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posted by carsonb at 9:46 PM PST - 24 comments

AITA_reddit, which picks up the most interesting posts from Am I The Asshole, asks for pet themed submissions. [more inside]
posted by jeather at 7:21 PM PST - 15 comments

mr. sandman
man me a sand
make him the cutest man car door hook hand
give him the sand that i'm not a hander
then tell him that his sands and mans are handses

A full and quite lovely vocal rendition of an old Tumblr shitpost.
posted by Countess Elena at 5:49 PM PST - 27 comments

Gavin Webber makes cheese. Gavin Webber makes cheese in Australia. Gavin Webber makes Parmigiano Reggiano in Australia. This makes Italians very angry. [more inside]
posted by Evilspork at 5:25 PM PST - 13 comments

What it says on the tin!
posted by KleenexMakesaVeryGoodHat at 5:06 PM PST - 19 comments

Live now to help keep everyone at home for COVID-19 prevention
posted by Carillon at 4:52 PM PST - 18 comments

Reducing Hole for the Cat. When will he stop? [youtube, just 2 minutes]
posted by moonmilk at 4:10 PM PST - 28 comments

This past Friday, March 13, Korg USA tweeted "Schools, offices, & concerts 🌎wide have been requested to close & with many people self-quarantining & working from 🏡, we wanted to help you occupy your time a little. Now until March 20th, get the iKaossilator App FREE for iOS & Android. Have some fun." Soon after, Moog Music Inc tweeted "A gift to spread positivity, creativity, and expressivity. A moment to slow down, appreciate our innate strength, & experience the uplifting power of sound. The Minimoog Model D iOS app is free for download. Stay open, stay safe, and #synthesizelove" [via NME] Also, check out this Moog documentary, and a demo of the Korg Minipops Series from AnalogAudio1. Bonus: Land of the Rising Sound | A Roland Retrospective.
posted by filthy light thief at 3:06 PM PST - 24 comments

Trump, facing the greatest crisis of his presidency, has resorted to using language that doubles down on his assertion of taking no "responsibility at all" and hints at where he intends to shift the blame, despite the advice of the CDC and the World Health Organization. Unfortunately, such an action also exacerbates hate and puts American lives at risk. [more inside]
posted by Borborygmus at 1:51 PM PST - 79 comments

Each scent brings back memories that once meant something important. They might still. But scents change their character as they slowly break down, and history moulders unless given air. Once in a while you clear an evening, unlock the chest, and unstopper your old selves to see what they are to you now.

Scents and Semiosis is a piece of interactive fiction by Sam Kabo Ashwell. You play a perfumer exploring your personal scent library, trying to glean some meaning from remnant traces of petitgrain, verbena, elecampane, and sweet apple. [more inside]
posted by Iridic at 1:40 PM PST - 4 comments

On Sunday, March 15, Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti died at age 92. He had developed pneumonia after contracting the COVID-19 coronavirus. Gregotti’s wife, Mariana Mazza, remains hospitalized in Milan. [more inside]
posted by Iris Gambol at 1:30 PM PST - 7 comments

Beatboxing world champion Butterscotch explains the art of beatboxing, gradually adding 13 levels of complexity.
posted by LobsterMitten at 12:41 PM PST - 7 comments

An exposé from the New York Times interviews current and former employees of The Wing, an exclusive women's club and co-working space that presents itself as radically feminist.
posted by serathen at 11:33 AM PST - 8 comments

The first lines of 10 classic novels, rewritten for social distancing.
posted by clawsoon at 10:24 AM PST - 43 comments

Jonathan Frakes at half speed (sltwitter)
posted by curious nu at 9:44 AM PST - 28 comments

The SMBC Covid-19 Book Pack is a series of PDF books by the author of webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (previously). Highlights include Shakespeare's sonnets and the Holy Bible, "abridged beyond the point of usefulness."
posted by whir at 8:56 AM PST - 21 comments

“James Connolly is primarily remembered in Irish history as the Socialist revolutionary hero of the Rising of 1916, executed in Kilmainham Prison while strapped to a chair. Connolly’s place in Irish history is far more important than that, however. He was a proud Socialist, the founder of both the Irish Socialist Republican Party and the Labour Party, and the writer of the influential pamphlets Labour in Irish History and The Reconquest of Ireland.” Reform to Revolution: The Ideological and Political Evolution of James Connolly “ In 1898 Connolly began writing, printing, and distributing his own newspaper, The Workers’ Republic. He used its pages to bitterly condemn the moderate Home Rule movement — “a plot to delude the Irish worker in the interest of his Irish master” — and outline the necessity for a revolutionary break with the British Empire.“Connolly at 150 (Jacobin) Reading Irish Revolutionary James Connolly (Portside) James Connolly‘s collected works, free and online (Marxists.org)
posted by The Whelk at 8:39 AM PST - 5 comments

In the midst of quarantine and lockdown and curfew, one might think that professional wrestling is uniquely suited to an all-television format, and indeed, WWE's decision to air its Smackdown program from a makeshift empty arena at its Performance Center drew better ratings than usual (if only to see wrestlers using microphones to yell at each other while standing a few feet apart without having to play to a huge crowd). But the big news came late Monday when WWE announced that its annual extravaganza WrestleMania will also emanate from an audience-free Performance Center, rather than the 65,000 expected to fill Raymond James Stadium in Tampa on April 5th. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan at 7:24 AM PST - 24 comments

Doom and Animal Crossing are here to save the day. [Kotaku] Doom Eternal and Animal Crossing: New Horizons are dropping this week to help everyone take a break. It makes sense though, Isabelle and Doomguy are the best of friends. We can look forward to an evil demon who wields immense power and delights in the suffering of his denizens, as well as playing Doom Eternal. [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 7:12 AM PST - 29 comments

One from The Guardian's Long Read series: Real Estate for the Apocalypse: My Journey into a Survival Bunker. "The idea used to be that God would spare the righteous while the ungodly perished. These matters now were in the hands of the market. If you could afford the outlay, and if you had the foresight to get in on the ground floor, you were in with a chance to be among the saved. That was business: the first and the last, the alpha and omega." [more inside]
posted by glasseyes at 6:13 AM PST - 40 comments

James Mayhew is a children's author and illustrator who, with musicians and singers, presents illustrated concerts. Here is Shakespeare Brought to Life (5 minutes). Here he is illustrating Baba Yaga (4 minutes). Mayhew writes about these projects here: Musical Pictures. [more inside]
posted by paduasoy at 2:28 AM PST - 2 comments