the Term ‘Millennial’ – The Atlantic
Millennials just have to be unconventional and rebellious about everything, don’t they? And one thing they really will not accept, apparently, is the term “Millennial” itself.
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Snoop Dogg Weighs In On Brady’s Pardon – The Daily Beast
When the judge lifted New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game suspension today, the New England residents breathed a sigh of self-righteous relief. But one underlying nuance of this is that suddenly NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s ac…
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Mobile App Letgo Raises $100 Million From Naspers To Take Over Classifieds In The U.S. | TechCrunch
Can a mobile classified app topple the behemoth that is Craigslist? An company called letgo aims to find out. Its app, which lets users buy and sell items locally, has quietly grown to over 2 million downloads since its launch earlier this year.
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Mutant Plants Suck Toxic TNT (Yes, That TNT) Out of Soil | WIRED
You love explosions, I love explosions, everybody likes explosions. Well…explosions where nobody gets hurt and nothing important gets blown up. Take some mortars into a field, drop a couple bombs on an empty prairie, play target practice with a barr…
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Laser Breakthrough Could Speed the Rise of Self-Driving Cars | WIRED
The eyes of a self-driving car are called LIDAR sensors. LIDAR is a portmanteau of “light” and “radar.” In essence, these sensors monitor their surroundings by shining a light on an object and measuring the time needed for it to bounce back.
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Uber Lawsuit May Signal Big Changes in the ‘Gig Economy’ | VICE News
As Uber faces the prospect of a class-action lawsuit that could force the company to classify its drivers as full-time employees instead of independent contractors, the growing “gig economy” — in which people work for themselves and take individual …
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Audio Visuals: When a Dance-Off Turns Into a Fist Fight | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. This week in music videos was a time of wonderful excess.
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The Age of 4K Blu-ray Players Is Upon Us | WIRED
The achingly gradual transition to 4K just got a slight speed boost: Samsung has introduced the world’s first—but certainly not last—4K Blu-ray player. Now all we need is something to put in it.
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New Hinkley Point nuclear power station may be further delayed | Business | The Guardian
The planned new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset has been hit by another setback, with its developer EDF admitting the project may be further delayed.
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Activists plan oil protest at British Museum | Culture | The Guardian
Campaigners against oil firms sponsoring UK arts groups are to stage an all-day protest festival at the British Museum in what they claim will be their most ambitious intervention to date.
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Increase Cable Durability with DIY Nylon Wrapping
Charging cables break often enough, it seems they should just go ahead and make them a subscription service. But with a bit of mild DIY, you can boost the durability of your cables with a nylon wrap and give them a distinctive look at the same time.
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Key And Peele spoofs Neil deGrasse Tyson and “Cosmos” : television
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My Back Yard this Morning : FoggyPics
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/gNCsiCtweo http://t.co/IzyKYDZ6Qg
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Everything but the kitchen sink : funny
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Baddest girl in town II by Alessandro Di Cicco / 500px
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Number of detainees ‘re-engaging’ in terrorism after Guantánamo is down | US news | The Guardian
The rate of violence perpetrated by men formerly held at Guantánamo Bay under Barack Obama has dropped slightly, according to a new US intelligence summary, even as the rate of so-called recidivism from those released under George W Bush remained st…
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Federal Judge Admits Having Brady on Fantasy Team – The New Yorker
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Minutes after overturning Tom Brady’s four-game suspension for the 2015-16 N.F.L. season, federal judge Richard M. Berman raised eyebrows by admitting that he had the Patriots quarterback on his fantasy team.
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Tom Brady Wins the Long Game – The New Yorker
On Thursday, Judge Richard M. Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a ruling vacating the N.F.L.’s four-game suspension of the New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. The N.F.L.
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Anne Hathaway says she’s losing roles to 24-year-olds · Newswire · The A.V. Club
At the start of 2015, Meryl Streep and Jessica Chastain both spoke out against the ageism and sexism in Hollywood that makes it difficult for older women to land parts.
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Hungary Forces Migrants Off Train Near Detention Center | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here.
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Imagine being the architect who oversaw the design and construction of the Death Star. First, you’d experience the pain of watching some moisture-farming rube from Tatooine take a three-pointer from the outside and blow up your magnum opus.
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Netflix renews Narcos for a second season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix has just said yes to another season of Narcos. The Narcos team figured the streaming giant might want another bump and began stocking up on writers as far back as April.
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WASHINGTON—Saying they simply needed something to direct their anger toward, the nation’s frenzied Donald Trump supporters admitted Thursday that, if circumstances were different, they would be just as happy tearing the Republican frontrunner to pie…
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An important message from The Octopus: Listen to Ministry. http://www.octopusisreal.com
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Tour the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Kelp Forest in Glorious 360° | Motherboard
BBC program Big Blue Live has filmed the kelp forest in the Monterey Bay Aquarium in 360°, so you can explore in all directions while the cameraman swims through the aquarium’s habitat, using the compass in the upper left corner of the video.
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Finer Wine Through Space-Flight – ISS Experiment Yields Underground Spin-Off | NASA Video
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After outcry, “edutainment” game removes slave-Tetris mode | Ars Technica
In recent years, online video game store Steam has exploded with more games thanks to looser release rules.
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Underwater robot seeks out starfish and kills them with poison injection – Boing Boing
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Is Donald Trump Setting Up the GOP for his Biggest Prank Yet? | Mother Jones
Putting to rest GOP concerns about a possible independent run by reality television tycoon Donald Trump, Republican party insiders say that the frontrunner in their presidential contest has agreed to sign a loyalty pledge, promising to back the part…
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Here’s how India can increase the chances of a successful climate deal in Paris | Grist
You can do a lot in 100 days. Fitness programs promise that you can go from couch potato to distance runner. Intrepid journalist Nellie Bly traveled around the world with four weeks to spare, more than a decade before the first airplane flight. Pres…
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Ice-cream vending machine : gifs
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Hiking up Mt. Washburn in Yellowstone National Park [OC] [2362×3150] : EarthPorn
Hiking up Mt. Washburn in Yellowstone National Park [OC] [2362×3150] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/LvI8ITMpZy http://t.co/qpOwUuL0Q0
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Daniela by Silviu Sandulescu / 500px
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Why “Invest in What You Know” Doesn’t Always Work
There’s an old financial adage that you should invest in what you know. It seems like decent enough advice, but there are a couple of reasons it can backfire. Plenty of investors have said this, but the quote is usually attributed to Fidelity’s Pete…
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eBay seller who sued over negative feedback dinged $19k in legal fees | Ars Technica
When Med Express sued Amy Nicholls for giving negative feedback on eBay, she didn’t back down and remove the feedback. Instead, she lawyered up, acquiring pro bono counsel with help from Paul Levy at Public Citizen, who’s been called “the Web Bully’…
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Dutch serviceman ‘may have joined Islamic State in Syria’ – BBC News
The Netherlands defence ministry identified the man as a 26-year-old air force sergeant. It said he had been suspended from service and his access to military intelligence revoked. Authorities are investigating radicalisation in the Dutch military.
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Opening ceremony for Nato command units in Eastern Europe – BBC News
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has inaugurated one of the alliance’s new command units opening in Eastern Europe amid tensions with Russia. The Nato force integration unit in Lithuania is one of six new centres also located in Bulgaria, Est…
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Watch Slayer and Danny Trejo Film Gory Video at L.A. Prison | Rolling Stone
Slayer has been part of scenes like this before: thrashing guitars at high noon, facing a crowd of shaved heads and tattooed limbs as fans push violently forward, as security struggles (and fails) to shove them back.
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Alice Cooper and Joe Perry on Hollywood Vampires’ Drunk History | Rolling Stone
Alice Cooper and Joe Perry have every right to be jaded. Each has sold millions of records and chalked up hits over several decades. But their eyes still light up when they talk about the recent adventure they shared, recording with one of their chi…
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Tom Brady Is Free, and Roger Goodell Is Screwed | Rolling Stone
Our long national nightmare is over – at least until the NFL’s appeal is heard. On Thursday, U.S.
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How Coheed and Cambria Broke Concept-Album Streak on New LP | Rolling Stone
“At the time I was writing the record, I didn’t realize that I was writing an album,” Claudio Sanchez says of the process that led, slowly and uncertainly, to The Color Before the Sun, the new album by prog-pop-metal quartet Coheed and Cambria, out …
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Attach your phone to a tripod with this simply and sturdy adapter – Boing Boing
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Kentucky court clark jailed until agreeing to do her job or quit it – Boing Boing
A court has issued a harsh (if eminently Republican) response to the problem posed by Kim Davis, the court clerk who refuses to do her legal duty—issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples—but also refuses to quit the position so that someone else …
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‘Star Wars’ Celebration Takes Over Toys ‘R’ Us in NYC’s Times Square
NEW YORK – A few hours ago, at a toy store not so far away, Space.com sent one of its reporters to eat Wookie cookies, attend “Light Saber Academy,” and meet the owner of the world’s largest “Star Wars” memorabilia collection, in a daylong countdown…
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Activists plan oil protest at British Museum | Extra | theguardian.com
Campaigners against oil firms sponsoring UK arts groups are to stage an all-day protest festival at the British Museum in what they claim will be their most ambitious intervention to date.
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What Happened When I Set Out To Celebrate Science Fiction From Around the World
It’s hard to put my finger on the exact moment the idea for the Apex Book of World SF series first crystallised, but the seeds for it were sown long before.
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Garmin’s New Dash Cam Can Help You Avoid Crashes | WIRED
Your neighbor just got a new car and it’s stuffed with fancy gizmos like cameras that whoop alarms and flash lights if he’s about to hit something and a smartphone app that tells him when it’s time for an oil change. Too bad your old clunker doesn’t…
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Though she “admires” multilingual people, English should be the official language of the United States, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said Thursday on CNN’s State of the Union. Fiorina went on to comment that the U.S.
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Three deputies arrested on suspicion of murder in jail inmate’s death | US news | The Guardian
Three California correctional deputies were arrested on suspicion of murder in the death of an inmate at a county jail, sheriff’s officials said on Thursday. Santa Clara County sheriff’s spokesman Sgt James Jensen said the deputies were in custody.
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Prosecutor Will Seek Death Penalty For Charleston Church Shooter
Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson announced Thursday that prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Dylann Roof — the 21-year-old accused of murdering nine black parishioners in a historic Charleston church in June.
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Local Services Marketplace Thumbtack Acqui-Hires HeartThis In Its First M&A Move | TechCrunch
A year after Thumbtack raised $100 million to expand its marketplace for home services and other professional freelance jobs, the startup is making its first acquisition to beef up its engineering and product teams.
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Should You Measure Your Running in Minutes or Miles?
Should you head out the door for a 30-minute run or a 3-miler? If you train for a marathon, are you working up to a 26-mile run or to a certain number of hours? You can plan your workouts by time or distance, but each has its advantages. Here’s how …
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Earlier this year, writer Kieron Gillen announced that he would be stepping away from his Marvel superhero work to commit himself to his creator-owned titles, and he’s using his Secret Wars tie-in miniseries Siege as his swan song to the characters …
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Migrants crisis: Hungary’s Orban lays bare EU East-West split – BBC News
There is sympathy in Brussels for the dilemma facing Hungary as the latest flashpoint in Europe’s migration crisis. But there are precious few admirers of either the rhetoric or the solutions put forward by Hungary’s controversial Prime Minister, Vi…
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Stadiums Ruin Neighborhoods | The Nation
Walking down Georgia Avenue, Ethel Floyd smells donuts.
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No, Protests Against Police Brutality Are Not Increasing Crime | The Nation
Much has been made in recent months of a series of isolated crime increases in a handful of US cities. Breathless accounts of a new crime wavehave appeared in both liberal and conservative media.
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Florence, Italy, at dusk [1300×761] @Daniel Kordan Korzhonov : CityPorn
Florence, Italy, at dusk [1300×761] @Daniel Kordan Korzhonov via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/Og6018W5x6 http://t.co/AqntpTN2Mu
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MRW I hear robots are going to be taking our jobs soon : shittyreactiongifs
MRW I hear robots are going to be taking our jobs soon via /r/shittyreactiongifs http://t.co/2w0SXl0YKO http://t.co/rhiBgJt1cS
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Banned Cluster Bombs Were Used in Five Countries, Report Says http://t.co/gvsLXYyoS6
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For His Unconventional Campaign, Donald Trump Looks to an Unorthodox Manager http://t.co/Fr4Mv9pYGa
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Old House by Miguel Diaz Ojeda / 500px
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The Dirt-Cheap Economics of Virus-Filled Advertising | Motherboard
Is that ad you see on your favorite website a real ad, or a booby-trapped ad placed there by cybercriminals to infect you with a virus?
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In Guatemala today, President Otto Pérez Molina has resigned to face charges that he led a massive customs fraud racket. The ex-President is prohibited from leaving the country, Attorney General Thelma Aldana told reporters.
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How Colombia Built a Massive Surveillance ‘Shadow State’ | VICE News
International surveillance companies are helping Colombia build a hulking spying apparatus that circumvents the country’s own privacy laws, according to a watchdog group.
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That Chunk of Plane Debris Is Now Officially From MH370 | WIRED
The French Ministry of Justice has now officially, absolutely, definitely, postively confirmed that the piece of plane debris that washed up on the island of Réunion in late July belonged to MH370, the jetliner that disappeared in March 2014 with 23…
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Google Search Will Now Surface Info On More Health Conditions | TechCrunch
Google says one in 20 searches on Google Search are for health-related information and since February of this year, it’s been using its Knowledge Graph to quickly bring up medical facts when it spots a query about common health conditions.
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Kentucky clerk Kim Davis held in contempt for refusing to issue marriage licenses, going to jail
Davis, who claims that she is acting “under God’s authority,” refuses to issue marriage licenses due to her opposition to marriage equality.
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Kentucky clerk jailed for defying court orders on gay marriage – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Huckabee Compares Kim Davis To Abraham Lincoln | ThinkProgress
President Abraham Lincoln has something in common with Kim Davis, according to Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee: They both nobly ignored the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The truth about bathroom sensors (and why they fail so often) – Vox
This is your bathroom life at pretty much any public place: at the toilet, urinal, faucet, soap dispenser, and air dryer, waving your hands, praying it will work. Sometimes it does. Sometimes you’re left supplicating yourself to a motion sensor you …
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Donald Trump will reportedly sign pledge not to run as independent | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump reportedly will sign a pledge vowing to support the Republican nominee for the White House in the general election, as a coordinated party effort appears to have staved off an eventual independent run by the real-estate mogul.
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Watch This Robot Hunt And Kill Destructive Starfish | TechCrunch
Dear friends: there is now a robot that can kill starfish underwater by hunting them down and injecting them with poison. The starfish in question is the Crown of Throns Sea Star, a destructive seadweller that has been hurting coral reefs for a whil…
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American Pharoah to hold off retirement for Breeders Cup | Sport | The Guardian
Triple Crown winner American Pharaoh will get another chance to race before being retired, with the goal the $5m Breeders’ Cup Classic next month.
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Alex Gibney’s ‘The Man in the Machine’: Is it Time to Rethink Steve Jobs? – The Atlantic
An iPhone is a machine much like any other: motherboard, modem, microphone, microchip, battery, wires of gold and silver and copper twisting and snaking, the whole collection assembled under a piece of glass whose surface—coated with an oxide of ind…
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Old Sierra adventure games transformed into lovely glitch screens – Offworld
If you played the early Sierra adventure games back in the 1980s, chances are you that you spent a lot of time wandering back and forth between its simple, bitmap screens, trying to gather and deploy odd bits of treasure.
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Amazon candidly orders Sneaky Pete to series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
A few months ago, it seemed as though Bryan Cranston’s failed CBS pilot might float away into the ether. Then, Amazon jumped into negotiations with Sony Pictures TV to give the project new life, promptly releasing a trailer and the entire episode on…
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In this clip from Review, Forrest gets caught in a lie · Sponsored Post · The A.V. Club
Forrest must enlist the help of the “handsome man” whose picture he stole to keep his catfish alive. Watch a new episode of Review every Thursday (TONIGHT!) at 10/9c on Comedy Central or anytime on the Comedy Central app.
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Straight-Up Passing — Jarry Mag — Medium
I cooked, for more than a decade and a half, in restaurants. In 2002 I left the kitchen to chase a food-writing career, and at the end of 2008, got my first gig with teeth, as the first full-time editor of SF Weekly’s awkwardly titled restaurant blo…
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News | NASA’s TES Satellite Instrument Gives New Insight into Water Cycle
› Plants appear to be using less water than previously estimated. This could mean that there’s not as much plant growth worldwide as we thought, or that plants use water more efficiently than we thought.
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How Baltimore Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby Became My Hero | The New Republic
In May, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby burst onto the national scene when she held a televised press conference to announce her team’s decision about whether or not to indict the six officers involved in the arrest and eventual death …
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Finally got my women’s studies textbook : funny
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Walking Into The field of fog after the rain : FoggyPics
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Places where bodies of water meet : pics
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Tennessee judge denies straight couple divorce, citing gay marriage ruling | US news | The Guardian
Hamilton County chancellor Jeffrey Atherton denied the couple’s divorce petition last week, claiming the national marriage equality ruling had marred Tennessee’s ability to determine what constitutes divorce.
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Bryan brothers bow in opener to suffer first year without major since 2004 | Sport | The Guardian
Bob and Mike Bryan will go a year without winning a grand slam title for the first time in more than a decade. The top-seeded twins were upset by fellow Americans Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-3 in the first round of men’s doubles at…
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There Are No Gays On The History Channel – The Daily Beast
Logo and Bravo are no longer the only networks to attract a large LGBT audience.
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Hands-On: Samsung’s Gear S2 Classic May Be the First Great Smartwatch | WIRED
At long last, a company may have figured out exactly how a smartwatch should act, how it should look, how it should feel, and ultimately what it should be. That company is Samsung, and that smartwatch is the Gear S2 Classic.
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The 10 Most Unfilmable Books (That Absolutely Must Be Made Into Films)
One of the best parts of science fiction and fantasy books is that they let our minds go to places where reality can’t follow. Recently creators have taken an interest in visually showing us these impossible places, and we love it.
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What does English sound like to Italians? Listen to this 1972 pop song – Boing Boing
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BREAKING: Kim Davis Held In Contempt Of Court, Now In U.S. Marshals’ Custody | ThinkProgress
Federal District Judge David Bunning held Kim Davis, the county clerk who has become a national symbol of anti-gay animus for her resistance to marriage equality, in contempt of court on Thursday. According to Dan Griffin, a reporter for local news …
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Car cassette slot mistaken for iPhone dock, and also the real deal – Boing Boing
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I met my first girlfriend through Windows 95: An Internet love story | Ars Technica
Nearly 19 years ago, I said “I love you” to a girl, face-to-face, for the first time. It’s a moment I remember clearly: Flowers. A ring. An awkward kiss. Both of our moms hovering around since each had driven us three hours to a halfway point.
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DIY Filmmaking and the End of Hollywood – The Business of Life (Episode 10) | VICE News
With streaming services, video games, and advances in consumer video, the movie business is changing.
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Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, who is denying same-sex couples marriage licenses in defiance of the US Supreme Court has been married and divorced times.
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A former Simpsons writer wants to help fix McDonald’s · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Oh, McDonald’s. Your greasy, mangled drive through burgers are great for a hangover, but ever since you publicly dissed Burger King, we’re finding it hard to stand up for you. Where’s the creativity, the innovation, the quality we need in a good bur…
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How to Encrypt Your Twitter DMs | Motherboard
Although encryption has never been more pervasive, with more and more services deploying strong privacy protections for users, Twitter has been slow on the following the trend. Now, one researcher has created a workaround for using end-to-end encryp…
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The First Trailer for the BBC’s Movie About ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Is Out | Motherboard
The BBC just released the first trailer for The Gamechangers, a movie about the making of the popular, crime-themed video game Grand Theft Auto.
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Lawyer in Uber Class Action Says They Want to Take the Case National | Motherboard
Neither party wants to back down in the newly-certified class action lawsuit against Uber. While Uber’s attorneys are talking about appealing the most recent decision, the other side is talking about taking the case national.
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Uncharted — The California Sunday Magazine
On a dimly lit shelf in the dining room of the Musgrave Roadhouse sit two dozen specimens preserved in cheap vodka — a makeshift natural-history museum. In a pickle jar is an accumulation of scorpions stuffed against a thick wad of cotton.
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Up Close With The New Samsung Gear S2 | TechCrunch
Round watch lovers rejoice! Samsung has finally lifted the covers off of its new smartwatch, the Samsung Gear S3, and we got to take a look at it.
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United States District Judge Lucy Koh today approved a $415 million settlement in the Silicon Valley no-poaching case. The dollar figure comes after a previous $324 million settlement was rejected as being too low. More than 64,000 workers are part …
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Migrant crisis: Drowned boy’s father speaks of heartbreak – BBC News
The father of a three-year-old Syrian boy found drowned on a beach in Turkey has told the BBC of the harrowing circumstances of his death. Aylan Kurdi’s father Abdullah said that shortly after their boat left Turkey for the Greek island of Kos it wa…
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Alan Kurdi death: A Syrian Kurdish family forced to flee – BBC News
The drowned boy who washed up on a Turkish beach on Wednesday, whose picture cut through the refugee debate in an instant, was three-year-old Alan Kurdi from Kobane in Syria.
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Seminal art-punks X__X cover Albert Ayler’s ‘Ghosts’: A DM premiere|Dangerous Minds
X__X is pronounced “Ex Blank Ex,” and their 1979 debut release—a 7” with an A side titled “A” and a B side called “You’re Full of Shit”—was already posthumous.
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Here’s a lovely video of man overwhelmed with joy when he finally gets the name of a song he’s been humming to people for over 20 years asking their help to identify it. His reaction is priceless. The backstory to this video is heartwarming. Reddito…
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DEVO, Blondie, Talking Heads, Klaus Nomi on ‘20/20’ segment on New Wave, 1979|Dangerous Minds
At DM we often poke fun at impossibly stiff or clueless news reporting on the music of the past, but sometimes you run across a piece of news coverage that is much better than it has any right to be.
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Light at the end of the scalpel | Mosaic
Telling cancer from non-cancer is tough for brain surgeons. Scorpions, Amazon.com and the legacy of a dying girl might change that, writes Alex O’Brien. In 2004, Dr Richard Ellenbogen spent almost 20 hours operating on a 17-year-old girl with a brai…
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Sadistic Cruelty : TrollXChromosomes
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Biden talks up Sanders at fundraiser : politics
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Joe Biden talks up Bernie Sanders at fundraiser – CNNPolitics.com
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Goldie Hawn being painted for the Laugh-In tv show. 1968 : OldSchoolCool
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Oneonta Gorge, OR [OC] [2112×1408] : EarthPorn
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The Last Earthrise Seen by Human Eyes: the Crew of… – Just Space
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Lough Corrib viewed from Inchagoill Island, Mayo, Ireland [OC] [4467×3351] : lakeporn
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Full bloom spring azaleas in Savannah, GA [3000×2000] [OS] : unitedstatesofamerica
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She gets a special fuck you – Imgur
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This Tiny Apple IIc Is All The Computing Power You’ll Need Ever In Your Life Forever | TechCrunch
As we enter the next Information Age, we must take only a few things with us. For example, this ashtray. Just this ashtray. And this paddle game, the ashtray and the paddle game and that’s all you need. And this remote control. And also this teeny t…
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T-Mobile Rolls Out Native Video Calling To Select Samsung Phones | TechCrunch
There are a number of apps that let smartphone users make video calls today, including Skype, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, and more, as well as built-in apps like Apple’s FaceTime, for example.
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Charleston shooting: prosecutor to decide whether to seek death penalty | US news | The Guardian
A South Carolina prosecutor is expected to announce a decision on Thursday over whether to seek the death penalty in the June massacre of nine worshippers at a Charleston church, local media reported.
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Star Wars toys on show in YouTube unboxing marathon – BBC News
Disney is hosting an 18-hour marathon Star Wars toy unboxing. Toys tied in to the forthcoming release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the latest instalment of the science-fiction juggernaut, have been unwrapped and demonstrated on YouTube.
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Kitchen Gear That’ll Make You Rethink Microwave Cooking | WIRED
Caption: M-Cuisine, a new line from kitchenware brand Joseph Joseph, wants to change microwave cooking. Joseph Joseph Microwave meals get a bad rap.
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Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator wants his guns returned family | US news | The Guardian
Convicted Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols is seeking the return of his guns seized by federal authorities so his family can sell them to support his adult children, lawyers said on Thursday.
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DRC measles epidemic must be halted within 60 days: MSF – Al Jazeera English
The measles epidemic spreading through the Katanga province in the DR Congo has to be halted within the next sixty days, or the country would be facing a major health crisis, medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) has warned.
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Microsoft Acquires Organizational Analytics Service VoloMetrix | TechCrunch
Microsoft today announced that it has acquired VoloMetrix, a service that specializes in analyzing organizational performance using anonymized data it gathers from across a company’s corporate communications systems.
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Union says Verizon spends $3.50 per year maintaining each landline | Ars Technica
A union representing Verizon workers has called for investigations into whether the company is allowing its copper phone and DSL networks to deteriorate.
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Advertising on television often falls into neat, stereotypical categories; beer ads are funny, car ads are slick, men in household products ads are dumb, wives in electronics ads are shrews. But Thailand is quietly becoming the world leader in a spe…
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What Is ‘Rap Music’? — Ratter — flow “Heyday in Tabloids”
Rap began to coalesce into a recognizable musical genre sometime in the 1970s, but it wasn’t until a decade later that its roots took hold and the media started taking notice.
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PJ Kavanagh obituary | Books | The Guardian
On St George’s Day 1951, the second day of the battle of the Imjin river, Second Lieutenant Patrick Kavanagh of the Royal Ulster Rifles was shot.
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Japan pulls Olympics logo under accusations of design plagiarism – Boing Boing
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Police return woman’s stolen car but forget to remove drugs and weapons – Boing Boing
Courtney Pickering of Calgary, Canada was thrilled that police retrieved her stolen car but surprised to find a bag of cocaine, crack pipe, knife, lead pipe, and a gun that the thieves left inside.
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Cape Watch: We’re a Little Bit Closer to That Wonder Woman Movie | WIRED
There’s not a huge mass of superhero news around right now—nobody is terribly interested in second unit stunt shooting for Suicide Squad, right?—but at least one of the stories this week is something that could end up having very important repercuss…
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Katt Williams Announces ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Tour | Rolling Stone
Katt Williams — the manic, pimpcentric, truth-seeking comic — has announced his Conspiracy Theory tour, a jaunt that will have a “minimum” of 50 dates. The comedian has revealed the first 12 dates beginning in South Carolina next month, with more to…
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Every Kid in a Park Gives Fourth Graders and Families Free National Park Passes
If you have a fourth grader, your family can get a free national park pass for the entire year. The National Park Foundation has introduced a new initiative: Every Kid in a Park. The program kicked off on September 1st, and it’s purpose is to get fa…
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A Few More #TrumpBible Verses – The New Yorker
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hasn’t been shy on the campaign trail about his Presbyterian faith…. He’s also professed his love for the Bible on many occasions, calling it “the greatest book of all time.
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Watch Brad Paisley Recruit Mascots for ‘Country Nation’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Brad Paisley Recruit Mascots for ‘Country Nation’ Video College football characters assemble for the guitar-slinger’s latest clever clip
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How The FDA Could Change The Way It Approves Drugs | FiveThirtyEight
A pancreatic cancer diagnosis is basically a death sentence. The five-year survival rate is 6 percent. A prostate cancer diagnosis, on the other hand, offers patients more room for hope — its five-year survival rate is nearly 100 percent.
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Stop Being Petty, Bruce Springsteen. Let Republicans Play Your Music. | The New Republic
Another chapter has been written in modern politics’ most one-sided love story: Chris Christie’s unrequited infatuation with Bruce Springsteen. In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday, the New Jersey governor allowed that the aging ro…
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Everyone but the NY Times realizes James O’Keefe i
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Congrats, Alaska. #PeopleOverPolitics https://t.co/SDJAXXzYSE
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Martin O’Malley’s call for more Democratic presidential debates at the party’s summer meeting last week may have been the loudest, but it was neither the first nor the last.
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Guatemala President Otto Perez Molina appears in court – BBC News
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has appeared in court after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest. He had resigned after Congress stripped him of his immunity from prosecution, a first in the Central American nation.
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New Obamacare Regulations Ensure Transgender People’s Access To Health Care | ThinkProgress
On Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services issued new proposed regulations on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act that would protect transgender people from discrimination in health care.
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The number of homeless children are rising quickly in New York City. There were 87,000 school children living in homeless shelters or temporary housing in the 2013-14 school year, according to the New York City Department of Education, which is a 71…
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The Unflinching Gaze Of Chvrches – Stereogum
Tucked away in the corner of a thriving Swedish tech company’s Manhattan office, three Scottish musicians are staring intently at their streaming analytics. The stats are good. “So it can’t all just be our mums listening,” Chvrches lead singer Laure…
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The Good Girl’s Guide to Staying Alive | Hazlitt
Women should relax but women shouldn’t drink. Women should be attractive but shouldn’t wear revealing clothes. Women shouldn’t have weapons but should consider carrying a weapon. Women should smile more, unless they’re smiling at the wrong person.
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Sri Lanka names first Tamil opposition chief in decades – Al Jazeera English
Sri Lanka’s parliament has appointed an ethnic Tamil official as the country’s main opposition leader for the first time in 32 years.
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Giant red lips turn you into a cartoon character – Boing Boing
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Drowned refugee Aylan’s father: Let him be the last – Al Jazeera English
The father of a Syrian toddler whose lifeless body was found on a Turkish beach has said he wants the international attention on his death to focus on preventing similar incidents from happening again.
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Al Jazeera America’s digital newsroom votes to unionize | US news | The Guardian
Staff members of the digital newsroom at Al Jazeera America said on Thursday that a majority have voted to unionize under the News Media Guild, which is part of the Communications Workers of America union.
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Texas abortion clinics appeal to US supreme court to remain open | Law | The Guardian
Texas abortion clinics are asking the supreme court to take up a major case about abortion rights in the midst of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Kyoto Protocol program may have boosted waste greenhouse gas production | Ars Technica
A recent paper published in Nature Climate Change describes how some Russian projects operating under the auspices of Kyoto Protocol’s Joint Implementation mechanism have increased waste greenhouse gas generation to unprecedented levels.
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Family of Drowned Syrian Boys Sought to Emigrate to Canada http://t.co/ONALBsvqPN
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When your crush likes you back! : aww
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Damigella gocciolosa by Roberto Aldrovandi / 500px
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Churchill posing with tommy gun and cigar, 1940 : OldSchoolCool
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Estimote Creates An Indoor Location System Using Beacons And “Nearables” | TechCrunch
The dream of indoor location sensing has always been just that – a dream. The difficulty of Wi-Fi tracking and other technologies has made it hard for anyone – from businesses to regular users – to figure out where they were in a venue.
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MLS needs to look seriously at introducing international breaks | Football | The Guardian
Fox Sports looked to have picked the perfect game for their MLS coverage this coming weekend, with Columbus entertaining Dallas in the prime-time 7pm slot on Sunday.
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A sheriff’s deputy from La Plata County, Colorado left a voicemail message for Durango Herald reporter Chase Olivarius-McAllister before chatting like a jackass with his co-worker about her breast size. Thing is, he hadn’t actually hung up.
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16-year-old girl who took nude selfie photos faces adult sex charges – Boing Boing
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office thinks it made sense to charge a 16-year-old girl with two felony sex crimes against herself for taking nude selfies.
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Alaska’s warming climate is world’s wake-up call, Obama says – video | Environment | The Guardian
Barack Obama warned that Alaska’s warming climate is a wake-up call to America, and the rest of the world.
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Mysterious stranded whales get medical aid from Mississippi experts | US news | The Guardian
Marine experts in Mississippi are working around the clock as a mysterious pair of whales, their species unseen in south Mississippi for 40 years, fight for survival.
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Obama’s fish photo-op gets messy: ‘Something’s got on my shoes!’ – video | US news | The Guardian
A fish photo-op goes awry for President Obama, when the salmon he was holding begins to spawn onto his shoes. ‘Did you see that? Something’s got on my shoes!’ the president exclaims, while posing next to a local fisherwoman in Dillingham, Alaska.
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Game Of Thrones’ characters redrawn in Bob’s Burgers style · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
What if the Game Of Thrones characters existed in the Bob’s Burgers universe? That’s the question that Imgur user CarlosDanger101 decided to answer as he systematically went through each grouping of characters and drew them in the style of Loren Bou…
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How Startups Are Cashing in on Our Obsession With Getting a Good Night’s Sleep | | Observer
I bought my first bed when I was 23. My friend Anna and I went to a mattress chain near the book publishing company where we were assistants. “Get the second cheapest, no matter what the salesman says,” Anna counseled. She was the kind of friend who…
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Drowned Syrian Toddler Was One of Thousands of Refugees Rejected By Canada | VICE News
The three year-old refugee who was found dead on a Turkish beach, and whose body has become a symbol for the growing refugee crisis plaguing Europe, had been denied refugee status in Canada. His application was one of thousands to be rejected, or go…
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Sony Expected To Settle With Ex-Workers Over ‘Interview’ Movie Hack | ThinkProgress
Sony Pictures has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to former workers who sued the company after their personal data was compromised in the infamous hack linked to the company’s release of North Korean-based comedy, “The Interview” last year.
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An Overloaded Boat Carrying at Least 70 Migrants Has Capsized Off Malaysia | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here.
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Intel’s Skylake lineup is robbing us of the performance king we deserve | Ars Technica
Intel’s range of sixth-generation Core processors, codenamed Skylake, is now public. And boy, am I disappointed. Most of the fifth-generation Core processors have successors, at least approximately.
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In Fresh Embarrassment For NFL, Judge Overturns Tom Brady’s Suspension | ThinkProgress
In a ruling issued Thursday, federal judge Richard M. Berman vacated the NFL’s decision to suspend Tom Brady for four games, a penalty the league imposed for his alleged role in deflating footballs prior to games.
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The biblical creation story told as space opera – Boing Boing
Lots of myths have been used as fodder for science fiction and fantasy, and some of the more interesting ones turn the gods into cosmic entities, or extensions of our own humanity.
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Repair Unsightly Joinery Gaps with Glue and Sawdust
Even the best woodworkers can end up with gaps between joints. This simple tip makes the gaps disappear in no time. Small gaps in dovetail or other joints can make an otherwise perfectly aligned piece look amateurish.
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For years, prison staff in Idaho were locking up inmates in “dry cells” with no beds to sleep in or toilets to dispose their waste.
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Migrant crisis: What solutions can the EU find? – BBC News
The EU admits that its asylum procedures are inadequate, faced with the biggest influx of migrants since the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Europe has been shocked by migrant tragedies in the Mediterranean and the misery of refugees – many from war-torn …
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Let’s Wildly Speculate That Cartoon Network Is Making a New Justice League Series
A Reddit user took the above photo at what appears to be a Warner Bros. Animation office of some kind. As you can see, the posters include current Cartoon Network series like Teen Titans Go, but also recently announced upcoming series such as Bunnic…
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Kim Davis Appears Before Judge | Al Jazeera America
The county clerk in Kentucky who has repeatedly defied court orders by refusing to issue gay marriage licenses went Thursday before a federal judge who could hold her in contempt — imposing hefty fines or even jail time for defying the will of the c…
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Farms versus birds: winners & losers – in pictures | @GrrlScientist | Science | The Guardian
Read more here.
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From 2003, a 25-minute documentary (plus a few extras) on how Pixar made Finding Nemo. How far does Pixar go to get a movie made correctly? Far. For instance, everyone on the Nemo team got certified in scuba diving. (via @drwave)
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My 1 year old saying goodbye to me this morning. : funny
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If you’re trying too hard to be cool in college, you’re doing it wrong | US news | The Guardian
What can I tell you about college? There was the time my friend Mark and I bought a brand-new fertilizer sprayer at Home Depot, washed out the inside, filled it with 3 quarts of gin, a capful of vermouth, and walked around offering people “a martini…
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Refrigerated clothing for people who want to lose weight – Boing Boing
When your body gets cold, your metabolism cranks up. You burn more calories. Thin Ice is making vests, shirts, and insoles containing battery-powered Peltier plates, which become cold when current passes through them. You can control the cooling sys…
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Protesters for and against gay marriage faced off outside a federal courthouse in Ashland, Kentucky, ahead of a court case involving a county clerk.
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Civilian deaths claimed in 71 US-led airstrikes on Isis | World news | The Guardian
The US-led coalition bombing Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which has been described as the “most precise ever”, has received allegations that civilians have been killed in 71 separate air raids.
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Trump Expected to Sign Loyalty Pledge | Al Jazeera America
U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump is expected on Thursday to sign a pledge not to run as an independent candidate if he loses the Republican Party’s nomination, according to multiple reports, despite earlier refusals to rule out a third-party b…
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AOL’s Millennial Media deal underlines rise in automated ad buying | Media | The Guardian
AOL’s acquisition of mobile ad firm Millennial Media underlines the rapid rise of programmatic advertising, as new research shows that automated buying will grow massively this year and account for more than half of the UK’s £3bn digital display mar…
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Disrupt London 2015 Comes To The Copper Box Arena | TechCrunch
It’s just a few short months until some of the best and brightest minds in tech will be descending upon London for TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015, and we’re thrilled to announce that the event will take place at the Copper Box Arena.
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Facebook Looks To Tackle Personalized Learning In The Classroom | TechCrunch
Facebook is working to better personalize learning in public education. In a blog post today, Facebook announced that over the past school year it has partnered with Summit Public Schools in the Bay Area to improve and test their new learning techno…
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Could some farming practices benefit tropical birds? | @GrrlScientist | Science | The Guardian
One of the main drivers of extinction is habitat loss that arises when tropical rainforests are converted to farms — a trend that is escalating at a dramatic rate.
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Homeowner solar power subsidy cuts ‘threaten 20,000 jobs’ | Environment | The Guardian
Government plans to slash subsidies for solar panels on homes could cost more than 20,000 jobs, green campaigners have claimed. Ministers have announced proposals to cut the amount paid for domestic solar arrays from 12.47p per kilowatt hour to 1.
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The best novels in English: readers’ alternative list | Books | The Guardian
Which are the 100 best novels ever written in the English language? No list could possibly satisfy everyone, as is always the case with listicles. When writer Robert McCrum completed his own, after developing it over the course of two years, it was …
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US trade deficit lowest in five months – BBC News
The US trade deficit with the rest of the world fell to a five-month low in July, official figures show. It declined 7.4% to $41.9bn, compared with $45.2bn in June, the US Commerce Department said.
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Technology And Data Are Spurring A Clash Of Travel Titans | TechCrunch
There’s no way to put this gently, so here it goes: The rapid advancement in digital technology is transforming the cozy world of travel retail into an all-out war for customers.
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Egyptian belly dancers jailed for ‘inciting debauchery’ – BBC News
Suha Mohammed Ali and Dalia Kamal Youssef – known as the Egyptian Shakira and Bardis – were arrested over their scantily-clad performances in videos. Lawyers filed complaints, saying they were outrages to public morality and harmed the image of Egyp…
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Here’s the last reminder that we’re coming to Bumbershoot this weekend · Newswire · The A.V. Club
There will be no more warnings that The A.V. Club is taking a cruelly early flight Saturday morning to arrive in Seattle with plenty of time for our big Bumbershoot hoedown. The pickin’ and grinnin’ will take place at 3:30 p.m.
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Mark Ruffalo says the Hulk won’t be in Civil War, and that’s okay · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s been unclear if Mark Rufallo’s Bruce Banner would hulk out for next year’s Captain America: Civil War. Rufallo himself weighed in earlier in the summer, indicating that he would return.
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Migrant boys’ father: ‘The most beautiful children in the world’ – BBC News
The father of two young boys who died while trying to flee the civil war in Syria has been talking about his loss. Aylan’s five-year-old brother Galip and their mother, Rihan, also died.
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California Lawmakers Vote To Divest From Coal | ThinkProgress
The California Assembly passed a bill Wednesday that prompts the state’s public employee pension funds to divest from coal.
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The Atlantic’s Big Question: Reader Poll – The Atlantic
We asked readers to answer our question for the October issue: What was the most consequential sibling rivalry of all time? Vote for your favorite response, and we’ll publish the results online and in the next issue of the magazine.
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As an unapologetic member of the “Millennial” generation, allow me to tell you how to win over a great many of us at a stroke: just appeal to our long-instilled affinity for Japanese animation and classic video games.
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303 Aerospace Protectant really preserves plastic and vinyl – Boing Boing
I like classic motorcycles and cars. I live by the sea. 303 Aerospace Protectant keeps plastic and rubbery bits looking fresh and new. I don’t know what the hell is in this stuff. I don’t know why it is different than Armor-All, but the results are …
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Watch: 100 Years of Lingerie in 3 Minutes – Boing Boing
To my eye, more is frequently less. Bonus finale with plus-size model Germaine Nichols, cancer survivor Danielle Orner, and androgynous model/activist Rain Dove. (Mode via Laughing Squid)
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I don’t know you that well : AdviceAnimals
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Sh2-155: The Cave Nebula. js – Just Space
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Ensaio: Mundo Marinho – Foto 9 by Ticiano Alves / 500px
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RIP (hopefully) Deflategate: a saga that made everyone look stupid | Sport | The Guardian
The single stupidest scandal in NFL history may finally be over.
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One Man’s David and Goliath Battle to Get Xerox to Fix a Major Bug | Motherboard
You’ve probably never double-checked to make sure a Xerox machine accurately reproduced what you just scanned, but maybe you should. Especially if the machine is from Xerox’s Workcentre line.
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Uber Is Basically Hiding from Protesters in Brussels Now | Motherboard
UberPop, Uber’s solution for European drivers without professional taxi licenses, isn’t a favorite with the local drivers—in fact, it’s been downright dangerous for the company to operate.
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Why Don’t Some People Get Brain Freeze? | Motherboard
I have never had brain freeze. Ever. What is a staple of summer childhood exuberance for so many people has forever eluded me. I have no idea what it feels like or why people get it, and it has been a mystery to me all my life.
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Big Bird Diplomacy: Sesame Street’s 46-Year March Around The World – Vocativ
The Arabic adaptation of Sesame Street, called Iftah Ya Simsim (Open Sesame), is returning to the Middle East after a 25-year hiatus, and its first new episode is set for Friday.
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My highlight: Manga now by Timon Screech | Books | The Guardian
The term “manga” comes from Katsushika Hokusai’s books of “random images” published in the early 19th century. Now, 200 years on, the genre has exploded into something much wider.
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Aylan Kurdi, drowned Syrian boy, was denied Canadian asylum – BBC News
A relative of the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body was found on a beach in Turkey says his family had been denied asylum in Canada in June. Canada’s immigration minister says he has temporarily suspended his election campaign to investigate the …
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California prisoner dies of natural causes after 26 years on death row | US news | The Guardian
A California prison inmate who spent 26 years on death row for murder has died of natural causes, the fourth so far this year in a state that has not carried out an execution since 2006.
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It’s no “street view for cats,” but Google’s newly launched Street View mobile app does promise to make it easier to explore Google Map’s immersive, 360-degree imagery as well as contribute your own photos to improve the overall Google Maps experien…
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Aylan Kurdi Is Part of a Lost Generation – The Daily Beast
The little boy whose lifeless body photographed on a beach in Turkey sparked the kind of outcry that is long overdue has a name. He is 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, and a different published photo shows another disturbing image, that of a happy, smiling c…
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Onion Explains: International Drug Trade – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
How do dangerous narcotics cartels smuggle their goods into the U.S. and what is the human cost of their operations? The Onion explains the drug trade.
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The Gender Wage Gap Screws Women All The Way To Retirement | ThinkProgress
When men and women’s incomes and retirement savings are stacked up against their projected health care costs and life expectancies, women are much farther behind men. At the same time, women will end up needing to make their money stretch further.
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Judge Approves $415 Million Silicon Valley Anti-Poaching Labor Suit | ThinkProgress
A U.S. District Court finalized a $415 million wage settlement for tech workers Wednesday after four-years of litigation.
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Seminal art-punks X__X cover Albert Ayler’s ‘Ghosts’: A DM premeire|Dangerous Minds
X__X is pronounced “Ex Blank Ex,” and their 1979 debut release—a 7” with an A side titled “A” and a B side called “You’re Full of Shit”—was already posthumous.
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Invercargill, New Zealand. Photographer: Les… – Just Space
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The Iran Deal Is a Victory for Economic Sanctions – The New Yorker
The Iran Deal Is a Victory for Reason and Economic Sanctions http://t.co/cgRtLPZssR
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Behind the scenes of China’s WW2 military parade – BBC News
China has held a lavish parade in Beijing to mark the defeat of Japan in World War Two. China’s growing military power is being keenly watched amid regional tensions.
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Databox Raises $3.3M Seed Round To Help Marketers Understand Key Metrics | TechCrunch
Businesses of all sizes now have access to reams of data about their performance, but it can be difficult to read the story behind the numbers. Boston-based startup Databox’s goal is to make data relatable.
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China Stages a Massive Military Parade to Commemorate the End of World War II – The Atlantic
In Beijing, China marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and its role in defeating Japan by holding an enormous military parade, and declaring a new national holiday.
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Watch Justin Bieber, Questlove Battle in Drum-Off Rematch on ‘Fallon’ | Rolling Stone
In 2010, long before the scandals, the arrests, the forgotten monkey, the roast and redemption tour, a baby-faced Justin Bieber took on Questlove in a drum-off on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
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Lana Del Rey Clarifies ‘Anti-Feminist’ Comments to James Franco | Rolling Stone
Lana Del Rey not only covers the latest issue of V Magazine, she has given a rare interview to James Franco where she clarified her “anti-feminist” quote from her 2014 Fader cover story. Last year, Del Rey told the Fader that “the issue of feminism …
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Many new top-level domains have become Internet’s “bad neighborhoods” | Ars Technica
There were many who warned that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) decision to allow a host of new commercial top-level Internet domains was going to create a huge opportunity for Internet scammers and hackers.
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Patrick Ness leads fundraising drive to aid refugees | Books | The Guardian
As politicians bicker and columnists wring their hands over Europe’s refugee crisis, the award-winning children’s writer Patrick Ness has taken a more direct route, raising more than £60,000 – and counting – in less than five hours.
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Tom Brady’s ‘Deflategate’ Suspension Overturned | Rolling Stone
Tom Brady will be starting for the New England Patriots in Week 1, after a U.S. District Court judge overturned an NFL-imposed four-game suspension for his role in the so-called “Deflategate” scandal.
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Guatemalan President Resigns in Wake of Massive Corruption Scandal | VICE News
An exultant protest movement in Guatemala is cheering the news Thursday morning that the country’s president, Otto Perez Molina, has resigned following a unanimous vote by national legislators to strip him of immunity from prosecution for corruption…
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Jeb! says Trump’s an insulting, intolerant, Clinton-esque liberal … and of course he’d support him
Watch the entire video below the fold.
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‘Deceptive’ YouTube video ads helped promote Xbox One – BBC News
YouTubers were paid up to $30,000 (£20,000) to endorse the Xbox One as part of a “deceptive” ad campaign, said the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The cash was funnelled to them through the Machinima online entertainment network, it said.
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The vast majority of the world’s biggest food, beverage and tobacco companies are ignoring their largest climate impacts by failing to disclose emissions from agricultural production, according to a new CDP analysis. Related: Big food is going green…
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‘Crumb’: Watch the brilliant, notorious and disturbing Robert Crumb documentary|Dangerous Minds
Note the presentation by David Lynch. Lynch actually had nothing whatsoever to do with the film, but allowed his name to be used for promotion.
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Spaceship Earth / Highlights / Observing the Earth / Our Activities / ESA
The Spaceship Earth exhibition is now open to the public in Linz, Austria. Put together by ESA and the Ars Electronica Center, the display of stunning images draws together the scientific value of Earth observation with the beauty of our planet.
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Immigrants Don’t Drain Welfare. They Fund It. | The New Republic
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Republican presidential candidates who want to deport undocumented immigrants en masse, end birthright citizenship, and build a wall along the Mexican border just got some new ammunition. -
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Senator Bernie Sanders is on the verge of signing a joint fund-raising agreement with the Democratic National Committee, his aides said, a week after Hillary Rodham Clinton entered such an arrangement with the party. It remains to be seen how a join…
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DR Congo’s Ntaganda tells ICC he is not ‘The Terminator’ – BBC News
Former Democratic Republic of Congo rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda has told the International Criminal Court that he is not an “infamous killer”, but a soldier who protected civilians. This is the first time Gen Ntaganda, nicknamed “The Terminator”, ha…
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RIP Dean Jones, 1931-2015 – Boing Boing
Dean Jones, the iconic superstar of so many early Disney films, has passed away. The Chicago Tribune shares a wonderful remembrance.
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Wing debris ‘certainly’ from MH370 – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Pre-event Apple rumor roundup: A song of iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs | Ars Technica
Apple’s September 9 product event is still several days away, but the ebb and flow of the great Rumor River has brought us many tidings ahead of time.
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, September 3rd – The New Yorker
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In this state of only 700,000 people that American presidents tend to visit most often only to refuel, the three-day tour by Barack Obama this week gave everybody something to talk about.
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Music: “Shake and Fingerpop.” Junior Walker and the All Stars (1965) – Boing Boing
I said, do the Boomerang, the Twine, and the Jerk. They’re jammin’ at the bandstand, so everybody work.
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Cold or Warm, Can We Really Tell? – Scientific American
Is your water hot or cold? It might depend on what you were feeling before. Learn how you feel temperature–and how it might all be relative!
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Boko Haram crisis: Cameroon blasts kill 10 – BBC News
At least 10 people have been killed and many more wounded in two bomb attacks in northern Cameroon, officials say. The blasts happened in the Kerawa region, where Cameroon’s army is fighting Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants.
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Pinterest Brings On A New Head Of Its Advertising Partner APIs | TechCrunch
Pinterest has brought on a new executive to manage the technology its marketing developer partners use to power advertising campaigns on Pinterest.
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Can We Trust Crime Forensics? – Scientific American
The criminal justice system has a problem, and its name is forensics. This was the message I heard at the Forensic Science Research Evaluation Workshop held May 26–27 at the AAAS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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Watch an iPhone Control Ants – The Daily Beast
You’re pretty pumped for that new iPhone to drop this month, right? Gotta get the latest and greatest, punch up that camera phone and make sure you’re leaking more radiation into your brain while chasing “likes” and texting friends.
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Ants Are Just as Effective as Chemical Pesticide – The Daily Beast
Though we’re used to exterminating ants in our homes, ironically, ants themselves are extremely good exterminators for other insects that invade their homes.
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Mark Ruffalo Has Faith in Journalism: ‘It’s An Exciting Time’ – The Daily Beast
Mark Ruffalo, the breezy, floppy-haired two-time Oscar nominee from Kenosha, Wisconsin, is what 4chan trolls would refer to as an “SJW,” or Social Justice Warrior.
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How New Orleans Tried to Dump Toxic Katrina Waste Into a Vietnamese Community – The Atlantic
Presented by http://www.theatlantic.
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Bender’s Game · Futurama · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Uneven as Futurama’s first two forays into feature-length episodes were, they at least gave the sense that the people working on them were legitimately trying to tell a good story.
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Although Billy On The Street has a new home on TruTV, we can still expect to see host Billy Eichner yelling questions into the faces of celebrities and pedestrians.
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Emmett, Trayvon, Freddie, and Sandra
Sixty years after Emmett Till was killed for daring to assert his humanity, African-Americans are still being killed for doing the same. Charles M.
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Jim Simons: A rare interview with the mathematician who cracked Wall Street | TED Talk | TED.com
Jim Simons was a mathematician and cryptographer who realized: the complex math he used to break codes could help explain patterns in the world of finance. Billions later, he’s working to support the next generation of math teachers and scholars. TE…
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The Republican Establishment Is Waiting On The Sidelines | FiveThirtyEight
The outsiders are coming! The outsiders are coming! Donald Trump has led the Republican primary race in almost every survey over the past two months, and now two other non-politicians, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina, are also climbing up the polls.
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‘Mr. Robot’ Finale: It’s All In Your Head. Or Is It? | ThinkProgress
This story discusses the plot of the season finale of Mr. Robot. Spoilers abound. Mr. Robot, USA’s unlikely breakout hit of the summer, aired its finale Wednesday night, a week after it was originally scheduled to air.
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West of Sunset by Stewart O’Nan review – a fine fictional F Scott Fitzgerald | Books | The Guardian
Recent years have seen a spate of fictional takes on the life of F Scott Fitzgerald and his troubled wife, Zelda.
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In an interview with the Kentucky Trial Court Review, Rowan County Attorney Cecil Watkins expressed exasperation with Kim Davis, the anti-gay clerk who has refused to issue marriage licenses due to her objections to marriage equality.
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How to Save Money on College Textbooks
College textbook buying is an expensive routine for every student. But sympathetic professors and easy access to information tools can make it easy to find ways to cut costs. Take advantage of those tools and use them to shave some serious money off…
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Choosing a soccer club based on your college football team – a primer | Sport | The Guardian
A germane (if flawed) comparison, college football and European soccer share a few key traits. Both showcase elaborate pageantry, ferocious rivalries, remarkable tradition and the tribal passions of zealous fan bases across small towns and large cit…
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Whitworth University soccer players rebuked for blackface Instagram photo | US news | The Guardian
Five members of the women’s soccer team at a private Christian university in Washington state were suspended for one match on Wednesday, after a social media post surfaced showing them dressed in blackface and afro wigs.
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Hell Comes to the Underdark in D&D’s New Rage of Demons Campaign
It feels like Wizards of the Coast has been relying a little too much on their demon lords as the Big Bads in their adventures and campaigns the last few years. Demon fatigue—it’s a thing! But if you’re going to stick with the demon theme, then what…
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Strokkur just before exploding : woahdude
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DNC chief faces perilous fall : democrats
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DNC chief faces perilous fall | TheHill
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Pwn2Own loses HP as its sponsor amid new cyberweapon restrictions | Ars Technica
The next scheduled Pwn2Own hacking competition has lost Hewlett-Packard as its longstanding sponsor out of legal concerns that the company could run afoul of recent changes to an international treaty that governs software exploits.
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Tom Brady case: Judge overturns ‘deflategate’ suspension – BBC News
A US judge has overturned a four-game suspension against National Football League (NFL) quarterback Tom Brady, calling the league’s disciplinary process “fundamentally unfair”.The NFL imposed the punishment following the “Deflategate” scandal.
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‘Floating Spoon’ on Mars Is Just a Weird Rock, But Still Awesome
A so-called “floating spoon” on Mars spotted by NASA’s Curiosity rover is cooking up a storm on the Internet, but it’s actually a cool rock formation sculpted over time by the Martian winds, officials with the space agency say.
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Business is “better than ever” for the last audio cassette factory – Boing Boing
Seventy percent of their sales are of cassettes with pre-recorded music while the rest are blanks.
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Brady’s four-game NFL suspension over-ruled – Al Jazeera English
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s “Deflategate” suspension was thrown out by a federal judge in New York, following a seven-month standoff between the National Football League and its players union.
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Preview: Snowden hits back at Clinton and Trump – Al Jazeera English
Regarded as a hero by some, Edward Snowden’s mass surveillance leaks have also generated a number of high-profile critics. In this online preview, Snowden takes on his critics, including presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyqQSmOpYV0 | Motherboard
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Majority Of Seabirds Have Ingested Plastic – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
An analysis of ecological models has found that over 60 percent of seabird species across the globe have plastic in their digestive system, a figure that could rise to 99 percent by 2050 if current pollution trends continue. What do you think?
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These Color-Emitting Metallic Gels Could Automatically Detect Ocean Pollution | Motherboard
Imagine a submarine with parts that glow bright yellow as it detects pollutants and toxins in the sea. This might be a possibility if researchers behind a bunch of luminescent materials refine their new metallic gels.
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Skype Gives Its iOS And Android Apps A Makeover | TechCrunch
Microsoft announced this morning it’s rolling out a new version of Skype (ver. 6.0) for users on iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Mad Max Anthology, Legend of Korra, and More
If you enjoyed Mad Max: Fury Road, but want to get caught up on the original trilogy, Amazon’s selling an anthology with all four films, plus a Madness of Max documentary.
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A few days before the New York Times reported that a federal auction in the Gulf of Mexico in August drew the lowest interest since 1986 – “the clearest sign yet that the fortunes of oil companies are skidding” – I found myself reading the 2014 Exxo…
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Judge Nullifies Tom Brady’s 4-game Suspension | Al Jazeera America
U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell went too far in affirming punishment of the Super Bowl winning quarterback. Brady has insisted he played no role in a conspiracy to deflate footballs below the allowable limit…
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BBC Sport – Danny Welbeck: Arsenal striker ‘out for months’ with knee injury
Arsenal striker Danny Welbeck will be “out for a period of months” after having knee surgery. More to follow.
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The problem of violence, perhaps the true root of all social ills, seems irresolvable. Yet, as most thoughtful people have realized after the wars of the twentieth century, the dangers human aggression pose have only increased exponentially along wi…
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A First Real-World “Interstellar” Wormhole?
“Wormholes” are cosmic tunnels that can connect two distant regions of the universe, and have been popularised by the dissemination of theoretical physics and by works of science fiction like Stargate, Star Trek or, more recently, Interstellar.
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Ucero by Danilo Bruschi / 500px
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Vaccine Truthers Are Throwing Their Support Behind Donald Trump | ThinkProgress
He’s already secured the racist vote. Now, Donald Trump is swaying the vaccine truthers. On Thursday, the anti-vaccine website Natural News published an article cheering Trump for being “the only mainstream presidential candidate who’s spoken out ab…
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Switch Up Your Spending Strategy to Avoid Budget Burnout
It can be hard to get used to a budget, especially if you’re not great with money. It takes time to adjust to a spending plan, but if you keep failing at your budget, or if you feel like you’re stuck in a rut, it’s probably time to switch up your st…
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Bayern Munich to donate $1.11m to refugee crisis – Al Jazeera English
The Bayern Munich football club is to donate $1.11m to help refugees and will set up a training camp for those arriving in Munich, as the number of people arriving in the city continues to rise.
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Hear Oneohtrix Point Never Glitchbanger From First ‘Rock’ Record | Rolling Stone
Oneohtrix Point Never, electronic music’s most seasoned uncanny-valley explorer, is returning in November with his eighth and hardest-hitting album, Garden of Delete — a brave yet wholly idiosyncratic step towards a more “rock”-based sound.
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Seven New Startups From Silicon Valley’s Favorite New Demo Day | TechCrunch
For the second time in its two-year history, in a small space that’s easy to miss on a leafy Palo Alto street, the boutique venture firm Pejman Mar brought together seven startups yesterday to present their fledgling ideas to some of the best early-…
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Janet Jackson Unveils ‘Unbreakable’ Track List, Release Date | Rolling Stone
Janet Jackson Unveils ‘Unbreakable’ Track List, Release Date J.
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See Bieber Explain VMA Tears, Perform ‘What Do You Mean?’ on ‘Fallon’ | Rolling Stone
Justin Bieber explained the emotional stakes preempting his performance at the Video Music Awards last Sunday, as well as its teary end during an earnest interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Wednesday.
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Opry Movie to Star Darius Rucker, Blake Shelton, Brad Paisley | Rolling Stone
The Grand Ole Opry, which officially turns 90 years old in November, has a number of special events planned in the months before and after the longest running live radio show in American history reaches that milestone.
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How Giving Up Refined Sugar Changed My Brain | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
I have a love-hate relationship with food. I love it; it generally hates me. Matter of fact, I love food so much that until a few years ago, I was extremely overweight. So overweight that I invented a piece of health tech to help me lose 80 pounds.
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Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach on Dylan, Lana Del Rey, New Project | Rolling Stone
In the past few years, whenever he hasn’t been busy selling out arenas with Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney, Dan Auerbach has booked informal jam sessions with a loose group of friends including Menahan Street Band saxophonist Leon Michels.
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BBC Sport – Pirelli tyre failures: FIA satisfied by suppliers’ investigation
Formula 1’s governing body says it is “satisfied” with an investigation conducted by tyre supplier Pirelli into the failures at the Belgian Grand Prix.
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Scream Queens’ Title Sequence Confirms a Lot of Screaming Is Going On
If this opening credits sequence is anything to go by, Scream Queens is going to be bloody with a very large dose of knowing winks and nods to its spiritual predecessors. Hell, these credits have literal winks and nods.
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Is Donald Trump ready to take that RNC ‘loyalty’ pledge?
In recent days, Trump has suggested he would soon decide whether to rule out a third-party bid. It’s likely Trump feels confident enough in his lead, early as it is, that he’ll sign whatever stupid piece of paper Republicans ask of him. But he reall…
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What a Kanye Presidency Would Look Like | Motherboard
Kanye West capped off a long, particularly Westian speech at the VMAs with the announcement that in 2020, he’s running for president. Naturally, we set out to tap some of the best writers on the Kanye beat to imagine a West Administration circa 2021.
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How California Prison Inmates Fought to Change Solitary Confinement, and Won | VICE | United Kingdom
It was 2013, and Daletha Hayden was reading aloud from an open letter written by her son. Those were dark days. Ian Whitson, then 30 years old, had been in a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations (CDCR) security housing unit—or SH…
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Become a ruthless, noble lady in this ‘Renaissance revenge simulator’ – Offworld
Your wealthy father and brother have been killed by distasteful schemers, and now you’re to be married off to one of them. Can you plan your brutal revenge without arousing suspicion—while acting like a perfect courtly lady?
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Unseen Ezra Pound poem sold at auction | Books | The Guardian
An unpublished poem by Ezra Pound, in which the American poet extols in an Elizabethan sonnet the “pools” that are the “dearest eyes” of his friend, the British painter Isabel Codrington, has been sold at auction for £7,500.
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Can You Watch 18 Hours of Star Wars Unboxing Or Will Your Eyes Simply Explode? | Motherboard
The Star Wars YouTube channel is currently wrapping up what may be the most obscene unboxing video in the history of fetishistic nerd consumerism.
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Sony Pictures Settles Lawsuit With Former Employees Over Devastating Hack | Motherboard
Sony Pictures has reached a tentative settlement with former employees over a class action suit brought forth after the devastating hack that it the company ten months ago.
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It’s probably a myth that we’re not getting enough sleep – Quartz
We’ve been told that the modern, connected life is taking a toll on our sleep. Compared to previous generations, studies report, we’ve been sleeping less and less every year.
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Judge nullifies Tom Brady’s DeflateGate suspension – SBNation.com
After weeks of pushing for a settlement, a federal judge has nullified Tom Brady’s four-game suspension in the DeflateGate scandal. Tom Brady’s four-game suspension from the NFL for his role in DeflateGate has been nullified.
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Next’s Clever New iOS Keyboard Has Almost Everything You Want | TechCrunch
Ever since Apple introduced support for custom keyboards in iOS 8, third-party developers rushed in to fill the void with keyboards that offered an array of features like predictive emoji, easy access to GIFs, swipe-based input, and more.
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At the beginning of August, Alan Hedrick, 29, packed his bags and took a trip to Chicago. When his friends in New York asked where he was going, his answer was vague: a conference.
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Man Sunbathing On Top Of A Wind Turbine Is Caught By A Drone – Digg
This is definitely not a safe thing to do, and what confounds us is how he even got up there in the first place.
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Deflategate: judge overturns Tom Brady’s NFL suspension | Sport | The Guardian
Tom Brady’s decision to take the Deflategate scandal to federal court has paid off, with a judge ruling that the New England Patriots quarterback’s suspension should be overturned.
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David Strathairn and Uzo Aduba join Ewan McGregor’s American Pastoral · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Alphas alum David Strathairn and Orange Is The New Black’s Uzo Aduba will soon be on the most pleasant movie set ever—ComingSoon reports the two have signed on to Ewan McGregor’s American Pastoral.
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Apple May Introduce iPad Pro, iPad Mini 4 At September 9 Event: Report | TechCrunch
Apple’s upcoming press event, scheduled for September 9, is going to be a long one, if we’re choosing to believe the rumors.
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BBC Sport – Bayern Munich to set up refugees ‘training camp’
Bayern Munich are to set up a ‘training camp’ for refugees coming into Germany and will donate 1m euros (£730,000) for refugee projects. Parts of Europe have seen an influx of migrants arriving, with many in Hungary wishing to travel to Germany.
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How a volcanic eruption changed the world
The eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 was the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history.
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RIGHT now it looks very much as if the two major political parties in America are in a race to see which one can destroy itself first. On the Republican side, Donald J. Trump not only leads but dominates the presidential race. Crude, erratic, unprin…
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When good news is bad news – BBC News
Tomorrow – 4 September – sees the release of the all-important US jobs figures for August.
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Study Says Insane CEO Pay Is Fueling Climate Change | WIRED
There are any number of causes for climate change—some natural, some man-made. But a new report by the liberal think tank Institute for Policy Studies points to a distinctly economic cause: greed.
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Kim Davis Is Breaking The Law. These Republican Candidates Are Defending Her. | ThinkProgress
In a section of its 2012 party platform, the Republican Party made its views clear: “In this country, the rule of law guarantees equal treatment to every individual.
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What is the best way to get action on the problem of the global freshwater shortage – one of the most pressing challenges facing the world today? The global water crisis has already made itself felt in a number of ways, and the problem will only wor…
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The Last New York City Dive Bar – How Sophie’s Has Managed To Survive For Over 100 Years | VinePair
A talented Playboy staff writer once defined a dive bar as a “church for down-and-outers and those who romanticize them, a rare place where high and low rub elbows—bums and poets, thieves and slumming celebrities. It’s a place that wears its history…
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Tens of thousands demand UK takes more refugees – Al Jazeera English
More than 182,000 people have signed a petition demanding that the British government does more to support refugees trying to seek asylum in the country, with the number of people registering their support continuing to rise rapidly.
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Samsung unveils world’s first 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc player | Ars Technica
BERLIN—Samsung has debuted the world’s first ultra high-definition (UHD) Blu-ray player at IFA, the catchily titled UBS-K8500.
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This Chicago stand invented the Polish sausage as we know it · The Hi-Lo Food Show · The A.V. Club
The Hi-Lo Food Show features acclaimed chef Erik Anderson (a Food & Wine Best New Chef, founding chef of Nashville’s The Catbird Seat, and chef-owner of the forthcoming Brut in Minneapolis) along with me, the editor-in-chief of this website and a se…
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Howdy! Senior writer Jason Heller here. Just wanted to let you know that Fantastique, The A.V. Club’s monthly fantasy film series, continues tonight at Alamo Drafthouse Denver with the 1980 fantasy epic Hawk The Slayer.
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Forrest tries his hand at catfishing in this clip from Review · Sponsored Post · The A.V. Club
After setting up an online dating profile for his alter ego Ace Shrift, Forrest makes a shocking discovery. Watch a new episode of Review every Thursday (TONIGHT!) at 10/9c on Comedy Central or anytime on the Comedy Central app.
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Google’s Street View App Pairs With This 360-Degree Camera | WIRED
The whole appeal of virtual reality is that it absorbs you. When it’s done poorly, the simulacrum shows itself, and you get The Truman Show sort of feeling, the feeling that something’s just not right here. But when it’s done well, it really does ta…
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The Difference Between a Blender, Food Processor, and an Immersion Blender
If you want to get creative in the kitchen, add a machine that can help you transform whole ingredients into sauces, soups, and chopped bits. Here’s the difference between blenders, food processors, and immersion blenders so you can decide which wor…
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Pharma Watch: Raising Awareness or Drumming Up Sales? – Scientific American
In January the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the amphetamine Vyvanse as the first drug for binge-eating disorder (BED).
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Boy ‘humiliated’ after naked selfie recorded as crime – BBC News
A teenager who sent a naked photo of himself to a girl at school has been added to a police database for making and distributing indecent images.The boy, who is 14, could have his details stored for at least 10 years and the information could be dis…
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Cartoon: The miracle of consciousness
FOLLOW @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook. And FURTHER, please join Tom the Dancing Bug’s subscription club, the INNER HIVE for advance access to comics and more stuff.
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Forget the Minimum Wage. Here’s Why 2016 Really Matters for Workers. | The New Republic
Labor activists cheered the Democrat National Committee’s decision last week to make a $15 federal minimum wage an official part of the party platform.
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Elvis Presley in concert (1976) : OldSchoolCool
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Republicans, who mercilessly mocked Barack Obama’s lack of government experience before he became President, now favor Presidential candidates with no experience whatsoever, the head of the Republican National Commit…
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Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
I was interested to read this book because it is by the author of Holes which I liked very much, and I was captivated by the fast-paced narrative.
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Tesla’s $35,000 Model 3 will start production in 2017 | Ars Technica
God bless Elon Musk and his Twitter feed. While other companies rely on secretive press offices or employ PR giants to handle their communications, Musk happily uses the 140-character platform to break news about what’s going on at Tesla and SpaceX.
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Turkey Releases Two VICE News Journalists from Prison as One Remains in Detention | VICE News
VICE News has received confirmation from the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office that two of our journalists, Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, have been released from a Turkish prison.
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Illinois manhunt widens for suspects wanted in fatal police shooting | US news | The Guardian
Authorities have broadened the hunt for three suspects wanted in the fatal shooting of a popular Illinois police officer, even as they acknowledged that they had no indication the men were still in the area where the killing happened.
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Before he took on the TV persona of Mort the Mouth, Morton Downey, Jr. was a singer like his father, the “Irish Nightingale.” Believe it or not, Stax released Junior’s debut album I Believe America in 1974, an example of the bold A&R work that led t…
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Study: World has 8x the number of trees we thought – Boing Boing
There are about 3.04 trillion trees on planet earth, rather more than the expected 400 billion, reports Nature. But it’s not good news.
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Migrant crisis: Francois Hollande and Enda Kenny news briefing – BBC News
French President Francois Hollande and Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Enda Kenny hold a news briefing on the Europe migrant crisis.
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UK Vice News journalists released from Turkish prison – BBC News
Two British journalists arrested in Turkey on terror charges are being released, according to reports. Vice News correspondent Jake Hanrahan and cameraman Philip Pendlebury were arrested while filming in the south-east region of Diyarbakir one week …
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More Star Wars merch than you can possibly imagine – Boing Boing
Kevin McFarland is warning you now: toys are coming, you won’t be able to escape them, and this time they are backed by a force beyond human comprehension: Disney. I recall that there was a surprisingly precipitous saturation point on the prequel tr…
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Pakistani feminist laying down some Twitter truths : TrollXChromosomes
Pakistani feminist laying down some Twitter truths via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/uh5ItflHJX http://t.co/yMIirHefVm
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[Art] Brother Gepetto Stares Woodenly At His Brew : monkslookingatbeer
[Art] Brother Gepetto Stares Woodenly At His Brew via /r/monkslookingatbeer http://t.co/hdqSaSnvBY http://t.co/nbhbc0FpsN
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Necromancy by Christian Lim / 500px
Necromancy by christianlim http://t.co/GtQquBLCn4 http://t.co/nFSU7p7b3O
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Dog deals with cats shenanigans. : funny
Dog deals with cats shenanigans. via /r/funny http://t.co/gy6SjAAqTB http://t.co/jBIFG08ws1
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Balance by Justin Reznick / 500px
Balance by Justinreznick http://t.co/k0gnA0k6pW http://t.co/7GQF7rgdNa
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Waze Fell for Fake Data Planted by a Competitor, Lawsuit Alleges | Motherboard
Imagine you’re in high school and you forgot to do last night’s homework assignment for the hundredth time. So you ask the kid next to you, again, to “do you a solid” and let you copy his answers. Sure, he says, no problem.
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Turkey Releases Two VICE Journalists from Prison as One Remains in Detention | VICE News
VICE News has received confirmation from the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office that two of our journalists, Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, have been released from a Turkish prison.
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Here’s the Stupid Reason We Don’t Have Monkeys in North America
Are you in North America? Statistically speaking, yes. Do you like monkeys? Of course you do. Have you noticed that you live in an extremely monkey-poor region of the Earth? Well, here’s what ruined your chance to have monkeys hanging around in your…
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Gawker EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Swift Did Blow Her Nose Backstage During the VMAs | Jalopnik Chinese Warships Spotted In Bering Sea As President Obama Tours Alaska | Kotaku Goku Kicking Everybody’s Ass in Street Fighter II | Lifehacker Six Things You Proba…
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Tour winner Froome pulls out of Spanish Vuelta – Al Jazeera English
Chris Froome’s hopes of pulling off a rare Tour de France-Vuelta double are over after he was forced to withdraw before Thursday’s 12th stage after a heavy crash on Wednesday left him with a fractured bone in his foot.
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These Bluetooth Speakers Can Stand Up To Your Shower, But Only Cost About $25
Waterproof Bluetooth speakers are perfect if you like to sing in the shower, or even just need more time to clear your podcast backlog, and you can choose from two great options today for around $25.
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How to Make Your Own Bitters for a Signature Stamp on Every Cocktail
Any bar worth its rimming salt should be stocked with at least a couple of bottles of bitters. Sure, you can make a cocktail without them, but you can also roast a chicken without salt or pepper.
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The Best Space Images Of The Month – Digg
As we tediously while away our days down here on Earth, satellites are zooming through space, snapping incredible pictures of Earth, the solar system and outer space. Here are the highlights from August.
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Stephen Colbert Counters Jeb Bush’s ‘Late Show’ Contest With Raffle | Rolling Stone
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush recently sent out an email to supporters trumpeting his visit to the inaugural episode of Late Show With Stephen Colbert and also announcing a contest where, for $3, donors could win a VIP trip to the tapin…
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Watch Rob Thomas Talk Rock-Star Excess, New Solo LP | Rolling Stone
Watch Rob Thomas Talk Rock-Star Excess, Matchbox Twenty Success, New LP “I just want to keep trying to make good records,” says alt-rock survivor in exclusive video interview
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I Went to School In Virtual Reality | Motherboard
I’m skipping through a gallery of monsters when suddenly I’m confronted by a facehugger, straight out of Alien, bursting out of its fleshy egg. I take off an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, and I’m back at the inaugural class of the Chronos VR …
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Goddamn, i’m fatter than i thought. : aww
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14-year-old added to police database for using Snapchat to send naked selfie | Ars Technica
A 14-year-old boy has been added to a UK police intelligence database for using Snapchat to send a naked picture of himself to a female classmate he was flirting with from his bedroom. She saved the image and shared it with others, which is how the …
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Relentless coordinated strategy was behind victory on Iran pact. More votes still being sought
What was apparently most persuasive was a meeting that a dozen senators had just before the August recess with foreign diplomats from the other five nations—Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia—who together with the United States negotiated th…
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Adorable puppies playing in a tub filled with empty water bottles – Boing Boing
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3D body scanning set to disrupt clothing industry – Al Jazeera English
It is estimated that up to half of the clothes bought online are returned to the seller, frequently because they are the wrong size. This costs sellers millions of dollars in extra shipping costs and warehouse fees, putting a dent into their profit…
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Chambray shirts and the blue-collar divide – Boing Boing
Troy Patterson reminds us that Rosie the Riveter did not shop at J. Crew or RRL. But there is something strange and unstoppable about the mainstreaming of workwear: quality divorced from its origins.
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Read This: Danny Glover, art film impresario · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Although he’s spent most of the last decade working the direct-to-video circuit, Danny Glover remains an important presence on the international film scene.
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Roadside Graves take a look at the clouds on new track · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Roadside Graves is one of those bands that breeds a certain level of devotion in people. The much-loved, little-buzzed-about New Jersey band has recently come off a six-year gap to release Acne / Ears, its first on Don Giovanni Records and fifth ove…
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Persecuted political artists defy Cuba crackdown – Al Jazeera English
Abderrahmane Sissako, one of Africa’s most prominent filmmakers, discusses his latest film, Islam, and events in Mali. How an Inuit community on the north coast of Greenland is pulling together to save their village and way of life.
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Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis made international headlines this week for her continued refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite a US supreme court order mandating otherwise. But she’s not the only defecting clerk in Kentucky.
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Santorum Mocks Liberals For Believing That Diversity Benefits America | ThinkProgress
Lagging in the polls and hoping to get a boost before the next Republican presidential debate, Rick Santorum chided the idea that multiculturalism is a benefit for America during a radio interview this week.
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Hold my beer while I make this daring escape. : holdmybeer
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Estes Park (over 8,000ft up) [1289×960] OC : EarthPorn
Estes Park (over 8,000ft up) [1289×960] OC via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/JrEYMVEXBZ http://t.co/8eTYO25Om2
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Migrants refuse to leave train near Hungary camp – BBC News
Scuffles have broken out west of the Hungarian capital, Budapest, after police tried to force migrants off a train at a refugee camp. Amid chaotic scenes, police ordered journalists from the area at Bicske, declaring it an “operation zone”.
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You’re a laboratory mistake. Can anybody love you? – Offworld
In A Heart Between Parts, your first act as a player is to unsnip the thread that sews your lips shut. Some scientist tried to make himself a wife and was unhappy with how you turned out, so you’ve been locked away.
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No Need to Argue About Calories vs Nutritional Quality: Both Matter
In a world where people market butter in their coffee as a weight loss and mental-boosting elixir, we hear similar noise from folks clamoring that a food’s nutritional quality and “wholeness” matter far more than its calories, whereas others treat t…
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Chaos as police stop Hungary migrant train – BBC News
Hungarian riot police have tried to force migrants and refugees off a packed train that had left Budapest’s international rail station, hours after police had finally let migrants into the station building.
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Syria conflict: ‘Global failure’ to protect refugees – BBC News
A UN inquiry into the conflict in Syria has criticised the “global failure” to protect the country’s refugees, saying it has fuelled Europe’s migrant crisis.
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Diver breaks up mortal combat between deadly sea snake, stonefish – CNET
If an average person happened upon the world’s most poisonous snake and the world’s most poisonous fish engaged in battle, stepping between them would probably be the last idea to come to mind. Leaving the area and trying to find a change of underpa…
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Breathing While Saxophone Playing Should Be An Olympic Sport | Atlas Obscura
Colin Stetson. (Photo: jean-daniel pauget/flickr) When Colin Stetson, the Montreal-based saxophonist, performs, he looks as though he’s giving birth.
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Under the Texan Sun – Roads & Kingdoms
I first met Peter Gorman in Iquitos, Peru. It was my third day there, and he was drinking water at a patio table on the malecón, the broad boulevard that separates the restaurants from the river. I was waiting for a friend and Gorman invited me to s…
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BB-8 Star Wars toy set to be Christmas hit – BBC News
A robotic toy modelled on one of the characters from the forthcoming Star Wars sequel aims to become one of most requested gifts this Christmas.
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 123 | WIRED
For the seemingly interminable wait until Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters, we’re helping pass time by giving you daily challenges related to everyone’s favorite universe. When you complete a task, send us a tweet @WIRED or tag us on Faceb…
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Evangelical Christians love Donald Trump – Boing Boing
He can’t stop mocking them even as he courts them, and seems baffled by how much support they’re sending his way. But he hates the same people they do, and that’s what matters.
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Airbnb Rolls Out An Apple Watch App | TechCrunch
Airbnb has found its way onto the Apple Watch. The company is releasing a new Apple Watch app today that’s centered around lightweight communication between hosts and guests. Hosts and guests can use it to get notifications for messages — as well as…
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SETI’s Top Astrobiologist Has a Plan to Find Life on Mars | WIRED
If there were life on Mars, we’d know about it by now. Surely. Right? Not according to Nathalie Cabrol, an astrobiologist at the SETI Institute.
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Family books reviews – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion by Alex T. Smithreviewed by Sofia
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End the Great American Drug Heist
This week, Sen. Bernie Sanders took on Big PhRMA, the all-powerful prescription drug company lobby, by demanding an end to the Great American Drug Heist.
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Luke Cage Just Added One of Marvel Comics’ Greatest Supporting Characters
Supergirl adds another member of the Lane family. Kenneth Branagh could be the director who finally gets Artemis Fowl off the ground. Get a brand new look at the movie adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise. Plus looks at the returns of iZombie, Sup…
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Canada Rejected Doomed Syrian Boy | Al Jazeera America
Aylan Kurdi, whose 3-year-old body was captured face-down in the surf in images that have horrified the world and have put into sharp focus the plight of refugees, set out for Europe only after Canada rejected his family’s asylum application, a Cana…
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Lost in Thought – Scientific American
Gedankenexperiment, German for “thought experiment,” was Albert Einstein’s famous name for the imaginings that led to his greatest breakthroughs in physics.
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Morning Digest: Dave Reichert may actually be serious about a statewide bid this time
• WA-Gov: Republican Rep. Dave Reichert almost always gets the Great Mentioner treatment as a potential gubernatorial or Senate candidate every two years and then does nothing about it, but this time seems a little different.
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Large lightning strike on Earth lights up ISS solar panels : space
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I really hate living around other people. : AdviceAnimals
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[OC] Hydroelectric Plant in West Virginia [1600 x 1142] : AbandonedPorn
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Quitting sugar “changed my brain” – Boing Boing
Michael Grothaus quit sugar, soon regretted it, but came through after a week or so. By the end of Day 4, I would have sold my dog for a brownie. The fogginess and lack of focus at one point got so bad, I was worried I wouldn’t be able to concentrat…
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Clashem Is An Epic Video Battle App | TechCrunch
Advances in technology over the past few years has made access to video (both creation and consumption) as simple as pulling your smartphone out of your pocket. And with those advances come a whole crop of video sharing apps, not least of which is a…
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The U.S. Has A Lot To Learn From Norway’s Prisons | ThinkProgress
Norway has some of the lowest recidivism rates in the world. Many believe the country’s rehabilitation-based approach to prison has helped prevent re-entry — a far cry from the cyclical nature of the criminal justice system in the United States.
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Refugee horrors cry out for humanity and leadership | Letters | World news | The Guardian
It is not easy to look in the mirror and value your reflection if you are not absolutely horrified by the images of a dead, innocent Syrian boy face down on a beach (The shocking cruel reality of Europe’s refugee crisis, 3 September).
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Watch a Drone Catch a Fish – The Daily Beast
Drones do it all now, from bringing you beer at a festival to dispatching a fiery end to enemies of the state to even performing at Disneyland.
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Washington police Won’t Face Charges Over Shooting | Al Jazeera America
Officer Ryan Donald, a three-year veteran of the police department in the state capital Olympia, told investigators the men had no weapons during the May incident.
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Most of the migrants had no idea how long their journey might last, though a few had been told by their smugglers that they could expect to reach Italy in six to eight hours.
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A work shirt is a dress shirt with a job to do. Accordingly, it is designed with buttonholes on its double pockets, stitched with an emphasis on strength and constructed from a sturdy material like khaki or covert or, most classically, a cotton call…
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UK Match.com site hit by malicious adverts – BBC News
Malicious adverts have been found on the UK version of the Match.com dating website. Anyone caught out by the booby-trapped ads could fall victim to ransomware, said security company Malwarebytes, which spotted the cyber-threat.
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Hands on with Sony’s new Xperia Z5 phones—and its ludicrous 4K display | Ars Technica
BERLIN—Forget QuadHD displays: the new hotness is 4K. At IFA 2015, Sony took the wraps off its new Z5, Z5 Compact, and Z5 Premium phones, with the flagship Z5 Premium sporting a 5.5-inch 4K (3840×2160) display, which works out to a ridiculous 806 PP…
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France Could Face Huge Bill After Allegedly Hiring 48,650 Casual Staff Illegally | VICE News
The French government hired nearly 50,000 undeclared civil servants on a casual basis, a leaked report revealed earlier this week.
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This gamification ‘documentary’ is a work of art – Offworld
Gamification is one part of the world of game design that easily excites outsiders: Ideas about how systems and rewards motivate people, and how designed “playfulness” helps make labor more palatable, are easy for people to understand. Finally, game…
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The moment America finally made its peace with Iran and rewrote the rules of its political relationship with Israel came suddenly even to those who have been urging both upheavals for the longest.
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Baby trapped in car turns out to be realistic doll – Boing Boing
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‘I pity the fool who messes with my Boy, George’—An unlikely A-Team cameo|Dangerous Minds
When I was a kid I liked The A-Team and I liked Culture Club, yet somehow I never knew about Boy George’s inexplicable guest-star gig on the NBC program.
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Tertiary Conclusion: I may still be harboring feelings of resentment towards my ex… – Imgur
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The cart at my local store has a place to charge your phone : mildlyinteresting
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Cool way to stop people littering cigarette butts : pics
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BBC Sport – Fernando Alonso & Jenson Button given grid penalties at Monza
McLaren’s Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button will start from the back at Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix after the latest in a series of engine penalties.
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I’m shaking sand from the beach towels and tucking bathing suits into plastic storage bins in the hall closet. The paperwork for fall sports and music classes is waiting on the kitchen counter.
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Google Street View … as made by cats : cats
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Somebody give this stock boy a raise : pics
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Take That and The Weeknd join Apple Music festival line-up – BBC News
Take That, Chemical Brothers and R&B star The Weeknd have joined the line-up for the Apple Music Festival at London’s Roundhouse. They join the likes of Pharrell Williams, Florence and the Machine and Little Mix, who have already been announced for …
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City-run ISP makes 10Gbps available to all residents and businesses | Ars Technica
A municipal Internet service provider in Salisbury, North Carolina, announced today that it is making 10Gbps service available throughout the city, to both businesses and residents.
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In our bodies, stem cells inhabit chaotic and noisy environments where they are exposed to a large array of different inputs. Cells must decide which inputs are “signals” that the cell should pay attention to and which inputs are “noise” and should …
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Racial Gap in Kidney Transplants Combated by Policy Changes – Scientific American
Although racial disparities continue to plague the health care system there is one bright spot: the gap in kidney transplants appears to have closed.
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Web baby-monitoring cameras open to hacking, study warns – BBC News
Several popular web-connected baby-monitoring cameras lack basic security, researchers have warned. Even the most rudimentary hacking attempts could give hackers access to the devices, US company Rapid7 said.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
How’s that for a cryptic promo? Figure it all out, simply by tuning in. Listen LIVE, right here at 9:00 AM ET!
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Tamil MP Sampanthan to lead Sri Lanka opposition – BBC News
A Tamil MP has become leader of the opposition in Sri Lanka’s parliament – the first member of the ethnic minority group to hold the post in 32 years.Rajavarothiam Sampanthan, 82, leads the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), which became the third-large…
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My Honda Logo, which is a so-called “Super Mini,” is small. Really small. Despite the car having four doors, it’s honestly a struggle to fit four full sized adults in the GA3. I’ve done it twice, and nobody enjoyed the experience. I almost always ha…
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Concussion: Will NFL sanitize history with brain trauma biopic? | Sport | The Guardian
What forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu found in 2002 when he cut open the head of former Steelers center Mike Webster and sifted through the dead player’s brain might be the biggest sports medical discovery ever.
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Last January, Bryan Fischer was allegedly fired as a mouthpiece for the conservative American Family Association. Don’t believe it. He kept his AFA radio show, which continues to be the primary means of communication for that organization.
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Will Smith film Concussion ‘not altered to appease NFL’ says Sony – BBC News
Sony has hit back at suggestions that it downplayed elements of forthcoming Will Smith film Concussion to appease the National Football League (NFL). Concussion focuses on real-life whistle-blower Dr Bennet Omalu (Smith) and his confrontation with t…
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Judge may hold Kentucky clerk in contempt for refusing to issue licenses | US news | The Guardian
A county clerk in Kentucky who has refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples based on her religious beliefs heads to court on Thursday where a federal judge could hold her in contempt for defying his order to do so.
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Zion Canyon at Zion National Park, Utah. (OC) (1400×800) : EarthPorn
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