August 17, 2022
28 year old Georgia woman cannot walk, talk, eat, or breathe on her own.
My daughter went for a routine chiropractor appointment. Now she’s paralysed. “Our main form of communication right now is, we’ll go through the alphabet, and she’ll let me know when I’ve gotten to the right letter, and I just spell everything out. She can also nod and thumbs up, and she can mouth things; sometimes I can get it, sometimes not. Really, right now, [we are] spelling everything out. Thankfully, she’s a very good speller. But, yeah, we just spell everything out painstakingly.” [more inside]
“Oh God,” she said. “Did you grab it?”
"I peered up the street, toward Lexington Avenue, and saw garbage bags piled in front of each building. It was trash day. All of this would be landfill in a matter of hours. It made it all the way from 1883 to 2021. I shook out my bad shoulder as best I could, sighed, and picked up a box." How Christopher Bonanos rescued the 170-year history of The Church of the New Jerusalem from a New York City curb.
All comedy is Black
"theGrio's celebration of Black Comedy Month begins with the history of the Black artists who created modern comedy", and continues with "How Richard Pryor killed the white comedian"
Thwack!
Can a Tennis Player Share His Heart, and Courts, With Pickleball? It’s a turf war that’s become common nationwide in recent years as the pandemic drove demand for both sports. Pickleballers are clamoring for respect, more resources and courts, creating a sensitive balancing act for parks and recreation departments around the country.
Much Wow
Alaska's ranked choice voting gets its first major test.
Back in 2020, by a small margin, Alaskans passed a ballot referendum to change the state's voting rules to ranked choice voting. Last night, in a special election to fill the US Congress seat vacated when long-time Alaska Congressman Don Young passed away earlier this year, the new voting method had its first major test in a tight contest to see who will be Alaska's new Congressperson. [more inside]
Dream a Little Dream of Me
Warning! Drunk Mel Gibson Arrest Diorama can make you contemplate Life, The Universe and Everything. (via B3ta)
The Mongols' Most Enduring Legacy?
Roko's Indignities
Adam Beedle (previously, creator of a robot that shoots nerf darts at your face) has invented a robot that shoots legos under your feet.
Tips for baking while dealing with brain fog
Though they be but little, they are fierce!
Meet the Kowari. They weigh up to 175 grams (less for females) and hunt invertebrates, small mammals, reptiles, rodents and even birds. And they're cute as fuck. Arid Recovery has just translocated 12 kowaris from the Birdsville Track to its reserve near Andamooka Station in an effort to conserve the species. It is the last known population of the species in the state. [more inside]
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