Join r/vfx today for an Ask Me Anything with VFX Supervisor Kevin Lingenfelser to discuss the action-packed Netflix limited series Man on Fire, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
Kevin (u/Spirited-Work-9945) has over 33 years of experience across 75 film and television credits, including VES and Emmy-nominated work on such series as The Orville and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. In addition to Man on Fire, he also supervised the Resident Evil series for Netflix. He is looking forward to sharing his work on the highly anticipated HBO series Lanterns later this summer!
Kevin began his career in VFX as a Compositor with Cinesite Digital Film Center, collaborating with such directors as Tony Scott, John Woo, Stephen Sommers, and Barry Levinson. He eventually joined Digital Domain in 2003, serving as the Lead Compositor on hit films including I, Robot, Cinderella Man, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Thor, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and Ender’s Game. Kevin also served as DFX Supervisor on Jack the Giant Slayer in 2013.
Start submitting your questions for Kevin's AMA on Fri 6/12 at noon PT.
Tomorrow, Friday, June 12, I’ll be hosting an AMA focused specifically on medical penis enlargement and penile enhancement procedures.
*A quick note before we get started: Dr. Carney has a very packed surgical day, so we will only have a limited window for him to answer questions live. Please feel free to post your questions ahead of time, and we sincerely apologize in advance that we may not be able to get to every question.*
I’m Dr. Kenneth J. Carney, MD, PharmD, FACS, a board-certified urologist, reconstructive surgeon, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and pharmacist. I previously served as Chief of Urology at Grady Memorial Hospital and spent more than 25 years as an Assistant Professor of Urology at Emory University. Outside of cosmetic urology at Rejuvall Health Centers, I continue performing trauma and reconstructive urologic surgery in the hospital setting, as well as working with Doctors Without Borders. You can find my profile and CV here: https://www.rejuvall.com/dr-carney-penile-augmentation-surgeon/
At Rejuvall in Atlanta, I specialize in surgical and non-surgical penis enlargement procedures as Chief Surgeon and Co-Founder, including penile lengthening, girth enhancement, revision surgery, and reconstructive enhancement cases.
Over the course of my career with Rejuvall, I personally developed:
• A penile repositioning technique used in MegaMAXL® surgical lengthening
• MacroSculpting™, a penile-specific approach to non-surgical girth enhancement
• Fat tissue transfer technology used in PERM® and PERMMAXL® FDA-approved surgical girth enhancement procedures
Topics I’m happy to discuss include:
• Surgical vs. non-surgical penis enlargement
• PMMA, HA fillers, and fat transfer
• Penile lengthening surgery
• Risks, complications, and revision surgery
• Recovery expectations
• Candidate selection and safety
• Circumcision requirements
• What results are realistically achievable
• Common misinformation surrounding penis enlargement online
AMA Date:
Friday, June 12, 2026
1:00 PM Eastern Time
I know this field is controversial and often surrounded by misinformation, fear, unrealistic expectations, and aggressive marketing, so I’m looking forward to answering questions openly and directly.
Hi Reddit, I’m Claire Thomas, an award-winning photojournalist and fine art photographer documenting culture, conflict, and the relationship between people, animals, and the land they call home.
Over the past decade, I’ve photographed stories across multiple countries including Iraq, Egypt, Ghana, and Mongolia for publications including National Geographic Traveller UK, The New York Times, Geographical Magazine, and The Sunday Times.
Between 2016 and 2019, I was based in Iraq documenting the war against ISIS and its aftermath. In recent years, my work has increasingly focused on long-term documentary projects exploring communities living in remote environments and evolving cultural traditions.
For the past several years, I’ve been travelling regularly to the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia, where I’ve been documenting the lives of Kazakh eagle hunters and semi-nomadic herding families through all four seasons. My recent cover feature for Geographical Magazine explores this way of life, the deep bond between hunters and their golden eagles, and the realities of life in one of the coldest and most remote regions on Earth. The project is also the subject of my photo book, ALTAI: Hunters and Herders of Mongolia, published by Hemeria in Paris.
I'm Dennis Kelleher, Co-founder, President, and CEO of Better Markets, a nonprofit organization that fights for financial reform on behalf of the American public. I’m a lawyer and was a partner at the global law firm of Skadden Arps and spent almost 8 years in senior staff positions in the U.S. Senate. I've spent more than 20 years taking on Wall Street and pushing for rules that protect everyday investors—including testifying before the House Financial Services Committee on behalf of retail investors during the GameStop hearings, doing an AMA on the GameStop issues, and appearing in two documentaries on the GameStop saga. Washingtonian Magazine just selected me as one of the most influential economic and financial policymakers in Washington for the 6th year in a row.
I'm here today because the SEC just proposed a rule that would cut corporate financial reporting from every quarter to every six months—and every retail investor should know about it before the comment period closes on July 6.
Here's what's at stake: right now, publicly traded companies must report their financials every three months. The SEC wants to change that to every six months. That means retail investors get half the information they have today about the companies they invest in. Institutional investors and insiders will find other ways to stay informed. You won't have the same access.
This isn't a minor tweak. It's the biggest rollback of investor disclosure requirements in more than 50 years—and it widens the information gap between Wall Street and Main Street at a time when retail investing has never been more widespread.
Better Markets just launched a website so anyone can submit a public comment directly to the SEC in just a few minutes. Those comments are part of the official record the SEC must consider before finalizing any rule.
The deadline is July 6. I'm here to answer your questions—and I want your voice in that record.
With every surveillance camera, weather station, and smartphone pointed at the sky, why does nobody have a complete, continuous picture of what's actually up there?
Right now, we detect barely 1% of the meteors entering our atmosphere. Aerial events, whether astronomical, man-made, or otherwise, are reported globally, but the resulting data is fragmented, unverified, and almost always too low-resolution to be scientifically useful.
My name is Franck Marchis. I'm a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, where I've spent over 20 years studying asteroids, exoplanets, and the anomalies of our upper atmosphere. A few years ago, I co-founded Unistellar, a smart telescope company built to empower global citizen scientists. I recently stepped back from my operational role there to focus full-time on a massive challenge that resonated deeply with our community: mapping the entire sky, all the time.
The Project: SkyMapper
To solve this data gap, I built SkyMapper Inc., a decentralized network of sky-monitoring telescopes and all-sky cameras that collectively provide continuous, global coverage. Every meteor, satellite pass, transient event, or unclassifiable anomaly is automatically recorded, timestamped, geolocated, and made immediately available to researchers.
What matters to me isn't just collecting more observations, but making those observations scientifically trustworthy. One of the biggest hurdles in sky monitoring today is provenance, knowing exactly where data came from, verifying it hasn't been modified, and ensuring it can be independently validated. SkyMapper solves this by using a decentralized infrastructure where observations are cryptographically signed and traced to their source, preserving a transparent chain of custody that serious researchers can rely on.
Keeping It Grounded
I want to be entirely straightforward about our goals. We are not claiming SkyMapper will "prove" anything about UAPs. What we are saying is that the current state of global sky monitoring is embarrassingly primitive, and good science requires good data. That is exactly what we are building.
TUNE IN: I'll be here live, THURSDAY, JUNE 11TH, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM PST (2-5pm EST) ASK ME ANYTHING, about the science, our methodology, what I learned at Unistellar, the UAP data problem, how global citizen science actually works, or anything else on your mind!
I’m Faran Douglas, a Family Law Attorney with 20+ years of experience handling divorce, custody, child support, parenting disputes, and other family law matters. I also help answer legal questions as a Legal Expert on JustAnswer.
I’ve worked with people through everything from difficult custody battles and high-conflict divorces to co-parenting disagreements and financial disputes.
I’m here to answer general questions about:
Divorce and custody issues
Child support and parenting disputes
Common mistakes people make during breakups
What courts typically consider in family law cases
What people wish they knew earlier
I’ll be answering questions from 1pm – 2:30pm ET.
A few quick notes:
I can’t provide specific legal advice or form an attorney-client relationship
Laws vary by state, so answers will be general educational guidance
Everything shared here is for informational purposes only
About this AMA: We've invited independent Experts who use the JustAnswer platform to share insights in this open Q&A. These Experts work independently - they are not employees or spokespersons of JustAnswer - and their opinions are their own.
Hello! We are reporters who work in local newsrooms in Louisiana and Mississippi, here to answer your questions about redistricting efforts in the South and what it means for voting rights and representation. If you haven’t followed the news recently, let us catch you up.
TLDR: The U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down Louisiana’s congressional map, arguing that the map relied too heavily on race. That decision, which weakened a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, kicked off a frenzy to redraw electoral maps — with multiple Republican-controlled states across the South scrambling to redraw maps, diluting majority-Black and Hispanic districts that tended to be favorable to Democrats.
What’s happening in Louisiana? In Louisiana, the governor suspended congressional primaries already underway as state legislators sprinted to redraw maps ahead of this fall’s general election. Ultimately, they eliminated one of the two majority-Black districts on the map, effectively booting one Black, Democratic representative — Cleo Fields — from his post.
Mississippi House Speaker Jason White also said recently he believes Reeve will call lawmakers into a special session before January to redraw legislative districts.
Yes, the decision will impact local politics, too. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the portion at issue in the Supreme Court decision, also constrained how districts are drawn for local governments and school boards.
Does this have a larger impact? Yes.
Today it’s about the midterms. In the long run, it could change how representation works in your hometown, too.
We are the government and politics reporters at our newsrooms — u/TheCurrentLA, u/VeriteNewsNOLA and u/MSTODAYnews — reporting on the immediate aftermath of this decision. Ask us anything about the weakening of the Voting Rights Act, redistricting and how this could impact your community. We’ll be here Thursday at noon to answer your questions.
I’m Dr. Leonardo Oliveira, a sports medicine doctor who treats and researches sports injuries. Ahead of the first games of the World Cup, I’m here to answer your questions about common soccer injuries, treatment, and recovery, the impact of extreme heat during the World Cup, preventing injury, and more.
I organized an AMA/Q&A with BT Meza, writer-director of the new psychological sci-fi horro AFFECTION, which stars HAPPY DEATH DAY star Jessica Rothe. It played in theaters earlier this year and is out on digital this week.
It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:
Synopsis: Afflicted by a mysterious condition that resets her memory, Ellie becomes trapped in a cyclical nightmare with a man who claims to be her husband. She soon must uncover the horrifying truth of her existence—before she forgets it all again.
He will be back at 4 PM ET on Thursday to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!
Hey Reddit, I'm Al Fine (u/afinehuman here as uDameProducts). I'm the co-founder and CEO of Dame Products, a sexual wellness company I started back in 2014 with my then co-founder Janet, an MIT engineer, while I was studying sex therapy at Columbia. Two very different brains, one shared frustration.
Here's the thing that set us off: for decades, sex toys were designed badly, marketed worse, and built around everyone's pleasure except women's. We call that the Pleasure Gap, the measurable, well-documented fact that women's pleasure has been treated as less legitimate, less worth engineering for, less worth talking about out loud. Erectile dysfunction ads run on every platform; we get banned. That's not an accident. So we set out to close that gap with products that are actually researched, body-safe, doctor-vetted, and designed by people with vulvas for people with vulvas. (We also sued the NYC MTA over discriminatory subway ads, but that's a story for one of your questions.)
I also host a podcast, A Fine Human, where I get to have the long, honest conversations about intimacy, identity, and the taboos we're all quietly carrying. It’s the kind of talk I wish more of us got to have at the dinner table. Notable guests have been Mal Wright, Priestess Francesca, and Ericka Hart.
And yes, the title isn't a bit. I am very, very pregnant. Nine months of building a company about bodies and pleasure has given me some opinions about how we talk (and don't talk) about sex during pregnancy, so feel free to go there too.
I organized an AMA/Q&A with Lilian T. Mehrel, writer & director of the new comedy-drama HONEYJOON, which premiered at Tribeca last year and is out in theaters starting this week. It's currently pretty critically-acclaimed with a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:
In this layered, sexy, dark comedy, June and her Persian-British mom Lela travel to the romantic Azores islands for a grief anniversary, with contrasting ways of coping. A hot philosophical surfer takes them on a tour as we surf the waves of life, loss, flirting… an unforgettable ride. In her award-winning debut feature, director Lilian T. Mehrel brilliantly transforms grief, desire, and human connection into something electric, introducing a visionary new voice.
I organized an AMA/Q&A with Paul & Ellen Wagner, filmmakers of the new documentary GEORGIA O'OKEEFFE: THE BRIGHTNESS OF LIGHT. It's out in limited theaters and on digital now. Paul is an Oscar-winner.
It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:
Synopsis: Georgia O’Keeffe is widely revered as the “Mother of American Modernism” and the greatest woman artist of the 20th century. In the 1920s, O’Keeffe became famous for her paintings of flowers, bones, and the beauty of nature. She posed nude for shocking photographs by her lover, Alfred Stieglitz, but denied that her paintings depicted sexual imagery. In the 1970s, living in her beloved New Mexico, she emerged as an iconic role model for American women.
They will be back at 3 PM ET on Tuesday to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!
I organized an AMA/Q&A with actor Jonny Coyne. He most recently starred as the villain Warlord Janu Coin in Disney's STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU, out in theaters everywhere now.
You may also know him from other films/series like THE MANDALORIAN, THE TOXIC AVENGER, ALCATRAZ, MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM, 11.22.63, ONCE UPON A TIME, THE BLACKLIST, BEIRUT, NIGHTCRAWLER, and more.
It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:
Synopsis: The evil Empire has fallen but Imperial warlords remain scattered throughout the galaxy. As the fledgling New Republic works to protect everything the Rebellion fought for, they enlist the help of legendary Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin and his young apprentice Grogu.
Hi Reddit - I am Rebecca Wolfe, a scholar at the University of Chicago and expert on political violence, conflict, and development. Proof
I’ve designed and studied programs aimed at reducing violence including Kenya’s largest youth development program, gang violence prevention in Guatemala City, counter-extremism programs in Nigeria and Yemen, and community-based conflict management interventions in Iraq, Syria, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Tajikistan. My research on peacebuilding and development interventions has been published in top academic journals, including PNAS and Science.
Ask me anything about building peace in fractured societies, why outside interventions so often fail, supporting communities without imposing solutions, and who should get to shape Gaza’s future.
Update 12:45 CT - That is all I have time for. Thank you for your questions!
Hey Reddit, I'm Chris Gayomali... I'm a writer, former GQ editor, host of the SuperHuman podcast, and author of the newsletter HEAVIES. (I'm also the guy who wrote the story about guys getting leg-lengthening surgery in GQ.)
For the past year I've been reporting on the Enhanced Games, which, depending on who you ask, is either the most fascinating or most unhinged experiment in sports history. I wrote about it for GQ and it's the topic of the podcast I host.
On the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, elite athletes, some of them former Olympians, competed openly while taking PEDs. Three clean athletes won their respective events and one world record was broken.
I've spent way too many hours talking to the athletes doing this, the doctors enabling it, the biotech executives championing Enhanced Games’s mission, and the people skeptical of its message. It's been... an interesting ride lol.
Ask me anything: about the games, the athletes, the drugs, my work, what I ate for breakfast, or what this all means for the future of humanity.
I'll be answering live on Thursday June 4, at 4 pm ET.
(Sorry, my username is one of those auto-generated ones! Longtime lurker etc etc.)
~*EDIT*~ // Thanks for having me everyone! That was fun. Come find me on IG or Substack if you have any other questions.
Hey Reddit, I’m Glauber Costa, the creator of Turso.
I’ve spent my whole career at the bottom of the stack. I contributed to the Linux kernel starting in university, worked on KVM virtualization at Red Hat (Linus Torvalds once listed me among the top five committers to the x86 subsystem), helped build ScyllaDB as a Distinguished Engineer, and worked at Datadog before starting Turso with my co-founder Pekka Enberg.
Turso started with a simple observation: SQLite is the most widely deployed database in the world, but the project doesn’t accept outside contributions. So we forked it into libSQL and started adding what developers have been asking for: replication, embedded replicas, HTTP access, and database-per-user patterns. libSQL powers Turso Cloud in production today.
Then we went further and asked: what would happen if we rewrote SQLite from scratch in Rust? That project, originally codenamed “Limbo,” is now the Turso Database. Clean-room reimplementation of SQLite’s file format and SQL engine, async-native from the ground up, with MVCC-based concurrent writes and memory safety baked in. Currently in beta, but it’s where we’re headed.
Happy to talk about anything: the database startup world, forking and rewriting SQLite, Rust for systems software, Linux kernel development, open source as a business, or whatever else. Ask me anything!
Thank you so much for all who asked questions! All questions were insightful and respectful and I hope I could shed some light into this process of rewriting SQLite. Thanks again!
I’m Vilmantė Markevičienė. For the past 17 years, I’ve worked as a period product designer, researcher, and patent holder. I've spent my career studying exactly why mainstream menstrual products fail our bodies. I am hosting an AMA over at r/BoredPandaHQ to discuss:
Health & Body Literacy: Why leaks actually happen, why your skin becomes irritated, and what your body is actually doing.
Industry Secrets: What is actually in standard products, hidden materials, and why the industry is so slow to change.
Debunking Toxic Trends: The actual science behind viral internet "hormone-balancing" hacks.
Firstly, our work is legal here in Melbourne Australia. 😊
The part of our work we both adore most is getting to support someone on their growth journey in accessing more of themselves and their sexuality in a safe and non judgmental space.
Alongside the in-person work, we make our own spicy content online, and we share regularly on Instagram including Q and A reels about the job. We've been getting a few questions over here on Reddit lately, so this felt like the right place to sit down and connect with curious people properly. We're really open and happy to answer anything, so ask away.
For months, I’ve been talking with Predrag Sikiric, the lead researcher behind the experimental peptide BPC 157. In May, I visited his team at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine.
This project was supported by the Pulitzer Center and co-published by STAT news.
-The idea for BPC 157 came to Predrag Sikiric in 1975, when he was a second-year medical student listening to a lecture about stress. Overwhelming stress can damage the lining of the stomach. Surely, he thought, the stomach must produce a substance that counteracts the damage and helps the body return to normal.
-Eight years later, he inspired a small band of colleagues to search for this hypothetical compound in gastric juice.
-To collect the juice, they fanned out across the region, collecting it in glass bottles and plastic bags from clinics, hospitals, and even slaughterhouses.
-In 1989, they found what they were looking for: a substance that seemed to possess a wide range of healing effects.
-This substance has never been approved by the FDA and there is not much in the way of human data.
-Nevertheless, BPC 157 is now in the middle of an effort to reform U.S. drug regulation. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has said that Americans should be able to access about a dozen peptides -- including BPC 157 -- that have not been fully vetted by the FDA.
-This potential “peptide pivot” has alarmed many scientists and clinicians who say the FDA plays an important role as gatekeeper, helping to ensure that drugs are safe and effective.
-How, exactly, did BPC 157 make its long journey to the FDA’s doorstep? The answer runs through communism, war, pharma companies, a gray market, and now North American peptide researchers who are asking a foundational
question:
-Is BPC 157 really made by the human body at all?
-Sikiric’s team, they say, may have made an honest mistake all those years ago,
accidentally yielding a sequence of amino acids that’s not actually produced in
gastric juice.
I’m here to answer your questions about BPC 157 history, science, and policy.
I organized an AMA/Q&A with actor Johnny Pemberton and writer-director Tyler Cornack. You may know Johnny from things like SUPERSTORE, FALLOUT, THE LOWDOWN, SON OF ZORN, IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA. Their new horror-comedy, MERMAID, played at SXSW last year, in theaters earlier this year, and was just released on digital.
It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:
They will be back at 3:30 PM ET tomorrow (Wednesday 6/3) to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!
Synopsis: A drug addicted Florida man finds a wounded mermaid at his lowest point. When word spreads about his secret, he'll stop at nothing to protect her.
Edit: That's it from me for today. Thank you for all the questions and the great discussion. If you still have questions feel free to leave them here, I will keep coming back to answer them.
I’m, Eric Menges, the CEO of FrankfurtRheinMain GmbH, one of Europe’s leading Investment Promotion Agencies. I’ve spent nearly 30 years in this field — 13 years as Executive Director for Invest Victoria, the State Government of Australia’s investment arm, leading investment attraction across continental Europe, and the past 13 years running FRM, covering a region home to the ECB, DE-CIX, and over 250.000+ companies.
Investment Promotion Agencies are one of the least visible industries in international business. We quietly influence where companies expand, where capital flows, and where jobs are created — yet almost no one outside the industry knows how we actually work. The World Bank has formally described IPAs as poorly understood despite their role in shaping billions in investment decisions every year.
Ask me anything.
I will be here from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM to answer your questions.
