This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

Love this. Teens keeping the town informed in Pulaski, WI wisconsinwatch.org/2025/10/wisc...

We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...

if lore is to be believed, fred astaire used to dance and glide around his tailor's workshop before taking a suit home to make sure the collar always stayed glued to his neck

The only two places in the world free of mosquitoes are Antarctica and Iceland — that is, until now. This month, three specimens were discovered in Iceland, which is warming four times faster than any other country in the Northern Hemisphere.

This is an essay I wrote about music and grief and sunsets and water and grief and brothers and grief. It’d mean a hell of a lot if you set aside a little time to read it.

The Consolations of Waterloo Sunsets
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Book bans get headlines, but the bigger threat to books is hiding in plain sight: A handful of companies control how ebooks reach readers, and they can cut off access with a click.

New from @mariabustillos.com in @columjournreview.bsky.social ⤵️

The worst air disaster you've never heard of.

Issue no. 166, American Hindenburg

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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: A 2016 cover of James Taylor's "You've Got a Friend" by Jillian Edwards. See you around.
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OPINION: " As demonologists repeated one another’s spurious claims, an echo chamber of “evidence” was born. The identity of the witch was thus formalized: dangerous and decisively female," Julia Walsh writes.

It's been a while since I've read a story this long, this thoroughly reported, this blunt in laying out its allegations of wrongdoing.

My jaw was on the floor from start to finish.

@kennyjacoby.bsky.social on how the Dallas Stars "bullied a community on their path to profiting off a youth sport":

Incidentally, how cooked is Twitter?

The USA Today Sports account has nearly 280,000 followers and their video post on this story has all of 5 retweets.

That's actually relatively HIGH engagement for their posts.

Tons of their link posts have 0 or 1 retweets 🤯

And seem to cap out at ~2.8K views

It is 22 years ago today that my best friend, Nick Everton, died. He was 17 years old. Not much time to leave a mark on the world you would think.
But those of us who knew him came away irreversibly altered by even the short time we shared together....
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Here's a fun story I never published.

The B1 bomber was designed to never need upgrades, which meant it didn't have power outlets for plug-in parts. But it was designed with an electric coil to boil water for noodles or coffee in-flight for its crew of four.

Which ends up powering GPS later.

This Day in Labor History: June 23, 1855. A 19 year old slave woman named Celia murdered her master rather than allow him to rape her. She then attempted to burn his body, nearly succeeding in erasing all traces of the crime. Let's talk about the sexual labor of slavery, a huge part of slavery.

Not to get all edgy with our infrequent sports takes, but we can't help but feel that the fact that MLB has two teams playing in minor league parks because of owners who are bad at playing chicken for free shit is intimately related to Pete Rose being unbanned. -OS

No matter how prepared you are you are not prepared.

A List of Things People Blamed on Short Skirts

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