Boy who injected himself with a crushed butterfly mixed with water 'for online challenge' suffered horrific seven-day slow death, it is revealed - with the insect's toxins feared to be the cause of death

The fourteen-year-old boy who died after injecting himself with a crushed butterfly suffered agonising symptoms for seven days before he died, local media reports.

Davi Nunes Moreira, 14, died in hospital in Planalto, Brazil last Thursday after telling staff he had injected a solution made of crushed butterfly into his leg.

Believed to have carried out the dangerous procedure as part of an 'online challenge', Moreira began vomiting and struggled to walk before admitting his mistake.

The youngster was taken into hospital by his father and remained in the Vitória da Conquista general hospital for a week, receiving specialised support, before he died.

Last April, an online influencer from Brazil nearly required amputation after taking part in an ill-advised viral trend for her two million followers.

'Thammy MC' was left unable to walk after standing in a bucket of ice and salt for an online 'dare' that turned her feet black and nearly required the amputation of her toes.

'We spent 15 minutes with our feet on the ice with coarse salt,' she said, recounting the horror.

'When I took my foot out I never felt such pain in my life. Three of my toes had turned black when it came out of the ice bucket.'

Thammy was treated at a clinic where she was told she was at risk of thrombosis, and that she could have developed necrosis had she remained in the ice another minute.

Unable to put any pressure on her feet, she said she now gets around the house by being dragged around in a garden chair by her mother, who pushes her from room to room.

Be sure to check in later for more Brazil news.

Haha jk they're Israeli

In a bizarre turn of events, a university dormitory in China went up in flames after a student, in a moment of panic, set fire to his s*x doll to keep it hidden from his roommates. The incident took place at Hefei University of Technology in Anhui province on February 10, when the student, fearing exposure, made a rash decision that nearly resulted in disaster.

OMG. Argentina President Javier Milei just gifted Elon Musk a chainsaw for DOGE🤣 pic.twitter.com/CWZandGxik

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 20, 2025

This is a crazy exchange.

Does the media really think the holocaust was caused by free speech? https://t.co/EBUKx75Wfm

— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 16, 2025

Last thread

!art

Last week's prompt:

Panzers

Submissions from last thread:

@Cathedral

@Soren

@DWHITE___________DYNAMITE

@Sylveon

@Count_Sprpr

@KongsburyDonkboy

This week's prompt:

Rain

As always if you have any feedback on these threads I am all ears.

Drinking on an empty tummy let's gooo!

!animalposters !cats

dubs checkum

So recently there was a post that got removed from /r/RPG about how punching nazis is a great thing so you should buy my stuff and I'll give 5% of the money to a good cause. You know, the anti-capitalist way.

Well, that post got jannied; only the jannies were very keen for the sub to know that while they do it for free, they didn't do that for free - it was done by the admiggers who, unlike the jannies, get paid to mop. The jannies of /r/rpg then pinned the seethepost to the top of the sub to ensure everyone knows that they do it for free.

This then caused a bunch of extra virtue signalling nazi resisting to pop up, including:

Remaking the post under a "cleverly" reworded title

https://old.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1idsqfk/physically_resist_a_specific_brand_of/

Someone just linking to the bundle and going "updoots to the left" in possibly the laziest poast

https://old.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1idr5tw/bundle_of_holding/

A post linking to a "game" that isn't a game, just a political screed. Most egregiously, it lets you play as a jo*rnalist.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1idum5h/survive_the_tyrant_an_rpg_about_resisting/

And finally, another re-linking to the bundle but this time with even more seething about the admins

https://old.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1idtaov/since_it_appears_that_reddits_admins_love_nazis/

One comment on that thread is promoting the game Eat the Reich which is... not good as notepad anon summarizes:

needless to say /r/rpg has put them at the top of the thread

and a bonus opportunity for ban evasion!

https://old.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1idtaov/since_it_appears_that_reddits_admins_love_nazis/ma2h5n6/?context=8

There's also this post that also promotes ETR in the most safe-edgy way I can think of

https://old.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1ie0lpm/eat_the_reich_clarification_humor/

And while we're on the subject of "antifascist RPGs that you have to buy for some reason" don't forget to check out @MayflyAlt-98's post about the hilariously bad SIGMATA: This Signal Kills Fascists

https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/203355/sigmata-this-signal-kills-fascists-marseysal

I TOUR FOR THE MONEY ID RATHER BE PLAYING LAST OF US PART ONE AND TWO WHICH WAS MADE BY JEWISH PEOPLE GOOD JOB THANK YOU

— ye (@kanyewest) February 7, 2025

@Xkong can I get a version of this Marsey choking Carp

Why did Elon Musk just say Trump wants to bring two stranded astronauts home?

For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social media site X on Tuesday evening to make a perplexing space-based pronouncement.

"The POTUS has asked SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the Space_Station as soon as possible. We will do so," Musk wrote. "Terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long."

Now generally, at Ars Technica, it is not our policy to write stories strictly based on things Elon Musk says on X. However, this statement was so declarative, and so consternation-inducing for NASA, it bears a bit of explication.

lmao bullshit, Ars loves to sneed about everything Elon does; it's basically TMZ but only covering Elon.

Foremost, NASA has gone to great lengths to stress that the two astronauts referenced here—Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams—are not stranded on the International Space Station.

The astronauts are clearly stranded as has been covered extensively over the last year by even leftie organisations:

NPR also released an article insisting that the astronauts aren't stranded - https://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5278636/iss-astronaut-rescue-spacex-trump:

Ars comments are of course mad:

Why wouldn't the US government want to bring two stranded astronauts home? Why is this the top comment? What are you mad about?

They were meant to be there for eight days. The eighteen month stay was planned.

And yet they're still stranded there, curious. Why don't they just fly back home? They must want to be there.

The bottom two comments - note the guy who's had an account for 17 years.

You don't need to take kids to the grocery store with you. I understand restaurants and movies and other places, but why do you need to take kids to the grocery store? Putting their filthy hands on the meat and veg.Order online if you can't get somebody to watch them for 2 hours.

— The Lawnmower Man 🇺🇸 🏴‍☠️ (@JohnsonLwnNPest) February 9, 2025

cant i just lurk in peace o algo， main page is flooded with all this groomercord esl libertarian slapfight bullraisin though

!eurochads !chuds

2 month, not year, jailed under 498A. That law needs to be repealed. https://t.co/dRFBsIxRZK pic.twitter.com/APYws6P185

— TaxSeek R1 (@hindookissinger) February 8, 2025

Hahahahaha hahahahaha

Muzzies are such innocent babies if only hondas didn't corrupt them

You have to wonder where support for this bs comes from. It victimizes foids as much as moids, usually any family nearby is included in complaint to increase harassment. It's probably easiest of the turbo tarded laws to change but it's like all public discussion is verboten beyond inkwell circles.

Lebanese accounts are claiming Israel and HTS are working together against Hezbollah:

“Israel conducted airstrikes in Lebanon, targeting areas where armed Lebanese groups were defending border towns against HTS militia advances.” https://t.co/R4JvrpnROe pic.twitter.com/GHiaOEX4EQ

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 9, 2025

I hope they are. If both Muslim groups are fighting and killing each other, that is good news for Israel.

— I Stand with Israel (@freegames101) February 9, 2025

The only people dying in this mess are the arabs, who are fighting man to man while Israel brought it's jets. Too bad both Syria and Lebanon lost their surface to air missiles, I wonder what happened to them