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TERRIFYING "zombie" knives are being sold on Snapchat for £40 amid a stabbings spike in the UK. The deadly weapons, named after blades using in zombie apocalypse films, have been banned for five years but are readily available on social media to teenagers and children. 23Zombie knives and other deadly weapons are on sale on Snapchat - a popular teen platformCredit: Supplied 23One vile Snapchat seller is touting stocks of zombie knives that cost £40Credit: Supplied The Sun has continuously campaigned for a crackdown on the weapon and were shocked to find individuals selling the blades on Snapchat. One sicko, who posted photographs of a number of zombie knives for sale, wrote: “All big shanks are 40£ (sic) this Friday and weekend only.” A second stated: “Zk (zombie knife) and flicky (flick knife) bundle 50£ (sic) today only both.” In another post, which was captioned “shout me”, the unnamed user scrolled through videos of multiple knives that were up for sale. 23Zombie knives have a sharp and a serrated edge and typically writing on themCredit: Supplied 23One young man showing off the zombie knife he purchased online They also shared the photograph of a katana-like weapon, branded “my personal fav”,…

London – It was never Stan Fukase’s intention to go viral on TikTok.“When the pandemic started, I started making TikTok videos like everyone else,” he says over a video call. “I was never expecting to be famous or anything.” Stan Fukase, known on social media platforms as ‘World of Xtra,’ acts as a bridge between non-Japanese people and those in Japan’s LGBTQ+ community. | COURTESY OF STAN FUKASE Yet after a brief dabble with the dance videos that TikTok is famed for, it was a video making fun of how drag queens greet each other that went viral, gaining hundreds of thousands of views. As Fukase began to post on TikTok more, however, those numbers started to pale in comparison to the thousands of followers he was gaining daily. At one point, Fukase, under the alias @worldofxtra, had the fastest growing TikTok account in Japan. Currently, he has close to 600,000 followers on the platform.Born in Japan but raised in the Philippines, content creation was not a part of Fukase’s original plan. Although he’d started a YouTube channel at age 12 for a hobby, he put it on hold to concentrate on pursuing a career in the medical field. Attending…

LinkedIn has released some significant details about the talent and skills big brands have been looking for. LinkedIn shared publicly about the growing advertising job industry and what abilities they are searching for to hire new marketing and advertising professionals.LinkedIn’s information states that even after the ongoing pandemic situations when every other profession had faced downfall, marketing and related jobs are still in higher demand. Alone on LinkedIn 63 percent rise has been observed in marketing opportunities in the time span of six months. Overall 380,000 advertising employment opportunities have been listed in 2020. The major reason behind such an immense growth is the skills a marketer owns. Marketing can be done expertly either in an online job or in-house job, the quality of work will not get affected in any case. Considering the countless limitation Covid-19 has put for everyone, digital marketing companies must enhance their accessibility and recognition and the stats presented by LinkedIn proved that there are tremendous chances for people skilled in marketing. Along with sharing the demanding skills, LinkedIn mentions that it has witnessed a 24.5 percent growth in trainee positions and a 15% growth in marketing employer opportunities in the last six months. In…

Facebook said Friday it would suspend Donald Trump's accounts for at least two years, retaining a ban on the former U.S. president that it imposed after determining he incited the deadly January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.  "At the end of this period, we will look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded," Facebook Vice President Nick Clegg wrote in a blog post Friday.   The social media giant's independent oversight board upheld its block on Trump, which was enacted after the riot because the company said his posts were inciting violence.  On January 6, Trump implored thousands of supporters who had come to Washington for a "Save America March" to "fight like hell" to overturn his defeat, just before the riot aimed at preventing the certification of Joe Biden's presidential victory. Five people died, including a federal police officer.  The ban expires on January 7, 2023, two years after Facebook first blocked the former president.  The timing of Facebook's decision will reduce Trump's ability to influence midterm congressional elections in November 2022,  » Read More

The Women's Golf Coaches Association has announced the 2020-21 student-athlete and coaches awards for NAIA Women's Collegiate Golf. The awards are selected by a prestigious collection of women's collegiate golf coaches. For more information, please visit www.wgcagolf.com. Dalton State placed 4 golfers on the All-American squad with freshman Mailey Buzzell and sophomore Sydney Hermann garnering 2nd team honors. Both ladies competed in 9 events with neither finishing outside the top-15 during regular tournament play. Buzzell collected 2 wins, 7 top-5's, and 8 top-10's with a scoring average of 74.75, while Hermann netted 4 top-5's and 7 top-10's with a scoring average of 76.37. Cameron Daniel and Isabel Rijos made honorable mention. Daniel racked up 5 top-5's and 7 top-10's in 9 tournaments played while recorded a scoring average of 76.52. This is the 2nd mention on the WGCA list for Rijos who made the inaugural team last season. In her final year as a Lady Bird she had a 77.56 scoring average with a best finish of 3rd on 3 occasions.   NAIA PING WGCA Player of the Year Michela Tjan, Keiser University   Acceptance video: https://vimeo.com/558677179   NAIA WGCA Freshman of the Year Presented by StrackaLine Nichakorn Prapsripoom, William Carey University   Acceptance video: https://vimeo.com/558678793   NAIA Jackie Steinmann WGCA National Coach…

By Morgan Sung2021-06-04 20:21:06 UTC A viral tweet is bringing the fanfiction community together under the lyrical genius of Christina Perri's "A Thousand Years," and it's bringing a long-running Tumblr meme format to Twitter.  The song was written for the 2011 masterpiece The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 but, thanks to the enduring enthusiasm of the Twilight fandom, it resides in the hallowed halls of evergreen meme material.  Emma Logsdon, a Twitter user and fanfiction enthusiast, brought "A Thousand Years" back into the spotlight with a viral lyric video that used titles on the fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own for each lyric. The video, which they posted Thursday night, has more than 460,000 views and inspired other Twitter users to start using the meme format as well.  Fanfiction writers are notorious for either not being able to think of titles or hating the titles that they do come up with, Logdson noted in a Twitter DM, so many resort to using tangentially related song lyrics.  Although Logdson is one of the first people to use Archive of Our Own titles for lyric videos on Twitter, this format has existed on Tumblr since at least 2019. Logsdon was…

A contractor said this week it is restoring holiday pay to Facebook Inc. janitors after questions from MarketWatch about why hundreds of workers lost more than half their paid holidays during the COVID-19 pandemic.Facebook FB, +1.32% janitors who kept their jobs but worked sporadically throughout the coronavirus pandemic went back to full-time, on-site work in April as the social media giant began to open its offices with limited capacity. Although several janitors said they are grateful to still be employed, they wondered why they had lost some perks, specifically a half-dozen paid holidays.  Like many other hourly workers at large companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, the janitors do not work for Facebook directly, but are employed by a contractor. In this case, the contractor is ABM Industries Inc. ABM, +0.61%, which sent janitors at Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., campus a letter around Thanksgiving informing them that they would be paid for only five holidays a year effective December 2020, the minimum required in their union contract and down from the 11 days previously offered.  » Read More

IAC/InterActive (NASDAQ:IAC) spins off video tools business Vimeo as a stand-alone public company. AutoZone's (NYSE:AZO) latest same-store sales growth was in the zone of greatness. In this episode of MarketFoolery, host Chris Hill and Motley Fool analyst Asit Sharma analyze those stories and discuss Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) closing in on its latest acquisition target: MGM Studios. To catch full episodes of all The Motley Fool's free podcasts, check out our podcast center. To get started investing, check out our quick-start guide to investing in stocks. A full transcript follows the video. This video was recorded on May 25, 2021. Chris Hill: It's Tuesday, May 25th. Welcome to MarketFoolery. I'm Chris Hill. With me today, Asit Sharma in the house. Good to see you. Asit Sharma: Good to see you, Chris. Thank you for widening your parameters, and once again, taking a chance to have me come join you in the morning.  Hill: You're a known quantity at this point, I'm no longer taking a chance. We have a big acquisition brewing in the entertainment industry. We have some automotive earnings to get to. But we're going to start with another, I guess we could put this under the umbrella of entertainment.…

Every day, the PetaPixel Instagram account shares excellent photography from our readers and those who inspire us. Here is a look at some of our recent favorite posts and the photographers behind the lens. Our @PetaPixel Instagram page regularly shares all the great work that finds its way in front of our eyes. Want to see your photos shared on our account? First, you’ll want to follow us. Then use the #petapixel hashtag in your posts to join our Instagram community of photographers. These steps let us easily find what to share. Below, we recognize a selection of talented photographers who recently has their work featured on @PetaPixel. Keep posting your images with #petapixel and you could find yourself here next week. Bob Cooley, or @bobcooley on Instagram, is a New York City-based photojournalist and commercial photographer that has a deep list of publications he’s contributed to including LIFE Magazine, Forbes, The Economist, Sports Illustrated, The Associated Press, and more. Harry Martin, found on Instagram as @harrymartinphotography, leads photo workshops at destinations around the world. “One that excites me more than any other for landscape photography is the Isle of Eigg, off the west coast of Scotland,” he told PetaPixel.…

Social media platform LinkedIn has released a list of Indigenous voices in bid to elevate those breaking stereotypes and shifting traditional perceptions ...