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Two days ago, I was standing in line when a little boy tapped my hand. He pointed at my phone and asked, “Is that your mummy inside?” I laughed and said, “No, that’s just a picture.” He looked confused… then said something I’ll never forget: “My mummy is also in pictures now.” I didn’t know what to say. His aunt quickly pulled him closer and whispered, “She passed away last year.” The boy didn’t look sad. He just kept smiling, as if he had said something normal. That moment hit differently. Sometimes, the people who look the strongest… are just too young to understand what they’ve lost. Hold your loved ones a little tighter today. Not everything broken makes noise. ❤️

You can buy this worm in a pen for $6. If the same worm gets inside your stomach through raw fish, a doctor has to snake a camera down your throat and pull it out by hand. The worm is called Anisakis. It is a parasitic roundworm, less than an inch long, and its life is one big loop. It starts inside a whale's stomach. The whale excretes eggs into the ocean. Tiny shrimp called krill eat the eggs. Fish eat the krill. A whale eats the fish. Back to square one. That loop, whale to ocean to shrimp to fish to whale, is the only thing this organism evolved to do. Ending up inside a ballpoint pen was never part of the plan. The pen comes from a guy in Kochi Prefecture, a fishing region on Japan's southern coast. He goes by FUNA84 online. His dad was a veterinarian who discovered an entirely new species of tapeworm. FUNA84 grew up around parasites, and he himself got sick from swallowing one of these worms in raw fish. So he did what anyone from a fishing town would do: stuck the worm in a pen filled with herbal oil and sold it for 950 yen, about $6. The oil keeps the worm alive and wriggling for about 4 to 5 days. After that, it dies, and you own a pen with a dead parasite floating inside it. The joke works in Kochi because everyone there has dealt with these worms. Japan has a serious Anisakis problem, way bigger than official numbers suggest. The government reports a few hundred cases of food poisoning each year. But when researchers publishing in the CDC's Emerging Infectious Diseases journal dug into actual health insurance claims from 2018 to 2019, the real count was closer to 20,000 cases per year. That is about 55 people every single day getting sick from this worm. Mackerel alone is responsible for roughly 43% of infections in Tokyo. When you swallow a live one in a piece of raw fish, it tries to dig through the wall of your stomach. It can't break through. So it gets stuck, your body attacks it, and you end up with severe stomach pain. In some people, it triggers a life-threatening allergic reaction that can close their airway. A doctor removes it by putting you under, sending a camera down your throat to find the worm, and pulling it out with tiny forceps. 950 yen to watch it swim in a pen. A few hundred bucks to get it pulled out of your stomach.

Why Afroman doesn’t use the N-Word

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Re: Leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) I, Alhaja Hafsatu Danladi, hereby assert my position as the true and authentic Chairperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The @HQNigerianArmy has committed too many abuses against these people sacrificing all for Nigeria.

"Tinubu has failed, his incompetence has made many businesses die. Don't let him come back for a 2nd term" — OBJ

You have to walk around knowing you are that mf while also remembering that you are nobody who knows nothing. Highest levels of consciousness can simultaneously hold both.

Lmao I’ll never forget May 2020. I was on my way to Iyana Ipaja to buy new palm. All of a sudden, a danfo crossed my bike. I’m sure the bike man works with the policemen. I was not worried at all because I don’t have any business with them. Suddenly, I saw men come down with guns. Immediately, I thought I was being kidnapped. I was dragged from the bike to the danfo. While being dragged, I was calling those looking at me for help, that I am innocent, I didn’t do anything. Guys, they were just looking at me. Long story short, I was taken to the police station. When I wanted to write my statement, they called a woman to write it for me, saying I was part of the cultism clash that happened the day before. I told them no, I know how to write. Damn, the kind of punch that man gave me on my eye, I still feel it till today. After a while of arguing with them, they took me to a cell at the back of their police station. I spent hours there and was beaten by the thugs I met there. After some hours, I was discharged by my uncle that I called during the time I was inside the bus. POLICE IS NEVER YOUR FRIEND

Never copy anyone. No matter how successful they are. Learn from people, yes. Be inspired by them, yes. But never abandon yourself trying to become them. Your imperfections are what make you original. Your weirdness. Your flaws. The way you see the world. That’s you. That's your gift. The moment you start copying someone else, you betray your own soul. No one is better than you. They’re just different. And your purpose is not to become someone else. Your purpose is to expand what you already are.

Finally. Here they are 🤡 They didn't protest removal of fuel subsidy. They didn't protest the illegal tax policy. They didn't protest kidnappings & banditry. They didn't protest collapsing power grid. They didn't protest inflation of naira & rising cost of living. What they choose to protest, and the ONLY thing that matters to them, is POWER! So if this doesn't make you understand who these people really are......then I'm sorry for you! 🇳🇬

Low-agency people are embarrassed by exposure: being seen trying and failing, being seen as incompetent, being seen as different. High-agency people are embarrassed by waste: wasting their potential, wasting opportunities, wasting time performing competence instead of building it.

- Dostoevsky

“But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.” ― Haruki Murakami

🔥🚨DEVELOPING: A woman is warning the public to remove 'organ donor' status from their driver's licenses. She claims that her friend was denied life-saving treatment by doctors once they discovered he was an organ donor. This story is gaining attention online as people discuss potential implications for organ donation policies.

Your microwave exists because a guy felt a chocolate bar melting in his pocket. Penicillin, the drug behind an estimated 200 million saved lives, exists because someone forgot to wash a dish before going on vacation. That second one is worth the full story. In 1928, a Scottish biologist named Alexander Fleming left a small glass plate (the kind used to grow bacteria in labs) sitting uncovered on his bench. He took off for holiday. Came back. Some random mold had blown in through a window and landed on the plate, and it was killing every germ around it. He almost trashed the whole thing. Instead he looked closer, and that mold turned into the first antibiotic. Fleming being messy wasn't some freak one-off. Psychologist Kevin Dunbar spent years studying how scientists actually make breakthroughs, and his estimate is that 30% to 50% of all scientific discoveries have some element of accident baked in. A 2005 survey of over a thousand patent holders backed that up: half said they stumbled into their invention while working on something else entirely. Percy Spencer, an engineer at a defense company called Raytheon, was standing near radar equipment in the 1940s when he felt something warm in his pocket. The chocolate bar he'd brought for a snack was melting. Spencer grabbed a bag of popcorn kernels, held them near the radar, and watched them pop. Microwave oven. A German physicist named Wilhelm Röntgen was running experiments with glass tubes that shoot electrons in 1895 when he saw a screen across the room start glowing and couldn't explain why. He spent weeks locked in his lab trying to figure it out, eventually photographed his wife's hand bones using the mystery rays, and named them X-rays because he had zero idea what they were. Won the first Nobel Prize in Physics for a discovery he made by accident. The formal name for "fuck around and find out" is the scientific method. You take a guess, test it, see what happens. And the dirty secret of science is that most of the time, nothing useful happens. Nine out of every ten drugs that survive years of lab work and make it all the way to human testing still fail. Each one ate 10 to 15 years of work and roughly a billion dollars before hitting a dead end. A massive review that just wrapped up this year looked at 3,900 published studies across seven years and tried to redo them from scratch. They could only get the same results about half the time. Science is a career where you can fail nine times out of ten and still be considered good at your job. Pasteur said it 150 years ago: "Chance favors only the prepared mind." The fucking around is the job description. The finding out is the reward.

carpe diem

You glow differently when your confidence is fueled by a belief in yourself instead of validation from others.

When patience expires, violence commences.

Your dog probably weighs less than the world's largest rodent. A capybara can hit 145 lbs. And it's sitting in that photo surrounded by predators who could kill it, choosing not to. The answer to "why" comes down to calories. First, those aren't crocodiles. They're yacare caimans, a smaller cousin found across South America. A male yacare weighs about 90 to 110 lbs. The capybara sitting next to it weighs roughly the same, sometimes more. So from the caiman's perspective, attacking one is like picking a fight with something your own size that can hold its breath underwater for five minutes, has webbed feet built for swimming, and travels in a pack of 10 to 20 friends who all start screaming the second they spot danger. Caimans hunt by sitting perfectly still and then lunging once. One shot. That lunge costs a ton of energy, so the meal needs to be worth it. A fish costs almost nothing to catch. A snail is free. A 100 lb rodent surrounded by a squad of lookouts, all sitting right next to the water's edge ready to dive and vanish? Terrible return on investment. Dr. Elizabeth Congdon, who studies capybaras at Bethune-Cookman University in Florida, told IFLScience that caiman attacks on capybaras are rare when fish and easier prey are available. The big exception is babies. Baby capybaras get picked off by caimans, ocelots, harpy eagles, and anacondas all the time. Researchers published a paper in Animal Behaviour in 2022 comparing capybaras in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands (where they live next to millions of caimans and jaguars) to capybaras in Argentina that had lived without any large predators for decades. You'd expect the Pantanal capybaras to be way more paranoid. They weren't. They didn't look around for threats any more often. The only difference: they sat closer to the water so they could bail faster. A 2025 follow-up from the same research group confirmed it. Capybaras don't get more anxious around predators. They just pick smarter seats. That calm in the photo is common. The capybara is relaxed because it's done this math its entire life. The caiman looked at a 100 lb animal that can disappear underwater in seconds, surrounded by a dozen screaming friends, and went, "A fish is easier." Take away the fish, though, like in a drought when rivers dry up, and prey gets scarce, and that truce ends fast.