Not Deadpool

👾

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In 2010, a team of geneticists drew Ozzy Osbourne's blood to answer one question. He had survived roughly 40 years of drinking and drugs at a level that kills most people. In his own words, he was a medical miracle. So they mapped his whole genome, hunting for the reason.

Only a few hundred people on the planet had been fully sequenced back then. Ozzy landed on a short list that included James Watson, one of the scientists who cracked the structure of DNA. The lab running the analysis compared his code against every genetic study on file at the US National Library of Medicine.

One gene jumped out. ADH4 builds the liver enzyme that breaks down alcohol, and Ozzy carried a version of it never documented before, one that may have let him clear a drink faster than most bodies can. A second oddity sat in a gene that controls how the body handles methamphetamine, parked at a spot that stays fixed across nearly every animal with a backbone. His COMT gene came loaded with both the warrior and the worrier settings for dopamine. Add it up, and his genetic risk of alcohol addiction ran about six times the average. For all that, coffee wrecked him. He was hypersensitive to caffeine.

The final read was blunt. One of the lead scientists summed it up: "We found smoke but no fire." No single Ozzy gene. Nothing in the data explained four decades of survival on its own. His body outlasting the abuse came down to luck and biology too tangled to pin on one line of code.

What finally took him was written somewhere else in the same DNA. In February 2019, after a fall shredded the nerves in his neck, he was diagnosed with a genetic form of Parkinson's his family called PRKN-2, a slow neurological disease with no cure.

By early 2025 he could no longer walk. On July 5 he played his last show seated on a black throne at Villa Park in Birmingham, a short drive from the streets where Black Sabbath formed in 1968. Forty thousand people packed the ground and 5.8 million more watched the livestream. Every pound raised went to Parkinson's research and two children's hospitals.

He died 17 days later, at 76. For years, scientists combed his genome for the thing that made him unbreakable and came up with nothing. The thing that finally broke him was sitting in the same code all along.

[Insane Clips @StreetFightsHQ]

This guy is making industrial-strength Beyblades that literally burst into flames when they spin

[Not Deadpool @Fir3flyFunhouse]

@selfhealingpage YES

[Not Deadpool @Fir3flyFunhouse]

@spiritualwibe 222

[Not Deadpool @Fir3flyFunhouse]

@LegacySiu Ozil

[Not Deadpool @Fir3flyFunhouse]

@selfhealingpage YES

[Wrestling Pics & Clips @WrestleClips]

AJ STYLES HAS OFFICIALLY RETURNED TO TNA!!!

HE IS BACK WITH HIS OG THEME SONG!!!

CROWD IS ALSO SINGING ALONG!!!

THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE 🥹

#TNASlammiversary

[𝐖𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 @wwgoddesses2]

SKYE BLUE (AEW)

[WBR @W_B_Rick]

“No artistic merit” shut the fuck up and watch the 2014 Spurs nerd

[Bilbo Baggins @Jbanklestankle1]

Director: "CUT! For the eighth time Keanu the line is 'my bad'

[Chat Music @chatmusiccc]

Right in the They/Thems

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

We got WWE in zero gravity before GTA 6

[Ava ᯓᡣ𐭩 @Reignshive]

Compilation of Roman Reigns greatest and hilarious promos. Bro even dropped the N word on live TV 😭

[Modern History @modernhistory]

Sophia Loren 1960s

[Roman Reigns SZN 💥 @reigns_era]

HBK is so proud of this 😭

Excellent stuff.

[𝐖𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 @wwgoddesses2]

ANNA JAY @annajay___

[T @tylerthecreator]

THOUGHT I WAS DEAD

[Korn @Korn]

30 years of KoRn. We’re just getting started.

Director: Sebastien Paquet
Sound Design: Greg Johnson

[Kalshi Football @KalshiFB]

Why is this so funny 😭