Saturday Linkages: Gaslighting the Quarantine Cats

June 13, 2020

40 percent of Americans have taken “extremely unsafe” measures to sanitize their food and kitchens 3 Reasons Your Chicken May Display Red Legs Time to Get Blueberries in Your Freezer? Strawberry Feijoa Jam Your wedding’s been cancelled by the coronavirus lockdown? Good Inside NextDoor’s Karen problem What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride Writer Lane Moore condensed my mood in a Tweet, is anyone else feeling gaslit all the time lately...

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Saturday Linkages: Hot Takes

Mr. Homegrown

July 4, 2020

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Kolomon Moser, Summer’s Evening. View tonight’s lunar eclipse How to stop your glasses from fogging up when you wear a mask Incompetence and Errors in Reasoning Around Face Covering David Beckham leads the way as men flock to ‘cottagecore’ look Twin Peaks: The Return, or What Isn’t Cinema? Pentagon War Game Includes Scenario for Military Response to Domestic Gen Z Rebellion The True Cost of Dollar Stores It’s ‘Our Fault’: Nextdoor CEO Takes Blame...

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Saturday Linkages: Super Spreader

Mr. Homegrown

July 11, 2020

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Thanks to @jimmy.chertkow for this spicy meme. New York’s hungry rats torment alfresco diners after lockdown famine Electric Crypto Balkan Acid Test Dry Canning Raw Vegetables is an Unsafe Practice ‘Landscape of fear’: what a mass of rotting reindeer carcasses taught scientists Warming trend in California, but most intense heat remains across the interior Southwest. And what about the autumn to come? On the Exceptionalism of Books in an Age of Tw...

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Saturday Linkages: The Kirghiz Light’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

Mr. Homegrown

July 18, 2020

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...A Winged Figure, Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1904-1911. Comet NEOWISE Dazzles at Dusk What to do With Blackberries Poll: Who always wears a mask in public—and who doesn’t? CoronaShock and Socialism ‘Not just weeds’: how rebel botanists are using graffiti to name forgotten flora Extreme atmospheric rivers: what will California’s strongest storms look like in a warming climate? The Sacro Bosco of Bomarzo...

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Saturday Linkages: Wall of Cats

Mr. Homegrown

May 2, 2020

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Albrecht Dürer’s Little Owl (Kleine Eule) from 1508. In the Wake of Systemic Collapse, Only We Can Save Ourselves Should you be buying that online right now? ‘Heads we win, tails you lose’: how America’s rich have turned pandemic into profit California Lessons from the 1918 Pandemic And the award for best pandemic mask goes to . . . The Man Who Built a 40-Foot Spite Fence Around His Neighbor’s Home The Committee to Save the Rich The A to Z of Afr...

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