Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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My partner and her husband are on Orangered, but I'm on Periwinkle. How do I come out about this, to them?
Also: what in the world is going on with Reddit today?
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My old IAmA throwaway is on Orangered, so I infiltrated their camp and downvoted everything there.
AltDownvotes on 'the other' Reddit camp
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TIL that more than 1 in every 365 people die on their birthday, and nobody's sure why
A study by Swiss researchers has generated a startling statistic - you are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than on any other day of the year. But why should that be?
As the researchers put it, "birthdays… appear to end up in a lethal way more frequently than expected ."
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TIL that the most uncontacted people in the world, the Sentinelese, live in a hunter-gatherer society that isn't even known to make fire.
The Sentinelese (also called the Sentineli or North Sentinel Islanders) are the indigenous people of North Sentinel Island in the Andaman Islands of India. One of the Andamanese people, they resist contact with the outside world. They are one of the uncontacted peoples, although like all of today’s so-called uncontacted people they have a history …
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Mikey: the awesome cow who thinks she's a dog [x-post from /r/pics]
AltCow brought up as a dog
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Silly cow. You do not belong here.
AltCow and dolphin
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MS Paint sloth [x-post from /r/funny]
AltMS Paint sloth
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[x-post] "The northen Hawk Owl is an explosive killer, and extremely hard to capture. 1/2000 of a second shutter speed and 5 hours in -22 Celsius got me the shot :)"
AltSuperb owl
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My first thoughts on Outside.
I've been playing for a little while now, and here's my thoughts so far:
I love the open world aspects of the game; I've never played anything where there's been quite so much freedom (especially when you're just starting out). It's taken a while to get used to the areas which are only … -
Owl spreading its wings [x-post from /r/pics]
AltOwl spreading its wings.
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TIL that the Malaysian government is one of few who HAVEN'T asked Google to censor satellite photos of sensitive areas, because they feel that to do so would make it MORE obvious where the sensitive areas are!
MALAYSIA will not ask Google Earth to blur images of the country’s military facilities to avoid terrorist attacks. Defence Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said doing so would indirectly pin-point their location anyway.
"The difference in, or lack of, pixelation of images of the military facilities compared to the surrounding areas will make it easy for … -
Network Rail engineers near Redbridge Park & Ride sit in their van as it sinks into a field. I feel really sorry for them!
AltNetwork Rail engineers sinking into a flooded field
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Doing my bit. Now if only I could persuade a few billion other men to do the same.
No children. My vasectomy's next week. Took a little persuasion to get my doctor to sign off on the operation, but got there in the end.
My story (in a self-post because I don't want to look like I'm reaping karma for doing something that billions of men should consider).
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11 years, 11 days.
The escape is imminent. I am leaving Aberystwyth (with Jim soon to join me) for Gloucestershire. I am greatly looking forward to several things: Access to proper shopping More live music More comedy Multiscreen cinemas! Having disposable income Being nearer to some of my closest friends There are, of course, things that I’ll miss: The…
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TIL that minutes before the Halifax Explosion (the largest ever non-nuclear, man-made explosion), a dispatcher named Vince Coleman returned to his station to send a warning telegram, saving 300 lives at the cost of his own.
Patrick Vincent Coleman
Patrick Vincent Coleman (13 March 1872 – 6 December 1917) was a train dispatcher for the Canadian Government Railways (formerly the ICR, Intercolonial Railway of Canada) who was killed in the Halifax Explosion, but not before he sent a message to an incoming passenger train to stop out of range of the explosion. Today …