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Friends claim influencer injected himself with gold to gain “superhuman” powers before his death (townflex.com)

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 4 hours ago

your guess about what he actually did is as good as mine. gold salts are toxic and corrosive so it would be pretty obvious early on. small gold particles would occlude capillaries so that would be very obviois too. there is colloidal gold and gold nanoparticles are probably not very toxic. that discoloration could be some infection or irritation from whatever injected thing (not medical advice)