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Are you looking for sweet, melty chocolate that makes you feel comforted—or are you a fucking adult? Are you grown up enough to appreciate that everything that once brought you joy is only really worthwhile if it punishes you?

Then strap in, because it’s time to invest in REAL chocolate. Chocolate that comes in flavors like:

• Activated Charcoal with Hand-Muddled Corsican Mint
• Blood Orange Millet Gravel (Are some of those words adjectives, or are all of them nouns? Bet your money and take your chances)
• Shaved Ghost Pepper and Rock Salt
• Regret

This chocolate is made of 87 percent unroasted cacao beans, but 100 percent of those beans have seen some shit. It was handcrafted next to a rusty fire escape in Brooklyn by stone-cold motherfuckers with nothing to lose. It hardened from its molten state in a kitchen that moonlights as an unlicensed kickboxing arena.

It’s a confection with unresolved trauma, and it knows Muay Thai.

The Intercept confirmed that a federal agent caught on camera wearing a hard hat and safety vest works for ICE.

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Q: You were laid off from the National Weather Service amid all the DOGE cuts, correct?

A: Yes. And they haven’t hired anyone new to do my job.

Q: Which was?

A: The National Weather Service’s Director of “Feels Like.” You know how when there’s a heat wave, you hear that the actual temp is eighty-five degrees but it “feels like” it’s ninety-nine? That was me. Since the 1980s, the “feels like” temp was based on my determinations.

Q: And how were these determinations reached?

A: By considering a variety of factors: heat index, wind chill, dew point, solar intensity, the director’s discretion…

Q: Discretion? So you’re saying “feels like” is partially a subjective measure?

A: No, I am saying that the Weather Service, until this administration came along, entrusted me with the job because I have a decades-long track record of empathic temperature-vibing. A single-digit January day in Chicago may be no colder than a single-digit November day. But in January, the Christmas lights have come down, and the Bears are washed. So you know for damn sure that it feels like it’s twelve below.

In this layered portrait, an artist reflects on the complex reality of living with the distressing voice in her head

- by Aeon Video

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Most cults don’t make the headlines. Here’s how to identify, and avoid, control by psychologically coercive social groups

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At the heart of surfing, whether you’re a kook or a famous charger, is the pursuit of moments so pure they clean you out

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Disclosing acts of kindness could encourage even more altruism – if we can find a way around the awkwardness

- by Jerry Richardson

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Cemeteries are a gravely overlooked habitat for wild orchids in Europe

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