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Absolutely. Hats off to Cape Verde!
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I am rooting for Argentina to win the whole thing but I would not be the least bit mad if Cabo Verde beat them today.
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First episode of Silo s03 is out!
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As it was foretold: the Trump regime gutted the NOAA and now weather forecasts are less accurate. An atmospheric scientist: “The forecasts I’m able to offer you are less accurate than they would otherwise be.”
[gizmodo.com]
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Here's Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately
Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it.
https://gizmodo.com/heres-why-weather-forecasts-have-seemed-so-inaccurate-lately-2000779436
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Something for the digital crate-diggers: The 40 Best Albums From the Last 40 Years That You Probably Didn’t Hear (But Should’ve). I’d only heard of one or two these…
[spinmagazine.com]
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THE 40 BEST ALBUMS FROM THE LAST 40 YEARS THAT YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T HEAR (BUT SHOULD’VE) - SPIN
Of course you’ve missed some great stuff since 1985! A lot of you weren't even born then! Not only has the advent of digital releases made more
https://www.spinmagazine.com/2025/12/the-40-best-albums-from-the-last-40-years-that-you-probably-didnt-hear-but-shouldve
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“Dictionary of the Illegible proposes illegibility as a strategy for navigating a world increasingly governed by visibility, efficiency, and total surveillance.”
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Dictionary of the Illegible - Source Type
Dictionary of the Illegible explores the limits of language—its beginnings and its ends—from humanity’s earliest marks to the dissolution of modern alphabets before our eyes. Mapping more than 400 examples of illegibility drawn from Indigenous cultures to imagined future civilizations, the book span
https://www.sourcetype.com/store/51534/dictionary-of-the-illegible
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“The average paid newsletter costs $10 per month or $100 per year, according to analysis of thousands of publications hosted on Beehiiv.” KDO memberships start at $3/mo. and I haven’t raised prices since 2016. You folks are getting an incredible deal!
[pressgazette.co.uk]
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Newsletter market in 2026: $10 per month is default price but not ceiling
The average paid newsletter costs $10 per month regardless of size, according to analysis of thousands of publications on Beehiiv.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/newsletters-2026-prices-retention-churn
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Hank Green interviews Ze Frank, who kind of invented the modern YouTube format (aka vlogging). “At the episode’s end, Ze lays down some of the best advice Hank’s ever heard.”
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Ze Frank: Get Uncomfortable
Ze Frank invented vlogging according to Hank. The creator of the YouTube series True Facts and The Show talks to Hank about getting ideas out into the world, why he prefers discomfort when making things, and how he uses science as fodder for jokes. At the episode’s end, Ze lays down some of the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwIFDv5pHS0
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Parker Molloy on why the panic about trans women in sports is not actually about fairness or protecting women & girls (in the similar way Gamergate was not about “ethics in games journalism”).
[readtpa.com]
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Reasonable Concerns
The wedge on trans people moved exactly where we said it would. The people who gave it cover are still quiet.
https://www.readtpa.com/p/reasonable-concerns
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Will America Ever Give White-Man Rights to Everyone Else? “These documents…were written by rich white men for the benefit of rich white men, and this country has never for a day recovered from their failure.”
[thenation.com]
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Will America Ever Give White-Man Rights to Everyone Else?
If we want to make it another 250 years, the Constitution is going to have to do a lot more than protect individual political and civil rights.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/250-anniversary-fixing-the-constitution
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The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by the Belief That Words Have Meaning. “The true Constitution is not a document. It’s more of a gut feeling. It is a shimmering legal gas that settles wherever conservatives need it most…”
[mcsweeneys.net]
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The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by the Belief That Words Have Meaning
“Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend ...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-us-constitution-is-for-simple-folk-still-burdened-by-the-belief-that-words-have-meaning
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Rebecca Solnit: What Is the United States of America Now? “The United States of America is a truck that has driven into a ditch. The United States of America is a program that has been hacked.” But also: “It is the country that gave the world jazz…”
[theguardian.com]
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What is the United States of America now? | Rebecca Solnit
The United States of America is … so many things, horrific and magnificent, good and evil, promising and cursed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/01/what-is-the-united-states-of-america-now
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Just popped onto Digg to see if it was progressing and now I feel dumber for having read some of the "takes" they are harvesting (exclusively!) from X. Digg: "If you don't think X is bad enough, can I interest you in some distilled, concentrated X?"
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Report from a cruise full of celebrity impersonators. “A woman sat a toddler down beside us, while another, larger toddler tugged at her capris. At this point, every child was starting to look like Wallace Shawn.”
[nplusonemag.com]
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Wish You Were Her | Mina Tavakoli
Martha Stewart, Walter White, and Rodney Dangerfield walk into a bar. The bartender looks at Dangerfield, asks what he’s having. “Vodka soda,” he replies. The bartender starts shoveling ice. “Double?” he checks. “Course I am,” says Dangerfield. “Dangerfield’s dead.”
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/essays/wish-you-were-her
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Erling Haaland “brings the intensity of a raiding party to the sport”. And: “Haaland can call to mind a shark circling dark waters.”
[newyorker.com]
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Erling Haaland Plays Like a Viking
Norway’s hulking striker brought his country back to the World Cup for the first time in almost thirty years. How far can they go?
https://www.newyorker.com/sports/world-cup-2026/erling-haaland-plays-like-a-viking
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My Family Has Been Here Since 1621. That Is Not What Makes Me American. “We are a nation of immigrants that has watched as immigrants arrive, assimilate and begin pulling the ladder up behind them.”
[ctinsider.com]
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My family has been here since 1621. That is not what makes me American.
Let's look at ancestry, immigration, Revolutionary War service and July 4 as the United States marks its 250th birthday.
https://www.ctinsider.com/columnist/article/philip-bump-family-history-what-makes-american-22326156.php
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There’s been so much crazy to pay attention to over the past few weeks that I missed this: Midjourney, the AI image-maker that you access through Discord, is making medical imaging machine. “It starts by stepping into a shallow pool of golden light…”
[midjourney.com]
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A New Era of Midjourney
A New Era of Midjourney, announcing Midjourney Medical: full-body Ultrasonic CT and the Midjourney Spa.
https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost
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Four-Byte Burger. In 1985, a graphic of a floppy disk hamburger was created on an early Amiga computer, photographed, and then deleted. Stuart Brown set out to recreate this image as accurately as possible.
[kottke.org]
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Four-Byte Burger
A graphic of a floppy disk hamburger was created on an early Amiga computer, photographed, and then deleted (more specifically, it couldn’t be saved). Stuart Brown set out to recreate this image as accurately as possible
https://kottke.org/26/07/four-byte-burger
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I love the aesthetic of Fresco, a video game where you play as a character embedded into Egyptian wall paintings. In many ways, these wall paintings are ancient precursors to side-scrolling games.
[youtube.com]
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Fresco - Official Gameplay Trailer
Don't miss the Gameplay Trailer for Fresco, a first-person puzzle adventure game developed by Kelonia Games. Players will explore the temple walls of ancient Egypt by switching off between a 3D archaeologist observing the mysteries of the temple and a 2D fresco character that comes to life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc51terNNNw
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How Do You Prove Arson When the Evidence Burns Away? “How do the experts figure out what caused a fire? How do they catch wildland fire arsonists, when all the have to work with is a burnt landscape?"
[kottke.org]
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How Do You Prove Arson When the Evidence Burns Away?
For the latest episode of Howtown, Adam Cole and Joss Fong look at wildfires and how investigators go about determining and proving how they start. The backdrop of video is the investigation into the Palisades Fire and t
https://kottke.org/26/07/how-do-you-prove-arson-when-the-evidence-burns-away
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You know sometimes you learn some ancient lore and suddenly some contemporary pop culture thing snaps into place? Anyway, I found out how Isadora Duncan died and now I better understand the “no capes” thing in The Incredibles.
[en.wikipedia.org]
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Isadora Duncan
Angela Isadora Duncan was an American-born dancer and choreographer, who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance and performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the United States. Born and raised in California, she lived and danced in Western Europe, the U.S., and Soviet Russia from the age
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadora_Duncan
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Saya Irie’s Intricate Sculptures Recomposed from Eraser Shavings. “The Japanese artist erases images & then uses those eraser shavings to recompose the images into three-dimensional form, transforming the byproduct of erasure into delicate works of art.”
[spoon-tamago.com]
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Saya Irie's Intricate Sculptures Recomposed from Eraser Shavings
Most of us erase mistakes without a second thought. The curled ribbons that gather beneath an eraser are little more than evidence of revisions before they're brushed into the trash. But Saya Irie sees them differently. For Irie, they're the beginning of something entirely new. The Japanese artist
https://spoon-tamago.com/saya-irie-eraser-shavings
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The Last Astronomers. “Many fear that if unleashed in all parts of the scientific process, AI tools could lead to nothing less than the death of astrophysics as a human endeavor.”
[science.org]
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The Last Astronomers
https://www.science.org/content/article/amid-flood-ai-advances-astrophysicists-are-questioning-soul-their-field
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Idris Elba DJs a House Party. Elba, now a knight of the realm, has been a DJ since he was 14 years old and he rips it up in this recent set.
[kottke.org]
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Idris Elba DJs a House Party
Idris Elba, knight of the realm and forever Avon Barksdale’s right-hand man in my heart, has been a DJ since he was 14 years old. He recently DJed a house party for Black House Radio and it looks like everyone had a lot
https://kottke.org/26/07/idris-elba-djs-a-house-party
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Playwright Georgica Pettus has written a play called Truck, which is based on the excellent documentary Hands on a Hardbody. “I thought, ‘This is the best premise for a play, because all the attention goes to the dialogue.’”
[culturedmag.com]
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Is This 28-Year-Old Our Next Great Playwright?
Ahead of the world premiere of Truck at MoMA PS1, playwright Georgica Pettus discusses the Texas endurance contest that inspired her latest work.
https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2026/06/25/culture-georgica-pettus-play-truck-interview
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What is queer typography? “I think that covers a lot of what queerness means: an attitude in the face of conformity, an attitude in the sea of passivity, an attitude to say yes when others say no.”
[soulellis.com]
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Paul Soulellis
Paul Soulellis is an artist and educator based in Providence, RI. His practice includes teaching, writing, and experimental publishing, with a focus on queer methodologies, network culture, and archival justice. He is the founder of Queer.Archive.Work, a non-profit organization that supports artists
https://soulellis.com/wiqt
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ElieNYC
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People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?
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Ben Collins
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All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.
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Mark Copelovitch
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Yes. It is readily understandable based on the logic of voting in <political> institutions. It is completely <not> understandable based on the logic that SCOTUS is a <legal> institution ruling what the law/Constitution actually say/mean. We have a 9-member super-legislature & should treat it as such
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Mark Joseph Stern
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Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.
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NPR published and then pulled a story that Alito retired from the Supreme Court. "Editors Note: This story has been taken down. It was published in error." (We can also talk about whether "Editors" needs an apostrophe of some sort.)
www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...
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Editor's note: NPR retracts story
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/30/nx-s1-4622951/samuel-alito-retires
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There is a plausible near future where the Supreme Court rules that immigrants, women, Black people have no explicit protection under the Constitution.
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Gah, this is another thing I’m completely fucking pissed about today: Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender athletes participating in women and girls’ sports.
[npr.org]
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Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender athletes participating in women and girls' sports
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who has long coached his daughters' and other girls' basketball teams at school, wrote the court's majority opinion.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/30/nx-s1-5836513/supreme-court-transgender-athletes
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Great piece by Andrea Pitzer on how lost Ezra Klein is in this current moment, newly relevant because he interviewed fascist activist Christopher Rufo on his NYT podcast (JFC!) “If you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played.”
[degenerateart.beehiiv.com]
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You don't have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-have-to-swallow-frogs
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I found this AI Compass quiz genuinely useful for pinpointing how I actually feel about various aspects of AI. At the same time, I don’t think my result (“The Kontextmaschine”) quite fits…
[bambamramfan.github.io]
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The AI Compass
29 questions. Two axes. Which of 30 AI archetypes are you?
https://bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass
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Josh Marshall
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He’s doing fascist hate propaganda the right way!
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There’s a Grocery Price Emergency in America. “Our research shows that even relatively well-off families are struggling with high prices… President Trump and Congress are neither investing in long-term solutions nor offering short-term relief.”
[nytimes.com]
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Opinion | We Crunched the Data: There’s a Grocery Price Emergency in America
We dug into the data, toured the country and ran surveys to find the biggest financial pressures people feel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/opinion/grocery-prices-inflation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uFA.EpN1.HGYs0A5uoRrh
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Ezra Klein had fascist Christopher Rufo on his podcast? Fuck all the way off with that shit.
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A tour of some playgrounds in NYC designed by kids, with features like pollinator gardens, hair-braiding stations, a floor-is-lava obstacle course, and human-sized chess boards. Love it — children should get way more of a say w/ stuff like this.
[nytimes.com]
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What Happens When Kids Design Playgrounds? Lava, Mushrooms, Giant Chess.
The people who know playgrounds best want a pink basketball court, hair-braiding station, and pollinator garden.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/nyregion/kid-designed-playgrounds.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t1A.Zt7I.SdHN8SlxrRGW
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On decision fatigue: “Why are you so tired? The answer has to do with how many times you’ve had to make a decision throughout the day.” And: “The quality of our decisions deteriorates as we accumulate previous decisions.”
[facilethings.com]
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Decision Fatigue: Why You Feel Exhausted Without Having “Done” Anything Physically
Decision-making has a real cognitive cost. Discover why accumulating decisions throughout the day leaves you with no energy for anything else.
https://facilethings.com/blog/en/decision-fatigue
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Now that summer is in full swing, you might need this Comprehensive Guide to Yellow Stripey Things, so you can tell harmless bumblebees (you can pet them!) from "asshole" yellow jackets.
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A Comprehensive Guide to Yellow Stripey Things
Bumblebee, honey bee, yellow jacket, paper wasp…what’s the difference? I don’t know if this comprehensive guide to Yellow Stripey Things is entirely truthful or not — a bumblebee is “actually a fl
https://kottke.org/18/08/a-comprehensive-guide-to-yellow-stripey-things
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If you’ve never seen it (or even if you have), Christian Marclay’s The Clock will be showing at LACMA from July 26 to August 23, including two 24-hour showings.
[lacma.org]
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Christian Marclay: The Clock
Returning to Los Angeles for the first time since 2015, Christian Marclay’s The Clock is a 24-hour single-channel montage constructed from thousands of moments of cinema and television history depicting the passage of time, excerpted and edited together to create a functioning timepiece synchronized
https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/christian-marclay-clock-0
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The Adjective Word Order We All Follow Without Realizing It. "So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac."
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The Adjective Word Order We All Follow Without Realizing It
From Mark Forsyth’s The Elements of Eloquence, a reminder of the rules of adjective order that fluent English speakers follow without quite knowing why. …adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this
https://kottke.org/16/09/the-adjective-word-order-we-all-follow-without-realizing-it
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Love this story about the champion Wii Sports Bowling team at this Tulsa senior living community. “Phyllis the GOAT is 95 years old and rolls 300s in practice sessions like it’s nothing."
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Phyllis the GOAT and the Senior League Wii Bowling Champions
Senior living communities generally don’t go viral or gain media attention for positive reasons, so it’s nice to see this story about the University Village Retirement Community in Tulsa, Oklahoma and their champion Wii
https://kottke.org/26/06/phyllis-the-goat-and-the-senior-league-wii-bowling-champions
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A Retro 70s TV Intro for Andor. “Get ready to travel to a far away galaxy that existed a long, long time ago. It’s the science fiction spectacular…ANDOR.”
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Andor 1975 TV Intro (Spoilers)
"And now, we bring you tonight's TV movie premiere. Get ready to travel to a far away galaxy that existed a long, long time ago. It's the science fiction spectacular...ANDOR. Every Thursday night, only on ABC."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Pccq0DZVc
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'Maybe It Will Happen Today' T-Shirt. On Friday, I got a bee in my bonnet that this t-shirt should exist and so I made it and now you can buy it. It’s $25 (+s&h) and ships all over the world.
[kottke.org]
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Maybe It Will Happen Today
On Friday, I got a bee in my bonnet that this t-shirt should exist and so I made it and now you can buy it. The shirt is simple, straightforward, $25 (+s&h), and ships all over the world. A promotion. Making a new fri
https://kottke.org/26/06/maybe-it-will-happen-today
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The Writers Who Wrote The Most in History. “Corin Tellado published more than 4,000 novels, mostly under a contract with Spanish publisher Bruguera, which obligated her to deliver a 76-page novel every single week for years.”
[brennan.day]
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COMPULSION: The Writers Who Wrote The Most in History
I've been writing publicly every day for seven months, and I wanted to know what that looked like for other compulsive writers. From Chesterton dictating past midnight, to Chinese web fiction authors racing through 10,000 words daily. What does their obsessive output reveal about the nature of writi
https://brennan.day/compulsion-the-writers-who-wrote-the-most-in-history
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If I were a billionaire, I wouldn't destroy democracy or ruin the planet, but I would hire Dan Castellaneta to narrate The Odyssey as Homer Simpson.
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Who wins the 2026 World Cup if “not football” decides? This starts with the same 64-team bracket as the actual WC but uses metrics like life expectancy & CO2 per capita to decide matches.
[dataguessr.com]
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Dataguessr World Cup 2026 edition
Pick a metric, guess the champions, and see the knockout phase play out.
https://www.dataguessr.com/world-cup-2026
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I got a bee in my bonnet on Friday that this shirt should exist and now it does and you can buy one ($25 + s&h). Maybe it will happen before it even arrives in your mailbox! 🤞
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Maybe It Will Happen Today
A promotion. Making a new friend. Or the big cork-popping event; you know the one. Today could be the day!
https://kottke.org/goods/item/maybe-it-will-happen-today
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