On the topic of death (a natural part of life we don’t often talk about), the website Modern Loss has extensive resources for many types of loss. Some places to start:
Don’t Talk About How “It Gets Better”
On Grief and Social Media/Technology
Related: How Do You Help a Grieving Friend?
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IKEA MonkeyI am so over Avengers
IKEA Monkeypls don't use the word "thicken"
It has been scarcely two months since we first learned of the existence of Jeff Bezos’s dick pics and his apparent habit of describing girlfriend Lauren Sanchez as “alive girl.” Since then, we’ve learned much more—that it was Sanchez’s brother Michael who reportedly leaked the sexts to American Media Inc., the parent…
IKEA MonkeyAGREED.
When I still lived in Chicago, a friend’s family had a tucked-away lake house across the Indiana-Michigan line on the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan. Escaping our humid, cramped city apartments for beer- and barbecue-fueled lakeside debauchery was a summer highlight—we lit fireworks, jumped off docks, dared each…
IKEA Monkeyyou're a demon, david blaine
The NYPD has confirmed that it is currently investigating magician David Blaine over allegations that he sexually assaulted at least two women, The Daily Beast reports.
IKEA MonkeyThis is FUCKING AWESOME
John Boswell has made a 10-minute time lapse video showing the history of the universe, from its formation 13.8 billion years ago up to the present. Each second of the video represents the passing of 22 million years. But don’t blink right near the end…you might miss the tiny fraction of a second that represents the entire history of humanity.
See also: Boswell’s Timelapse of the Future, a dramatized time lapse of possible events from now until the heat death of the universe many trillion trillion trillions of years from now.
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IKEA MonkeyThis was very entertaining! Less stressful than Free Solo
I’m not sure I can bring myself to watch Free Solo (my hands are getting sweaty and I’m feeling faint just thinking about it), but watching Alex Honnold critique famous rock climbing scenes from movies like Mission Impossible II, Star Trek V, and Cliffhanger is pretty entertaining and informative.
It’s no surprise that with a few obvious caveats, Tom Cruise’s climbing scene in MI:2 gets high marks. The MI stunt work is always legit.
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Vanity license plates are mostly awful. Nobody—especially people stuck in traffic—care to see the clever ways you’ve used a limited selection of letters and numbers to tell the world you’re an accomplished lawyer or that your dad bought you the car you’re driving. Bad jokes, though, are why vanity plates exist.…
IKEA MonkeyWTF?
A new law set to go into effect next week in Brunei will make homosexuality a crime punishable by being stoned to death.
IKEA MonkeyWow. Applause to all kids involved in this.
It’s a scene cut straight from an episode of My So-Called Life: a list of high school girls, ranked by their attractiveness, gets circulated at school. Except this time, the girls on the list don’t let the gross ranking slide on the basis of “boys will be boys.”
IKEA Monkeythanks, I hate it
Approximately 37 years ago—so, April 2017—the world was gifted a shot from the set of Mary Magdalene, in which a costumed Rooney Mara casually took a smoke break in front of the crucified body of Christ. And now, we finally have the trailer!
IKEA Monkeyand that's a wow
Iceland's budget carrier WOW Air said it had ceased operations and cancelled all flights on Thursday, stranding thousands of passengers. The collapse of the troubled airline, which transports more than a third of those travelling to Iceland, comes after buyout talks with rival Icelandair collapsed earlier this week. Passengers are advised to check available flights with other airlines," the carrier said in a statement.
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IKEA MonkeyZendaya is Meechee
Partying teens, fireworks, and an emotionally conflicted Zendaya take center stage in the teaser for HBO’s upcoming dramatic series, Euphoria. The cable network released the clip via their official Twitter page.
IKEA MonkeyHuh. I am more surprised that it hadn't already been banned. These days I'm honestly shocked to see people my age smoking. So few people do anymore.
IKEA Monkeyyeah, this is the best feeling
It’s a beautiful moment.
Your friend suddenly squeezes her eyes shut and starts shaking her head while laughing so hard little streams of salty tears start running down her cheeks. She covers her mouth with her hands as her wide-eyed face turns red — and you can see shiny reflections sparkle in her glittery wet eyes. Big booms bounce off walls until she eventually slows down, gasps for air, and open her eyes wide while wet sniffling, smiling widely, and regaining her composure.
And then she looks you right in the eyes and smiles. And you look her right in the eyes and smile.
And it starts all over again.
AWESOME!
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IKEA MonkeyEvery single account I have heard of regular people meeting Keanu Reeves is that he is just the nicest, most down to earth, approachable person and finally there is video proof.
Celebrities, the sparkling gods of our age, do not seem like they should be able to operate like normal people. More used to having stuff done for them than doing stuff themselves, we all just sort of assume that, say, Brad Pitt or Matt Damon would be an absolute nightmare to be around if their car broke down and…
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On Monday, Denise McAllister, a senior contributor at the conservative website the Federalist, called the women of The View “delusional” and accused them of “ricocheting ignorance and lack of emotional regulation.” Then, a journey began.
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Last August, the NCAA unveiled the NET ranking, a comprehensive synthesis of numbers designed to supplant the much-derided RPI as the definitive metric for comparing the resumes of college basketball teams. Despite some early statistical noise, the NET’s wealth of data ultimately produced a bracket that … looks pretty…
IKEA MonkeyI *loved* this movie!
2018’s most visually inventive movie was Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. In this video, Danny Dimian, Visual Effects Supervisor, and Josh Beveridge, Head of Character Animation, talk about how they and their team created the look of the movie.
Two of my favorite details of the movie were the halftone patterns and the offset printing artifacts used to “blur” the backgrounds and fast-moving elements in some scenes. Borrowing those elements from the comic books could have gone wrong, it could have been super cheesy, they could have overused them in a heavy-handed way. But they totally nailed it by finding ways to use these techniques in service to the story, not just aesthetically.
Oh and the machine learning stuff? Wow. I didn’t know that sort of thing was being used in film production yet. Is this a common thing?
Update: Simon Willison did a Twitter thread that points to dozens of people who worked on Spider-Verse explaining how different bits of the film got made. What an amazing resource…kudos to Sony Animation for allowing their artists to share their process in public like this.
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When eating an animal, it’s important to eat as much of that animal as possible, and more often that not those “unusual” pieces are some of the most flavorful. This is true of the pig face, and it’s true of the chicken neck.
IKEA MonkeyI LOVE this movie!!
Back in the ‘90s and early 2000s, when Disney Channel still had the guts to air edgy teen movies like Teen Witch and Wish Upon a Star, you could catch the 1989 movie Troop Beverly Hills on a semi-regular basis. The story of a wealthy Beverly Hills socialite (Shelley Long) who becomes the den mother of her daughter’s…
IKEA MonkeyOh my god, how completely heartbreaking
The father of a child who died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School apparently died by suicide at Newtown, Connecticut’s town hall on Monday morning. Local authorities arrived at the town hall around 7 a.m. Monday and found Jeremy Richman dead, according to NBC Connecticut.
IKEA MonkeyIt is very comforting to know that no amount of money in the world can make hair extensions looks natural
Tiffany Trump, youngest Trump daughter and often forgotten Trump child, seems to be doing pretty well for herself these days. She’s studying at Georgetown Law, she dating the son of a billionaire businessman who looks like three children in a trench coat, and the relationship reportedly has her mother’s blessing.
IKEA MonkeyIMPORTANT NEWS
Today, March 23, has been set aside as National Puppy Day—founded in 2006 by the author Colleen Paige, and adopted by other groups and organizations since. The idea is to focus attention on puppies in need of adoption and the abuses found in puppy mills, but also to celebrate these furry little companions. In the spirit of the day, I am once more obligated to share some adorable images of pups around the world.
IKEA MonkeyUgh, fuck OFF Barbara
In a recent interview with The Times UK, Barbra Streisand had some pretty awful things to say about the recent documentary Leaving Neverland and the two men who have accused Michael Jackson of sexually assaulting them when they were children.
IKEA MonkeyAw hell yeah LIZZO AND MISSY
Oh hell friggin’ yeah: Lizzo ft. Missy Elliott, “Tempo” - Lizzo continues her streak of putting out ridiculously good singles as she teases her new album, Cuz I Love You, with this call to the dance floor. Lizzo and Missy both bring it as they pay homage to thick thighs, big butts, and your best girlfriends. “Slow…
