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ivyblossom:

Strictly no dogging. Outside the National Portrait Gallery, London.

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Sasha Vinogradova. Styles of Russian Folk Painting.

beatnikdaddio:

The Literary Review, a monthly magazine published in London, has announced the finalists for what it calls “Britain’s Most Dreaded Literary Prize”: The Bad Sex Award.

A woman visiting a family tomb in Brazil had the shock of her life when a body emerged alive from a grave, waving its arms around.

Eric Fromm has received a lot of hugs on campus lately — at least once a day since he “came out” as an atheist last week in an article in his Christian university’s online newspaper.

nodaybuttodaytodefygravity:

daniel-stuart:

This is the greatest thing in all of classic Doctor Who

The Doctor has never noped harder

SATURDAY NIGHT

1-night-only!

6PM

PUNK ARCADE AT UCLA GAME LAB

Check out some photos from the workshop. Last night about 25 people met up at the Game Lab. Sarah Brin gave a talk tracing modern art and resistance from Malevich and constructivism to situationism and punk rock. Afterwards, participants broke into groups to develop games, create a zine, or build the exhibit. Right now participants are hard at work building games, building cabinets, making a zine, and building the arcade itself. As of this moment, only 24 hours til it opens! OPENS SATURDAY NIGHT ONE NIGHT ONLY at the EDA SPACE at the UCLA Broad Art Center. -LT

 

Probably one of the worst cases of stalking I have ever seen

For months, I got calls from around the world offering me short-term loans. I had fallen into the world of online lead generation.

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A Portland organization with a global reach hopes to provide transgender children and their families with advocacy and support.

Apple detectives from the Home Orchard Society figure out what kinds of apples grow on trees. When they find an aging man near Yoncalla, Oregon with the largest collection of apple varieties in the world, they take on the massive task of trying to preserve a living cutting from every one of his 4,500 trees.

An anonymous Instagram user in Philadelphia has found a new and terrifying way to utilize the photo sharing app: Identify witnesses in violent crime cases, and encourage people to seek revenge against them. 

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that an Instagram account called rats215 "has outed more than 30 witnesses since February, posting photos, police statements, and testimony on the photo-sharing website." Many of those witnesses testified with the expectation that their identities would be kept secret, yet the account has posted pictures taken in the court room as well as images of testimony available only to prosecutors and secret grand juries.

The Inquirer story suggests that the anonymous account runner is getting help from some people in high places: 

Though witness statements are sometimes available in court records when a case is closed, the names of witnesses and victims are redacted for their protection.

But in copies of statements posted on the account, witnesses are clearly and repeatedly named, sometimes with their photographs attached.

In indicting grand juries, tougher rules limit the disclosure of statements from witnesses and victims. Defense lawyers are instructed not to give their clients copies of such statements. The defense is free to go over the statements with their clients, but they can't make copies for the accused.

This isn't the first time criminals have used social media to encourage the harassment and retaliation of witnesses. Facebook pages targeting snitches have been started in Tacoma, Washington, Columbia, Missouri, and Shamokin, Pennsylvania. These encourage people to report neighbors and friends known to be cooperating with law enforcement investigations. In the pre-social media age, witnesses and criminals who'd turned on their own crews had their testimony printed out and posted publicly in their neighborhoods. 

Most of these outlets, including Philly's Instagram bandit, don't see a difference between "snitching" and reporting crime. Ron Moten, founder of D.C.'s oft-beleaguered anti-violence group Peaceaholics, wrote an op-ed in 2007 arguing that there's a difference between snitching and calling the cops when someone guns down your neighbor or family member. A snitch, Moten argues is someone:

Who commits a crime but then blames an accomplice so that he can negotiate a lighter sentence or even go free. Often he tells lies and incriminates the innocent. People like that are the real snitches and they are cowardly. Snitching is a way for criminals to game the system.

But not everyone who talks to police is a snitch. If you're a victim of a crime and you or someone you trust cooperates with them, you are not a snitch. If you try to get rid of negativity in your community, you are not "hot" or a snitch.

bookporn:

On Thursday, a man reportedly dressed in body armor ran into a crowded room and opened fire with a high-powered assault-style rifle, killing three and injuring six. But this is probably the first you've heard of it.

the book is: Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology

aliceinasgard:

soloontherocks:

bellonanj73:

the-writers-ramblings:

i cant even make it past the table of contents im laughing too hard

What book is this? I must have this because of reasons? 

friends don’t let friends bang cows

It’s Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, for those who are wondering, and yes, the whole book is this funny.

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The cocktail accessory — an edible “boat” produced by 3-D printing — motors around on the surface of an alcoholic drink, propelled by the same fluid mechanics as certain water bugs. About the size of a raisin, the boat is filled with alcohol of a higher proof than the drink in which it floats. The boat steadily releases alcohol through a notch at one end, creating a difference in surface tension that propels it forward. This approach mimics one used by some insects, which release a chemical that drives them toward shore after an accidental fall into water.