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'He Died in the Goddamn Waiting Room'
With unprecedented hospital staff shortages, COVID-19 has upended the nursing profession. But the r/nursing subreddit offers an online life raft for …
3 years, 10 months ago
When Online Extremism Becomes Offline Violence
On Endless Thread, we talk about the blurring lines between our online and offline worlds. This week, we discuss the role online platforms played in …
3 years, 10 months ago
Cyberwitches
Since the dawn of the internet, cyberwitches have traded in their broomsticks and cauldrons for floppy disks and smartphones. This week on Endless Th…
3 years, 10 months ago
Us vs. Them vs. Andy
From a young age, "Andy" wanted to be a police officer.
But in 2021, after 15 years on the job, he quit. Andy wrote about his decision in the r/OffM…
3 years, 10 months ago
Egg-cellent If True
When a colleague sent us a viral Reddit post from WallStreetBets, we set out to investigate. A redditor who goes by u/throwmetfawaythanks tricked tho…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Faker
Sixteen-year-old M.H. was excited for another year on her cheerleading squad in suburban Pennsylvania. But the year was cut short when an anonymous n…
3 years, 11 months ago
There's a r/place for us
After its first successful iteration in 2017, r/place returned on April 1, 2022 for four days of battling fandoms vying for space inside a pixelated …
3 years, 11 months ago
The Herman Cain Award
A deep dive into The Herman Cain Award subreddit, which ironically awards those who die from COVID after publicly expressing anti-vaxx sentiments or …
3 years, 11 months ago
Excrement of the Stars
Thousands of years ago, a massive meteoroid seared through the Earth’s atmosphere and split into fragments over Greenland. Its pieces were later used…
4 years ago
Political feuds don't take vacations
Ben and Amory are, sadly, not the type of people who truly "unplug" when they go on vacation, but this week's story is proof that those people do, in…
4 years ago