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5 Snow Boots That Won’t Ruin Your Outfits This Winter | Betches

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1. Joan of Arctic Next Faux Fur Waterproof  Snow Boot – $249.95 If you live in the city and don’t have Sorels, then well, you’re doing it wrong. I actually don’t know how I survived the winters before I got my first pair, but needless to say I’m glad I did. They are a necessity for commuting to and from work, and if you’re that bitch trying to still walk home in her kitten heels when it’s snowing out, then you’re only hurting yourself. Wear the boots to work, and…

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The Comfiest Maternity Dresses You Can Also Wear After Pregnancy | Betches

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Maternity dress shopping is like, hard. Not only are you coping with slowly and steadily getting much, much larger, but you’re also faced with trying to maintain your dignity and cuteness while doing so. Don’t @ me; I was almost seven months pregnant while writing this and I dealt with this sh*t everyday. Sure, you can go the route of wearing some cute AF leggings every damn day, but, at some point (highly recommend 1. Piper & Scoot The Parklan Embroidered Wrap Dress in Jade, $66 Bless you, Piper &…

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Conservatives want a war on porn. It’s puritanical sex values that need to go

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The modern internet as we know it is governed by 26 words: No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. This line is from Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act, and for the most part, its stood the test of time. In so many words, the clause lets U.S. websites and communications infrastructure serve as public spaces for hosting content instead of publishers. Without Section 230, social media would not…

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‘Exercise targets would trigger my eating disorder’

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The study revealed it takes about four hours to walk off the calories in a pizza, or 22 minutes to run off a chocolate bar. Hope, now a mental health campaigner, says the problem with exercise targets for snacks and meals is that they create “the mindset that you have to earn food”. “I developed anorexia when I was 13 and though it wasn’t triggered by exercise, a huge part of it was an obsession with exercise,” she says. “I ended up being admitted to a mental health hospital and…

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Meat-Munching Dinosaur Could Replace Its Teeth As Fast As A Shark

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Sharks famously replenish their toothy grins with a conveyer belt of gnashers, but it seems they’re not alone. Majungasaurus, a predatory dinosaur that lived in Madagascar 70 million years ago, could replace its teeth just as fast, growing a new tooth in each socket roughly every two months. Reporting their findings in the journal PLOS ONE, a team from Adelphi University and Ohio University examined tiny growth lines, the tooth equivalent of tree rings, in fossil dinosaur teeth. They also scanned fossilized jaws to catch a glimpse of any unerupted…

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Pieces Of Advice From Marriage Story You Can Take Into Your Relationship

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Alyssa Lynn Malmquist Updated December 9, 2019 By Marriage Story Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson were amazingly amazing in Netflix’s latest trending movie, Marriage Story. The raw emotion of losing someone you still love is something everyone can relate to at one point or another. Loss comes in all shapes and sizes, and what can be most confusing of all is losing someone that’s still here, and still a part of your life. Marriage Story takes two people who fell in love, had a child, and lived a seemingly happy…

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When Baby Yoda Met Pikachu

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Artwork by @Litt1eR3d on Twitter So Disney+ just launched and the only thing I know about the service is Baby Yoda, who has taken the Internet by storm with his utter adorableness. All I know is that Baby Yoda has appeared in an episode of the new Star Wars tv show, The Mandalorian, and that he has now become a bona fide meme and inspiration for all kinds of Internet goodness.. like this interpretation of Michelangelo’s famous fresco in the Sistine Chapel, The Creation of Adam. The Internet remains undefeated.…

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Pinterest Will Stop Promoting Former Slave Plantations As Wedding Venues | Betches

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I never thought I would say this, but I am proud of Pinterest. Why am I proud of a platform whose entire brand is “basic, but make it a hobby,” may you ask? Because according to Buzzfeed News, Pinterest is removing content that glorifies and romanticizes former slave plantations as wedding venues. We love to see it. Here’s one of the least surprising pieces of information I’ve ever heard: white people love to have their weddings at former slave plantations. Even beloved celebrity couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds celebrated their…

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I Always Thought Something Was Off About My Basement, But I Had No Idea How Terrifying The Truth Was

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By Cliff Barlow Updated May 11, 2019 I remember seeing the house for the first time. I was a child of seven. My young parents had just bought their first home. I remember I used to hate living in the cramped, dingy apartment we previously inhabited and opened the door to our new home with wide eyed wonder. It blew my young mind how spacious this house was. I went upstairs to scope out my bedroom. I was so excited that I was getting my own room and did not…

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