It's That Time Again

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I'm typing this while babysitting. It's her naptime. I want to nap too, but I won't sleep until she falls asleep. In the meantime: I need to dump some links again.

Social Networks are Not Communities by blueshiftofdeath

Not Getting Radicalized is a Radical Act by blueshiftofdeath - You know, I have always felt like a lot of strife is caused by each side of an argument seeing the absolute worst of either side, so it's nice to see someone else say it too.

How (Not) to Misapply the Concept of Intersectionality by osteophage

Diary entries from an old woman found on an iMac G5 by edisondotme - Don't worry about the recommended videos on the side. Pretend you don't see them like I do.

What football will look like in the future by Jon Bois - If you've read this before but want to read it again like it originally was, delete your cookies.

Cohost September 2024 Financial Debate Retrospective: Making Sense of the End by osteophage

I cannot describe how strange Elon Musk's CPAC appearance was by Sarah Jeong

The Tyranny of Parents by Noah Berlatsky

Falsehoods programmers believe about languages by Michal Měchura and Falsehoods programmers believe about names by Patrick McKenzie

The Languages Lost to Climate Change by Julia Webster Ayuso

Texas and Florida Are Canary in Coal Mine of Schools Run by Uncertified Teachers by Eleanor J. Bader

Ryu and Ken No Longer Practice Shotoken Karate by Drew Mackie

Ghosts by Vauhini Vara

AI translation is jeopardizing Afghan asylum claims by Andrew Deck

Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute

Deleted Wikipedia articles with freaky titles

What it's really like to be a boy in 2025, in their own words by Eleanor Peake

Bluesky's Data Privacy

"I Was a Starter Wife": Inside America's Messiest Divorce by Justine Musk

12 Things I Wish I Known Before Coming to Ghana as a Black American by Tiffany Soulbird (unfortunately a Substack article)

Blacksky: Expressing the Black Everyday in a New Digital Space (Part 1) by Rudy Fraser

The History of School Uniforms by Kanko (Japanese)

Traditional Colors of Japan (Japanese/sometimes English)

I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped by Jasmine Mooney

Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds by Christopher Butler

Bee's Comix by Bee - interrelated one-shots done by a very skilled artist, based in a world with superheroes

Sparks by Revel - mmmmmmm problematic fantasy yaoi

Old CSS, new CSS by Fox - longread fans, do I have a longread for you