It's the Super Rooster! Presented by Bookshop

Coming this October, it's the Super Rooster! A Tournament of Books featuring 16 champions, presented by Bookshop

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For your weekly wanderlust from home: listings for cheap Irish houses for sale.
↩︎ Cheap Irish Houses 6d
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No one had ever done this before. No one had ever put a dog in the middle of the Civil War. How do you actually make that happen? 

An oral history of the show Wishbone.
↩︎ Texas Monthly
16h
Researchers are making new forms of real sugar, with fewer calories. Taste tests suggest they're mostly horrible.
↩︎ The New Yorker 16h

A short film for your coffeebreak: Floaters, when spaceships meet of different size.

16h

You can be “kind of whimsical” and also strive to be on time for things. You can be “a freewheeling person” and also strive to be on time for things.

Being the sort of person who strives for routine punctuality is “the absolute bottom white-belt level of adulthood.”
↩︎ Defector
16h

When 47 texts come through in five minutes, Billy, a 31-year-old in New York City, thinks there’s a family emergency brewing. “And then it’s a GIF of a baby farting,” he says. “I don’t need the anxiety, folks.”

During a pandemic/climate crisis/political nightmare, group texts will be the joy/end/misery of us all.
↩︎ The Washington Post
16h

Georgetown University recently acquired the “Journal of the Slave Ship Mary,” one of only a dozen or so known logbooks, or dated journals with daily entries, that survive from slave ship voyages between Africa and North America.

Noted by Atlas Obscura:

Four of Mary’s casualties resulted from an attempted rebellion. On June 10, 1796, before Mary had left Africa for Georgia, a group of enslaved men managed to escape their chains, and attempted to wrest control of the ship. In a full-page account, the logbook’s writer describes the fight and subsequent deaths. According to his account, two of the men jumped overboard while two were killed during the fight with the crew. Without any transition, the writer concludes the day’s entry: “The Weather ends pleasant.”

21h
From June, in case you missed it, a 16-year resident of an underground house explains why they don't like it.
↩︎ dengarden 21h

I saw a community happy with the ability to perform their art, but trapped by the reality that this form is the only place where they can touch on their true self.

Photographer Maria Babikova documents the fear and joy of doing drag in Siberia.
↩︎ It's Nice That
22h
Two Penn professors asked their 58-year-old housekeeper to clean their house without telling her their family had the coronavirus.
↩︎ The New York Times 22h
Some Millennials struggle to find a sense of identity outside their capacity for work. A new book blames their parents.
↩︎ The Atlantic 22h
“It feels like we are losing her to an addiction.” People describe what it's like to lose someone to the QAnon delusion.
↩︎ BuzzFeed News 22h

Enjoying a precooked, prepackaged meal from around 1902, still edible over a hundred years later.

22h

A yearlong attempt to revive a long-fallow walled garden.

In case you enjoy vintage gardening shows, a la Helen Rosner, have we got the show for you.

3d
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