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IMPORTANT: I’m not a doctor, so this is not medical advice, and I cannot be held responsible for anything that might happen. If you are… — Sugar-free gummy bears seem to have developed a bit of a reputation as laxatives. You used to be able to buy big 5lb bags of them on the American Amazon site, but they don’t seem to have them anymore. But the British Amazon site has some 1kg (2.2lb) bags.

This article doesn’t contain any affiliate links. It is just for fun. — Love it or hate it, one thing is for sure — you can buy almost anything on Amazon. Okay, so you can’t buy houses, cars, or people. But you can buy a LOT of different things. Here are six of the slightly nuttier items on offer. Wrinkly old man’s face

A truly shocking lack of driver awareness in Liverpool, England — Take a look at this video of somebody on their phone in a car outside McDonald’s in Liverpool, England. Nobody gets killed or injured, but the driver’s behaviour while behind the wheel is the worst. The main problems: She parks in an awkward place. She doesn’t care who she gets in the…

Let me take you on a musical journey into another world — I’m not just a writer. I’m also a musical composer and a photographer. My artistic name for my music and images has long been Laughing at the Sky. I always liked the combination of poetic beauty and light-hearted humour that this name invokes. I haven’t made any new music for…

One of the reasons God cannot possibly exist and the truth that spiritual enlightenment points to — NOTE: I’m not entirely convinced by my own arguments here. I’m perhaps 90% convinced and doing a thought exercise to explore it as if I was 100% sure of it. One of the reasons put forward for God’s existence is that the Universe couldn’t have created itself. Something must have…

The top 5 articles I’ve read on Medium this week — Cory Doctorow: About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors This is a fascinating look into how big tech can control the devices you think you own. There is a saying: If you’re not paying for the product, you ARE the product. But it turns out that, even when you have paid for something, you might still be the product…

I set myself a challenge: can I make music that sounds as cheesy as SAW’s 80s/90s dance-pop hits? — Stock Aitken Waterman were a British team of songwriters and producers who had many hits in the 80s and early 90s. Most of us are familiar with their typical upbeat pop sound, with the most famous being Rick Astley’s 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up: By the way…

Smillew Rahcuef has, and so have I. Deal with it. — As part of my new Twitter series #RidiculousQuestionsForSmillewRahcuef, I asked him: Have you ever worn your underpants on your head? To my astonishment, he has, because he replied with a link to this story he wrote back in September 2021: Top Writers Write with Their Undies on Their Heads Here’s why you should do it toomedium.com It begins with this recommendation: