Bookity
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from Book Riot.
- Linkity from the Pen Addict.
- “Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube.”
- “Tingle just cranked out 50k words for a spite story for JKR and I am LIVING for it!”
- Some Terry Pratchett quotes on policing from Discworld.
- 2015 comics anthology called APB: Artists against Police Brutality.
- The Hate U Give may be available to watch for free on your favorite streaming service.
- Read the next book (a collection of essays) for the One Book, One Minnesota bookclub – A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota.
Think, Do, Make, Learn
- On imagination.
- Lake Baikal is kind of terrifying. Also, it apparently contains 22-23% of the world’s fresh surface water.
- Hannah Gadsby with a message for anti-vaxxers.
- Street art in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
- Sir Patrick Stewart on Sesame Street.
- “How to help your memory when stress is taking its toll”.
- “Learn the history of Juneteenth in two minutes”.
- “Why Juneteenth should be a national holiday”.
- Good quote about bigotry.
- A note to white allies.
- Zoom is adding end-to-end encryption to its free service.
- How to block political ads on Facebook and Instagram.
Life in These Pandemic Times
- That 2020 mood. Oh, yes.
- Humor?
- Disaster fatigue… yeah.
- That’s one way to keep your glasses from fogging over when wearing a mask…
- “Study: 100% face mask use could crush second, third COVID-19 wave”.
- Track your state’s R naught.
- “Enroll in a free online course on contact tracing through Johns Hopkins”.
- “Connie Willis’ Doomsday Book: Classic SF about pandemics explores faith in both science and spirituality”.
- Linkity from kmkat. And more.
Cookity
- Sausage-stuffed spaghetti squash.
- Broccoli and cheese spaghetti squash casserole.
- Spaghetti squash chicken parmesan skillet dinner. Huh, must be spaghetti squash week at The Kitchn… but is spaghetti squash even in season?!
Gluten Free
Artsy Crafty
Cool
- A black cat demonstrates how to assemble a shipping box.
- Yes, please.
- A “favorite whimsical trait of humanity’s”.
Cool or Wha…?
Wha…?
- Well, it’s good to know Facebook has a limit – I was starting to wonder. My ???? is that the ads even exist. UGH.
- “The Segway’s inventor wants to mass-produce human organs”.
LOL
Reading Update
Mostly doomsurfing, but I’ve read some fanfic – and even some new fanfic (vs rereading, which I have been doing A LOT).
“If I don’t make eye contact, Mom won’t remove me from this kitty perch she claims is a ‘paper trimmer’!” -Mayhem, incorrectly
Uh oh. I hope you didn’t show that box assembly video to your kitties. Who knows what they’d be shipping out of your home.
The depth of that lake is SCARY. Yikes.
I had forgotten about the ~2020 pandemic in Doomsday Book. O.o
OMG. The rise of King Arthur especially works when you consider people are using King Arthur Flour largely to BAKE BREAD. 😀 (For the record, that was my flour company of choice even before pandemic baking set in.)
I… guess the edible notebooks will be handy for spies? Much easier to eat the note when you’re done memorizing it when the paper is meant to be digested.
A recent post from Nicole..Friday Reads: Blood Lines
Baikal is deeeeep!