Sometimes it’s best to end things with a bang.
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The Cold Reality Of Breakup Sex
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The Veronicas' Jessica Origliasso Responds To Criticism That She Is Too Thin
“I’ll never be Kim Kardashian. Everyone’s body is different.”
On Facebook last week, Jessica Origliasso addressed the negative comments concerning her and twin sister Lisa's weight, saying "I'm not one to shy away from confrontation and controversial subjects."
I welcome the conversation. I believe the conversation SHOULD happen, so that I am able to reframe it to a place of reality. Get out of the self defeating cycle we are stuck believing.
Jessica was inspired to write the post after reading an "unbelievably unfair" comment saying that "by existing at the weight we currently are, by being ourselves, we are encouraging young people to have eating disorders. "
"I have always been small... I never grew up with the understanding that health equates a number," says Jessica, adding that her mother is also naturally small.
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19 Secret Compartments Where You Can Hide All Your Naughty Things
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I Went To The Cricket And Got In A Love Triangle With Two Of Australia's Biggest TV Networks
What happens at the Big Bash, stays at the Big Bash.
This week the BuzzFeed Australia team went to the Sydney Cricket Ground to see the Adelaide Strikers take on the Sydney Sixers in the Big Bash League.
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9 Madison Avenue Lyrics That Sparked Your Feminist Awakening
“I belong to me, so don’t call me baby.”
Remember "Don't Call Me Baby," the chart-topping bop from 1999? It's basically a feminist anthem and its message is still totally relevant today.
"Don't think that I'm not strong / I'm the one to take you on."
And you were like: "I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness. Because I deserve to be."
(Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, via Feminist)
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Prominent Mormon Blogger Facing Excommunication For "Apostasy"
John Dehlin founded the Mormon Stories podcast and has commented extensively on topics such as LGBT issues and gender within the religion. He now faces excommunication.
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File
John Dehlin received word this week that local leaders from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the Mormon church) may pursue disciplinary action against him, he told BuzzFeed News Thursday. The news was delivered in a letter — which he posted online — saying that leaders are considering disciplining him "because of apostasy."
Dehlin runs the Mormon Stories Podcast, which has covered an array of topics including gender, LGBT issues, and doubt. He has also publicly supported same-sex marriage and efforts to include women in Mormonism's lay ministry. His views make him part of a small but seemingly-growing minority within the otherwise conservative religion.
John Dehlin sits in his basement studio where he broadcasts his podcast at his home in North Logan, Utah, on May 16, 2014.
AP Photo/The Herald Journal, John Zsiray, File
Local church leaders have scheduled a "disciplinary council" for Dehlin on Jan. 25. The meeting is a kind of church court where leaders discuss Dehlin's case. The letter states that Dehlin's council may conclude with excommunication or "disfellowshipment," a kind of formal censure that limits church privileges. Dehlin added Thursday that church leaders gave him an ultimatum: take down old episodes of his podcast that are critical of the church, stop interviewing church critics, and stop publicly supporting same-sex marriage, among other things.
Dehlin said he does not intend to comply with those requirements, saying he would "side with my conscience."
However, Dehlin plans to attend the Jan. 25 meeting and argue his case. He also said that while he stopped attending church services in June — after leaders informed him and several other prominent Mormons that they might be punished — he does not want to leave the religion.
"I feel kind of sad," Dehlin said. "I don't think anybody wants to be excommunicated. I love the church. I don't want to be excommunicated, I just want to be left alone."
Dehlin said his podcast has "tens of thousands" or regular listeners, and that his aim has been trying to help those within Mormonism who struggle with doubt and other issues.
"For me the focus, our goal, has always been to alleviate suffering," he said. "It's an act of love."
Church spokesman Eric Hawkins said Thursday in a statement that "we respect the privacy of individuals, and don't publicly discuss the reasons why a member faces Church discipline. Those reasons are provided to a member by their local Church leaders."
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21 Outrageous Snapchats From Clive Palmer
Admit it, if Clive Palmer had Snapchat he would definitely be your top friend.
Clive Palmer lives a busy life. A life that he loves to share with his friends on Snapchat.
Twitter: @CliveFPalmer / Via Nick Wray / BuzzFeed
Clive loves to tell people about his favourite movie.
20th Century Fox / Via Nick Wray / BuzzFeed
And how the movie inspired him so much that he decided to build his own Titanic.
Twitter: @CliveFPalmer / Via Nick Wray / BuzzFeed
Clive loves bragging to his friends on Snapchat about all the cool things he gets to do.
Twitter: @CliveFPalmer / Via Nick Wray / BuzzFeed
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Arizona To Become First U.S. State To Require Students Pass Civics Exam
The state governor says he will sign the bill, which requires high school students to pass a civics exam based on the U.S. citizenship test in order to graduate.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey gives his State of the State address in the House of Representatives in Phoenix.
AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin
The proposal requires students to correctly answer 60 out of 100 questions that are from the civics portion of the U.S. citizenship test.
Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey previously told the Associated Press he would sign the bill and hoped it would be the first lawmakers bring to his desk.
A number of states are considering similar legislation as part of an initiative led by the Joe Foss Institute located in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Foss, who died in 2003, was a Marine Corps pilot and later a South Dakota governor. He founded the nonprofit institute with his wife in 2001 because he said he wanted to teach young Americans about freedom and public service.
The institute says 15 states are considering the test this year, and they hope to have all 50 states require the test by 2017, which will be the 230th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution.
The North Dakota House of Representatives approved the same measure Thursday, which will now go to the Senate for consideration.
Critics of the measure questioned whether it was an appropriate place for Arizona to put its efforts as the state faces a budget deficit and an education funding crisis.
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"In Dog We Trust" Misprinted Sheriff Rug Auctioned Off For Animal Charity
A Florida sheriff’s office that received a carpet with a typo that read “dog” instead of “God” is being auctioned off to benefit an animal shelter.
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15 Words That Have A Different Meaning When You Work Out
But do YOU lift?
Crunch
Used to mean: The lovely sound a biscuit makes as it gives way between your teeth.
Now means: The reason that coughing, laughing and indeed all movement is agony the day after an abs session.
Ripped
Used to mean: An unfortunate occurrence for pairs of tights.
Now means: The perfect state, from the curve atop those biceps to selfie-sational abs. One day you too will be as ripped as the hotties on your Pinterest #fitspo board.
Gym Kit
Used to mean: A baggy old ‘Team Building Exercise ‘99’ t-shirt and leggings you soon discover are see-through on the bum.
Now means: A virus taking over your wardrobe and draining your bank account. Those designer leggings are wicking, sculpting and apparently now acceptable to wear to bars so the cost per wear is really pretty reasonable right?
Avocado
Used to mean: Expensive, slightly weird fruit.
Now means: The love of your life. The soul of a creamy smoothie and the heart of a healthy chocolate mousse. Your breakfast bae.
Via instagram.com
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Someone Accidentally Said "Dick Poop" During The Oscars Announcement
Cancel the Oscars, Dick Poop’s already won.
A slip of the tongue by the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Cheryl Boone Isaacs has meant today is not a good day for Mr. Turner cinematographer Dick Pope, despite receiving an Oscar nomination.
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These Pictures Of A Newborn Pygmy Hippo Will Lighten Even The Darkest Of Days
It’s his ears that do it.
On Boxing Day, this baby pygmy hippo entered the world.
ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
The male calf weighed just 7kg when it born at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire.
ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
Zookeepers were particularly proud of the mother, Flora, as she had been battling cancer.
ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
Flora had been living with a tumour in her mouth but "responded fantastically" to treatment, the zoo said.
ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
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26 Pictures That Will Give You Perspective On What Really Matters
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Google Glass Gets A Reboot
Google ends its Glass developer program as it gears up for a consumer launch.
HELSINKI, FINLAND - DECEMBER 01: A guest uses a Google glass during the Eurobest festival of creativity at Finlandia Hall on December 1, 2014 in Helsinki, Finland. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images for Eurobest)
Getty Images for Eurobest Andreas Rentz
The Google Glass the world knows and never really loved is going away, at least in its current iteration. Google announced both a restructuring and a change in leadership today. Google announced today that Glass is being moved out of Google's experimental Google X labs to be a stand-alone product.
Glass will continue to be run by Ivy Ross, but will also be overseen by Tony Fadell, who runs Google's hit hardware line of Nest devices. The Google Glass Explorer program will also be ending on Jan. 19. All of these developments indicate that Google plans to take Glass in a more consumer-friendly direction.
Glass is expected to see a rerelease this year, and the combination of Ross and Fadell at the helm suggests that the basic look and function of the hardware could see significant changes, given their design-facing backgrounds. Ross, an artist and designer with product experience at companies as varied as Gap, Mattel, and Bausch & Lomb, was tapped to run Glass last May. In addition to creating the Nest line, Fadell was the designer of the original iPod.
All of which indicates Google has learned lessons from its experiments with the disastrous Explorer launch, its widely publicized development phase, which began in 2013. By selecting brand ambassadors along with a high price point, Google alienated the broader public and created a product that became an easy-to-hate punching bag, increasing the stigma that comes with putting a computer on your face.
After the company failed to address the future of Glass during the keynote of its last developers conference in June 2014, there was much speculation that it intended to kill off the troubled product. However, these changes make it clear that Glass is still very much on Google's agenda. Ross and Fadell have a history of designing great products, so we can expect them to address the fundamental problems with Glass — it looked weird, and no one knew what it was for. It's likely that they will retool the product, and release it as a finished project.
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How One Pakistani Is Bringing About An Anti-Terrorism Civilian Revolution
Today marks one month since the massacre of 132 schoolchildren in Peshawar. Meet the 27-year-old lawyer who is bent on prosecuting the Taliban and unveiling their sympathisers in the country, despite several threats to his life.
Mohammad Jibran Nasir, a lawyer and social activist from Karachi, has started a campaign against terrorism and terrorist sympathisers in Pakistan in the wake of the attack on Peshawar's schoolchildren.
A lot comes with the stand Nasir has taken. "The religious organisation Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamat (ASWJ) have questioned my faith. The All Pakistan Khatm-e-Nabuwat Movement have tried to get an FIR registered against me for blasphemy. They associated someone else's offensive remarks about Prophet Muhammad with me, just to get me in trouble. I've been called an agent and even managed to get the direct attention of a Taliban spokesman. All of this was only motivational," Nasir told BuzzFeed over a phone call.
M. Jibran Nasir
The December 16 terrorist attack led by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar, seems to have served as a wake-up call for Pakistani civilians. The attack killed 141 people -- 132 being schoolchildren -- who were brutally shot in their heads and neck while seated in an auditorium.
Iftikhar mourns his son Mohammed Ali Khan, 15, a student who was killed in the attack.
Zohra Bensemra / Reuters
While most Pakistani statesmen and clerics condemn such attacks, some have a reputation for sympathising with the Taliban, going as far as calling them "brothers" and advising that the government join hands with them to fight against the infidels.
Well known Pakistani cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz, the imaam of the Red Mosque (Lal Masjid), Islamabad, openly sympathised with the Taliban and refused to condemn the vile attack on schoolchildren in a TV show.
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5 Charts That Show Just How Terrible Women Have It In Hollywood
This just in: Women haven’t made any progress in film in 17 years.
Did you know that half of the people in the world are women? A new study suggests that Hollywood does not!
Looking at the top 250 movies of 2014, a recent study from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University found that women occupied the same paltry percentage of leadership roles as they did in 1998: 17%. Which is to say, of all the directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers who worked on the most successful domestic films, 83% were men.
Martha M. Lauzen, Ph.D, director of the center that conducted the study, which is titled "The Celluloid Ceiling," described the dearth of women behind the scenes as "a complex problem with many contributing factors" in an email to BuzzFeed News.
Here's a breakdown of women in various leadership roles in the film industry in 1998 vs. 2014.
Alice Mongkongllite / BuzzFeed
Lauzen contended that not enough people are holding men accountable for fixing Hollywood's entrenched sexism.
"The issue of women's under-representation has been treated as a 'women's issue.' As a result, when journalists speak with studio heads and executives, they tend to only ask the women, such as Amy Pascal at Sony and Donna Langley at Universal, about the lack of women directors," Lauzen wrote in her email. "Men comprise the majority of studio executives. If the status of women's employment is ever going to change, the male majority will need to lead the way."
Alice Mongkongllite / BuzzFeed
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There's A Competition To Find Britain's Sexiest Farmer
When these farmers aren’t shearing sheep, they’re stealing hearts. Via Farmers Weekly.
Meet James Hall, 32, from Somerset, one of the 10 finalists in Farmers Weekly's Britain's Sexiest Farmer 2015 competition. There is only one word: Phwoar.
He says: "I have the best office in the world – the great British countryside – and you can’t get any better than that."
Josh Knaggs, 20, from County Durham, is so hot he makes the sheep blush.
George Grant, 20, from Lincolnshire, is an arable farmer but the only thing he's harvesting right now is our unrequited affection.
If Elliot Rillie, 21, from Oxfordshire, dresses like this to go out in his tractor, what would he wear on a date?
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8 Oscar Nominee Posters, Made Better By Lego
The LEGO Movie didn’t get nominated for best animated feature. To make up for this baffling oversight, I added Lego to the best picture nominees.
American Sniper
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Which Dr. Seuss Character Are You?
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” ― Dr. Seuss
Random House
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Which Character From "Superbad" Are You?
What, are you trying to be an Irish R&B singer?
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