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Not a happy hour: Beer truck overturn, dumps cans on highway - Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/not... )

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"The Florida Highway Patrol says beer cans were strewn along the highway north of Tampa early Tuesday after 23-year-old truck driver Malcolm Jamal Wilcox of Fernandina Beach became distracted by a small dog riding in the cab and lost control of the vehicle. The truck went onto the outside shoulder and the driver overcorrected, crossed the highway and hit the center median guardrail before overturning. Much of the cargo spilled onto the road, forcing troopers to close the southbound lanes in Hernando County for more than three hours. Troopers say Wilcox was cited for careless driving. No one was injured in the crash." - JustDuckie - -

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Move over Shakespeare, teen girls are the real language disruptors - Quartz (http://qz.com/474671/move... https://qzprod.files.word... )

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"A pair of linguists, Terttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg at the University of Helsinki, conducted a study that combed through 6,000 personal letters written between 1417 and 1681. The pair looked at fourteen language changes that occurred during this period, things like the eradication of ye, the switch from “mine eyes” to “my eyes,” and the change from hath, doth, maketh to has, does, makes. In 11 out of the 14 changes, they found that female letter-writers were changing the way they wrote faster than male letter-writers. In the three exceptional cases where the men were ahead of the women, those particular changes were linked to men’s greater access to education at the time. In other words, women are reliably ahead of the game when it comes to word-of-mouth linguistic changes." - JustDuckie - -

"It takes about a generation for the language patterns started among young women to jump over to men. Uptalk, for example, which is associated with Valley Girls in the 1970s, is found among young men today. In other words, women learn language from their peers; men learn it from their mothers." - JustDuckie - -

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Shift dropped on author after typo in her romantic novel | Books | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.co... http://i.guim.co.uk/img/s... )

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"Bounty hunter Sam McKade is the new breed of hero. Tall? Undoubtedly. Handsome and chiselled? For sure. Incontinent? Erm – possibly. Author Susan Andersen was horrified to discover an unfortunate typo in the ebook edition of her new novel Baby, I'm Yours, which takes the novel out of the romance category and into something rather darker. "I apologise to anyone who bought my on-sale ebook of Baby, I'm Yours and read on pg 293: 'He stiffened for a moment but then she felt his muscles loosen as he shitted on the ground'," says Andersen." - JustDuckie - -

'as he shitted on the ground': that's a bit gross, and funny. i'll buy the book. - StefanoHBS - [ 2 ] -

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World Lion Day: 17 stunning images celebrating the King of the Jungle - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.u... http://i.telegraph.co.uk/... )

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"In honour of World Lion Day, photographer, guide and predator expert Paul Goldstein has selected some of his favourite images of the endangered animals. Wimbledon-based Paul has spent years studying and photographing lions. The photographs were taken at the Olare and Mara North Conservancies and in the Reserve, in Kenya. " - JustDuckie - -

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Ukrainian Armed Forces to employ raccoons - English pravda.ru (http://english.pravda.ru/... http://pravda-team.ru/eng... )

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"The Ukrainian Armed Forces may soon have new soldiers, and those soldiers will be raccoons. Reportedly, the animals will be used for combat engineering purposes. The work to train the animals look for mines are already being conducted in the Kharkov region of Ukraine. In one of the military units of Kharkov, there is a raccoon named Hook. Dog handlers have picked a female for the raccoon - a female raccoon named Alice. After the animals produce offspring, they will be taught to search for explosives. The raccoon is a resilient animal that can escape from predators. Raccoons are known to be very cunning and resourceful creatures that have not proved their ability to military learning, Pravda.Ru reports. " - JustDuckie - -

>.> Now they're getting military training. - JustDuckie - -

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Photographer Uses 17th-Century Art To Talk About Racial Politics Today (http://www.huffingtonpost... http://img.huffingtonpost... http://img.huffingtonpost... )

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"Artist Maxine Helfman has always loved Flemish portraits. Made distinct by the comically large collars and hats adorning the artworks' subjects, the 15th- to 17th-century paintings typically feature a lone, expressionless man or woman staring just beyond the viewer's sightline. Centuries removed from today's styles of portraiture, they seem like windows into the lives of ghosts we never knew. There's a slight problem though. The portraits of Belgian-Dutch past are pretty monotonous, filled with eerily similar white European faces that hardly represent the population of people living in the region today. Sure, in Jan van Eyck's time, his patrons were frequently white and of noble descent. But it's still worth questioning all the faces van Eyck and his ilk left out of their work; the many faces a painter never bothered to stare at for hours on end. " - JustDuckie - -

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Story of My Life: How Narrative Creates Personality - The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.co... http://cdn.theatlantic.co... )

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"When people tell others about themselves, they kind of have to do it in a narrative way—that’s just how humans communicate. But when people think about their lives to themselves, is it always in a narrative way, with a plot that leads from one point to another? There's an old adage that everyone has a book inside of them. (Christopher Hitchens once said that inside is “exactly where I think it should, in most cases, remain.”) Is there anyone out there with a life story that's not a story at all, but some other kind of more disjointed, avant-garde representation of their existence? “This is an almost impossible question to address from a scientific approach,” says Monisha Pasupathi, a professor of developmental psychology at the University of Utah. Even if we are, as the writer Jonathan Gottschall put it, “storytelling animals,” what does that mean from one person to the next? Not only are there individual differences in how people think of their stories, there’s huge variation in the degree to which they engage in narrative storytelling in the first place. " - JustDuckie - -

"This developmental trajectory could also explain why people enjoy different types of fictional stories at different ages. “When you’re a kid, it’s mostly about plot,” McAdams says. “This happens and this happens. You’re not tuned into the idea that a character develops.” Thus, perhaps, the appeal of cartoon characters who never get older. “I’m in a book club, and we recently read Silas Marner, George Eliot’s 19th century novel,” McAdams says. “I read it in high school and hated it. All I could remember about it was that this sled hits a tree. And we read it recently in the club, and whoa, is it fabulous. A sled does hit the tree, there’s no doubt that is a big scene, but how it changes these people’s lives and the tragedy of this whole thing, it’s completely lost on 18-year-olds. Things are lost on 8-year-olds that a 40-year-old picks up, and things that an 8-year-old found compelling and interesting will just bore a 40-year-old to tears sometimes.”" - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Is the 'new' Norwegian wolf really wild? -- ScienceDaily (http://www.sciencedaily.c... http://images.sciencedail... )

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"Today's Norwegian wolves live fairly regulated lives. So how wild are they, really? "Many people are concerned with keeping the wolf wild, natural and authentic. The challenge for the modern management programme is that detailed monitoring and management jeopardize the status of 'the new Norwegian wolf' as wild and authentic -- and that people eventually won't see the value of preserving the wolf," says Håkon B. Stokland at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's (NTNU) Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture. He has written his PhD dissertation on how the conservation and management of wolves has been carried out in practice, and the consequences of these practices." - JustDuckie - -

"With the advent of genetic markers as a mapping tool, scat, fur remnants and residual materials from dead wolves have been collected. These are analysed in a laboratory in Trondheim that creates gene profiles of the wolves. Almost all the wolves dating back to 1983 are plotted onto a pedigree chart, and the family tree shows that almost all the wolves in the 1980s originated from two Russian wolves. Later, five Russian wolves joined the population (one in 1991 and four in 2007), which has helped the inbreeding problem. "There's been a lot of debate about the Norwegian wolf not being Norwegian. Scandinavian and Russian wolves can be genetically distinguished, but practically speaking they are virtually identical," Stokland said." - JustDuckie - -

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Cannabis residue found in William Shakespeare's pipes | Stuff.co.nz (http://www.stuff.co.nz/en... http://www.stuff.co.nz/co... )

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"To be high or not to be high: That is the question scientists are asking after discovering cannabis in pipes dug up in Shakespeare's garden. The find suggests William Shakespeare may have been smoking the illicit drug when he produced some of his famous works. Scientists in Pretoria analysed 400-year-old tobacco pipes found in and around the playwright's home in Stratford-Upon-Avon, The Independent reports." - JustDuckie - -

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Nursing center patient goes to bathroom, finds snake in underpants | www.wftv.com (http://www.wftv.com/news/... http://media.cmgdigital.c... )

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"The resident was not bitten or injured by the snake, authorities said. He even told police he'd like to keep the reptile as a pet." - JustDuckie - -

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North Yorkshire police discover sheep riding to McDonald's in car boot | World news | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.co... http://i.guim.co.uk/img/m... )

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"Police stopped a motorist in Yorkshire on suspicion of driving with two bald tyres only to find there was a sheep riding in the boot of his car. When questioned about why the sheep was in the car, the driver said he was taking it to McDonald’s for a takeaway. North Yorkshire Police Roads Policing Group posted a picture of the car on Twitter, complete with the unexpected animal in the passenger seat, with the caption: “Ewe have got to be kidding!!!”" - JustDuckie - -

"A spokeswoman for North Yorkshire police who spoke to the Northern Echo said the driver “told the officer that ‘some people take their dogs in their cars, I take my sheep’.”" - JustDuckie - [ 2 ] -

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Creative Man Builds a Feline Feeding Machine That Requires His Cat to Hunt for His Dinner (http://laughingsquid.com/... http://i1.wp.com/laughing... )

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"So instead of feeding my cat, I hide these balls around the house… This all started after I read an explanation of why cats go about repeatedly exploring the same areas: it’s partly to establish and survey their territory, but they’re also practicing ‘mobile’ hunting: moving about, being curious, and poking their noses around in the hopes of upsetting potential prey and finding a meal. So what if my cat, while out on patrol, actually found its prey? Surely this would bring him one step closer towards a more fulfilled and self-actualized indoor kitty existence." - JustDuckie - -

This might also explain why I like to go up and down every aisle of every nearby supermarket when I move. - Andrew C - [ 1 ] -

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Real-life Game of Thrones: Lawyer seeks trial by combat to resolve lawsuit | SILive.com (http://www.silive.com/nor... http://imgick.silive.com/... )

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"A Staten Island lawyer with a penchant for bowties and closely-cut beards is apparently channeling his inner "Games of Thrones" by asking a judge to sanction a trial by combat to resolve a civil suit in which he's accused of helping a client commit fraud. "The allegations made by plaintiffs, aided and abetted by their counsel, border upon the criminal," Richard A. Luthmann wrote in a brief recently filed in state Supreme Court, St. George. "As such, the undersigned (Luthmann) respectfully requests that the court permit the undersigned to dispatch plaintiffs and their counsel to the Divine Providence of the Maker for Him to exact His divine judgment once the undersigned has released the souls of the plaintiffs and their counsel from their corporeal bodies, personally and or by way of a champion."" - JustDuckie - -

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» Lit As Last Bastion: Natalka Sniadanko On Suppression, Solidarity & Language In Ukraine (http://electricliterature... http://electric-lit-asset... )

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"Ukrainian literature is not only divided into Ukrainian-language and Russian-language, pro-west and pro-Russian, but also into official and independent. Official literature is produced by a sizeable state-sponsored Writers’ Union, which has central and regional offices with different facilities, staff, their own media channels—even resorts of their own for their summer vacations. But the literature of its members often exists more hypothetically than it does in actual fact. As a rule, its aesthetics are those of socialist realism—a holdover from Soviet times. These writers periodically receive government awards—officially for books that can’t be found in any bookstore, unofficially for being somebody’s relatives, colleagues, friends. They run the regional Writers’ Unions, get together for conventions, even publish the occasional newspaper—every so often, even a book. These papers and books rarely reach any readers: print runs are miniscule, and the books are essentially intended to serve as gifts for the same government officials who give out the awards." - JustDuckie - -

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Stand-Up Comics Have to Censor Their Jokes on College Campuses - The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.co... http://cdn.theatlantic.co... )

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"The colleges represented were—to use a word that their emissaries regard as numinous—diverse: huge research universities, tiny liberal-arts colleges, Catholic schools, land-grant institutions. But the students’ taste in entertainment was uniform. They liked their slam poets to deliver the goods in tones of the highest seriousness and on subjects of lunar bleakness; they favored musicians who could turn out covers with cheerful precision; and they wanted comedy that was 100 percent risk-free, comedy that could not trigger or upset or mildly trouble a single student. They wanted comedy so thoroughly scrubbed of barb and aggression that if the most hypersensitive weirdo on campus mistakenly wandered into a performance, the words he would hear would fall on him like a soft rain, producing a gentle chuckle and encouraging him to toddle back to his dorm, tuck himself in, and commence a dreamless sleep—not text Mom and Dad that some monster had upset him with a joke." - JustDuckie - -

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Ehhhh I wonder how much of this is tied to the high cost of attending college. Students who complain about an edgy joke might be rightfully pissed that some of their tens of thousands of tuition dollars are going toward someone who insulted them. Lower the tuition fees, and they might be more open to comics who take on controversial topics. - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Florida Woman Kidnapped Her Daughter to Prevent Her From Learning Black History | Miami New Times (http://www.miaminewtimes.... http://images1.miaminewti... )

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"Instead of getting his daughter, Robert Baumann received only a note: “You are a great dad. If I let them take her and vaccinate her and brainwash her, I wouldn’t be doing what’s right. I cannot let a judge tell me how my daughter should be raised. We will miss you. But I had to leave.” Baumann also told police that he had wanted to enroll his daughter in pre-K, but Everett preferred homeschooling. She said she didn't want her daughter learning about black history and wanted her to learn only about the Confederacy. So she took off. Her story was aired nationally last weekend on John Walsh's CNN show The Hunt, and a woman in Palatka, Florida, recognized the mother and daughter and tipped off authorities. Everett was found living in an RV and had since changed her daughter's name to Mary. She was arrested on multiple charges, and Lilly has now been returned to her father. " - JustDuckie - -

This is one of those times where I wish we had licenses to procreate. - faboomama - [ 1 ] -

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English class got hijacked by the question of Dr. Pepper's credentials in Korean.

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Apparently it hinges on whether Pepper is a surname or a noun. Because Dr. Pepper (surname) implies a medical doctor, but Dr. Pepper (noun) implies "Expert/Specialist/Scholar of Pepper". - JustDuckie - [ 4 ] -

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‘Bones,’ ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Crossover Storyline and Plot Revealed | TVLine (http://tvline.com/2015/08... https://pmctvline2.files.... )

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"On Bones, the grisly discovery of human remains lead Brennan and Booth on a hunt for clues, during which they encounter Ichabod Crane and Abbie Mills, searching for answers of their own. Realizing that they are after the same evidence, they team up to solve the mystery. Then, immediately following on Sleepy Hollow, the intrigue continues as Ichabod’s old nemesis is back from the dead. Ichabod and Abbie need advanced forensic help and expertise to stop him and turn to Brennan and Booth to unlock 18th century secrets using 21st century science." - JustDuckie - -

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I hung in there for longer, but yes - I miss the "I'm impatient because you're slow" version of her character vs. "I'm haughty and dismissive" which the writers seemed to default to in later years. They still show some flashes of the previous, but not as many. I just don't really want these two universes to be the same one - Bones is predicated on the "there are no monsters, just things that haven't been properly explained" and Sleepy Hollow is the opposite. - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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Rare bird photo contest canceled - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"The New Taipei City Government has canceled a proposed photography contest focused on a rare Siberian white crane that migrated to a wetland in the city late last year amid criticism the contest could threaten the bird’s habitat with the influx of competitors and tourists. The contest was promoted on the city’s Animal Protection and Health Inspection Office Web site to raise awareness of bird conservation and the rarity of the white crane — an endangered species — but the office canceled the contest due to conservation concerns, office director Chen Yuan-chuan (陳淵泉) said. The office has deployed a security guard to maintain order at the site, cordoned off the rice paddies where the bird dwells and set up warning signs to caution the public against getting too close to the bird, Chen said." - JustDuckie - -

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Pumpkin Spice Peeps - Halloween Themed Marshmallow Candy on Sale August 31 (http://www.delish.com/foo... http://del.h-cdn.co/asset... )

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"Yes, Pumpkin Spice Peeps are now a thing. They're one of Peeps' new Halloween creations, which include caramel apple and candy corn-flavored marshmallow chicks, and tiny "toppers" for baked goods that are shaped like ghosts and jack-o-lanterns. This product was eerily predicted last year by the experts at My Fitness Pal, an app that helps people track their meals. They crunched the numbers and found that pumpkin spice foods spiked by more than 20,000% from 2009 to 2014. And that wasn't just in the fall; people chowed down on pumpkin spice all the way through March. "Before you know it," the company told Time, "we could be looking at pumpkin spice peeps and jelly beans." And here they are. The perfect accompaniment to your Starbucks PSL will go on sale August 31, and it will only be on sale at Target and on Peeps' website." - JustDuckie - -

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Sleepy Hollow Drops the Headless Horseman for Season 3. Wait, What? (http://io9.com/sleepy-hol... http://i.kinja-img.com/ga... )

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"While the idea of any adaptation of Sleepy Hollow missing its cranially-challenged antagonist seems insane. unfortunately, like all the other villains in season 2, Sleepy Hollow turned the Horseman boring. He transformed from a frightening, unstoppable harbinger of the demonic apocalypse into a jealous dude who, frequently, actually had a head. He was not cool, and he was not interesting—as such, the show forced itself to drop the character, lest he bring his massive, boring backstory into a new season it would much prefer to start fresh. So while I’ll miss the original idea of the Horseman from season one, I am not sorry to see the specific Horseman of season two kicked to the curb. My real concern is about reestablishing the partnership between Ichabod and Abbie that made the show so unique and so good in the beginning. Of course, I have concerns about that as well..." - JustDuckie - -

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Madrid Crowds Ignore a Disguised Cristiano Ronaldo in This Product Launch Stunt | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"Hunky football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is immediately recognizable around the world (That gorgeous face!). But stuff him into a padded suit, add scruffy facial hair and ratty clothes and he can hang out undetected even in his bustling hometown. Even a soccer ball and fancy footwork can't give him away. That's the setup of a just-launched video to announce the athlete's foray into consumer electronics, namely headphones and portable speakers. Posted on Facebook, with no paid media push around it, the video has racked up 33 million views in two days. It also has nearly 900,000 shares, 1.4 million "likes" and 100,000 comments. At one point on Monday, the digital piece was attracting nearly 1 million views every half-hour, outpacing even YouTube's "Ad of the Decade" with Lionel Messi and Kobe Bryant." - JustDuckie - -

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Shirtless 'Tarzan' arrested at Santa Ana Zoo after swinging from trees, trying to get into monkey exhibit - The Orange County Register (http://www.ocregister.com... http://images.onset.freed... )

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"A shirtless man covered with mud and claiming to be Tarzan was arrested Tuesday morning after he was found swinging from the trees and trying to get into a monkey pen at the Santa Ana Zoo, police said. He was found to be in possession and under the influence of methamphetamine." - JustDuckie - -

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The Wendigo - The Butter (http://the-toast.net/2015... http://17rg073sukbm1lmjk9... )

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"The wendigo is a manitou, a kind of powerful spirit, and it wanders to us via the folklore of Native American tribes in the Great Lakes Region and along the Atlantic Coast. These are bleak climes where forests unroll like black tapestries and the lakes grow thick layers of ice. Northern winters are hard to explain to outsiders, but when you watch January winds lash Lake Michigan so the water leaps and spumes through icebergs that crest up like frozen volcanoes, it’s impossible to forget nature is still wild, no matter how many vacation houses we build on her wave-filigreed shores or roads we try to plow across her. I grew up in a small town in Michigan, where the legend is still common enough that last year our local paper published an article listing potential sightings across the state. It’s not that most locals actually believe in the wendigo, but our geography allows a certain openness to the idea that nature still contains terrifying mysteries." - JustDuckie - -

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Thanks Halil! - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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How do you stop Twitter trolls? Unleash a robot swarm to troll them back - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.u... http://i.telegraph.co.uk/... )

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"Today, a strange and mysterious advocacy group based in Berlin called the "Peng! Collective" have launched a new way of tackling the misogynistic Twitter trolls. They’re calling it "Zero Trollerance." Here’s what they are doing. If a Twitter user posts any one of around one hundred preselected terms or words that are misogynistic, a bot – an automated account – spots it, and records that user’s Twitter handle in a database. (These terms, in case you’re wondering, include, but are not limited to, the following gems: #feministsareugly #dontdatesjws "die stupid bitch", "feminazi" and "stupid whore".) This is the clever bit. This is a lurking, listening bot. It’s patrolling Twitter silently as we speak and taking details of the misogynists. But then there is another fleet of a hundred or so bots – I’ll call them the attack bots – that, soon after the offending post has been identified, will start auto-tweeting messages @ the offender (more on what they tweet below). " - JustDuckie - -

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" There is even testimony from "reformed trolls" who document how they, too, have been through the programme and come out a better person. One Twitter user, @lolshirtguy, explains his experience: "Day one: shock. Day two: feeling lost and alone. So angry! Day six: reborn, and full of love. Thank you, Zero Trollerance!" I’m going to assume that you have noticed that the point is not that these misogynists will be following the six steps. Rather, that this is meant to annoy them. The point, of course, is that they will get a dose of their own medicine: being patronised, sneered at and made to feel foolish. This, in the parlance of troll culture, is known as "trolls trolling trolls". It’s considered to be one of the best antidotes to online nastiness. Don’t take offence or get upset by these trolls, since that’s what they’re trying to do. But don’t just stay silent either. Troll them back! " - JustDuckie - -

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Homme de Plume: What I Learned Sending My Novel Out Under a Male Name (http://jezebel.com/homme-... http://i.kinja-img.com/ga... )

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"So, on a dim Saturday morning, I copy-pasted my cover letter and the opening pages of my novel from my regular e-mail into George’s account. I put in the address of one of the agents I’d intended to query under my own name. I didn’t expect to hear back for a few weeks, if at all. It would only be a few queries and then I’d close out my experiment. I began preparing another query, checking the submission requirements on the agency web site. When I clicked back, there was already a new message, the first one in the empty inbox. Mr. Leyer. Delighted. Excited. Please send the manuscript." - JustDuckie - -

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I get so much more writing & photography work as a guy than I do as myself. I like how I'll get rejected with criticism as a black woman, but the same exact words or picture will be bought immediately when people assume I'm a dude. - faboomama - - [ 1 ]

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