Genealogy And Pain

My Day Of Extreme Comfort And Luxury

Jean Hannah Edelstein | Thread | 21st January 2026 | U

Genealogical musings. "I am struck in particular by a photo of Bertha, a woman who was born in Minsk, in 1866. The photo was taken towards the end of her life, and the hardness of it seems written on her body and her face. She endured so much." Dozens of people are alive today because this great-great-grandmother decided to flee instead of remain, and was lucky enough to survive (800 words)

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Four Months And 40 Hours Later

Keza MacDonald | Guardian | 12th January 2026 | U

Account of an attempt to cope with extreme nerve pain by playing a very hard videogame extremely slowly. Hollow Knight: Silksong has "the energy of a horror-tinged European animated TV show you only half-remember from your childhood". Usually, long periods of immersion would be required to defeat it. Playing just 20 minutes at a time teaches valuable lessons about the nature of pain (2,300 words