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This Twitter bot tricks angry trolls into arguing with it for hours.

High anxiety: The surreal and disturbingly dreamlike paintings of George Tooker.

How to turn a broken terra-cotta pot shard into a lovely flower pendant.

Colin Kaepernick’s exile is a labor rights violation. Unions should come to his defense.

Mother of two wakes up at 4 am to create 18th century furniture for dollhouses and the details will amaze you.

The shockingly simple, surprisingly cost-effective way to end homelessness.

A jeweler called her $130 engagement ring “pathetic.” The woman’s response goes viral.

The women reporters who sparked the #MeToo movement are already being written out of the story.

Your Christmas decorations can’t compete with the light-up Millennium Falcon on this family’s roof.

Studies show that husbands stress women twice as much as children.

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DIY rebels are working to become the decentralized online alternatives to the Internet tech giants.

Why engagement rings should be banned.

Cornel West on the sad legacy of Barack Obama.

The 10 most socialistic countries in the world.

The Boston Public Library will digitize and put online 200,000 vintage records.

Africans are being sold at Libyan slave markets. Thanks, Hilliary Clinton.

Here are some facts and questions about that Nazi the New York Times failed to note.

A dog called Odin survived the California wildfires after refusing to abandon his goats.

White newspaper journalists exploited racial divisions to help build the GOP’s southern firewall in the 1960s.

The plutocrats are pursuing Internet censorship and they are barely even hiding it.

Revisiting the Greenbelt towns, a forgotten 1930s attempt at American Utopia.

Why the fall of the House of Clinton may trigger domino effect worldwide.

The military is burning art from Guantanamo that the world should see.

The driverless revolution may exact a political price.

This normal-looking house is actually a modern hobbit hole in disguise.

Reaganomics killed America’s middle class.

The retaliatory state: How Trump is turning government into a weapon of revenge.

MLK Jr. quotes about capitalism that Dodge didn’t include in their Super Bowl truck ad.

How the Right is mainstreaming the Holocaust-denying fringe.

FREE TUTORIALS

A tutorial on how to make a very cute tiny book charm for a necklace or keychain, which would be the perfect gift for a bookworm.

15 Things to Make From Old Jeans—As someone with at least one pair of jeans that’s literally falling apart, I’m very glad I found this one.

A free tutorial on how to draw using Coptic markers.

When a man named Davos wanted to propose marriage to his girlfriend, he opted not to go to a jewelry store to buy a diamond engagement ring. Instead he made his own engagement ring while providing detailed photos on how he did it. It could be useful for anyone who wishes to do something similar.

Here’s a free .pdf tutorial on how to make origami paper cranes.

You can now browse other free tutorials previously mentioned in this blog (along with pictures) right here.

MISCELLANEOUS LINKS

If you think the old clothes that you donate to organizations like Goodwill or the Salvation Army end up in thrift stores here in the United States to help cash-strapped lower income people—think again.

Late last year I wrote a post on why I was happy that Urban Outfitters shares are in the toilet. Well Urban Outfitters haven’t finished with intentionally putting out items guaranteed to offend certain groups of people. The latest one is this piece of tapestry that resembles what gay prisoners wore in concentration camps during the Holocaust. That tacky tapestry has joined the list of the 16 stupidest things Urban Outfitters has ever sold.

Right now much of the East Coast of the United States is in the middle of this horrible extreme cold spell complete with sub-zero temperatures in some areas. These two Boston-based entrepreneurs have come up with a way of growing food even in the dead of winter.

From MAJOR sideboob to race wars: How liberal and conservative sites keep you coming back.

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