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Real artists…

Real artists do all the painting themselves, not like Rembrandt Real artists use brushes, not technology like Cartier-Bresson Real writers write it out by hand, not like Jack Kerouac Real musicians record it live, not like Steely Dan Real singers sing without processing, not

Trauma porn: buying and selling someone else’s scam center hell

In January 2026, the Chinese studio Jade Flame released a first-person interactive game on Steam called “Blood Money: Lethal Eden.” For US$8.99, you get to walk through the story of a trafficking victim trapped inside a scam compound in Southeast Asia. By May 2026, the game had

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USDA confirms second screwworm fly found in Texas

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed a second case of a flesh-eating screwworm parasite in Texas on Friday, as it races to contain and eradicate the outbreak before it severely impacts the cattle population. A New World screwworm was detected in a one-month-old