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“Game of Thrones” Actress Sophie Turner Taught Twitter a Lesson on Why Jokes About Mental Health Aren’t Funny

Sophie Turner, whom most of us know as Sansa Stark on HBO’s Game of Thrones, doesn’t shy away from controversy. She’s a fiercely outspoken person who always speaks her mind, regardless of the potential blowback.

Turner has spoken out on mental illness before, and her recent foray into the Twitter swamp seems to suggest that the issue remains near and dear to her heart.

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Her latest Twitter diatribe about why we should never joke about mental health is one we should all remember, so let’s go to school, shall we?

It began when Piers Morgan, famous jerk, popped off about how he agrees celebrities are trying to make mental illness “fashionable” and perhaps they’re not really suffering. He was responding to an original comment from Beverley Callard, an English actress who talked about her own struggles with depression in an interview.

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“Real mental illness is very dark and it takes a great deal of strength to ask for help. I think we are now definitely chipping away at the stigma. But we have to be careful mental illness doesn’t become like a Gucci handbag. There is a danger it can become ‘fashionable.’”

The last sentence, obviously, is the bit Piers Morgan agreed with and many people, Turner included, couldn’t take sitting down.

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I’m not sure how Callard could say in one breath that we’re making headway when it comes to de-stigmatizing mental illness, then in the next breath say that celebrities were in danger of treating them like a new handbag. Actresses like Julia Louis Dreyfus spoke out about their breast cancer and treatment, yet no one would think of accusing her of trying to make cancer “fashionable.” So why should mental illness be any different?

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Every voice counts when it comes to fighting the battle against mental illness, so people should speak their truth if they feel comfortable, whether they’re celebrities or not.

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Because the best way to change minds, hearts, and, eventually, the healthcare system is to make every single person realize there is someone in their life who has struggled, is struggling, or will struggle with mental illness.

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Tumblr Provides Definitive Proof That Humans Are Adorable

In this world of crazy, bad news all the time, it’s nice to have the occasional reminder that most people are good and decent. Thankully, this Tumblr thread is here to remind us of the adorable things that humans do. For example:

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Ow? Ow!

Also:

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Well, yeah. Shiny things are great! And who doesn’t love the beach?

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Soft, fluffy bedding sounds amazing.

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Sneezes are kind of amazing. And frustrating.

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I do love my reassurance treats. This note sums things up nicely.

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Humans – we’re delightful (sometimes)!

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The “Today Years Old” Meme Will Definitely Teach You a Thing or Two

“Today years old” is the latest meme to take the internet by storm. It’s where people post things they only just learned recently that has completely changed the way they look at something. Basically, tidbits of knowledge that should be common but are somehow…not.

Read through this list of 15 good ones, and I bet you’ll have your mind blown at least once!

#1. I guess it had to stand for something?

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#2. Trying this ASAP.

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#3. Am I wrong, or is this adorable?

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#4. I don’t want to know if this is true or not.

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#5. Stealing this rtfn.

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#6. Wait, seriously?

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#7. A modern revelation for you.

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#8. It’s kind of abstract, to be fair.

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#9. Imma use it even more now.

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#10. I guess he was okay with it?

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#11. Shatner either loves or hates this.

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#12. It’s like he’s a real person now.

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#13. Love.

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#14. If you could see my face right now…

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#15. Interesting.

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Ok, I learned a lot just now…

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10+ Times College Professors Were the Actual Best

They say that those who can’t do, teach – and I’ve always thought that if being a writer doesn’t pan out, being a college professor sounds pretty good. Flexible hours, you deal with your students directly instead of having to put up with their parents, and you still get longer holidays.

I mean, what’s not to love — you know, aside from the ass-kissing, publish-or-perish mentality, and the politics that go hand-in-hand with higher education?

No, but seriously, these 11 college professors totally confirm my assumption that their jobs are awesome more often than not, and that the profession attracts the best sort of people.

#1. It’s best not to ask too many questions.

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#2. It’s cool.

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#3. Yo.

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#4. Even if he’s not in, he’s in…poster-style.

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#5. And possibly hungover.

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#6. You’ve got to meet kids on their level.

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#7. Buckle up, because this ain’t high school.

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#8. Email is hard, yo.

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#9. This made me lol.

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#10. He’s just trying to connect.

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#11. Critique’s still valid, tho.

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I’m off to apply to grad school!

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This Explanation of Men’s Emotional Needs Will Encourage You to Compliment the Men in Your Life More Often

Over the past several decades, society has seen a pretty massive an wonderful movement to be more encouraging to girls and women. Women today are far more aware and confident in their ability to do anything than their great-grandmothers likely did, and it’s been a beautiful and necessary shift in society.

But while boys and men may not need as much reminding that they can do anything or be anything (they’re given that privilege by society, after all), boys and men do need to be reminded that their emotional needs are valid and matter and do not make them less of a “man.”

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That’s the crux of the issue of “toxic masculinity,” a concept many are starting to believe is behind many of the emotional issues rampant in male culture – basically, the belief that boys and men need to be tough and stoic and stay guarded in order to be a “real man.”

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It’s damaging, and one Tumblr user’s post about how she takes care of her boyfriend’s emotional needs is really putting things into perspective.

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And others are responding with their own stories about how they remember to take care of the men in their lives, not just physically, but emotionally, and how much they like it.

And more than that, how much they need it.

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The fact that women can feel unsure or uncomfortable when handing out compliments, sympathy, or encouragement to men is only proof that toxic masculinity affects everyone in our culture, not just men.

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Take care of your boys, yes.

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Or, you know…take care of each other. It’s the only way we’re all going to make it.

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10+ Tweets That’ll Make You Glad You’re Still Single

For some folks, being in a committed relationship is their ultimate goal, and playing the dating game just makes them miserable. For others, the single life is where it’s at, baby!

For one thing, being single is definitely easier. You have nobody to answer to but yourself – you can do whatever you want whenever you want. You don’t need to plan around anyone else’s schedule, or need to talk yourself out of a daily homicide because your husband can’t seem to put plates in a dishwasher that’s three feet away.

Ahem.

Here are 17 tweets that get that relationships aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, at least not all the time. If you’re single, here’s to you!

#1. Worth it?

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#2. Honesty is the best policy and all of that.

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#3. How to keep your girlfriend, 101.

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#4. He should have known better.

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#5. The important things.

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#6. You’d better know where you stand.

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#7. Best to just go all in.

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#8. Do not listen to the man behind the curtain.

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#9. When sexting becomes this.

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#10. They have so much to learn.

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#11. Until then, you’re on a need to know basis.

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#12. Relationship goals.

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#13. If you’ve never had this thought, then you’ve never seen the show.

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#14. I mean, she’s wearing jeans.

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#15. Tru Wuv.

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#16. Sometimes it’s hard to know what to hope for.

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#17. It’s a fine line.

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So get tindering or whatever people do these days!

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These 15+ Tweets Are Definitive Proof That Animals Are Way Funnier Than Humans

Ok, so I’ll be honest, that title probably isn’t a revelation but it really is accurate. We all pretty much already know that animals are hilarious and probably almost certainly better than people. But still, sometimes you just need to go out there and re-confirm everything.

Proof? These 17 tweets right here.

#1. I mean who doesn’t love a good pillow?

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#2. Please don’t shoot the messenger, sire.

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#3. So terribly worried…

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#4. I got dis jacket?

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#5. That’s a lot of bad PR to unravel.

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#6. I love how he’s singing along.

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#7. And fabulous.

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#8. That last picture, though.

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#9. Hello…is it me you’re looking for?

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#10. Hours down the drain.

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#11. Now you come, asking for my protection.

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#12. Sleep envy.

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#13. You gotta have it, you gotta have it.

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#14. Werk.

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#15. This hedgehog is all of us.

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#16. And where is my crown, good sir? MY CROWN.

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#17. Wait’ll you hear this one, Bill!

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Animals – gotta love ’em!

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Here’s How Domino’s Pizza Tracker Helped Save One Man’s Life From a Knife-Wielding Ex-Girlfriend

If you’ve ordered a pizza from Domino’s online in the last year or two, you’re almost certainly familiar with the marvel of fast food innovation that is the Domino’s pizza tracker. It’s the kind of breakthrough that’s got some people saying Domino’s is really a tech company making pizzas.

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Now, picture a guy planning to spend a relaxing Friday night in front of the tube with a nice, hot pizza. Little does he know, Domino’s’ pizza tracker won’t just let him verify a timely delivery, it will be a life saver. Literally.

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While we should point out that there is a real argument to be made that the way he talks about his girlfriend’s very legitimate mental disorder is not cool, once you start attacking someone with a knife, you’ve sort of lost the moral high ground.

So…Domino’s for the win!

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15 Posts That Prove Just How Weird English Can Be

It might be hard to believe if you’ve grown up with it all your life, but English is actually a pretty tough language to learn. You see, English has rules, bu it’s also got about 10 different exceptions to each of these rules, and you’d best believe you need to remember all of them. Plus, English at this point has borrowed words and structure from so many other languages that it’s hard to enforce a standard set of rules anyway. The result is a true mish-mash that makes zero sense, and these posts prove it.

15. Very punny

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14. Do not you dare

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13. It burns

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12. Q

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11. What have you done?

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10. I’m looking at you, Australia

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9. Potato

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8. Why?!?

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7. I object!

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6. These can’t be real

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5. Seven meanings

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4. So confusing

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3. Will Smith

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2. That that

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1. Just stop

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Who doesn’t love language jokes, right?

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15 Acts of Kindness Between Total Strangers That’ll Restore Your Faith in Humanity

There’s so much crap going on in the world today that it’s easy to lose focus and think the whole world is going to hell in a handbasket. That’s why posts like these are so important, so heartwarming, and oh-so-needed. Enjoy.

#15. “Helping a kid get to school…”

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You just have to knock on the right door.

#14. “On my hellish NYC commute.”

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Pay it forward.

#13. “Random bit of kindness I found in a redbox.”

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I want to do this!

#12. “Lowe’s ran out of generators, and a complete stranger gave his generator to a woman whose father is living on oxygen. People helping people. I love my state.”

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It’s dusty in here.

#11. “We all start somewhere.”

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Sometimes we just need one person to see us.

#10. “I was playing my ukulele on my back patio and later I found this on my door.”

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When you expect one sort of note from your neighbor and get this one instead.

#9. “A Penguin’s Successful Hunt.”

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This one wins most random, for sure.

#8. “A stranger picked up our tab at IHOP while my wife and I were struggling to keep our twin babies calm. We cried.”

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There should be more solidarity like this between parents.

#7. “I nearly deleted my late grandmother’s texts by turning on the delete texts from over a year ago . I sent a message to her phone to make sure they wouldn’t be deleted, and the person who got her phone number replied.”

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It would be so easy to be annoyed, but you have a choice.

#6. “Saw an elderly man make a move and patiently wait for another player. An unlikely partner appeared and warmed my heart.”

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If you’re patient, the right person might show up.

#5. “People are great sometimes.”

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Sometimes they are.

#4. “A stranger helping out another stranger struggling with his tie.”

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This picture makes me cry every time.

#3. “Absolutely Have Fun!”

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Check yes or yes.

#2. “I made a new friend today while waiting for the post office to open after lunch. Meet Beverly.”

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You never know when 10 minutes might change your life.

#1. “Still some good people left in this world.”

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Truly heartwarming.

I feel better and ready to tackle my week!

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