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After 76 years' hard work and dedication, and much sexism, Sensei Keiko Fukuda gets her 10th dan at the age of 98.

What a woman. Words... I don't even... *seiza rei*

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Cracked: 5 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor.

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Yes, indeed, when you are using faint orange font on a white background, you have certainly made every effort to make the Bikeability website accessible and easy to use for everyone, no matter what browser you choose to use, and whether or not you have any disabilitiesMy bleeding eyeballs would like to offer you a cookie. A cookie flavoured with ( Read more... )

Am combining my love of a) scary things and b) being several years late to the punchline by reading creepypasta.

The Slender Man, for instance, is a BRILLIANT idea when you already have a bad habit of seeing non-existent things in your peripheral vision. Woo!

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But he really has perfectly summarised the problem with the right-wing objection to funding public services. (Most worryingly-for-the-squeamish seen in plans to privatise the National Blood Service. Because letting gay men donate blood is insanely dangerous, but leaving it in the hands of people who'll cut corners for profit cannot possibly go ( Read more... )

The internet hadn't hurt my attention span. I was as patient as I'd ever been (not very). Nor did I jump to conclusions on insufficient evidence.

Then I spent a very frustrating hour playing Don't Shoot the Puppy.

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This needs to be required reading in every workplace.

Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising

Now they've changed their logo, the brand values make so much more sense to me!Maybe I just need a t-shirt. "I am highly intelligent with a wide vocabulary. I understood every word you said and noticed every psychological trick you used to make me ( Read more... )

With the Julian Assange thing (my view is Kate Harding's view, via
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