chaste waste

A Black Legacy, Wrapped Up in Fur

The Legacy of Sea Ranch, a Utopian Community in Northern California

Annie Dillard’s Impossible Pages

How a Woman Becomes a Lake

The Misreading of Mitski

The Gender Politics of Fasting

The Impact of Studying Antarctica

The Silence: Paul Schrader on First Reformed

We’ll Always Have Paris:  My Time in Texas with  Sam Shepard’s Notebooks

The Complicated Legacy of American Country Music

How Racism Has Shaped the American Farming Landscape

The White Flight from Football

This is Your Brain Off Facebook

The Murky Ethics of the Ugly Produce Business

the initial fact they’re talking through a hand puppet with the oobi eyes 

the horrible, horrible desynch between their words and the movements of the hand 

lack of any clear place the hand is looking 

“dwells in the depths”. just the whole sentence itself and the weird inflection on it.

the fact that the dude clearly already discovered this thing and was so moved by it they went to record it 

“wuoah”, and the split second of open-palmed hand that no longer resembles a puppet 

the weird fade in on the music and the fact it sounds a little distorted at first 

the very specific but undefinable emotion conveyed by the music 

For years, the FDA allowed breast implant companies to bury evidence of ruptures and other injuries by reporting them as routine events that did not require public disclosure. When the FDA tightened enforcement of its reporting rules in 2017, reports of injuries soared, and they are on pace to increase more than 20-fold in the last two years from the previous two-year period.

According to an ICIJ analysis of FDA adverse event data, the number of suspected breast implant injuries jumped from an average of fewer than 200 a year through 2016, before the FDA’s more rigorous reporting rules, to 4,567 events in 2017 and at least 8,242 in the first half of 2018.

this is just an aside but i’m in a facebook group for people dealing with mold and recently there was a thread of thirty or so women posting their removed implants that were moldly inside and it was one of the most disturbing things i’ve ever seen.