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Misc
Creepy clowns are just real-life trolls
Police across England have been called to dozens of incidents in which pranksters dress as “creepy clowns” to deliberately scare people. The culprits are said to be following a trend that started in the US. A 30-year-old man was arrested… Read More ›
Bottled water
The bottled water industry almost collapsed as a result. In the past, buying clean water had been a necessity for the rich (the poor simply endured centuries of bad drinking water, and often died from the experience). Now it was… Read More ›
What is anxiety?
Oh wow, that is a perfect definition, it really is. The original tweet is here.
“I had to pay $39.35 to hold my baby after he was born.”
Holding your newborn baby for the first time is said to be one of life’s most precious moments. But how would you feel if you were charged for the privilege? That was the experience of Lidia and Ryan Grassley, whose… Read More ›
De Niro wants to punch Trump in the face
Powerful just doesn’t cover it.
An open letter to bullies
“I write this letter not for sympathy, but because there are so many more children like Felix who are struggling,” she says. “His confidence and self-esteem had been eroded over a long period of time by the bullying behaviour he… Read More ›
On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion
So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. That would be a different impulse entirely, an instinct for reality… Read More ›
You pay them to make a film, they run away with your money and it’s all good
This is so clever and rather worrying at the same time. In the original Indiegogo campaign, the filmmakers made $77,000 and ran away with the money, spending it on the high life. People were outraged, rightly so, and then the… Read More ›
If you only watch one video today…
This is brilliant!