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worth reading: january 25-february 10, 2025
sure 😬 is 😬 a 😬 time 😬 to 😬 be 😬 alive!
fish news (click for the photos!):
fish news (click for the photos!):
- “Police charge minor after finding something fishy at Utah ATMs” by Pat Reavy and Eliza Pace
- two versions of the same charming story: “Sunfish that got sick after aquarium closed has recovered — thanks to human cutouts” by Mari Yamaguchi and “Lonely sunfish in Japan gets cardboard human friends” by Koh Ewe
- sunfish can get lonely??? 😭
art:
- “At Ceramic Brussels, an Eclectic Array of Works Offers a State of the Medium” by Grace Ebert
- “A Hardened Detective and an Angry Rock Star: How a Vast Art Fraud Was Cracked” by Norimitsu Onishi and Brett Gundlock
bypassing paywalls lol:
- “How Bad is Bypassing Paywalls?” by Ben Lindbergh
- “archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet” by Jani Patokallio
food:
- “How My Trip to Quit Sugar Became a Journey Into Hell” by Caity Weaver (unpaywalled)
- “Invasive Crabs Have Taken Over New England. One Solution? Eat Them.” by C.J. Chivers
- “The Last Days of American Orange Juice” by Yasmin Tayag (unpaywalled)
- "Everything Sucks. At Least There Are Jalapeño Poppers." by Jaya Saxena
tech (broadly defined):
- Stimulation Clicker by Neal Agarwal
- “How random, really, is Spotify’s shuffle feature?” by Heather McCalden (unpaywalled)
- “The Future Is Too Easy” by David Roth
- “Cozy Comfort” by Tiana McGee and Daisy Chung
- “I Would Think Nothing Of Being Shot In The Chest With This Plasma Cannon” by Chris Thompson
- "Hiring Squad" by Megan Marz
- “The Insidious Charms of the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic” by Anna Wiener (unpaywalled)
fun catch-all category:
- Wikenigma
- “He Was Compared to Tiger Woods. So Why Did He Walk Away From Golf?” by Andrew Keh
- “Winners of the 2024 Close-Up Photographer of the Year” by Alan Taylor
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“Pilgrim’s Progress” by Joel Mayward
- a "professor, pastor, author, and film critic" reviewing Hundreds of Beavers, the best film (unironic) of the 21st century???
- “Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash” by Kyra Dempsey
unfun catch-all category:
- if you can, please consider donating to the ACLU or Public Citizen, or spend time on 5 Calls calling your Congressional representatives. defend civil servants who are holding the line––many of them are on Reddit at /r/fednews. ok bye!