Fight or flightless
For the first time in history, every incumbent party in a developed nation this year lost vote share in elections. / Financial Times
See also: A German far-right party won a regional election in September, which hasn't happened since the Nazi era—a result of 30 years of ignoring a lurking problem. / The Baffler
The good news is that the US political system is too complex for Trump to destroy it. The bad news is he's going to try anyway. / The Guardian
We blamed Facebook for Trump winning in 2016, so it tracks that we'd blame TikTok this time around—except the squirrel thing was not nothing. / Read Max
An explanation of 4B, the South Korean feminism movement that bans men, and that's been taking hold this week among American women. / Vox
"Ten percent of American workers today are union members, meaning that 90% of 'the working class' are not union members." To unfuck politics, create more union members. / How Things Work
Life after landing your dream job as a lighthouse keeper on a remote Australian island, where your only company for a month at a time is a colony of penguins. / BBC News
See also: From an 1860 John Ruskin letter, "One feels everything in the world so sympathetically ridiculous, one can't be angry when one looks at a Penguin." / Instagram
An emperor penguin has arrived on the southern coast of Western Australia, the furthest north the species has ever been recorded. / ABC
Ten years after legislation to curtail stores' and restaurants' seafood mislabeling, an investigation finds 18% of salmon sold as wild is actually farmed. / Gizmodo
Unrelated: Webfishing, a game that combines fishing, relaxing, chatting, and little else, could not have come at a better moment. / VICE
Or if smashing fascists sounds more appealing, the allure of Wolfenstein remains. / Kotaku
See also: From 1941, "It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one's acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi." / Harper's
A vibrant journey through the colorful world of mushrooms, comprising more than 800 shades. / Mushroom Color Atlas
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