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Alison Pill Accidentally Tweets Topless Picture [Somewhat NSFW]

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Actress Allison Pill, who stars on a show where women are constantly being portrayed as technologically-challenged morons, has accidentally tweeted a topless picture of herself.

Pill plays Maggie on HBO's "The Newsroom," which once featured a supposedly brilliant female producer sending a mass email to the entire company about her love life. Today, Pill brought that storyline to life by sending a picture of herself splayed on a bed wearing nothing but glasses and a smile by that she said was intended for her fiance:

Pill immediately deleted the tweet, but not before it went viral. She also owned up to it in a totally nonchalant way, which kind of makes us love her:

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