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JJ
February 10, 2025
sure
😬
is
😬
a 😬 time 😬 to 😬 be 😬 alive!
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
if it sucks, hit da bricks!!!
“Winners of the 2024 Close-Up Photographer of the Year”
by Alan Taylor
“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!
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