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366 weeks
All About Threats

I read that scientists, by using magnets, had 'turned off' the threat centres in people's brains, and that this made them 'change their attitudes towards immigrants.' Obviously, the stunning revelation that people don't like immigrants because they feel threatened by them is one that will echo down the ages as a revelation made possible only by scientific brilliance, but given that such
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369 weeks
A Blog Post But as Soon as I Start Getting Grumpy I Stop Typing

One thing I've noticed a lot of around YouTube recently is videos with 'X but Y' titles. You know, things like 'Dragon Ball Z but every time we see people screaming at each other in a desert the video speeds up', or 'Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart but it's a Pokemon boss-battle theme'. With this in mind, is there any chance of seeing 'Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones but every time Hayden
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370 weeks
An American Fail?

Apparently the British satirical magazine Private Eye is now listed on numerous 'fake news' sites for having covers like this:

This, coupled with the existence of the show Friends, leads me to the conclusion that comedy is a largely unpractised art in the USA.
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372 weeks
DON'T READ IT IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT!

I've seen the phrase "Don't read it if you don't like it!" written on quite a lot of fanfictions lately. Granted, I've been seeking out the truly awful ones (sorting the chaff from the wheat, as it were) for my personal collection, so that might explain why I've seen so much of it. Read on for my thoughts.
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373 weeks
50(ish) Followers!

As I've reached 50 followers, here's a thank you video. Well, slideshow with me talking over the top. Don't quibble, Horatio. A lot of this seems to be because Somepony Tries to Sell Twilight Insurance has just been posted on FIMFiction as part of the Royal Canterlot Library collection. I am, understandably, chuffed to bits.
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Jan

25th

2017

My New Avatar · 4:23am Jan 25th, 2017

The above picture link will probably break if I ever change the avatar, but there it is. I couldn't sleep, so I made a thing. Unlike Mozilla (or Moz://a, and I'm never writing it like that again), I didn't have to send thousands of emails and engage in 7 months of meetings. I photographed some scones and messed about on GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Program, before you panic), and 45 minutes later, voila. Notice that the image behind my logo actually has some relevance. I must be some sort of marketing genius. Also notice that I didn't have to create a 'Contemporary Sans-Serif Slab Font', or, more properly, typeface. I'm reading maths at university, not graphic design or photography, and it does show, but I'm still a lot more pleased with it than anyone ought to be with this:
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which has emblazoned across itself a hand gesture that means 'anus' in France, 'zero' in Australia, 'eff off' in parts of Germany (making it even sweeter that they've gone to the trouble of designing a logo for Mozilla Deutschland, seemingly without ever asking a German for his opinion), and 'poofter' in Turkey. It seems that their 'three rounds of research' didn't involve asking people from any of those countries what they thought of the logos. Talk about an own goal.