A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when, just two years after getting it, she was forced to have it removed due to the company that made it going bankrupt.

Specifically, because she couldn't afford to buy the implant from the company. They basically took her implant back to recoup their losses. This is what happens when you privatize healthcare and health research. The group providing her with this implant should not have been able to go bankrupt in the first place, let alone repossess her implant to pay off their debts.

This is what disabled people mean when we say that cyberpunk horror is just a reality for us. This woman was literally forced to undergo a surgery because she couldn't pay to keep the implant already inside her brain. How long till companies start repossessing pacemakers and transplants?

Elon Musk’s attorneys are immolating themselves as we speak

Orc BBQ would be fucking unreal

After the war of the ring people are trying to figure out what to do with the fucked up bird that the Witch King of Angmar rode in on. A few days later, a wagon train of orcs arrives at the gate of Minas Tirith with cartloads of flour, breadcrumbs, and fry oil.

And on that day, Grond, Hammer of the Underworld, was gutted of it's terrible purpose, reforged, transformed, reborn, into the greatest smoker in all of middle earth.

Your health bar is going up as you give this sphiel

+30 HP, +20 Stm

Girls, The BBQ Ribs Are Taking Effect

blood smear

DO NOT ENGAGE WITH BLUE CHECKS

Elon Musk is paying blue checks for ad revenue in the replies of their Tweets now. He is only paying "verified" accounts for this, even if the account in question has hundreds of thousands of followers.

Do not reply, quote-tweet, or retweet any posts made by a user with a blue check.

Spread the word. Quit Twitter.

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this is why you should care about the reddit strike

This is a big concern for the moderators internally too. We've checked our own subs in archive.org to see what is available and will be making steps to make materials available independently of reddit. Archival organizations are working overtime on Reddit right now because they know it might fucking implode soon.

ID: A tweet by Freyja Katra Valentine @FreyaErlings posted at 2:06 PM June 12, 2023. The text says: Watching everyone slowly realize in real time that reddit being down means a major source of practical knowledge and advice that is searchable on the general internet is gone, and so is everything that reddit had replace. End ID

Working w my jiujitsu instructor tonight and he's like "An important concept when practicing jiujitsu is tori-uke. The uke is the person on the receiving end of the technique" and I had to clamp my mouth shut so hard

Normal person: (uses standard Japanese athletic term)

Me (graduated summa cum laude from Yaoi University class of 2011):

Context:

This is just SilverHawks, but I am here for it

Friends in low places :)

WHAT IS A GENDER

BUT A MISERABLE LITTLE PILE OF SECRETS

I think that if you stood behind Keanu Reeves and called out "John" he would turn around

Between John Wick, John Constantine, Johnny Mnemonic, Don John, Johnny Utah, John Wall, John Rain, Johnathan Harker, and Johnny Silverhand, I'm willing to bet that some days the poor man has to take a minute

Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) dir. Karl Geurs

Pooh that is an extremely unhealthy coping mechanism

me - any time i feel sleepy - in the year of our lord 2023: