READRUM ~Coming Oct. 27~

After relaunching themorningnews.org on @ghost.org a couple months ago, I’ve been fixing up our old articles (there are a lot, oh wow, really a lot), and will be posting some favorites / some surprises / some honestly just weird stuff I’m running across while on this reformatting expedition

Sensing a theme

This checks out “Overlooking the realities of infectious disease epidemiology, these accounts portrayed COVID-19 as a mild disease and imagined a population of robust and physically normative individuals who would survive an epidemic unscathed and ready to return to work.”

It’s a good idea to go download your statements while you’re still able It’s easy. If my 150-year-old nephew can do it, so can you

See if you can guess what I picked as Most Important from 2024 🦸🏻‍♂️

thanks @themorningnews.bsky.social for the chance to be a lil bit nihilistic while also mentioning love is blind! a fascinating end of year wrap-up that asks - “what were the most important events of 2024, and what were the least?”

My very specific thoughts on the year that was & wasn’t!

Thank you to @hayden-higgins.bsky.social for another excellent installment of “The Year That Was and Wasn’t,” our annual round-up of the most—and least—important events of the year! + Improve your feed by following this year’s contributors, who are brilliant all year long: go.bsky.app/E8RX9ju

@jakeromm.bsky.social “The genocide will inaugurate a new world no matter how it ends.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

wrote about the year

Nick Van Osdol: “Shift your energy to concerted efforts to bring the things you want to see in the world to life.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

Jo Lou: “Cookbook clubs have become this year’s most heartwarming trend.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

Susannah Breslin: “Marrying the brain eraser was me reclaiming the life of the mind.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

@trillmoregirls.bsky.social: “There is always someone whose suffering is unfathomably worse than yours.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

@reproutopia.bsky.social: “Over 675,000 people have likely been annihilated in Gaza since last October.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

Ted Scheinman: “The US needs a labor party.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

@realbrianjudge.bsky.social: “On June 28, Biden was exposed as the dying body of American liberalism.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

@allisoncmeier.bsky.social: “New federal regulations bolstered the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

@erikmbaker.bsky.social: “Biden stayed on the ballot, thanks in part to Kamala Harris’s refusal to distance herself one inch from his monumentally unpopular reign.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social: “We’re all beginning to experience the same things again.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

@marco-giancotti.bsky.social: “Earthling plants breathed an amount of CO2 that, if you froze it into a cube of dry ice, would be seven times taller than the Burj Khalifa.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

Nathaniel Gallant: “Christianity’s complex legacy need not be the only reference point in the US for leftist futures.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

Tim Sahay: “Little wonder, then, that Beijing is viewed more favorably than Washington in the global South.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

Meg Miller: “I had a lot of conversations this year about political hopelessness and how we can’t afford it.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

@annamerlan.bsky.social: “That part I suppose we can argue about for at least four years.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

@robhorning.bsky.social: “The object of the game is to forget it is a game.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

Jane Borden: “The FTC announced that if compensation is primarily derived from recruitment, rather than sales, an entity would be considered a pyramid scheme.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

@kbrigham.bsky.social: “Maybe everyone in every nation is just as susceptible to the prevailing ideological winds of the times.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

@threeweeks.bsky.social “Let Hawk Tuah girl secure her bag with a scammy crypto hustle and skedaddle.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

@nbj914.bsky.social “When work ends, I turn to the tank. My urchin is unbothered by anything but the algae in its path. My snails trek across the glass, one unhurried inch at a time. And my fish just keep swimming.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

@genmon.org “We’re waiting for the other shoe to drop, perhaps.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

@bijan.bsky.social “You’re fucked, and you don’t even know it yet.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

Joanna Kavenna: “Reality became unreal.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

Aurielle Marie: “Every tear you shed this year was the most important one.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

@kukukadoo.bsky.social “The voiding of meaning online feels like part of a larger process by which significance is being iterated out of existence.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

NIGHT FLIGHT the stable of 80s late night cable programming has been reborn as a punk and horror themed streaming service pitchfork.com/thepitch/how... (via @themorningnews.bsky.social )

One of my favourites from the archives: Games kittens play, written for @themorningnews.bsky.social approx 1000 years ago themorningnews.org/article/game...