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Regarding Your Recent Lack of Laughter . Top Story - June 2025.
Hey there! 👋🫤⚡ It's me: _Lightning Bolt⚡ and please don't fly off the handle. ⚡😐 On a rare occasion, every once in a while, self-awareness smacks me on the head like a giant rubber dildo. And you, my faithful readers, make that possible. (The self-awareness... not the dildo.)
By Lightning Bolt ⚡about a year ago in Humor
Internet lies. Top Story - June 2025.
People will believe anything. You wouldn't believe some of the crazy theories people actually believe on the internet. Like flat earthers who refuse to believe the earth is spherical, instead believing it to be flat instead. Or how about those online conspiracy theorists who believe Hollywood actors eat babies to stay young and handsome, or how they believe a secret cult known as the Illuminati control the world's governments and society as a whole. There are folks who believe lizard people live amongst us, disguising themselves as humans or that aliens secretly watch our every move. Some of these conspiracies can be funny or intriguing to speculate over, there are very few that actually hold merit or have even proven to be true. My personal favourite has to be the Mandela Effect, where everyone remembers something being a certain way, yet in reality it's always been another way. Like imagine waking up one day to see the sun is now red, only for everyone else to say it's always been that way and even in old movies and pictures the sun is indeed red, not orange or is it yellow? Now that's a Mandela Effect. There is also the Butterfly Effect, where if you were to do so little as kill a butterfly in the past, it could drastically change the present or future. The Butterfly Effect is typically the plot to most movies or books that feature the premise of time travel, where the time traveller makes a bad decision in the past that needs fixing otherwise their personal life is doomed. These are all fun theories, ones made up by imaginative people. Some are harmless to believe, while others can have sometimes dangerous and uncertain consequences if you decide to believe them, which brings us up to the clutch of this story. That being the time Josef Carlin was wrongfully accused of the murder of poor little Ally Sedan. You see what happened is this; Josef worked at a theme park called Ricky Mouse Land in Miami Florida, which was based on the popular children's cartoon show. Ally had unfortunately died during a particularly gruesome ride on the tea cups, the cup she was inside of span out of control and the railing was loose so she came tumbling out of the ride at speed so fast it proved fatal as she crashed head first onto the yellow brick ground, staining it red with her blood. What happened to Ally was a tragic accident, the ride was old and unstable, it simply broke and led to tragedy. However, others wanted revenge, they needed someone to blame. So when news leaked that it was Josef who had operated the ride that day, everyone wanted to point fingers and claim he did that on purpose. That he intentionally made that one tea cup spin out of control in a successful attempt to kill that poor girl! The rumours were all over the internet, Josef was even "let go" from his job because of all the negative press he and the park were receiving.
By Joseph Roy Wrightabout a year ago in Horror
Pride Under Pressure Challenge Winners
Some identities are easy to carry. Others take work. This challenge was about writing into that work. The weight of being seen. The quiet courage it takes to stay visible. Writers shared personal, honest moments of fear, love, exhaustion, and resilience, not trying to explain, just telling the truth.
By Vocal Curation Teamabout a year ago in Resources
Brian Wilson. Top Story - June 2025.
I grew up listening to rock 'n' roll, which was half doo-wop, and half Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, and Elvis. As the 1960s began to emerge, the Four Seasons in 1962 and the Beach Boys in 1963 carried on with a modernized, popified doo-wop sound. The Beatles were closer than just around the next corner. And that was the milieu in which I formed my first group, The Transits, slightly more old-fashioned than the Four Seasons and the Beach Boys, but covering their best songs.
By Paul Levinsonabout a year ago in Beat
In Memoriam: Victims of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting. Top Story - June 2025. Content Warning.
On June 12, 2016, a gunman opened fire at Pulse Nightclub, a gay club in Orlando, Florida. At just after two in the morning, twenty nine year old Omar Mateen entered the nightclub with a handgun and a semi-automatic rifle, where he proceeded to kill forty nine people and injure fifty three others.
By choreomaniasabout a year ago in Pride
Dear Emanuel. Top Story - June 2025.
Dear Emanuel I know not to start a letter with the phrase, “I am writing” because Mrs Digby let me know that it was superfluous and Mrs D’Rosario told me it was hack. But it is hard to know how to start a letter to a man I only met once.
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Humans
Little Inconveniences. Top Story - June 2025.
Harry blinked several times, willing the sight of the body and the blood on the tile floor to disappear. But they didn’t. When his father had called Harry he’d been sure there was some mistake. Kentville was a small town with no major roads running through it. Gas station convenience stores weren’t unusual targets for thieves, but the one his father had run for the past thirty years was such an unlikely target with it being so far off the beaten path. Everyone knew everyone in Kentville, but Harry didn’t recognize the face of the man with the bullet hole in his head.
By D.K. Shepardabout a year ago in Fiction
Deliver Me From Them: Jesus, I Need Help!. Top Story - June 2025.
"Well of course, Daddy, I’m all settled in just fine," I say into the Trimline telephone, counting the eon-long seconds like I’m sitting through one of his drawn-out July sermons, bless him. "No, everything’s been alright, thank the Lord. The staff are... helpful. Nothin’ over the top, just a sweet spirit all around. No need to worry."
By Dalma Ubitzabout a year ago in Pride
The Results are IN!. Top Story - June 2025.
Well, the wait is finally over. There's good news. Amazing news. So here it is: Chemotherapy has worked. There is necrotic tissue on the lymph nodes shown in the CT scan. The tumor shrank significantly, as well. What are the next steps? Where do we go from here on this roller coaster ride? Well, I'll tell you.
By Jessie Lynn Nelsonabout a year ago in Humans
