Saturday Linkages: Forever Lent

The scars of solitary: Albert Woodfox on freedom after 44 years in a concrete cell The sweet it’s OK to eat at Lent: But does anyone actually like karamelli tal-harrub? A Modern Take on the Phenakistoscope Why a California scientist hosted superspreader event amid a deadly COVID-19 surge Texas prepping gong wrong, a thread A visual search engine Remapping Cultural Hauntology: An American Perspective ‘This Crap Means More to Him Than My Life’: Whe...

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Saturday Linkages: The week I discovered the honey buzzard

...https://youtu.be/RTkWjyIYiVk Make your own Bayeux tapestry memes Ladies and gentleman, the Oriental Honey Buzzard What does a cup of flour weight? It’s surprisingly complicated Obrigado, Internet. ‘A managerial Mephistopheles’: inside the mind of Jeff Bezos Cactus smuggler sentenced for importing illegal plants La-la land: the playful side of Los Angeles – in pictures The McMansion Hell Yearbook: 1978...

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Saturday Linkages: First as Tragedy, Then as LARP

From lockdowns to pool parties: how Covid rules vary around the world As Kate Wagner of MacMansion Hell put it, “None of you are ready for this real estate listing.” You have until 6:30 p.m. today EST to view Der Fliegende Holländer, the last Met opera filmed before the pandemic Car Lanes to Become Bike Lanes on 2 Major New York City Bridges Those Mysterious Dark Helicopters Were Landing On Multiple Downtown LA Rooftops Last Night The Strangest O...

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