Bookity
- New releases: AAR (romance)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from the Pen Addict.
- Virtual ways to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, August 29.
- Watch PBS’s documentary about Ursula K LeGuin for free until August 30.
- “Watch celebrities read picture books by Black authors”.
- “DIY craft kits for book lovers”.
- “Supreme trolling from the school librarian“.
- :snortlaugh:
- Queer Eye visits Professor Flitwick.
Think, Do, Make, Learn
- Icefish, wtf.
- I didn’t realize that humans are almost megafauna.
- Seals vs sea lions.
- The fascinatingly distorted world of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Also, players are chasing real-life hurricanes in the game.
- What actual steampunk color palettes should be.
- “How the jury system is broken and racist“.
Life in These Pandemic Times
- 2020 summary.
- Good point about The Shining!
- The sixth photo! (Thanks, Jeanne!)
- “Social distancing is a lot more complicated than staying 6 feet apart”.
- Yes, this.
- “Your ‘surge capacity’ is depleted – It’s why you feel awful“.
Cookity
Cool/Oh Yeah
- Very much yes, USPS. Related.
- Wonderful music video for the… US Census?!
- BOOM.
- “Virtually visit Black Lives Matters street art”.
- Linkity from kmkat.
Cool or Wha…?
Wha…?
- You can order a kit to make your bicycle sound like a horse.
- There’s something horrifically wrong with those people.
LOL
- “Big Bird is a megafauna herbivore“.
- Oh, humans…
- Good kitty!
- Bad kitty!
- Silly kitty!
- Awww.
- On goats.
- Amusing yet vaguely unsettling.
Reading Update
How To Be Alone by Tanya Davis & Andrea Dorfman. Adorable illustrated book version of the video poem.
A Song Below Water by Bethany C Morrow. Very good ya contemporary fantasy about two magical sisters-of-the-heart growing into powers that may further mark them as feared others.
How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide by Crystal Marie Fleming.
Chaos cannot believe!