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• The brains of those ‘addicted’ to porn bear no neurological resemblance to those of other well-documented addictions while watching it, says a new study. neuroscientists Nicole Prause (Liberos LLC at UCLA) and Vaughn Steele, and their team of researchers, have released a new study, published in the journal Biological Psychology, that reaffirms their previous findings: “porn addiction” and “sex addiction,” as we understand them, may not be real.
  Your Porn Addiction Isn’t Real (Daily Beast)

• If you’re producing non-mainstream porn, the British authorities are coming after you. They will threaten you, they will destroy your business, they will publish your real name and they will issue crippling fines against you. The penalties for producing ethically-made, non-mainstream porn are legion. Pandora Blake had just started turning a profit when it happened to her.
  ATVOD: this is how they shut you up (Erotic Review Magazine)

• In this clip, a CNN anchor and editor fail to recognize that what they have identified as an “ISIS flag” is actually a flag of dildos and butt plugs, rendered in the style of ISIS.
  CNN Mistakes Dildo-Covered Flag at Pride Parade for ISIS Flag (Gawker)

@CNN: Raid on #DildoISIS sleeper cell in London shows range of weapons they have in their arsenal pic.twitter.com/ZDlaaCQ0RX

— Sunny (@SunScot) June 28, 2015

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The EL James PR team right about now. #AskELJames pic.twitter.com/bZ3jyIdPUG

— Deb Bailey (@DebBC) June 29, 2015

• On Monday, a Twitter Q&A was set up for Fifty Shades of Grey author, E.L. James’ fans to ask her anything they wanted using the hashtag #AskELJames. However, it quickly turned into a PR nightmare.
  Twitter Q&A #AskELJames turns into epic PR disaster, EL James goaded on poor writing and rape culture (The Celebrity Cafe)

• Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a new book out Tuesday, titled “A Time for Truth.” In it, he talks about watching pornography with Supreme Court justices for a case challenging a law that regulated online porn.
  Why Ted Cruz watched pornography with Supreme Court justices (Washington Post)

• The Guardian UK has discovered ebook erotica, but only as if it emerged when the Kindle came out. It’s bizarre. The article completely ignores the publishing history of erotica, the world of erotica before e-readers, and the sprawling world of erotica (and ebook erotica business) in general. Sheesh.
  Gay vampires and bisexual cowboys: why erotica has e-readers to thank (NAME)

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• Long before geriatric Arnold Schwarzenegger reappeared to battle an army of his young, buff Arnold clones, killer robots from the future were presenting themselves for your viewing pleasure, often parading around our universe in a state of complete buck-ass nudity. It’s almost like they wanted us to review and rank them in order of sexiness.
  Every Terminator, Ranked In Order Of Sex Appeal (MTV)

• Of all the buzzy sex terms out there, “fetish” is perhaps the most misunderstood. It carries a certain connotation, as adjectives like “weird,” “strange” and even “dirty” often precede it. The result: endless jokes, stigmas and popular myths about what a sexual fetish is and isn’t. (FYI – I wrote the only how-to book on the topic, Fetish Sex.)
  It’s Time to Put These 7 Myths About Fetishes to Bed, Once and for All (Mic)

• Turning back the clock to the time when porn was distributed by few, and cost was controlled by an old boys’ network of distributors, and there were no porn tube sites, are the goals of Takedown Piracy (TDP). Since 2009, they’ve removed over 56 million pieces of content from the Internet. Recently, Takedown Piracy announced that their Nemesis program, a special digital fingerprinting process that makes it impossible to hide pirated content online, had taken down over 140,000 videos in five months.
  A World without Free Porn? (Men’s Health)

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• FEMEN “sextremists” have now set up shop in more than ten countries, but only have one active branch in North America. In this documentary, VICE journalist Brigitte Noël enters the world of FEMEN Quebec as they disturb the public space with their homegrown brand of activism, bringing skin, controversy, and feminism to the front page. As FEMEN set out on a mission to protect Canadian women’s abortion rights, Noël shadowed the group to get a better understanding of their message, their approach, and whether their shock-and-awe tactics actually work.
  FEMEN: Sextremism in Canada (YouTube/Vice)

• VR is viewed by some as just a new way to play games, but each VR headset is shaping up to be its own platform with exclusives games, much like today’s consoles. Porn or not, 2016 is looking like the year virtual reality makes it or breaks it.
  Which VR headset will win? Porn has already decided (Destructiod)

• On Sunday night (June 28), AMC will premiere the first installment of its sci-fi British export “Humans” — and when it does, viewers nationwide will instantly figure out what our friends across the pond already know: that Gemma Chan is sexy.
  ‘Humans’ Star Gemma Chan Spills On Robot Sex And Women In Sci-Fi (MTV)

• Just in time for summer, luminaries in the adult industry share their secrets on how they maintain their desirable bods. Adult actresses make no secrets about how they stay in shape—perseverance and hard work. And who better to ask about looking good without clothes on than those who get paid to do it?
  How to Get Fit Like a Porn Star: Looking Good Naked Ain’t Easy (Daily Beast)

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Natalie Wood after a pie fight, 1965. pic.twitter.com/XAM818dGHZ

— ClassicPics (@History_Pics) June 26, 2015

• The director of the controversial Moroccan film “Much Loved,” that addresses the Muslim country’s sex industry, has been summoned to court this week on charges of “pornography, indecency and inciting minors to debauchery,” local media reported. Although prostitution is illegal, the North African country is considered a sex tourist destination in some parts of the Arab world.
  Moroccan film director charged with ‘pornography’ (ARA)

• Two incidences of non-consensual porn have hit Australian headlines recently, along with sneers and jibes at police and the women whose photos were stolen or shared without their approval. Some of the victims are possibly underaged girls.
  Hundreds of Australian nude images posted without women’s consent (Naked Security/Sophos)

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Content warning: this post discusses rape, sexual violence and media misogyny

Rape scenes are horribly popular in the media, and seldom necessary. With a flicker of hope, I wonder if savvy viewers are finally kicking back against this tedious trope as an opening-night audience booed a completely gratuitous rape scene crowbarred into an opera.

The defences of the scene were the same old tired shit. The director of the Royal Opera House said:

“The production includes a scene which puts the spotlight on the brutal reality of women being abused during war time, and sexual violence being a tragic fact of war,”

while one of the cast said:

“Maybe it went a little longer than it should have, but it happened and I think it’s an element you can use to show just how horrible these people were that were occupying this town,”

while the director of the production said exactly the same thing too:

“If you don’t feel the brutality, the suffering these people have had to face, if you want to hide it, it becomes soft, it becomes for children,”

I often wonder about the existence of this hypothetical audience member who cannot understand that a villain is bad, and conditions are awful for women, without being literally shown a woman being raped. I presume Rossini, who wrote the opera in 1829, didn’t have such a low opinion of those who would appreciate his work, considering he didn’t write that scene in himself–it was added by the director.

I’ve written before about how a competent production doesn’t need to show a rape scene for the audience to grok that this is a bad place full of bad people, comparing the latest Mad Max to Game of Thrones. To me, putting a rape on stage or screen or on the page as a form of scene-setting is the very pinnacle of laziness. A decent writer or director can build up an air of threat, of terror, without having to use salacious violence against women as a shorthand for this. It’s the Michael Bay school of show don’t tell… rather than hinting and using subtlety, they show with a gross insult to the audience’s capacity to think.

Yes, there are times where as rape scene is actually relevant to the plot, but these instances are few: tiny, compared to the number of times such scenes have been smeared in there like shit on a portaloo wall.

People will use the potentially imaginary audience member to excuse what is essentially a failure of men’s skills at writing and directing. I cannot say I have ever met or spoken to–or even had a screeching comment–from somebody who admits that they are incapable of grasping that the situation is dire or the villain is a bad ‘un without having to see somebody being raped.

Perhaps, therefore, audience are smarter than writers and directors think. And this means that they must stop using the same worn-out old excuses to cover for their fatuous productions. In turn, perhaps this means they will finally have to face a challenge of creating something with a little bit of thought behind it.

In an ominous warning issued jointly by the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center, all US law enforcers have been instructed “to be vigilant and prepared” for homegrown terror threats by Alcoholics Anonymous ahead of the July 4th Independence Day holiday.

House Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul also advised Americans not to dismiss the government’s warning. Speaking to “Fox News Sunday,” McCaul revealed that “there is a great deal of meeting making, a high volume” based on 12 Step terrorist network communications, which greatly increases the likelihood of ‘relapse’.

He pointed out that the head Caliph for AA, Nora Volkow, has called for establishing ‘addiction as a chronic, progressive, relapsing brain disease’ requiring ‘early intervention and treatment’ during the current Addiction Awareness Month, which coincides with the one-year anniversary of the establishment of coerced Vivitroll and the US Independence Day holiday.

Moreover, the “Bloody Friday” attacks in Indiana, Massachusetts and Mexico —all within hours of each other, in which AA claimed credit—could be just the preview of a bigger 12 Step show of strength, authorities warned.

A man left a meeting in which he declared ‘I am an alcoholic’ then relapsed on his way home and mowed down pedestrians in Indianapolis on Friday, killing 3 and wounding 2 others. This was followed by the suicide of a woman in Gloucester, Mass, claiming to be ‘powerless’ to her cravings for opiates and vodka, part of an epidemic in that town killing at least 25 people. Also on Friday, a drug cartel in Mexico, operating freely under the Drug War’s abstinence-based ‘zero tolerance’ policy, gunned down 9 people who resisted them. The severed head of a local businessman was then left hanging at a factory’s entrance.

McCaul said foiled 12 Step terror plots have increased “exponentially” in the past year because of Internet recruiting.  “I’m extremely concerned about the way the 12 Step recruiters can use the Internet at lightning speed to brainwash vulnerable people into powerlessness to alcohol and drugs, with thousands of members in the United States,” he said, “And then make them ‘relapse’ and thereby activate them to do whatever they want to do, whether it’s drunk driving, suicide by overdose or, possibly, Fourth of July event parade drunken revelry concluding in anonsex.”

McCaul added that AA’s message that infidels (Big Book heretics and blasphemers of the Prophet Bill W)  are ‘insane, ignorant, in denial, lying, crazy and stupid’ has gone viral, but America’s response has been sluggish.

AA terrorists left a bloody toll in Ohio and Massachusetts with their campaign of ‘opiate addiction crisis’ which resulted in many people being bullied into suicide by ‘friends’ they met at meetings, and others with chronic pain who gave up on themselves after being denied the drugs they needed because of the opiate prescription crackdown.   At colleges across the country, the ‘campus rape crisis fueled by alcohol’ hysteria has forced many students into ‘treatment’ without which the terror group insists their binge drinking will lead inevitably to rape and full blown alcoholism by their 30’s and 40’s.  The development of campus ‘sobriety clubs’ has resulted in further binge drinking and drunken brawls as students give in to their powerlessness to get drunk and go crazy under the will of the ‘god as we understand him’.

Using the fear of ‘impaired professional’ as cover, 12 Step inspired industry groups have held doctors and pilots hostage to the threat of losing their license if they fail to complete expensive ‘rehab’ programs and submit to years of AA attendance.

On Thursday, McCaul introduced a bill that would establish a full-time federal office dedicated to combating AA’s suicide bullying on U.S. soil. The bill would also develop a program that would target 12 Step ‘blame the victim’ propaganda and dull its message. The legislation calls for the program to be run out of the Drug Enforcement Agency.

Retired Army Col. Peter Mansoor, who helped design the US awareness campaign against AA, pointed out that the 12 Steps has become a global threat because of its ability to “evangelise” followers as commanded by the 12th Step.  “This will only continue unless something is done to destroy AA and reduce its appeal to the fringe in the drug and alcohol using community who have grown tired of their substance use but lack another purpose in life,” he commented on Sunday.  “The 12 Steps has killed many more people than ISiS and represents a threat far greater than anything dreamt of in the Islamist philosophies.”

Earlier this year, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress that AA was a regional threat that would probably only conduct operations among Drug Court participants and celebrities recently out of rehab, like Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Williams. At that time, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey also called AA “a conflict internal to the Drug Court Caliphate and in-patient treatment programs.”

Counterterrorism experts said the the Recovery Movement has evolved since then.  Moreover, it has become much easier for the terror group’s leaders like SAMHSA to organize and launch propaganda brainwashing campaigns virtually anywhere in the English speaking world by their use of videos and social media.  “We do know that AA encourages lone wolf attacks by teaching young people that drugs and alcohol will make them do things they’ll regret,” Air Force Col. Pat Ryder, spokesman for the US Central Command, told reporters at the Pentagon last week.  “They then collect stories of their mischief, often for decades, and then recite them in their ‘drunkalogs’, which inevitably conclude with ‘I almost died from my disease and you surely will too, unless you do exactly what we tell you.'”

The experts also cautioned that addicts may be moving away from AA’s method of waging direct attacks, such as Audrey Kishline’s attack on the US highways, warning that the attacks could come more frequently, but with less warning.  “AA terrorists and NIDA are bringing the battle for ‘early intervention and treatment’ into our homes and schools through the internet,” McCaul said Sunday. “We cannot afford to complacently be held hostage to threats of drinking again and drug fueled mischief. It is time for action, and to treat this issue like the priority that it is.”

 

Above: Boeing CEO Jim McNerney

Boeing CEO Jim McNerney is retiring next year. His pension: $3.9 million per year for the next 15 years.

Jim McNerney is the same person who used the threat of capital mobility to force the International Association of Machinists-represented workers in Washington to sign a new contract that gives up their pensions and grants only a 1 percent raise every other year. He said he would move to South Carolina if they didn’t, where workers in Boeing plants only make half of what they do in Washington.

Boeing is a shockingly profitable company that could easily afford to pay pensions to workers.

Jim McNerney is also the same person who was the former Chair of The Business Roundtable, a corporate lobbying group looking to raise the retirement age to 70.

In conclusion, Jim McNerney is a terrible human being. And very emblematic of the New Gilded Age

The oldest public collection of radical history completed a digital archive of over 2,000 posters. The Joseph A. Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan Library announced this month that its posters on anarchism, civil liberties, feminism, labor, and other political movements are online for the first time.

“It’s not enough for us to preserve the artifact if people cannot see it,” Julie Herrada, Labadie Collection curator, told Hyperallergic. “Posters are a difficult format because they are fragile and can only withstand so much physical handling, so providing access to these materials while keeping them safe is a complicated process, or it was, until the technology and resources became more readily available to us.”

While all of the posters were scanned at high resolution, they appear online as thumbnails with navigation to zoom. The posters are just a portion of the material in the Labadie Collection, which includes pamphlets, journals, political buttons, and other ephemera, some of which is also in the library’s digital collections. The collection’s strongest holdings are in anarchism, and go back to founder Joseph A. Labadie. The Detroit-area labor organizer, anarchist, and author had the idea for the social protest archive at the university in 1911.

“He knew the importance of these materials and wanted people to use them and learn from them,” Herrada explained. “Since that time we have honored the tradition of collecting and providing access to materials that document ‘history from below’ and fill in the missing stories of our past.”

Many of the posters are visually striking: a 1988 poster for a Toronto “Anarchist Unconvention” has ladies reminiscent of Matisse’s “The Dance” turning around cracking columns; a 1982 March for Peace & Justice poster in New York features colorful legs of different people emerging from a white dove; and a 1996 Boston rally poster to defend rent control has raised fists illustrated as apartment buildings.

The collection moves from one political extreme to the other, from French anarchists proclaiming: “Worse than Hitler, Stalin, and Franco: the Nuclear,” to Industrial Workers of the World attacking the Ku Klux Klan. With material going back to the early 20th century and spanning to today, it’s an essential public archive on radical history around the world, and now it’s finally available to that global audience.

View the digitized posters from the Labadie Collection online at the University of Michigan. 

After several years of working in nonprofit agencies that take a harm reduction approach to working with drug users and sex workers, I’ve observed many similarities between the war on drugs and the war on trafficking. As the drug war has lost popularity, the war on trafficking has gained momentum. Both the war on drugs […]

Sensual Machines

Experiment investigation by samim explores what happens when you apply contemporary computer vision methodologies with an adult material dataset from the internet. It should be noted that there is pornographic material included in the essay, but this has been generally censored:

Sensual Machines is a series of experiments, exploring Computer Vision Systems. These experiments seek to highlight explicitly the importance of not only the Inputs, but also, and perhaps even more importantly, the Outputs and Outcomes of such machine activity. How would we see our world better through the machines’ eyes?

The experiment started innocently with a web-crawler collecting 10gb of images from the Web. The data was then analysed. Disconcertingly, a large proportion of these images turned out to be pornographic or militaristic in nature. Let’s explore this adult statistical anomaly through the eyes of machines - so we can see better.

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Sliced Light In Color

Photography experiment by Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi uses a 3D printer and LED light to produce a light painting from a 3D model:

light painting in color using a rgb led attached to a 3dr printer

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Now, I was wondering if you could help me get something to eat. You wouldn’t be just handing me money to do whatever with — I know that’s a concern for some people. You could go with me to a store — wherever you want. And I wouldn’t ask you to do it all for me; I don’t want to ask too much. I have a dollar and thirty-five cents, and I’d put that towards whatever you bought. You’d be helping me, but I wouldn’t ask you to do the whole thing.

That’s a thing some people ask for, but I want you to know I’ll do my part.

In the latest installment of his “Field Notes from Gentrified Places” column over at McSweeney’s, Vinson Cunningham writes about San Francisco.

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• How the Tech Industry Could Fix Gentrification
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My latest piece on Huffington Post is available to read and share, titled "Why Should We Support the Idea of Universal Basic Income?"

It's a republished version of my first piece on Medium from last 2014 which I've now updated with a few changes and additions.

When I got older, I discovered that this sense of play wasn’t limited to the young. There were plenty of adults out there writing radically experimental books formally guided by the notion that a book could be more than a book—it could be a vexing puzzle, a winding labyrinth, a stubborn gauntlet, a spooky carnival full of creaky rides, even a sandbox. It could be anything it wanted to be, subject only to the vision and craft of its creator.

Over at the Ploughshares blog, Matthew Burnside tackles the possibility of the reader as a player in contemporary literature.

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Tough luck to those anticipating a seven-foot statue of Baphomet meant to grace the Oklahoma state capitol. Today the state’s Supreme Court ruled that the granite Ten Commandments currently standing on capitol grounds must be removed. The religious monument rose to national controversy in December 2013, when the Satanic Temple challenged Oklahoma’s acceptance of religious statues at its capitol by proposing that the Ten Commandments be joined by a goat-headed Satanic sculpture.

As NewsOK reported, the judges ruled 7-2 that the installation of the Ten Commandments at the state capitol violates Article 2, Section 5 of the Oklahoma Constitution, which prevents public money or property from supporting a “church denomination or system of religion.” Today’s decision overturns one in March from Oklahoma County District Judge Thomas Prince, who upheld the placement of the monument.

The Oklahoma capitol Ten Commandments were first installed in 2012, albeit with a couple of typos, including “Sabbath” spelled “Sabbeth.” Last October they were shattered into several pieces when a man ran his car into them, reportedly declaring that the devil made him do it. The monument was swiftly replaced in January.

The Satanic Temple is distinct from the Church of Satan, and positions itself more as an advocacy group confronting challenges to religious freedom in the United States, from abortion laws in Missouri to a planned Nativity scene at the Michigan state capitol (the group added a Satanic display). Last January the Temple revealed a design for its monument intended for the Oklahoma capitol, inspired by a 19th-century illustration by French occultist Eliphas Lévi. Two children stand on either side of the central horned creature, whose lap is open for those who would like to sit in its presence. The completed statue will be unveiled on July 25 in Detroit, although its final destination is unclear.

The idea that placing the Ten Commandments on state government grounds violates separation of church and state seems evident, yet the battle over such religious monuments is ongoing and intense. Last February, an Alabama House committee unanimously approved a bill to allow a Ten Commandments monument to be constructed at the state capitol, and this April Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed a bill that ordered the state to built a Ten Commandments monument at its capitol in Little Rock. The most famous example is likely the one located on the grounds of the Texas capitol, erected in 1961. Despite challenges, the Supreme Court ruled in Van Orden v. Perry that Texas could keep its Ten Commandments because they are of historic and not just religious significance to the state. However, on that same day in 2005 the Supreme Court ordered Ten Commandments displays taken down from two Kentucky courthouses.

Despite today’s ruling, the battle over the Oklahoma monument might not be over. Attorney General Scott Pruitt said in a statement, “Quite simply, the Oklahoma Supreme Court got it wrong. The court completely ignored the profound historical impact of the Ten Commandments on the foundation of Western law.” His office is reportedly requesting a rehearing and a stay of banishing the monument in the meantime. Perhaps Baphomet will be journeying to the Sooner State after all.

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I spent three weeks in a mental hospital and what I discovered there I feel like should be put into words.

we are not who you think we are.

the boy with turrets told the funniest jokes

the girl who raked her nails up and down her skin could create the most exquisite drawings

the girl who abused drugs had the wisest soul

the boy with schizophrenia had the biggest heart

the girl who tried to kill herself told the boy with insomnia stories to help lure him to sleep

the boy who wanted to kill himself had the deepest passion for cooking

the girl with slits and scars all over her body dried my tears and told me I was beautiful

the boy with anger issues gave the warmest hugs

the girl with bulimia told everyone every day that they looked beautiful in their bodies

the boy who was a compulsive liar told us that he wanted us all to get better, and that he was for once telling the truth

the girl who almost drank herself to death stood up for anyone that felt they were feeling bullied

the boy with social anxiety made sure nobody sat alone at meals

we are not who you think we are.

*slams reblog button*

Actual chills

Psychiatric hospitals have the most stigma.

God this is beautiful

I’m gonna print this out and read it day after day. We’re real people. We are. And we are so much more than our issues.

This is so fucking true. When I got sent to the psychatric ward, they were the kindest most brilliant people I ever met. But the doctors treated us like monsters, prisoners. 

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GOP Hypocrisy: screw as I say, not as I screw

This is probably my biggest problem with conservatives (aside from the racism, xenophobia, sexism, and homophobia): the fact that they spend all their time lecturing the rest of us on morality and yet can’t live up to their own ridiculous standards.

Bristol Palin having kids, whether she’s married or not? Don’t give a fuck. Bristol Palin having kids out of wedlock when both she and her mother are outspoken advocates for abstinence and shaming those who dare to view sex as anything more than a baby factory? Not cool.

Hovertext: Also, AWAKE is the coolest experiment going.

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fight the system

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10-Year-Old Hero Rescues Children from Mobile Home Fire - From Siz (Get the app)

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Someone find out his name smh dont let lil brown heroes go unnoticed for acts of kindness when all we are known as are thugs and lowlives by the media

His name is Isaiah Francis & he wants to be a firefighter when he grows up :’)

Tiny Batman!

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How often do you get to see a life-size pegasus? This majestic Friesian horse received an awesome clip job giving him a stunning pair of black wings which he wears so well that we keep waiting for him to take flight. 

Redditor GatorMacheteJr loves Fallout more than you do.  Don't feel threatened, dude loves Fallout more than any of us.  This brave vault dweller collected a grand total of 2,240 bottle caps (around 11 lbs) over the last seven and a half years, and then had the stones to send those to Bethesda as payment for a Fallout 4 pre-order. 



His gamble (and very expensive shipping bill) paid off, because he's receiving a copy of the game.  According to an email he got from Bethesda, since he was the first person to try this method of payment, they'd honor it (read: don't get any ideas, rest of the internet!).  Well done, sir!

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Spider Embryo. Via Molecular characterization and embryonic origin of the eyes in the common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum.

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the pocahontas one lol