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Why destroy it when it could be used as livestock feed?

Not Even Jurassic World's Dinosaur Toys Are Allowed to Be Female

So You've Been Publicly Shamed About public shaming and mob mentality in the social media age. Worth reading!

I'm most surprised that baseball is played in France.

Etsy has banned the sale of magic items and spells. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/119/273/851/stop-etsys-ban-on-metaphysical-items/

Even if she presently receives typical white-on-black discrimination?

I've been following it. It is a unique case. At first I was reminded of people like Rita Hayworth, who changed their race to get those choice white advantages in employment. Except, then I remembered that those were just pragmatic choices, and that they may well have personally identified as the old race. Rachel seems to think of herself as black. There's also my personal rule of thumb that if you say something, and people either harm or threaten you for saying it, and you keep saying it, it must be personally important for you, and probably something you genuinely believe. From what I gather Rachel Dolezal has had the slurs and abuse common to many black people, and she sticks with it. At the same time, she always has that option to stop being black, and that I a big difference. She still has that element of white privilege open to her.

I had a macro extension on the lens. Tripod would have been smart. More light for tighter aperture and more depth of field also

Ugh. Macro photography is HARD. really hard. I saw this beautiful Bold Jumping Spider (seriously, Bold is part of the name) on my stairs. Big as a dime, which is a lot when you aren't padding out your size with spindly legs. Anyway, I tried taking his picture, and I could. not. get. him. focused. Sorry for the moaning. I'm sharing the pictures anyway.

Heh, the response on twitter is for lady scientists to post "distractingly sexy" pics of themselves https://twitter.com/hashtag/distractinglysexy

1) The flag should not be a shirt 2) IFF no fights were ever tied to wearing US flag shirts, then yes, this is dumb.

Remember that big earthquake in Haiti in 2010? The Red Cross collected 500 Million dollars to deal with it. Nobody is sure where it all went. http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red-cross-500-million-in-haiti-relief

Nobel prize winner Tim Hunt says women make men fall in love in the lab, and they cry when you criticize them. http://uncovercalifornia.com/content/24889-female-scientists-cause-trouble-men-labs-says-tim-hunt

IIRC, the boyfriend was arrested for domestic abuse, essentially for taking 'enabling' way too far.

An elementary school went to do some renovations. They found that underneath the existing chalkboards were older chalkboards. What's neat is, the old ones still had their last lesson on them without having been erased or even touched since 1917. I hope they find a way to preserve them. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/06/eerie-chalkboard-drawings-frozen-in-time-for-100-years-discovered-in-oklahoma-school/

Indeed. Just the mouth, properly preserved, would make an interesting decoration for a workplace. It would be an Oafish Oarfish Orifice Office

So huge, it might be described as an oafish oarfish? And the person who declared it such was an oafish oarfish official?

Then the Air Force bragged about how they found it. Now ISIS knows to practice misdirection.

One of India's high courts has ruled that birds have a fundamental right to fly and cannot be caged. Penguins are confused.

In case any of you lovers visited Paris, All The “Love Locks” Were Removed From the Pont des Arts Bridge To Stop It Collapsing

A Monster Calls. Actually, I'm not sure it is fantasy. Either the boy is visited by a monster (urban fantasy) or he's having a psychotic break (no fantasy), and I'm not sure which. Kind of like the book version of K-PAX in that regard. Anyway, it was juvenile fiction, but very well written and so beautifully illustrated. Would recommend to anyone, unless you have a cancer trigger.

New pentagon rules permit Turbans and other religious-mandated clothing while in uniform. Article notes that the religious items can't interfere with job specific items. If you'd ever be expected to wear a gas mask, you can't have a beard that would interfere with one. I look forward to the first case involving a religious nudist. but the turban fits in nicely.

It seems that in Germany, the trains no longer run on time http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/germany-grapples-series-labor-disputes-commuters-suffer-n361971 (labor strikes)

As I understand it, there was a substantial police presence at the restaurant, even before the fight broke out. That included a SWAT team. You don't get more aggressive than preemptive SWAT deployment.