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wellness

3w ago

Stop Buying Self Care And Start Actually Taking Care Of Yourself

You're tired, overwhelmed, and running on fumes. The solution, according to Instagram influencers and wellness brands, is simple. Buy this $47 lavender-scented candle. Subscribe to this meditation app for $14.99 monthly. Book that $200 spa day. Treat yourself to artisan chocolate and a salt bath bomb that costs more than your grocery budget. Congratulations. You've just participated in the $6.8 trillion wellness economy that's convinced you self-care is something you purchase rather than something you practice. The global wellness industry reached $6.8 trillion in 2024 and continues growing at 7.9% annually. By 2029, it's projected to hit $9.8 trillion. That's four times larger than the entire pharmaceutical industry. We're spending unprecedented amounts of money on products marketed as self-care while simultaneously reporting record levels of burnout, anxiety, and exhaustion.

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entertainment

3w ago

If Intimacy Coordinators Threaten Your Art You Were Probably Exploiting Actresses

Brigitte Bardot once said she rejected the limelight, that the intense focus "ate at me from the inside." She became one of cinema's most famous sex symbols despite, or perhaps because of, having little control over how male directors framed her sexuality. Roger Vadim, her first husband and director, built her career by placing her naked body in front of cameras without asking what she actually wanted. That was 1956. Nearly 70 years later, we're finally having serious conversations about who gets to decide how women's sexuality appears on screen. The answer should be obvious: the women themselves. Yet it took a global reckoning about sexual abuse in Hollywood before the industry implemented basic protections for performers in intimate scenes.

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entertainment

3w ago

Simu Liu's Copenhagen Test Tackles Diversity Without Making It A Spectacle

Peacock's new spy thriller The Copenhagen Test dropped all eight episodes on December 27, and it's doing something Hollywood rarely manages. The show features a Chinese-American lead and a Mexican co-star without turning their ethnicity into either a gimmick or a problem to solve. That sounds like it should be the baseline, but apparently in 2025, we still need to celebrate when studios don't screw this up. Simu Liu stars as Alexander Hale, a first-generation Chinese-American intelligence analyst whose brain gets hacked by unknown enemies. His agency, a shadowy outfit called The Orphanage, assigns fellow operative Michelle, played by Melissa Barrera, to pretend to be his girlfriend. They're essentially performing a romance for the hackers watching through Alexander's eyes and ears. Liu compared the experience to Love Island, which is both hilarious and surprisingly apt.

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entertainment

3w ago

Harry Styles Just Proved He Can Do The Bare Minimum And Fans Will Still Lose Their Minds

After two and a half years of radio silence, Harry Styles didn't return with a banger. He didn't drop a surprise album. He didn't even give us lyrics. Instead, he uploaded eight minutes of footage from a concert that ended in July 2023, featuring an instrumental piano piece nobody asked for, and somehow managed to break the internet anyway. On December 27, 2025, Styles quietly posted a video titled "Forever, Forever" to his YouTube channel. No advance warning. No promotional campaign. No explanation. Just footage from the final night of his Love On Tour in Reggio Emilia, Italy, showing him performing a wordless piano composition for thousands of fans. The video ends with three words on screen: "WE BELONG TOGETHER."

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entertainment

3w ago

Three Marvel Movies Combined Made Less Than One Cartoon About Talking Animals

Disney just accomplished something no other studio has managed since before the pandemic. The entertainment giant crossed $6 billion at the global box office in 2025, marking its best year since 2019. Meanwhile, the rest of Hollywood is still trying to figure out why audiences stopped showing up. This isn't just a win. It's Disney running a victory lap while its competitors limp along 20 percent below pre-pandemic levels. The overall theatrical market remains stuck in recovery mode, but Disney seems to operate in a parallel universe where the rules don't apply. Disney pulled in $2.3 billion domestically and $3.65 billion internationally as of December 23, officially crossing the $6 billion threshold on Christmas Eve. The studio's total haul gets even more impressive when you realize they did this despite several major flops.

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lifestyle

3w ago

Why Parents Around The World Are Suddenly Choosing Daughters Over Sons

Something extraordinary is happening in maternity wards and fertility clinics across the globe. For millennia, boys were the prize. Today, girls are increasingly the preference. This isn't just a statistical blip. It represents one of the fastest social transformations in modern history, and frankly, it raises as many questions as it answers about where we're headed as a species. The biological baseline is clear. Nature produces roughly 105 boys for every 100 girls. This slightly male-skewed ratio compensates for higher male mortality rates throughout life. But in the 1980s and 1990s, certain countries violated this natural balance with brutal efficiency.

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entertainment

4w ago

The Real Story Behind Holly Ramsay And Adam Peaty's Wedding: Why Complex Families Deserve Compassion, Not Judgment

The historic Bath Abbey witnessed something rare on December 27, 2025: a wedding that managed to be both fairytale and fractured, glamorous and controversial, all at once. Holly Ramsay, the 25-year-old daughter of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, married British Olympic swimming champion Adam Peaty in a ceremony that attracted the Beckhams, shut down one of England's most visited churches on a holiday, and exposed uncomfortable truths about modern celebrity family dynamics. This wasn't just another celebrity wedding. It was a case study in how today's high-profile unions navigate family rifts, public expectations, and the tension between private celebration and public spectacle.

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entertainment

4w ago

Why Jamie Campbell Bower Stands Out As The Best Actor In Stranger Things Season 5

When Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2 dropped on Christmas Day, fans flooded Reddit and social media with passionate reactions to the penultimate episodes. Among the praise for returning favorites and emotional reunions, one name kept surfacing with near-universal acclaim: Jamie Campbell Bower. His multi-layered portrayal of Henry Creel, Vecna, and the deceptively gentle Mr. Whatsit has elevated the final season into something genuinely unsettling. After watching these latest episodes, I'm convinced Bower delivers the most compelling performance in the entire series. This isn't just villain work. It's a masterclass in psychological horror that requires him to shift between three distinct personas while maintaining an underlying sense of menace that never fully disappears.

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Stop Buying Self Care And Start Actually Taking Care Of Yourself

If Intimacy Coordinators Threaten Your Art You Were Probably Exploiting Actresses

Simu Liu's Copenhagen Test Tackles Diversity Without Making It A Spectacle

Harry Styles Just Proved He Can Do The Bare Minimum And Fans Will Still Lose Their Minds

Three Marvel Movies Combined Made Less Than One Cartoon About Talking Animals

Why Parents Around The World Are Suddenly Choosing Daughters Over Sons

The Real Story Behind Holly Ramsay And Adam Peaty's Wedding: Why Complex Families Deserve Compassion, Not Judgment

Why Jamie Campbell Bower Stands Out As The Best Actor In Stranger Things Season 5

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