Uncanny X-Men #22 - Nightcrawler - BAMF by name! BAMF by nature? Oh myyyyy
Jan. 15th, 2026 06:55 pmOh and, as is the scans_daily wont
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If you receive a warning on a LinkedIn post that your account has been restricted, don't engage with it. Scammers are using LinkedIn branding in official-looking "reply" comments to spread phishing links intended to harvest users' login credentials.
As reported by BleepingComputer, this impersonation campaign relies on fake company pages and LinkedIn's official link shortener to trick users into "verifying" their identities on a domain run by threat actors. Here's what to look for.
Scammers are replying to posts on LinkedIn with messages claiming that users have in some way violated the platform's policies. The comments include a link, which users are urged to click to prevent their accounts from being further restricted or suspended.
In some cases, the link's preview text states "We take steps to protect your account when we detect signs of potential unauthorized access. This may include logins from unfamiliar locations or..." which may convince users to overlook the link itself, which clearly does not lead to a page on a valid LinkedIn domain. In others, the scammers have further masked the phishing site using LinkedIn's official URL shortener, lnkd.in, which is even less likely to raise suspicion, especially if the link preview doesn't generate on certain devices.
If you click through the link, you'll land on a phishing page that uses LinkedIn branding and contains more information about the supposed account restriction with a button to "Verify your identity." That leads to another page that closely spoofs LinkedIn's standard sign-in interface and is designed to steal your credentials.
The reply comments themselves utilize LinkedIn's logo and branding and are connected to company pages with variations on the platform's name—"Linked Very," for example. These are obviously fake at first glance, as they don't have any of the robust content (such as posts, employees, or followers) you'd expect from the real LinkedIn. But users could feasibly follow the phishing link without further investigation into the commenter.
As always, any urgent message or comment about your account security or status, no matter how official-sounding, should raise red flags. A second look at these replies make it clear that they are not from the real LinkedIn, which won't send communication about account or policy violations in a public manner nor urge you to click links in comments or private messages.
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As is usually the case after Consumer Electronics Show (CES), older flagship tech products have began to drop in price—including TVs. One of is Samsung's beloved "The Frame" TV. The 65-inch model from 2024 is currently on sale for $997.99 (originally $1,997.99), a more than 50% discount and the lowest price it has been, according to price-tracking tools.
The biggest size, the 85-inch series, is also seeing a record low price, and is currently $2,374.95 (originally $4,297.99). The newer Pro version of The Frame TV that was introduced last year is also discounted, with the 65-inch version going for $1,099.99 (originally $1,799.99), but there are no bigger sizes of that model.



If you're subscribed to Spotify, start checking your inbox. The music streaming service is sending emails to customers letting them know about yet another price hike coming next month.
To Spotify's credit, the price hike is pretty minor. But starting on whatever your February billing date is, individual premium plans will jump from $11.99/month to $12.99/month, while student plans will go from $5.99/month to $6.99/month.
More extensive plans will see a slightly more costly jump. The Duo plan, which gives premium access to two people at the same address, is going from $16.99/month to $18.99/month. The Family plan, which gives premium access to up to six people at the same address, will also see a $2 increase, now costing $21.99/month rather than $19.99/month.
The price hikes are set to affect the U.S., Estonia, and Latvia, according to Spotify's announcement. The company's rationale for all this? According to the post, "occasional updates to pricing across our markets reflect the value that Spotify delivers."
Truthfully, $1 to $2 does seem like a pretty minor change, but the update follows another U.S. price hike in 2024, where Individual plans went up by $1, Duo plans went up by $2, and Family plans went up by $3. And that came after a price hike in 2023, where the Individual, Student, and Family plans went up by $1, while the Duo plan went up by $2. Certain subscribers outside of the U.S. also saw their own price increases in 2025. I can't help but feel like a frog in a slowly boiling pot.
The continual barrage of price hikes is a bit of a disappointment for subscribers who had gotten used to a steady price for Spotify since its U.S. launch in 2011, as the service went for 12 years before its first price change.
If all these price hikes are starting to get to you, you might be able to get around them. If you can find one at a store near you, you can pay upfront for a discounted annual subscription using a Spotify gift card, although it won't apply to Spotify's Family or Student plans. Unfortunately, Spotify does not have an annual subscription plan available on its website.
Earlier this week, your phone might have been borderline unusable—at least, when you were away from wifi. That was due to Verizon's nationwide outage, which affected roughly two million customers across the United States. If you were among them, you couldn't use your phone on the go, which is sort of the idea behind cellphones in general. This included the ability to use navigation apps in your car, send work emails or messages, or make calls outside of SOS mode, which basically limited you to emergency services. Worse, some users are still experiencing issues this morning following Verizon's official resolution, though there's likely a quick fix for that.
I don't have Verizon, but if I did, I'd be a bit ticked off. Outages happen, but this one was massive, and the company still hasn't offered much of an explanation for what actually happened. In spite of this (or perhaps because of it), the company seems keen to smooth the whole thing over. When Verizon announced it had resolved the outage, it also said it would reach out to affected customers directly to issue account credits. It's a pain to deal with interruptions to services as important as your wireless network, but at least Verizon wants to compensate you for the problem, right? Just don't expect much.
Verizon made a post on X, once again apologizing for the outage and revealing what each affected account can expect to receive as compensation: $20.
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Verizon says this number represents "multiple days of service" on average, and that no credit can make up for what happened. That might be true, but in my humble opinion, a larger credit could perhaps get a bit closer. Maybe this is greater than the on-paper dollar value of losing a day of service, but it's not like customers think of their bills as paying for their usage. They pay Verizon quite a bit, expecting that their smartphones to be connected at all times within Verizon's coverage map. Considering the upheaval a day of disconnection no doubt caused, I'm not sure $20 is going to cut it.
But I digress: $20 is the number, and $20 is what affected customers can expect to receive. If you're among them, Verizon says they will text you when the credit is available. When it is, you can log into the myVerizon app to claim your recompense.


I'm not particularly concerned for myself. I am worried, however, about the care and feeding of my cat, should anything ever happen to me. As I've mentioned before, I'm not on the first list that my federal government is pursuing now, but I will be on their second and third lists.
Question: What is a good "dead man's switch" that will send an email if I fail to respond within 48 hours? I figure that's long enough that my cat won't suffer ill health without her usual daily feeding of special food.
If you have Verizon, yesterday might have been a bit chaotic. The wireless carrier's coverage was down for large swaths of the country for much of the day, leading to confusion, frustration, and, for some, conspiracy theories. I saw some users on X post cryptic messages like "This is how it starts," and "These are the end times." It's good to know in times of service disruption, we can all keep a level head.
But despite claims to the contrary, the world didn't end yesterday, and Verizon fixed the issue. The company issued a statement at 10:20 p.m. ET, confirming the outage had been resolved, and that Verizon would contact affected customers directly to issue account credits. While that doesn't necessarily make up for a full day of network downtime, at least Verizon users can get back online and make calls when not connected to wifi.
But some customers out there aren't back to normal. In fact, they're still seeing the same "SOS" alert on their phones they saw yesterday. For these users, the outage is very much still happening, as they cannot access the internet or communicate with others without either going through satellite connectivity, or finding a wifi connection. When you need to be out and about, especially on the road, that isn't an option.
Luckily, there's a simple solution here, one that Verizon shared in its post about the outage's resolution: restart your phone. It doesn't matter if you already restarted your phone yesterday during the outage: In order to see results, you'll need to power off your phone and turn it back on after Verizon implemented its fix.
Different smartphones have different restart methods, but here are some tips for the most popular models:
Restarting an iPhone: Press and hold one of the volume buttons together with the side (power) button, until you see the power-off slider. Slide to power off, then wait for the screen to go totally black. After about 30 seconds, you can press and hold the side button to power it back on. Note: If your iPhone has a Home button, you can simply press and hold the side button to pull up the power-off slider.
Restarting a Samsung Galaxy: Press and hold the volume down button and side button until you see power options appear. Here, choose "Restart," then tap "Restart" again.
Restarting a Pixel: If you have a Pixel 6 or newer, press and hold the volume up button and side button for a few seconds, then tap "Restart" when it appears. If you have a Pixel 5 or older, simply hold the side button until the phone restarts.
If your phone model isn't listed here, you can search the internet for specific instructions on how to restart it. Typically, though, the process involves holding both the side button and one of the volume buttons.
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Noah Wyle can't seem to escape the emergency room: He's back in scrubs in HBO Max's The Pitt, playing Dr. Michael "Robby" Rabinavitch, senior attending at the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital’s emergency room. Now airing its second season, each episode of the buzzy and impossibly tense medical drama takes place over a single hour of one very long shift, lending immediacy to the action. It's claustrophobic, frequently inspiring, and wildly addictive, making all those doctor show tropes feel fresh.
The Pitt has already been renewed for a third season, but if you're looking for similar shows to watch between episodes (or seasons), there are plenty to try out.
In deference to The Pitt's apparent verisimilitude, your first stop might well be something less fictional, like this acclaimed documentary series following four physicians at an NYC hospital. Directors Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash spent a year following two neurosurgeons, an ER doc, and an OBGYN resident—who also happen to represent two men at the tops of their fields and two women of color, both pregnant, and both navigating complicated work-life trajectories in a high-pressure environment. The subjects are as fascinating as their patients, and as with The Pitt, the overwhelming sense is that doctors are dealing with a lot. The show was mostly filmed in 2018, but a concluding episode revisits the four doctors at the height of the Covid pandemic. Stream Lenox Hill on Netflix.
Based on a documentary of the same name, but highly dramatized, this show stars Marcia Gay Harden as Dr. Leanne Rorish, a troubled ER attending physician at the fictional Angels Memorial Hospital. The "Code Black" of the title refers to an emergency room at or beyond capacity, and the storylines all deal with the trials faced by doctors, nurses, and staff at a city hospital that's perpetually understaffed and overcrowded. Stream Code Black on Prime Video with Ads.
Much as The Pitt tackles American medical care in the aftermath of COVID-19 (I say aftermath as though the virus just disappeared), this miniseries, dramatizing a nonfiction book, takes us to Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in August 2005, just after Hurricane Katrina's landfall. Vera Farmiga leads as the real-life Dr. Anna Pou in a series that's simultaneously tense, horrific, and inspiring in its depiction of doctors doing their damndest under some of the worst possible circumstances. Stream Five Days at Memorial on Apple TV+.
Hard to say if this new Morris Chestnut-led series will go any kind of distance, but it’s looking promising, and the premise is so wacky, it's worth checking out either way. Chestnut plays a modern-day Dr. John Watson (yes, that Dr. Watson), who was sidekick to Sherlock Holmes before his detective pal took a header off of the Reichenbach Falls. Now he’s on his own in Pittsburgh, running clinic dedicated to helping people with mysterious ailments—ones requiring a doctor who’s also a bit of a detective. Stream Watson on Paramount+.
Set at the dawn of Britain’s National Health Service, Call the Midwife explores an era when many were receiving modern healthcare for the very first time, as the nuns of London's Nonnatus House, who had been providing basic midwifery services for decades, are joined by secular nurses and given public funding. The show deals frankly with women’s health issues in a way that few other series have ever bothered, and its rotating cast of characters has helped it to remain a beloved favorite for over a decade, both in its native Britain and across the pond. Stream Call the Midwife on Netflix and PBS.
An understaffed, overfilled emergency room in a major city—this stylish, new show is The Pitt-level tense, and then some. Young Dr. Suzanna Parker is seeking a fresh start in Berlin, but taking over the management of a chaotic urban emergency room is definitely not going to be a vacation. One of the show's co-creators, Samuel Jefferson is a former emergency room doctor, and the show's heightened realism has earned it a ton of praise, including the German Television Award Best Drama. It's been renewed for a second season. Stream Berlin ER on Apple TV+.
Even the most realistic medical dramas have soapy aspects, but New Amsterdam leans into that side of things more than most. Ryan Eggold plays Dr. Maximus "Max" Goodwin, the slightly annoying new medical director at one of the oldest public hospitals in the U.S. He looking to freshen up the outdated hospital and bring down its stodgy bureaucracy, with Doctor Who’s Freema Agyeman by his side. The show occasionally sags under the weight of its subplots, but it’s still fun to watch Max fight for public health. Stream New Amsterdam on Peacock.
Like the much more recent Watson, House showcases investigative medicine, with Hugh Laurie’s as the titular Dr. Holmes (er, House) and Robert Sean Leonard as Watson (OK, Wilson). Not only is the show tightly paced and compact, it also has the benefit of Laurie, giving a career-defining performance as one of TV’s greatest assholes, a wonderfully acerbic curmudgeon who nonetheless gets results. Stream House on Prime Video and Hulu
One of the few medical shows willing to tackle aging and geriatric care, Getting On considers the trials faced by the staff at an underfunded extended care facility. The fact that it’s a frequently very dark comedy doesn’t make it any less impressive in its handling of tough topics. Laurie Metcalf, Alex Borstein, Niecy Nash, and Mel Rodriguez star. Stream Getting On on HBO Max.
Following a traumatic incident, a lead surgeon (Han Suk-kyu) at Seoul's biggest medical center changes his name and moves to a small hospital in the more sparsely populated Gangwon Province. Now called Kim Sa-bu, he's tasked with mentoring young, idealistic doctors and reigniting the fire in a few who have just about had it. The wildly popular show blends hospital drama with impressive character development and, in the best tradition of K-drama, plenty of threads about the corrupting power of money on modern medicine. Stream Dr. Romantic on Hulu and Netflix.
The Steven Soderbergh-directed The Knick takes us back to the glory days of American medical care—specifically, 1900 New York, and the fictional Knickerbocker Hospital, with Clive Owen’s Dr. John Thackery as the well-intentioned head of surgery who also happens to have a rather significant opium addiction. He’s joined by André Holland as Dr. Algernon C. Edwards, a Black assistant chief surgeon who runs rings around most of his colleagues but still can’t seem to get any credit for it (he’s based on a couple of real-life doctors of the era). Like the best period medical dramas, this one’s a good reminder that modern medicine ain’t so bad. Stream The Knick on HBO Max.
A natural successor to St. Elsewhere, E.R. is less weird but does one better in its commitment to portraying something hospital drama that at least feels like reality. With another rotating cast that kept the show fresh over an impressive 15 seasons, E.R.’s innovation was in its willingness to drag viewers along at a breakneck pace, counting on us to keep up with the fast-paced dialogue loaded with medical jargon. At its best, the show makes you feel like you’re really catching a glimpse of life in an underfunded city emergency room. Stream ER on HBO Max and Hulu.
A relentless, and relentlessly memeable satire of medical dramas in general, this comedy centers on the staff of the titular hospital, named for founder Arthur Childrens (motto: “I believe that Childrens is the future.”) The show can’t be bothered with continuity; instead, each episode dives into a very silly/smart brand of dark comedy defined by its commitment to randomness. The stacked cast includes creator Rob Cordry, Lake Bell, Erinn Hayes, Rob Huebel, Ken Marino, Megan Mullally, Henry Winkler, and Malin Åkerman. Stream Childrens Hospital on Tubi or buy episodes from Prime Video.
This scrappy sitcom was resuscitated at least once during its initial run, only finally declared dead after an impressive nine seasons, though it’s due shortly for a revival from original creator Bill Lawrence. Zach Braff plays J.D. Dorian, who begins the show as an intern at the fictional teaching hospital, Sacred Heart. While playing with slapstick and incorporating surreal dream sequences, the show earned high marks from medical professionals, who apparently found it more accurate in depicting details of hospital life than many prestige medical dramas. Stream Scrubs on Hulu.
From Grey’s Anatomy did Shonda Rhimes’ mighty TV empire spring, yet the show that started it all is somehow still going strong in its 21st season. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompey) continues to head the team of doctors at Seattle Grace alongside Chandra Wilson and James Pickens Jr. Deft cast rotations have kept things relatively fresh for over two decades and more than 430 episodes. Stream Grey’s Anatomy on Hulu and Netflix.
Ju Ji-hoon (Kingdom) stars as Baek Kang-hyuk, an experienced war-zone trauma surgeon tasked by the Ministry of Health to take charge of a university hospital's struggling trauma center. Of course, his wildly unorthodox methods rub the established doctors the wrong way—but he's gonna do what he's gotta do. Trauma Code does away with some of the personal drama that characterizes many of the other shows here in favor of more purely medical-trauma-related thrills. Stream The Trauma Code on Netflix.
This British miniseries, loosely adapted the memoir from comedian Adam Kay, chronicles Kay’s time as a trainee doctor in obstetrics and gynaecology circa 2006. Ben Whislaw stars as Kay, facing down daily challenges that range from the very funny to the shocking and horrific. The show makes clear that, while the contexts are very different, British doctors also struggle with chaotic working conditions and lack of institutional support, particularly at the intern level. Stream This is Going to Hurt on Netflix and AMC+.
There’s much that’s familiar in this Canadian drama, but the show stands apart because of the unique perspective of its lead character (at least as far as mainstream medical dramas go). Hamza Haq plays Bashir "Bash" Hamed, a refugee of the Syrian Civil War who comes to Toronto to rebuild his life and career as an E.R. resident. He‘s unable to get a job in his chosen field until his heroic actions during the first episode garner him the right kind of attention. Even still, he faces discrimination as a doctor, and suffers the aftereffects of wartime trauma, even as his skills and experience prove extremely valuable. Stream Transplant on Peacock.
Edie Falco followed up her run on The Sopranos with this similarly lauded comedy-drama that earned her six consecutive Emmy nominations and one win. She plays the titular nurse in the Emergency Department at All Saints’ Hospital in NYC. At the outset of the series, Jackie is married but having an affair, mostly to get the various pills she’s addicted to—which gives you a sense of the messiness of Jackie’s life and work. Stream Nurse Jackie on Netflix.
A bit of a wildcard here, given that the focus isn't strictly medical, but the format of this crime drama gives it a feel not entirely dissimilar from The Pitt. Starting on the morning of May 8, 2024, police raid the home of the Miller family, with the suspicion that 13-year-old Jamie has murdered a classmate in his school, a girl who rejected him. The family faces backlash from the community while the police conduct their investigation and a forensic psychologist tries to get to the bottom of Jamie's manosphere-influenced views on women. The atmosphere is heightened by the show's structure: Each episode is filmed in one (seemingly, at least) continuous take, a storytelling choice that manages to not feel gimmicky here, and that earned it a load of Emmy nominations. Stream Adolescence on Netflix.


Say what you will about AI (and I've said plenty) but the progress in transcription and speech-to-text software is genuinely impressive. Whereas before such software was either clumsy or expensive, there are now all kinds of great open source tools that work well.
Which brings me to Pipit, a free Mac dictation app that works offline, meaning it's totally private. Even more interesting, it can be used to do more than just transcribe speech—it can launch apps, toggle settings, and even launch a web search or query an AI service.
The first time you open the application, it will ask for permission to use your microphone before downloading the Parakeet model for offline transcription. Once everything is set up you can use the application by pressing and holding the Option key, then talking—the application will record what you say, turn that into text, and paste the text into the currently active text field.
I've been trying this for a couple of days and find that the transcriptions are generally pretty accurate, complete with punctuation. There is optional post-processing, which can turn unstructured speech into a properly formatted document, but using that requires an OpenRouter API key.
The settings window lets you change the trigger key, choose an input device, and toggle the menu bar icon. There's also a tool for transcribing audio files, complete with speaker identification. Just drag over a file and you get a transcription.
Finally, on the Enhance tab, you can enable the Quick Actions feature. This allows you to verbally tell your computer what to do and see it happen. To use this, start transcription as normal, but say something like "open Safari" to open an app or "ask Claude" followed by a question to launch a conversation with that AI assistant in your browser. It's a little gimmicky, granted, but I enjoyed using it.
It's excellent that tools like this are broadly free now, and Pipit has an interesting collection of features.
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Destroying the object of a quest is always guaranteed to trigger a reaction.
Set up some MacGuffin chase where the heroes are strongly motivated to find and recover some specific object. The quest leads them through hardship and danger and takes several sessions of play, until finally they find the object they've been seeking this whole time.
Then destroy it right in front of them. It could fall into lava, or have a building collapse on it. Or for extra points have someone they don't like destroy it, while laughing at them.
aurilee writes:
Force vision yes, lamprey monster no. Whiny Dark Side user..... unfortunately yes. I'm still pretty sure that Dark Rey was caused by the pyramid though. Kylo pulling that kind of power out of nowhere would be a bit much since he's not been constantly trying to ensnare Rey in visions. But hey, if Kylo can get all the way here and land without crashing, the Falcon can too!
Maybe.
I do have to keep in mind that we've had a handful of Force vision fights so far, and at least one possibly Force destroyed object. So there's nothing that would keep Kylo and Rey from getting sucked into another Force Dimensional fight like before. And it was Kylo that did something to the "lucky dice" as well. Having that kind of fight yet again, especially if movie watchers heard that there isn't actually any real danger involved, would feel rather cheap to have so soon. One of the reasons for the dislike of the movie maybe?
Hey all,
So I’ve had my Life-Size Proton Pack for some time now, worn it out for cons, movie releases, and other such stuff.
I’ve had the intention of fully modding and upgrading it forever, but haven’t gotten around to it. I bought a 3D printer about a year or so ago and have gotten deep into that world, with 3D modeling and crafting and tinkering- I love it.
The time has come where I want to make good on my intentions since I was a little kid, and make the best possible replica Proton Pack I can, with all my knowledge and talents.
First, I’ve had a genuine surplus Alice pack frame sitting in my storage unit that I’d bought some 15-20 years ago, and will be purchasing a proper motherboard to mount to my Life-Size pack.
I also want to (finally) get a light & sound upgrade kit for both the pack and wand. I’ll be buying a Spengler wand (used or new, whatever’s in good shape and reasonably priced) and upgrading the pack with that too.
However- I want to know if there’s some sort of “master” list of 3D models (.3MF, .STL) I can print to upgrade the Life-Size pack.
I’ve done some mild searching in this subreddit, but I haven’t found a comprehensive list like I swear I’ve seen somewhere in the past.
So, I come to you all- can you help a fellow Ghosthead start on the path of modding and upgrading my Proton Pack to the best version possible?
Also, off-the-shelf upgrades (e.g., brass nuts from a hardware store to replace the plastic ones) are welcome- I want to do this right.
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