#mass-hysteria
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Girls Who Love Boys Who Love Boys

We can now look back on November 28, 2025, as the start of a mass-psychosis event. In an era of neo-puritanical television slop, a fresh, horny breeze swept in from Canada: Heated Rivalry, a six-episode series about two professional hockey rivals turned lovers, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, stirred something deep in the American psyche. Ordinary taxpaying adult women, many of them my friends, suddenly lost control of their faculties over "the gay hockey show."

Television

Film

fromenglish.elpais.com

3 months ago

From Bugonia' to Pluribus': Why today's aliens aren't like they used to be

Contemporary extraterrestrial fables reveal political alienation, conspiracy-fueled distrust, and shifting cultural fears, often using aliens as metaphors rather than reporting real contact.

History

fromSlate Magazine

5 months ago

The Last Salem Witches, in This Week's Open Thread

In 1692, eight people were hanged in Salem for witchcraft, and twenty were killed overall after refusing to confess.

UK news

fromwww.theguardian.com

6 months ago

Mass psychogenic illness' caused toxic substance alert at Heathrow, says scientist

A likely anxiety-based mass psychogenic illness caused 21 people at Heathrow Terminal 4 to fall ill despite emergency searches finding no hazardous substance.

Miscellaneous

fromIndependent

7 months ago

'I had faith and I was swept up in the excitement': Ballinspittle and the rainy summer of the moving statues

Statues of the Virgin Mary were reported to have moved in Ballinspittle, Ireland, during the summer of 1985, attracting large crowds.