Friday, September 2, 2016
For Great British Bake Off fans
The No Context Bake Off Twitter feed. (You should all be Great British Bake Off fans.)
"Swimming while black: the legacy of segregated public pools lives on"
TG (article is from last year):
a first wave of investment into public pools that started in the 1920s and 1930s.
During that time, Wiltse says, thousands of public pools were opened across the country, creating a culture of swimming for millions of Americans. But the pools were segregated, and only a fraction of them were destined for black Americans.
When desegregation of public spaces was forced across the nation by federal ruling starting in the 1950s and gradually taking effect across the land through the 1960s, a few significant things happened to once booming public swimming pools, Wiltse says.
First, with the idea that black Americans were now set to benefit en masse from the existence of public pools, investment by white public officials dropped.
Second, black and white swimmers were still far from a step closer to sharing the same body of water. In the north, white swimmers abandoned public pools and headed to the suburbs, themselves a federally sanctioned all-white project. There, community pools were set up for residents and private swim clubs blossomed.
"Student missing for 12 years was 'kidnapped to teach English to Kim Jong-un'"
Ind:
The family of a college student who disappeared during a 2004 trip to China see new signs for hope after a Japanese news agency reported that he was kidnapped by the North Korean government.Via.
...
Mr Sneddon’s parents, Roy and Kathleen, never believed the official story that their son had died falling into a river. Knowing North Korea's reputation for kidnapping foreigners, they believed the Kim regime sought out their son for his fluency in Korean – which he used during his time spent as a Mormon missionary in South Korea - and snatched him for their own purposes.
Google's "policy of demonetizing videos due to advertiser-friendly concerns"
Re:
YouTube has a plan to generate more advertising revenue for its videos — by pulling ads off of some of its videos.
The world’s biggest video site wants to make its inventory more attractive to advertisers, by preemptively flagging some videos that have “non-advertising-friendly content.”
Or, in YouTube’s words, “demonetizing” them.
Wonder Woman cosplay
The final Wonder Woman inspired by @chamonkee . Collab between me and my partner, Crow, also the model. pic.twitter.com/X1F3N0u8X0— Jamie Kruger (@thekroog) September 2, 2016
JUSTICE BROS pic.twitter.com/3CaPEkaM6x— Jamie Kruger (@thekroog) September 2, 2016
Here is wonder woman as I imagine her. Glorious and battle weary. pic.twitter.com/5oJiGzDBrE— Will Kirkby (@chamonkee) May 1, 2016
Thursday, September 1, 2016
"Two Canadian women are accused of helping smuggle $30 million in cocaine aboard a Princess cruise ship while documenting the luxury globe-trotting vacation in a series of provocative Instagram photos"
"You can view all the photos (at least, until they get taken down) via Instagram."
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