Let’s Just Call it Sunday Linkages Until My Schedule Changes

one of the wildest home inspector tik toks ive seen pic.twitter.com/CKI8snirxd — kristin (gone bonkers) (@jkac) April 23, 2021 Mars Sucks The pole vaulting shepherds of the Canary Islands If you’d like to live in a giant Taco Bell and have $6,000,000 laying around this house is for you A 1,000 year blue dye mystery solved Kid, I blew up the honey: fallout from nuclear bomb tests detected in US pots Gender reveal party host turns himself in to pol...

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Holiday Weekend Linkages: Loquat Edition

Hi would you enjoy being depressed at downtown Camden in the 1930s vs today pic.twitter.com/xQtHHlYq6h — Joseph (@bicycleriiights) May 27, 2021 Like loquats? Thank the Mexican orchard workers who saved them Amazon Introduces Tiny ‘ZenBooths’ for Stressed-Out Warehouse Workers Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism Belcampo: ‘farm to door’ butcher admits misrepresenting origins of meat How to design a sailing ship for the 21st...

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Weekend Linkages: Beware the Pointy Shoes

...Skeletons reveal the cost of medieval fashion for pointy shoes Nailed it: man, 82, builds bench for wife in 30 minutes after council plea ignored Why We Shouldn’t Paint Brick Streaming with Laughter… the quest for the funniest online service fails No, Small Isn’t Beautiful The NFT market bubble has popped and we’ve got the charts to prove it...

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Weekend Linkages: Regime of Signs

...Woodcut by WPA artist Chet La More via @JoshLipnik Michael Jantzen unveils a series of experimental greenhouses from 1972 to 1980 The Hidden History of Culver City Racism [where I grew up] ‘Potentially the worst drought in 1,200 years’: scientists on the scorching US heatwave Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years A tale from haunted Wales Homemade Instant Oatmeal...

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Weekend Linkages: Summer Heat, Oaks and QAnon

Ancient Egyptian vessel shaped like a pomegranate via @aic_ancient. 100 British chairs When Old Oaks Fall Nabhan: Food and Farming Crisis Requires Both Science and Faith Is Geotagging on Instagram Ruining Natural Wonders? Some Say Yes California’s yoga, wellness and spirituality community has a QAnon problem Uber and Lyft Donated to Community Groups Who Then Pushed the Companies’Agenda California dodges worst of historic Pacific Northwest heatwav...

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