Asheville, NC has lifted it’s boil water notice after 53 days. Hurricane...
Asheville, NC has lifted it’s boil water notice after 53 days. Hurricane Helene left high sediment levels contaminating 80% of the city’s drinking water.
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Emoji Rain is a visualization of emoji use on Bluesky. “Emojis from...
Emoji Rain is a visualization of emoji use on Bluesky. “Emojis from longer messages fall more slowly!” 🦋 💧 🌧️ ☔️ 🌈 🦄
How to Survive Our Authoritarian Post-Truth Era
For The Observer, Carole Cadwalladr published a list of pointers on how to survive in Trumpist America, inspired by Timothy Snyder’s Fighting Authoritarianism: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century that was published in the wake of the 2016 election. Some of these are excellent...
Weight of the World
Premiering this Friday (Nov 22) on FX is a short documentary from The New York Times called Weight of the World about GLP-1 drugs. Here’s the synopsis:
As GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic soar in popularity for weight loss, this film follows three people on their own GLP-1 journeys and explores how decades of diet culture and society’s relentless pursuit of thinness paved the way for their rise.
The doc features Roxane Gay & Tressie McMillan Cottom and will will be available on Hulu on Nov 23.
Tags: drugs · GLP-1 · medicine · Roxane Gay · trailers · Tressie McMillan Cottom · video
“On Saturday, more than 50 Jeremy Allen White lookalikes descended on the...
Can A Bike Flip On A Train
Something I still think about is the “Can a plane take off on a treadmill,” so imagine my glee at discovering these superheroes trying to flip a bike on a moving train. Yes, it’s glee I felt. I’m gleeing all over the place right now. (Not to be violent, but I thought the plane taking off on a treadmill post was from 10 years ago, but it’s from 2006.)
Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law Of Thermodynamics. “What do these...
Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law Of Thermodynamics. “What do these scientists want us teaching our children? That the universe will continue to expand until it reaches eventual heat death?”
The trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Tom Cruise…still running....
The trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Tom Cruise…still running. I can’t wait to see what he falls off of, clings to, leaps onto, or is thrown from this time!
Less Uniform Social Media Experiences
In the MIT Technology Review, Mat Honan makes two points about changes in the world of social media with both Bluesky and Threads seeing massive growth in November accelerated by the election and people leaving Twitter. The era of everyone having a uniform social media exper...
90 seconds of Miss Piggy absolutely roasting Martha Stewart. “Oh, how obsessive!”...
90 seconds of Miss Piggy absolutely roasting Martha Stewart. “Oh, how obsessive!”
If you need a refresher, here’s the official 2-minute recap of Severance...
If you need a refresher, here’s the official 2-minute recap of Severance season one from Apple TV+.
What Is The Most Surprising Predator Prey Relationship?
OK, I see you have your hand up with an answer, but I’m going to take this one, alright? Killer whales hunt moose. Right? That’s the most surprising.
It is not terribly common, but in the Pacific Northwest, habitats of two of the more massive mammals intersect. Moose will ...
“In 2018, Nerds products brought in $40 million in sales. In the...
“In 2018, Nerds products brought in $40 million in sales. In the past calendar year, the company said, that number jumped to $800 million.” NERDS Gummy Clusters are good as hell and everyone’s talking about them.
Roxane Gay: “To suggest we should yield even a little to Mr....
Roxane Gay: “To suggest we should yield even a little to Mr. Trump’s odious politics, to suggest we should compromise on the rights of trans people, for instance, […] is unacceptable. It is shameful and cowardly.” Yes, yes, yes, 1000% this.
Trump’s Historically Small Victory
I honestly did not read most of this article, but I wanted to draw your attention to some facts about the recent presidential election that you might find surprising:
While Mr. Trump won the popular vote for the first time in three tries, he garnered just 50.1 percent nati...
This Week
Hello there everybody. I’m working on some programming stuff to enable some future new features for the site this week, so I’m going to be around a little less than usual. My pal Aaron Cohen (previously) is going to be here to fill in some of the gaps, so be on the lookout for that. 👯♂️
In the meantime, what was one small thing you did this weekend that made you or someone else smile, laugh, relax, or feel satisfied? After a productive day yesterday, I treated myself to the first episode of the new season of Silo, read Craig Mod’s Things Become Other Things for 30 minutes, and listened to James by Percival Everett on audiobook for 20 minutes.
Tags: Aaron Cohen · kottke.org
You might be able to fit an entire orange in your mouth....
You might be able to fit an entire orange in your mouth. But can you get it out again? “Temporarily blind and gasping in my own private world of consequences, I was unaware of the cone of devastation that I had unleashed…”
Downhill Skateboarding
On these downhill skateboarding things, I’m always wondering why there aren’t any cars, but uh, there are cars in this one. Josh Neuman skateboarding down a mountain road while cars come up makes me real nervous! He almost skates into a barrier at 2:07, and towards the end there’s a biker riding up the hill going very slow showing how steep this is. I don’t know. It’s too fast I think. Love to see someone as good at their job as this guy.
Tags: Josh Neuman · skateboarding
Haymarket Books is giving away 10 free ebooks that meet this moment...
Haymarket Books is giving away 10 free ebooks that meet this moment in US history, including titles by Rebecca Solnit, Angela Davis, Mariame Kaba, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.
Jason Koebler at 404 Media: The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me...
Jason Koebler at 404 Media: The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet. He also explains why he’s bullish on Bluesky and not Mastodon (“difficult to make a diverse and active feed”) or Threads.
This is an astute observation about the conservative sense of permanent resentment:...
This is an astute observation about the conservative sense of permanent resentment: “They’re seeking political power as a substitute for cultural power, and it’s never going to give them what they actually want.”
Scientists have found an individual coral colony that’s large enough to be...
Scientists have found an individual coral colony that’s large enough to be seen from space. “Given its size and the slow speed at which corals grow, this individual is likely several centuries old.”
Let’s Build a Massive Meta McDonald’s in Times Square
Writing for The Awl, Jeb Boniakowski shares his vision for a massive McDonald’s complex in Times Square that serves food from McDonald’s restaurants from around the world, offers discontinued food items (McLean Deluxe anyone?), and contains a food lab not unlike David Chang’...
You’ll soon be able to watch your local PBS station & PBS...
You’ll soon be able to watch your local PBS station & PBS Kids through Amazon Prime. There will also be a dedicated Reading Rainbow channel. All of free…no Prime membership needed.
“…trans posters were the earliest adopters of Bluesky and were able to...
“…trans posters were the earliest adopters of Bluesky and were able to forge the platform into what it is today: funny, frequently horny, and with very strong moderation tools. If you like Bluesky’s vibe right now, thank a trans person.”
Today’s Google Doodle is a celebration of the kayak, illustrated by Inuit...
Today’s Google Doodle is a celebration of the kayak, illustrated by Inuit Nunangat artist Natashia Allakariallak. “These small and narrow watercraft were created thousands of years ago for hunting, fishing, and transportation.”
Might As Well Face It, You’re Addicted to Running
In a piece for Vogue, Edith Zimmerman writes about trading one addiction for another: A Former Drinker Asks, Am I Addicted to Running?
And running is good. I don’t have to lie about it or hide it. It makes me happy, and it makes my life better. There are little parallels ...
A report from the American Immigration Council on Trump’s mass deportation plan....
A report from the American Immigration Council on Trump’s mass deportation plan. “There is no way to engage in mass deportation without fundamentally changing the federal government, the national economy, and, ultimately, America itself.”
Fake Bear Commits Insurance Fraud
California Department of Insurance investigators watched the footage of a bear damaging the inside of a car because who wouldn’t watch that kind of video if it was submitted to them in a work setting, I know I sure would, but the thing is when the CDI investigators watched t...
The Violin. “A stack of hundred-year-old photos lead to the discovery of...
The Violin. “A stack of hundred-year-old photos lead to the discovery of a family treasure hiding in plain sight.”