EtanaRachel
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I feel like some of this is down to the US having nightmarishly bad health insurance but you'd think these things would at least be regulated so that people with no possible quality of life otherwise would be prioritized.
Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable
Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable
Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I feel like some of this is down to the US having nightmarishly bad health insurance but you'd think these things would at least be regulated so that people with no possible quality of life otherwise would be prioritized.
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This is unsurprisingly grim, & unsurprising if you're disabled, but this bit stood out:
In the US, now the world’s leader in face transplants, the Department of Defense has bankrolled most operations, treating them as a frontier for wounded veterans while private insurers refuse to cover the costs.
In the US, now the world’s leader in face transplants, the Department of Defense has bankrolled most operations, treating them as a frontier for wounded veterans while private insurers refuse to cover the costs.
Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable
Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable
Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This is unsurprisingly grim, & unsurprising if you're disabled, but this bit stood out:
In the US, now the world’s leader in face transplants, the Department of Defense has bankrolled most operations, treating them as a frontier for wounded veterans while private insurers refuse to cover the costs.
In the US, now the world’s leader in face transplants, the Department of Defense has bankrolled most operations, treating them as a frontier for wounded veterans while private insurers refuse to cover the costs.
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the atlantic is credulously reporting twitter viewership numbers as though they're real which means either they are idiots or they think their readers are idiots
A racist TV show made with the assistance of Sora has attracted millions of viewers. Tyler Austin Harper argues that it could be “the harbinger of a new entertainment landscape where extremist AI shows will jockey for our attention with more anodyne ones”:
The Will Stancil Show Could Be the Future
A racist TV series making fun of a minor social-media celebrity has attracted millions of viewers—and demonstrates the alarming possibilities of AI.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
the atlantic is credulously reporting twitter viewership numbers as though they're real which means either they are idiots or they think their readers are idiots
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Youtubers making fun of the Gods Not Dead movies make more money than the movies themselves
The last God’s Not Dead movie made $1.1m at the box office, almost certainly less than it cost to make, certainly less than it cost to make and market. They’re making another one, not because people want it, but because they need you to know they hate you.
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Youtubers making fun of the Gods Not Dead movies make more money than the movies themselves
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The last God’s Not Dead movie made $1.1m at the box office, almost certainly less than it cost to make, certainly less than it cost to make and market. They’re making another one, not because people want it, but because they need you to know they hate you.
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The last God’s Not Dead movie made $1.1m at the box office, almost certainly less than it cost to make, certainly less than it cost to make and market. They’re making another one, not because people want it, but because they need you to know they hate you.
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“Is right-wing slop breaking through to the mainstream?” No. No it is not. Billions of dollars and countless man-hours are spent propping it up and people fucking hate it. It’s soulless trash that doesn’t even convincingly convey honest animus
November 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
“Is right-wing slop breaking through to the mainstream?” No. No it is not. Billions of dollars and countless man-hours are spent propping it up and people fucking hate it. It’s soulless trash that doesn’t even convincingly convey honest animus
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I’m still struggling with how to talk about it but experiencing relatively rapid weight gain from SSRIs and then losing said weight relatively rapidly after going off them was a very destabilizing experience
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m still struggling with how to talk about it but experiencing relatively rapid weight gain from SSRIs and then losing said weight relatively rapidly after going off them was a very destabilizing experience
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All just cardboard and dry ice but it works. I have this theory that the best cinematic art is created within limitations. Once you can do anything you want something goes wrong.
November 23, 2025 at 8:34 AM
All just cardboard and dry ice but it works. I have this theory that the best cinematic art is created within limitations. Once you can do anything you want something goes wrong.
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Agreed. No matter much money is poured into these big budget spectacles I prefer it when films had less smoothed-out, immersive ‘realism’ and more a poetic feel of another world. For instance, these are from ‘The Masque of the Red Death (1964) and ‘The Company of Wolves’ (1984).
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Agreed. No matter much money is poured into these big budget spectacles I prefer it when films had less smoothed-out, immersive ‘realism’ and more a poetic feel of another world. For instance, these are from ‘The Masque of the Red Death (1964) and ‘The Company of Wolves’ (1984).
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I was hoping the answer would involve aliens or time travelers 😂
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I was hoping the answer would involve aliens or time travelers 😂
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We know what a mob hit looks like and it’s get someone unhinged and in hock to you to just shoot someone and we know what a CIA hit looks like which is you go into a tiny room and come out floridly insane and the same guy was involved with in both
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
We know what a mob hit looks like and it’s get someone unhinged and in hock to you to just shoot someone and we know what a CIA hit looks like which is you go into a tiny room and come out floridly insane and the same guy was involved with in both
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FBI: "Ah fuck, fuck this, uh, it's the CIA's fault!" CIA: "Nuh-uh! It's the Mob's fault!" The Mob: "Fuck your mother, Woody Harrelson's dad did it." Woody Harrelson's dad: "I am a dangerous alcoholic and have no issue with this."
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
FBI: "Ah fuck, fuck this, uh, it's the CIA's fault!" CIA: "Nuh-uh! It's the Mob's fault!" The Mob: "Fuck your mother, Woody Harrelson's dad did it." Woody Harrelson's dad: "I am a dangerous alcoholic and have no issue with this."
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WTYP did like a three hour dive on this idea and convinced me, all the post assassination weirdness was botched dueling cover-ups
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
WTYP did like a three hour dive on this idea and convinced me, all the post assassination weirdness was botched dueling cover-ups
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It's probably something as banal as Oswald got an insanely lucky shot and then everybody else muddied the waters trying to cover their own ass for failing to stop it and/or thinking the the heat was going to come down on them.
What's your theory on who killed JFK?
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
It's probably something as banal as Oswald got an insanely lucky shot and then everybody else muddied the waters trying to cover their own ass for failing to stop it and/or thinking the the heat was going to come down on them.
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not unique to wikipedia but i love that every list of "wrestling controversies" is like
- double murder suicide
- they booked the world title bad
- industrial accident murder
- they booked the world title bad
- organized crime murder
- organized crime murder
- double murder suicide
- they booked the world title bad
- industrial accident murder
- they booked the world title bad
- organized crime murder
- organized crime murder
August 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
not unique to wikipedia but i love that every list of "wrestling controversies" is like
- double murder suicide
- they booked the world title bad
- industrial accident murder
- they booked the world title bad
- organized crime murder
- organized crime murder
- double murder suicide
- they booked the world title bad
- industrial accident murder
- they booked the world title bad
- organized crime murder
- organized crime murder
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I understood it the other way, as in someone lacking ethnicity. Like how vertically challenged means lacking in height.
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I understood it the other way, as in someone lacking ethnicity. Like how vertically challenged means lacking in height.
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I don't even know what "ethnically challenged" means, it sounds like a code word that racists use for being non-white
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I don't even know what "ethnically challenged" means, it sounds like a code word that racists use for being non-white
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ETHICALLY CHALLENGED
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
ETHICALLY CHALLENGED
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Anyway once again, real bummer that I cannot salute her as a queen who got something out of putting out because she's an ethnically challenged racist monster
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Anyway once again, real bummer that I cannot salute her as a queen who got something out of putting out because she's an ethnically challenged racist monster
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I actually don't think there's any shame in sleeping your way to the top, like... it's no more shameful than being a nepo baby, anyway
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I actually don't think there's any shame in sleeping your way to the top, like... it's no more shameful than being a nepo baby, anyway
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Apparently my mistake was sleeping with the publishers of hipster magazines and not Keith Olbermann
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Apparently my mistake was sleeping with the publishers of hipster magazines and not Keith Olbermann
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I used to think that sleeping your way to the top was a myth that men made up to con women into sleeping with them in the hopes of gaining professional advancement but damn, Olivia Nuzzi really pulled it off
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I used to think that sleeping your way to the top was a myth that men made up to con women into sleeping with them in the hopes of gaining professional advancement but damn, Olivia Nuzzi really pulled it off
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what if all the kennedy family tragedies were actually trying to stop rfk jr, but time travel assassination is not an exact science
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
what if all the kennedy family tragedies were actually trying to stop rfk jr, but time travel assassination is not an exact science
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How the fuck has the worst Kennedy avoided the curse?
In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
How the fuck has the worst Kennedy avoided the curse?