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Elizabeth May: "Please tell me about an extremely niche section of twitter that you never knew existed until you made them angry. One time I made Feed Swans Bread Twitter angry after i suggested food alternatives. FOR MONTHS I got angry tweets, until I finally deleted it. YOUR TURN." And the replies began. For example: "I argued that (human) placenta wasn't a vegan dish. Ooooooh the placenta-eating vegans were soooooo mad! It was cuckoo bananas." And... [more inside]
posted by Wordshore at 10:52 PM PST - 138 comments

Maria Farrell writes about the Prodigal Techbro [more inside]
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Each week, we publish a gallery of readers' pictures on a set theme. This week it is "circles" (via BBC)
posted by dfm500 at 8:38 PM PST - 5 comments

They were partners in fighting crime. The only problem: Neither was a cop. But when one friend turned on the other, things got real. Not Fuzz from The Atavist. From 2017, with an update in the latest edition: The Con Continues.
posted by chavenet at 4:01 PM PST - 10 comments

Weekend dance party x International Women's Day: once again (Wonderland Magazine, 2019) Boiler Room teamed up with Gurls Talk (an online community for young women to discuss issues; previously) for a celebratory party. This year, the DJs, selectors and musicians were Born N Bread*, Celeste, Flohio, Jamz Supernova*, Jess Ajose, and Shygirl. Rewind to last year, and check out Jordss, Jorja Smith*, Little Simz and Babeheaven joining Adwoa Aboah (Instagram) for a night curated by Jasmine Srih (Ig). [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief at 2:10 PM PST - 1 comments

To celebrate being alive for a billion seconds, Daniel Bruin built a machine with 100 gears with a 10-to-1 gear ratio…meaning that the overall gear ratio is a googol-to-one.
posted by Etrigan at 12:48 PM PST - 31 comments

An Ode to Black Science-Fiction & Fantasy Writers [Tor] “In recent years there has been an uptick, if not an actual surge, of the works by fantasy writers of color finally, deservedly, entering the mainstream. These stories are as broad and wide sweeping as the culture itself. From The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton and Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, to N.K. Jemison’s The Fifth Season. Beautiful novels with intricate, fully imagined, complicated characters and worlds. But, our voices have always been here, in the background, creating stories. [...] I don’t know the reason that our stories are finally being heard, moving from their half lit corners into the brighter light. The success of Blank Panther? Some mysterious critical mass having finally been achieved? The growth of social media? I don’t have the answer to that question. What I do know is that the world can only seem bigger and more magical when the history and perspective of diverse writers is included. And I know that my TBR pile grows bigger by the day, richly seasoned by a broader culture and historical perspective.” [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 11:09 AM PST - 20 comments

Shell Has a Plan to Profit from Climate Change (Malcolm Harris, author of 'Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials' (previously), for New York)
posted by box at 10:38 AM PST - 19 comments

Be the Locker Room Diplomat. Solid advice on how to navigate tense professional situations, whether you're a pro wrestler or not. [more inside]
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“On Cape Breton Island, where coal mining and steel making were once an essential part of the region’s culture and economy, protest song and verse are found in abundance. The Protest Song Project is an initiative of The Centre for Cape Breton Studies at Cape Breton University. The program’s goal is to preserve and promote the protest songs and verse that represent the region’s rich industrial heritage.” Volume 1 - Volume 2
posted by The Whelk at 9:31 AM PST - 2 comments

Filmmaker Chika Okoli of For Africans By Africans shows off the sights and sounds of Abidjan.
posted by ChuraChura at 9:22 AM PST - 4 comments

Yo La Tengo are once again playing requests for pledges beginning at 3pm US EST TODAY (Sat March 07) on WFMU. Every year, Yo La Tengo perform requests live on-air in exchange for pledges, to help keep freeform noncommercial radio station WFMU (91.1 FM in Jersey City, NJ) on the air. This year is no exception. They will begin playing at 3pm US EST today, and will be playing listener requests for several more hours. [more inside]
posted by showall at 9:13 AM PST - 31 comments

Here are some calming, nearly trance-like .gifs and short clips of things that are being cut by very sharp knives:
- Soap slicing
- Sushi
- Leaf cutting
- Carving out the bowl of a wooden spoon
- Steak
- Slow-motion video of an apple and some bananas being sliced in half while in mid air
- Japanese knife professional transforms vegetables into works of art
- From a Japanese Kezuroukai Planing Competition with shavings as thin as 5 micron, plus (Video) [more inside]
posted by growabrain at 2:57 AM PST - 29 comments