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Iconic Mary Tyler Moore / “Mary Richards” statue in downtown Minneapolis

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Accepting the prestigious Nobel Piece of Shit Prize 🏆

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Artist Concetta Antico is a tetrachromat, meaning a deformity in her eyes enables her to see approximately 100 times more colors than an average person. “Around the edge (of a leaf) I’ll see orange or red or purple in the shadow; you might see dark green but I’ll see violet, turquoise, blue,” she told Popular Science. “It’s like a mosaic of color.” Cognitive scientists are studying Antico to better understand human perception and how it can be shaped by this genetic mutation.

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(via Oops! UK Council Accidentally Removes Banksy Mural)

LONDON — A council in southern England says it instructed its workers to remove a mural before realizing it was the work of internationally famous graffiti artist Banksy. The mural, which featured a group of pigeons carrying anti-immigration banners, appeared at Clacton-on-Sea, the site of a special election next week featuring the anti-immigration U.K. Independence Party.

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Shut down Vikings Message Board has been shut down permanently. It will not return. There are two primary reasons. 1. The Vikings cowardly decision to reinstate a child abuser and think that an apology will make this blow over. We will not stand for this arrogance and we will no longer be the home of any support of the Vikings. We stand for those who cannot defend themselves. 2. We will not give a voice to those who think child abuse is "cultural" or worse, openly advocate child abuse as a reasonable method of punishment. This ends here. Yes, a few board members have ruined it for everyone. Congratulations, assholes. edit: we have replaced the word "thugs" with "those" to avoid any potential racial connotation. it wasn't intended and appears to be distracting from the real message that child abuse is never okay.

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Maybe the most surprising thing about this list is how accurate it is. There are episodes of this show where the writing rises to the level of literature.

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Abuse a dog and lose your job. That’s basically what happened to Desmond Hague, the CEO of sports and entertainment catering giant Centerplate, after he was caught on a Vancouver hotel elevator security camera abusing a dog on a leash. In the video, a man kicks a dog several times, and at one point, lifts the dog up by its leash.