Mugshot of Ma Yoeun, taken at the S-21 prison in Cambodia on August 16, 1977. S-21 was one of 189 Khmer Rouge interrogation centers, and at least 12,000 S-21 prisoners were killed. Only a handful of people survived, one of whom was Ma Yoeun's husband, Bou Meng.

TIL that after admitting responsibility for over 12,000 deaths in the Cambodian genocide under the Khmer Rouge, Kang Kek Iew aka Comrade Duch asked the war crimes tribunal to acquit and release him. They did not.

Dermatitis neglecta in a case of meningomyelocele. This toddler's mom didn't wash the lump because she was afraid of bothering it.

Huge vaginal stone

Covid leads to three finger amputations

Drunk man puts two firecrackers in his mouth and lights them “to show to a colleague the mystical powers of his respected amulet.” Medical case report with ghastly photos.

Anyone else plagued by thoughts of having to put down their pets themselves?

Does this count? I never did get all the tangles out. Lord help me.

S-21 prison mug shot of Christopher Delance, one of the few Americans to be killed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Delance and a friend, Michael Deeds, were sailing from Singapore to Thailand in 1978 when they were caught in Cambodian waters, imprisoned, tortured and murdered by the regime.

The only sane person - does anyone else feel this way?

Construction site fall. Impaled on the wooden handle of a sledgehammer.

Baby with congenital arhinia, the absence of a nose. Fewer than 50 cases have been reported worldwide.

Andrew Hill, in a photo posted to his Facebook on February 27, 2022. In August that year he was murdered in the basement of a home in Boston, Georgia.

Firecracker blast in mouth. The patient, who was drunk, put two firecrackers in his mouth and lit them "in order to show to a colleague the mystical powers of his respected amulet." Aesthetic results of reconstruction were impressive.

Ecthyma gangrenosum in a nine-day-old baby. This is a cutaneous manifestation of severe, invasive infection.

This was discussed on a post regarding Chinese fertility drop. I never saw this type of blatant suggestions before!

Hydatid cyst (the blade is pointing at it) in a cattle herder's heart. Human hydatid disease is caused by infestation of tapeworms of the genus Echinococcus. The liver and lungs are much more common sites of infection than the heart.

30 days in the hospital over a fish bone

Suicide by table saw

Randomly murdered with pickax by stranger on the sidewalk

TIL about the spintria, or spintriae in plural, a Roman-era token with a numeral on one side and on the other side, the image of a couple having sex. Each numbered coin had a different sex position. Historians don’t know what spintriae were for but have suggested they were used as brothel passes.

Cutaneous mucormycosis of scalp and eyelids in a nine-year-old child with type I diabetes

Stabbed in the face during a family fight

Trump Just Utterly Humiliated JD Vance

Now's a good time to recall John Roberts' warning about court orders being ignored