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Day: December 30, 2019

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Its Day of the Triffids for todays Britain, but with antidepressants as the monster

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Controversial look at dependence on drugs in sci-fi film by Austrian director Jessica Hausner has divided critics An award-winning science-fiction thriller billed by critics as a modern Day of the Triffids takes a provocative approach to Britains growing dependence on mood-lifting chemicals and antidepressants. Little Joe, released in UK cinemas in February, and starring Ben Whishaw, Emily Beecham and Kerry Fox, has odd, disturbing story of a newly bred plant designed to spread joy. On set in a vast greenhouse laboratory, the acclaimed Austrian director Jessica Hausner first told her…

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The Shirk Report Volume 556

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Welcome to the Shirk Report where you will find 20 funny images, 10 interesting articles and 5 entertaining videos from the last 7 days of sifting. Most images found on Reddit; articles from Digg, Kottke, Facebook, Twitter, and email; videos come from everywhere. Any suggestions? Send a note to submit@twistedsifter.com 20 IMAGES – Friday! – “What is this sorcery?” explained – Break the rules, break the system – French and Spanish teachers going at it – Elon at it again – Best celeb story ever – Just walk it off…

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The pastor versus the populist: Hungarys new faith faultline

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Victor Orbn claims to run a Christian government, but one of his former allies has denounced his hate-filled regime On the wall of Pastor Gbor Ivnyis study, in the heart of one of Budapests poorest districts, a painting depicts Moses in the wilderness, gazing towards the promised land. A gift from an American visitor, it portrays Moses as a rugged Israelite matinee idol; a Charlton Heston in the desert. It is, Ivnyi smiles, a bit kitsch. Ivnyi himself has the look of an Old Testament prophet, dressed in black and…

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Acquia nabs CDP startup AgilOne, which raised $41M

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Acquia announced it has acquired customer data platform (CDP) startup AgilOne today. The companies did not disclose the purchase price. CDPs are all the rage among customer experience vendors, as they provide a way to pull data from a variety of channels to build a more complete picture of the customer. The goal here is to deliver meaningful content to the customer based on what you know about them. Having a platform like this to draw upon makes it more likely that you will hit the target more accurately. Acquia…

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Family’s ‘hope’ over 1999 murder investigation

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Image caption Graham and Lorinda Hall still have hope Victoria’s killer will be found The unsolved investigation was reopened by Suffolk Police on the 20th anniversary of Victoria’s disappearance on 19 September. Image caption Victoria had been at the Bandbox venue just off Felixstowe seafront on the night she went missing Image caption Victoria had walked from Felixstowe to Trimley St Mary and her body was found 25 miles away in Creeting St Peter Gemma heard a scream after but thought nothing of it and a major missing persons inquiry…

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The year in Twitter suspensions

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Twitter is the best of times. Twitter is the worst of times. Wading through the steaming piles of morons, bigots, attention seekers, subtweeters, hypocrites, propaganda and utterly incomprehensible randomness can feel like the internet version of drowning in someone elses dirty bathwater. Happily, Twitter tries to take out its own trash, though it also makes mistakes policing content. The social media platform that (permanently suspended) writer Ally Maynard calls the bathroom stall of the internet has some standardsthreats bad, dick picks okay. Break the rules, and you might find yourself…

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Iranians honor their dead in the face of government clampdown

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(CNN)The Iranian government has banned the families of protesters killed during anti-government unrest in November from organizing any kind of funeral service or memorial for their children or loved ones. Poya, 27, was hit by a bullet during a November 16 demonstration in Mehrshahr, a district of Karaj, his mother, Nahid Shirpisheh, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran. She told the CHRI she believes government forces shot him “They aimed at my son’s head and deliberately killed him,” she said. She was with her son and daughter at…

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Woman Who Was Conscious During Operation Says Nobody Could Hear Her Scream

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A hospital in the UK has admitted liability after a woman claimed she was left with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after remaining conscious during an operation. The patient, who is in her late 30s, went to the Yeovil District Hospital for a routine gynecological operation in 2018. When the medical team began operating on her, she says that she was able to feel surgeons cutting into her abdomen but was unable to alert them. “We went into theatre and I actually screamed out when the surgeon cut my belly button,” the patient who doesn’t…

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J.K. Rowling Got In Trouble Again For An Offensive Tweet That No One Asked For | Betches

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At one point or another, we’ve all said things we shouldn’t have. Whether you said your boss’s idea was dumb in a meeting or gave your friend your honest opinion about how she looked in an outfit, it happens. But there’s a big difference between telling Jen her dress is too tight and saying sh*t that’s actually bigoted or otherwise problematic. Seems like an easy concept to grasp, but some celebrities just don’t seem to get this. Case in point: J.K. Rowling. While she became a billionaire by creating the…

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CBS accidentally interviewed InfoWars host as regular Trump supporter

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CBS News posted a video of Trump supporters at a Pennsylvania rally on Tuesday. One of the seemingly random interviewees ended up being an InfoWars host. I think it would cause physical violence in this country that we havent seen since the second, since the first Civil War. I think it would become the second Civil War, InfoWars Will Johnson says in the video, which was posted to Twitter. Trump supporters at the president's rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania tell CBS News their thoughts on impeachment and the possibility of his…

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