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| UpdatedA new dating app aims to match lovers based on their mutual dislike of Donald Trump, slow drivers and butt selfies — it's going to change the world, writes Ben Pobjie.
Topics: popular-culture, relationships, internet-culture, social-media, offbeat
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| UpdatedA Facebook post implying former Greens leader Bob Brown enjoyed being manhandled by forestry workers during a protest will be the subject of an official complaint.
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, gays-and-lesbians, tas
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| UpdatedA tiny plastic farmer wearing a wide-brimmed hat and green overalls does his bit to raise awareness of Australian agriculture.
Topics: rural, farm-labour, human-interest, offbeat, primary, education, information-and-communication, internet-culture, social-media, tocumwal-2714, nsw
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We need to do more to stop the scourge of loneliness, writes Deirdre Fidge. If that means responding to an online ad for a fishing buddy, so be it.
Topics: relationships, welfare, mental-health, internet-culture, social-media
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| UpdatedHala Snack Pack is one of many awful 'words' awarded honorary status by the Macquarie Dictionary in recent years. Until the dignity of the dictionary is restored, Ben Pobjie is enforcing a 'lexiban'.
Topics: popular-culture, offbeat, internet-culture, social-media, english, australia
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| UpdatedFuelled partly by the rise of Donald Trump, the term 'toxic masculinity' has entered the mainstream, writes Hayley Gleeson. But not everyone agrees it's a positive development in gender relations.
Topics: feminism, men, offbeat, internet-culture, social-media, mens-health
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| UpdatedEmployees from US government agencies establish a network of unofficial "rogue" Twitter feeds in defiance of what they see as attempts by President Donald Trump to muzzle science.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, information-and-communication, internet-culture, social-media, climate-change, united-states
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up at London's Ecuadorian embassy since 2012, moves to clarify his offer to be extradited to the United States following alleged whistleblower Chelsea Manning's sentence being commuted.
Topics: security-intelligence, internet-culture, hacking, england, united-states, australia
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| UpdatedA National Archives official says the US agency has yet to rule on whether it will be required to keep Donald Trump's altered or deleted tweets, which are considered as presidential records.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, social-media, internet-culture, united-states
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The spread of fake news online leads scientists to develop a "vaccine" to inoculate the public against what they describe as the damaging effects of misleading myths about climate change.
Topics: information-and-communication, science-and-technology, internet-culture, social-media, community-and-society, england
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| UpdatedThe Marshall Islands are back online after repairs to the country's submarine fibre optic cable were completed at last.
Topics: internet-culture, pacific, marshall-islands
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| UpdatedAn Instagram account calling for 'nipple donations' seeks to smash sexist double standards on social media, writes Ben Pobjie. And we should all be terrified of what comes next.
Topics: feminism, youth, offbeat, internet-culture, social-media
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A high-speed internet service built by graziers in north Queensland is finally switched on after a minor hold-up.
Topics: internet-culture, internet-technology, rural-media, richmond-4822, mount-isa-4825, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedConfectionery brand Allen's is inviting the public to vote on new lolly flavours, but their choices are a little disappointing, writes Deirdre Fidge. Here are some better ideas.
Topics: youth, internet-culture, social-media, offbeat, popular-culture, australia
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| UpdatedMore than 1,000 people give money to fund an advertising campaign featuring two girls in hijabs, after an Australia Day billboard which used their photo was taken down following complaints.
Topics: multiculturalism, community-and-multicultural-festivals, internet-culture, advertising, information-and-communication, community-and-society, cranbourne-3977, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedThe use of technology in primary school classrooms is a divisive issue among parents and teachers, so are there any proven benefits of children using devices such as tablets?
Topics: education, computers-and-technology, primary-schools, children, states-and-territories, internet-culture, human-interest, melbourne-3000
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I'll be marking Donald Trump's first day in office by marching in Sydney to stand up against the hatred and bigotry he represents, Lucia Osborne-Crowley writes.
Topics: feminism, gays-and-lesbians, women, internet-culture, social-media, us-elections, sydney-2000
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Lachlan Harris, former press secretary to Kevin Rudd, about the public relations strategy of US President-elect Donald Trump.
Topics: internet-culture, information-and-communication, journalism, print-media, social-media, united-states, australia
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Victorian parents share their concerns over requests from schools to buy their children tablets or laptops as part of Bring Your Own Device policies.
Topics: educational-resources, children, primary-schools, internet-culture, states-and-territories, public-schools, schools, education, melbourne-3000
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Just when you thought 2017 was safe, the creators of Monopoly are putting the board game's iconic tokens to public vote. And Ben Pobjie, for one, will not suffer the indignity of going to Mayfair in a bunny slipper, Ben Pobjie writes.
Topics: games, popular-culture, people, internet-culture, social-media
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| UpdatedAmerican pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli is kicked off Twitter after uploading photos of Teen Vogue weekend editor Lauren Duca to his account profile, some coupled with the words "for better or worse, till death do us part, I love you with every single beat of my heart".
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, information-and-communication, community-and-society, united-states
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Two Adelaide programmers create a smartphone app that will text parents when their children are suspected of communicating with paedophiles online.
Topics: information-technology, family-and-children, parenting, internet-culture, social-media, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedFour black people are charged with hate crimes in connection with a video broadcast live on Facebook that showed a mentally disabled white man being beaten and taunted, threatened with a knife and forced to drink from a toilet.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, assault, internet-culture, social-media, united-states