"I know I take a great personal risk in sending out this message,” Karen Ortiz wrote.

An optical illusion is a picture or pattern that tricks our eyes and brain into seeing something that isn’t really there or appears different from reality. These illusions play with colours ...

To Rachel Maddow, the spoons are a “fork you” to the administration’s plans to drastically slim the federal workforce. About 40,000 people have accepted the offer so far .