It’s going to be a rollicking ride here, folks. Hold on to yer hats. Which you’re probably already doing, because this has been A Week. Heavier stuff down toward the end.
- New releases: Tor.com (YA SFF, fantasy, SF) (plus info about Tor’s virtual books convention), Smart Bitches (romance), AAR (romance)
- Good Omens won a Nebula! 90+ people cosplaying Good Omens.
- Expounding on a “throwaway line” from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Expounding on the concept of the Goblet of Fire.
- On owning a mini-sphinx.
- Pockets and Star Trek.
- That would be a pretty cool film.
- “10 DIY bookstand ideas”.
- “Criterion Channel lifts paywall on films by black filmmakers in support of Black Lives Matter”.
- “How to make this moment the turning point for real change” by President Barack Obama.
- “The myth of ‘official’: Autism and self-diagnosis skeptics”.
- Golden moles.
- “What happens to our brains when we read?”
- Rotary dial cellphone.
- Agreed – you put that back NOW.
- So cute! Also very cute!
- GF potstickers.
- One pot 20-minute coconut chickpea curry.
- Knitting linkity from kmkat. More linkity from kmkat.
- Carcinization. Hover your cursor or long-press for caption.
- SERIOUSLY.
- Oh, yeah.
- It’s true.
- Goodbye, Uncle Hugo’s and Uncle Edgar’s. From Science Times. From Locus.
- Some pictures of my neighborhood Sunday. The list of buildings damaged, looted, or destroyed in the Twin Cities.
- “Engage, educate, donate, and support: Ways you can help” from Smart Bitches.
- The Sesame Street and CNN Town Hall on Racism.
- Ben & Jerry are NOT f*cking around.
- “How cities offload the cost of police brutality”.
- “The racial injustice of American highways”.
- “America’s cities were designed to oppress”.
- “Turns out the only person attempting voter fraud is Donald tRUMP”.
- Visual confirming that yes, masks DO make a difference.
- “What to expect as you return to auto shops”.
- “What it feels like to be working in customer service right now” (dark humor).
“I’m not sure why you say this is a ‘paper trimmer’, Mom, when it’s obviously a cat perch!” -Mayhem
How… how did I never notice the “werewolf cubs” line before? O.o
LOL @ the Star Trek and pockets link. Though I do think they would have cured chapped lips by that point. Maybe not carcinization, though.
Doomsurfing is a thing I do way too often. Sigh.
Thanks for the link to Obama’s post. Hadn’t seen that one yet.
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thank you for still Linkitying under the worst of conditions. Please stay safe.
I’m sorry for all the problems in Minneapolis right now. I’m glad I moved out of my house in downtown SLC, it was close to the rioting (nowhere near what was going on near you, but it still would have been a scary place to be).
Wow, that is a lot of buildings gone, and damaged
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