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Dismaland

It started out as a little rumour floating around that our local paper picked up on about a big budget film being made in Weston-super-Mare, then even though it had an entry on IMDB and also the main actors WikiPedia page had the film listed in their filmography, someone spotted a lady in public talking to a security person and thought it was Banksy's manager(ess)... then all sorts of rumours flooded the town. Actually, not just the town, the main press too - especially when structures were actually visible from above the walls of Tropicana.

Yesterday put... [read more]

Twitter Retweet Goofs

I only posted two days ago about checking your sources. I bet these people wished they did now after a week of retweet (RT) based goofs, where one tweeter would ask a celebrity to RT their picture of a certain "family member" - but instead of including a real image of said family member, they decide to use various "other" images.

As you can see below, a load have fooled them and they've gone on to retweet them - however after various replies like "he's britains most notorious paedophile", etc.. the said retweets were un-retweeted. Here's... [read more]

Near Waco, Texas Explosion

During the evening hours (8:50pm ET) of Wednesday 17th April, a huge explosion occured at The West Fertilizer Plant in West. (Located north of Waco in the state of Texas). The explosion ripped through the plant and sent a huge plume of smoke high into the air.

At the time of writing this, the local law enforcement have advised residents to evacuate - I believed mainly because of the risk of chemicals in the air, however news network KWKT are mentioning it's because of fears of a second explosion. There is currently a few reports that 60-70 people are dead, but... [read more]