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Puma/leopard hybrids "have exhibited a tendency to dwarfism." https://en.wikipedia.org/... Squeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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I bought a watercolor app for iOS called "Waterlogue". Sale price is 99 cents. https://scontent.fsnc1-1....

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The Bail Trap - http://www.nytimes.com/20...

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"With national attention suddenly focused on the criminal-justice system, bail has been cited as an easy target for reformers. But ensuring that no one is held in jail based on poverty would, in many respects, necessitate a complete reordering of criminal justice. The open secret is that in most jurisdictions, bail is the grease that keeps the gears of the overburdened system turning. Faced with the prospect of going to jail for want of bail, many defendants accept plea deals instead, sometimes at their arraignments. New York City courts processed 365,000 arraignments in 2013; well under 5 percent of those cases went all the way to a trial resolution. If even a small fraction of those defendants asserted their right to a trial, criminal courts would be overwhelmed. By encouraging poor defendants to plead guilty, bail keeps the system afloat." - Andrew C - -

"For defendants who would fight their cases and maintain their innocence if they had the money, a guilty plea involves a ritual of court procedure that verges on the Kafkaesque: […] And then: ‘‘Are you pleading guilty freely and voluntarily, because you are in fact guilty?’’ Hechinger, the lawyer with Brooklyn Defender Services, hates this part of the process. ‘‘A lot of times, at that last question, you feel the client beside you bristle,’’ he says. ‘‘Everyone in the room knows it’s not ‘freely and voluntarily.’ They’re making a decision coerced by money. In many cases, if they had money, they wouldn’t be pleading. But they put their heads down, and they say, ‘Yes.’ It’s a horrible, deflating feeling.’’" - Andrew C - -

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.@twitter, stop trying to help with my searches. I meant "triple double", not "triple doble". https://pbs.twimg.com/med...

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Paso doble? https://www.youtube.com/w... - bentley - [ 1 ] -

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US/Calvinist philosophy of suffering being good for you has led to all sorts of dumb and also unpleasant diets.

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I had a big ol' plate of Thai noodles for lunch and I'm quite pleased with myself. - Andrew C - [ 2 ] -

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A "controlled burn" to "inoculate the herd"??????????? https://t.co/j8aRbWUtZS

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This case is all sorts of weird. - John B. - [ 1 ] -

Oh definitely, but I wanted to mock the mixed metaphor. - Andrew C - -

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Remember when Hollywood thought stealing content was wrong? Josh Ostrovsky, wholesale plagiarist, has an agent & deal w/ @ComedyCentral now.

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NBC has ordered pilots and shows from Fey & Carlock, Schur, etc for next season. Were they tanking this past year, Sixers-style?

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WELP. https://twitter.com/Joyce...

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Oh, JCO. - JustDuckie - -

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Desired level of fame: tweeting like JCO still won't completely destroy my legacy. - Andrew C - [ 1 ] -

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It's very on-brand for me to tell you that the things you like are bad.

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Sesame Street's new eps will air on public TV 9 months after their HBO debut. Amazing to see two-tier citizenship trickle down to toddlers.

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Yeah. It looks like they'll have the streaming rights as well, so for all of the people used to streaming it elsewhere for cheaper, I'm guessing they're SOL. - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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A requiem for the Washington Generals, the worst sports team of all time - SBNation.com (http://www.sbnation.com/2... )

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"The team's coach/owner/manager/everything man John Ferrari got the call that the Globetrotters didn't need their help anymore in July, with the team playing its last game Aug. 1. The Generals' website features a sad note thanking the fans -- were there any? -- for their decades of support. Purportedly, the reason for their demise is that the Globetrotters figured out a better financial deal than splitting their earnings with the Generals, who have long operated as a separate company. " - Andrew C - -

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.@wavingcrosser @Eclectablog Trump: "When I said 'make America great again', I didn't mean you people."

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ITG Hid a Secret Trading Desk in Its Dark Pool - Bloomberg View (http://www.bloombergview.... )

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"But the financial industry is also built on the dream of making money for nothing, of arbitrage, of perpetual motion machines, of converting intellect into cash without the annoying interventions of hard work and risk. People keep inventing magical sure-fire ways to make money, because the financial industry attracts people who are inventive in that peculiar way. Magical sure-fire ways to make money tend to be, you know, bad, for the people providing the sure-fire money." - Andrew C - -

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The Decepticons are far more willing to use violence _and_ have air superiority yet constantly lose. Starscream is right: Megatron sucks.

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It's too bad my friend who recently became a (neo?-)hippie is Chinese, or else she could really get into Chinese spiritualism.

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Desired level of fame: Kangol revives discontinued models just for me, cause at this rate it's the only way I'll ever own them.

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Desired level of fame, less grandiose version: be Twitter verified. - Andrew C - [ 2 ] -

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It's too bad about the backlash to "adorkable", bc that was my realistic attractiveness ceiling.

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Maybe there will be a backlash to that backlash. - John B. - [ 2 ] -

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I can't actually remember anyone I know using it to describe a guy. Then again, it isn't a word that most of them really use, so there's that. - Jennifer D. - -

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So #relatable! This tweet will def #increase #engagement by 3.4% OR MORE. https://twitter.com/Hilla...

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Buy The App And Audiobook Too! #MyMemoirWouldBeCalled @midnight

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Desired level of New Yorker-ness: calling AF1s "Uptowns" without feeling self-conscious about it.

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Americans playing afrobeat get filed in "world music" but Australians playing rock don't.

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Vocal fry backlash has backlash now. This is getting to the level of "should I eat eggs or not".

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.@barbara_holm I didn't choose this personality, this personality chose me.

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I loosely joked about this a while ago (https://twitter.com/arc31... ), but didn't realize I could charge $6K+/mo for it. https://twitter.com/AndyR...

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Are relationships between people from different backgrounds - like Spotify vs Pandora - doomed from the start?

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