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No need to read all 180 pages of Pope Francis’s encyclical (PDF), which was leaked earlier this week and formally released today. The main ideas about climate change, echoing concerns expressed in previous papal encyclicals, are also available in neat, 140-character excerpts via @Pontifex on Twitter.

Deteriorating environmental conditions have a disproportionate affect on the “most vulnerable” people in the world, he says.

“There is a true ‘ecological debt’,” the pope says. “Developed countries ought to help pay this debt by limiting their consumption of nonrenewable energy.”

This is Pope Francis’s first encyclical—one of the most formal and significant statements a pope can make. And though the theme of environmental destruction has appeared in encyclicals by previous popes, it has never provided the primary subject matter.

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Over 12,000 digital issues have been made available on the Amazon Kindle platform as part of Marvel's continued partnership with comiXology.

Ebay banned the sale of spells back in 2012, and Etsy has followed suit, adjusting its guidelines on what kind of services can be sold through the site. No longer allowed: “any metaphysical service that promises or suggests it will effect a physical change (e.g., weight loss) or other outcome (e.g., love, revenge).”

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Donald Trump used the services of a casting agency to hire background actors to cheer him on at the recent rally where he announced his presidential candidacy, paying them each $50 for about three hours of work. What do you think?

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Obama On Charleston Shooting: ‘This Type Of Mass Violence Does Not Happen In Other Advanced Countries’

President Barack Obama responded Thursday to the shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, that left nine dead.

“Any death of this sort is a tragedy, any shooting involving multiple victims is a tragedy,” he said. “There is something particularly heartbreaking about death happening at a place in which we seek solace and we seek peace.”

Watch his full speech here. 

Ben Krasnow of Applied Science has posted an extremely close slow-motion look at a needle moving across a vinyl record taken with an electron microscope. The microscope gives an incredibly detailed look at the individual grooves of the record as well as the motion of the needle.

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Yay, Animal Crossing finally has skin tone options ⊟ 

Happy Home Designer, the upcoming Animal Crossing spin-off for 3DS, will allow you to pick a darker skin color for your characters, according to Nintendo product marketing specialist Alison Rapp. That’s a first for the series – previously, for people of color who wanted their villager’s skin tone to match theirs, they had to settle for a temporary tan.

While the feature is limited to Happy Home Designer for now, hopefully Nintendo has heard fans’ complaints about this missing option in previous entries, and the company will make sure to include it in future Animal Crossing games. Thanks to Animal Crossing World and @Megmar for spotting this!

PREORDER Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, Isabelle Nendoroid

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#iDidNotSpeakUp

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The Vatican released Thursday a 184-page papal encyclical by Pope Francis condemning the human behaviors causing climate change and urging global action to combat environmental degradation, marking the first time the Catholic Church has aligned itself with scientists on climate issues. Here are some highlights of the pope’s landmark climate change encyclical:

• Establishes Catholic Church’s stance on issue 30 years too late
  
• Announces new Eucharist composting program to reduce production of holy waste
  
• Unveils Church’s effort to reduce energy use by merging Father, Son, Holy Spirit into one deity
  
• Lays out Vatican’s plan to lead green initiatives by immediately recycling all records and documents pertaining to child abuse
  
• Reveals many of the world’s poor lack access to clean drinking blood of Christ
  
• Officially beatifies world’s last remaining black rhinoceros
  
• 40-page recyclables sorting guide
  
• Vows to immediately discontinue all Vatican-owned fracking operations
  
• Something about implications ...

WASHINGTON—In response to a 184-page papal encyclical that urges immediate action to address the environmental and social consequences of global warming, a coalition of frustrated Republican leaders issued statements Thursday arguing that Pope Francis should leave scientific matters to scientists who deny climate change. “Frankly, it’s not really anyone’s place to make declarations about climate science or global temperature changes unless they’re a scientific expert who has spent years rejecting the concept of climate change,” said former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who added that the pope had neither studied climate science nor ever been among the 3 percent of researchers who stand in opposition to the overwhelmingly dominant position held by the scientific community on climate change, so he had no business speaking on the subject. “Personally, I would never trust anyone as an authority on climate change unless they had done years of research and ...

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We’ve had some great biopics recently about scientists like Alan Turing and Stephen Hawking, so I’m very excited to see a Marie Curie film in the works! It’s a French, German, and Polish co-production directed by French director Marie Noelle “for whom the Polish-born 20th century scientist has been an inspiration since childhood.”

Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics (and then a second in chemistry!), is most famous for discovering the elements of radium and polonium. Her life absolutely movie-worthy, says Noelle. As reported by Yahoo! News, Noelle told the AFP:

Within a space of six years, she gave birth to a child, lost her beloved husband with whom she shared her passion for scientific research, and fell in love again (with a married man) sparking a high-profile public scandal, and then she wins another Nobel to top it all off

Noelle, who also studied mathematics, says that she wants to use the film not only to capture Curie’s life, but also to draw attention to the problems that women still face in the scientific field:

In Europe, while we know that girls are better at math. There are only 13 percent of women in high-level scientific research.

Polish actress Karolina Gruszka will play the iconic scientist and the film is set to premiere in February 2016.

We can’t wait to see it (although it might be lacking one of my favorite Hark, a Vagrant scenes)! And while we’re here can I nominate Rosalind Franklin for the next biopic?

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When Star Wars came out in 1977, China was still in the immediate aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, and foreign films were not screened in Chinese theaters. And even in recent years, China has maintained strict quotas for overseas movies. So it’s taken 40 years for Star Wars to reach Chinese movie theaters.

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Hanging out with some adorable Tearaway friends. #E32015 pic.twitter.com/7wNmKNZ4ay

— Feminist Frequency (@femfreq) June 17, 2015

This year’s E3 in Los Angeles has been full of goodies. Feminst Frequency’s Anita Sarkessian is there taking in the sights and probably having way too much fun to care about one silly goose.

Intrigued by the brand new game Recore with a female lead and a robot dog companion. #E32015 https://t.co/Y2Usljzls4

— Feminist Frequency (@femfreq) June 15, 2015

Really digging Emily’s outfit in Dishonored 2. Practical and stylish! pic.twitter.com/xXhldoGfUZ

— Feminist Frequency (@femfreq) June 17, 2015

Of course she’s still giving critiques where she feels necessary:

Really disappointing Capcom’s #E3 Ghostbusters display had booth babes. Especially with the upcoming women-led movie. pic.twitter.com/M9dkz4ygtA

— Feminist Frequency (@femfreq) June 18, 2015

And certainly folks not liking what she has to say sometimes leads to ridiculous things like this:

Anti Feminist Frequency pamphlets appear on poles around E3 convention http://t.co/MmPWegfBf6 pic.twitter.com/sLGN7xMYrV

— Polygon (@Polygon) June 18, 2015

Polygon reports, “The bottom of the flyer states ‘All Your Tropes Are Belong To Us Honey’ and the background repeats the hashtag ‘GamerGate.”

Bless.

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Known for its graphic novels, the New York City-based boutique publisher will expand into periodicals this fall.

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The amazing Dame Helen Mirren has been doing a lot of talking lately about sexism in the film industry. This time, at a Power Women breakfast hosted by The Wrap, Mirren was asked about the Maggie Gyllenhaal situation, where she was turned down for a role because she is “too old” to play the lover of a 55 year old actor. Check out what Mirren has to say about it in the video above, and prepare to love her even more than you already did.

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White Castle by Yuri Shwedoff

Check out this awesome Totoro umbrella! One of several Studio Ghibli umbrellas available in Japan that change patterns when wet. If you can get to (or order from) a Donguri Kyowakoku store (a chain that sells loads of Studio Ghibli merch), one of these will run you about $28 USD. (via Fashionably Geek)

• National Geogaphic Channel will be airing a new documentary about Malala Yousafzai called He Made Me Malala from Fox Searchlight Pictures. The film will be released globally in October. (via Deadline Hollywood)
• Love Etsy? Now you can support the crafters on there and help them create bigger and better products via their new crowdfunding platform, Fund on Etsy! (via Laughing Squid)

Check out this amazing LEGO Cinderella’s Castle, created by Erik Jones using 50,000 LEGO bricks. DAYum. (via Nerdist)

• You know that you love cat videos….but do you know that there’s science behind why? In a new study, Indiana University media scholar Jessica Gall Myrick gives us some insight. (via Business Insider)
• Kenneth Branagh set to direct Murder on the Orient Express for Fox. (via /Film)

Photographer Mark Simon Frei took some beautiful photos of Tesla sparks and mini-thunderstorms for our viewing pleasure. (via Colossal)

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While Rachel Dolezal was busy faking hate crimes for attention, the white terrorist in the Charleston shooting was busy planning a real one. I feel like that fact says a lot about what’s going on with race in America right now.

It's like curling in a trench. At a feather.

Yes, featherbowling. From Wikipedia:

Feather bowling is a game played with wooden balls shaped like cheese wheels.

I'm listening. For those of you a bit confused about the scoring aspect:

The team with balls closest to the feather at the end of the round wins 1 point per ball. The game is over when one team scores 10 points.

I'm in. I'm all in. Let's all dig trenches in a local pub and start our own featherbowling leagues. NOTE: please get permission from your local pub before digging your trench.

After the game has ended it is customary to eat pommes frites dipped in mayonnaise and have a sexy party.

Uh. Let's hope that bit is just a Wikipedia editor having a bit of fun. The sexy party, I mean. I don't want any sex-based parties interfering with my mayo fries.

I am very serious about my mayo fries.

If you happen to be in Detroit, hit up the Cadieux Cafe. Maybe they'll let you bowl a round.

“I used to think it was weird in Pokemon that Professor Oak didn’t have a full pokedex so he made you go do it. But then I started grad school and now I understand that this is exactly how it works.”

- Me (via ailetra)

abolitionjournal:

#CharlestonShooting #BlackLivesMatter

thekirstenlynn:

Please don’t spread the name and face of the Charleston shooter, call him a white terrorist because that’s all he is, don’t give him the respect of learning his name or recognizing his face. All he wants is to be famous, now he will be infamous. He only deserves to be known as a white homegrown terrorist and imagined as a monster because that’s what he is. Instead learn the names and faces of the victims, they deserve to be remembered not the monster.

Remember:

Clementa Pinckney

A Democrat state senator who was also the pastor at the Emanuel African Methodist Church.

Cynthia Hurd

A librarian at the Charleston County Public Library. She’d been working there for 31 years and was a manager as St. Andrews Regional Library.

Sharonda Coleman-Singleton

She was a revered and a mother of three, she was also the coach of the track team.

Tywanza Sanders

A recent graduate from Allen University in Columbia. He was recently working as a barber. It is said that he died trying to save one of his family members.

Please, if you hear about more of the victims, add their names and a little about their life. 

Go to this link to learn more about these victims. What I posted is only a short summary.

Also if anything like this happens again, do this instead of showing the shooter/terrorist. This is a tragedy and I will do my best to raise awareness, I hope you will too. Thank you.

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queen-deity:

“he looks light skinned black” my nigga shut the fuck up that hair cut itself screams white serial killer get the fuck outta here “light skinned black” smfh y'all white people crazy

no-mi-torta:

saiyanshredder:

Jam buds.

i knew it was only a matter of time