Dear Atlas: How Do I Safely Explore Abandoned Places?
John Green’s brand is optimism. On book tour, he’s fighting despair.
Let’s Talk About Sarah Kramer: A Love Letter
In defence of self-publishing
Flickr Foundation – The Social Life of Photographs
Culture Has No Name for This Cursed Vibe. It’s Everywhere | Artnet News
What is your work now? | everything changes
There are two political movements in America right now
"... our tiny movement of weary hearts has something going for us that is more powerful than the force of a thousand scoldy op-eds and think tank white papers"
A Childhood Neighbor Terrorized My Family. It Prepared Me for Trump’s Takeover.
What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
In Purging Language About Trans People, Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Trying to Purge the People Themselves
Gabrielle Bellot
The Imperfectionist: Reality is right here
ribose's 2024 in review
Love this design. A throwback to the Fun Web.
What’s The One Thing Only You Noticed?
Great stuff in the comments, too.
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The Best Books of 2024, as Chosen by Smithsonian Scholars
The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, edited by Sam V.H. Reese
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge - 3 Quarks Daily
The Snacks & Cereals of 2024
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[The Washington Post] My mom died in 2020. I just found 86 unheard voicemails from her on my phone.
To Cis People Who Feel Despair
Resources for keeping the web free, open, and poetic | Stefan Bohacek
Taking Leave
Interim note 5: web media and web dev employment
Just how many ads are there on ad-supported streaming apps, really?
Everyone's Buying the MAGA PICO Top
Layers of Interpretation
Stay Gold, America
You’ll Never Get Off the Dinner Treadmill
HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me
You Don’t Know Your Habits
I’m Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn’t Still Better Than Streaming Digital