14 March 2024

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Whelp, I went and did it. Follow along the behind-the-scenes of the foofaraw newsroom. I finally made the jump to Pika Pro now too.

14 March 2024

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Been thinking about setting up a behind-the-scenes/change-log/making-of blog for foofaraw. I do some of this already in my Grub newsletter, but I think it’d be cool to have a record of trying to build a newsletter/zine thing from the ground up, as one person, with essentially zero dollars.

13 March 2024

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⛹️ The N.B.A.’s Rulebook Problem — New Yorker

I agree with a lot of this, but ultimately, it still comes down to the players. They should be docked a games worth of pay for every four calls they argue and are wrong about.

13 March 2024

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🏀 Zion Is Looking More Like Zion. And the Pelicans Are Looking More Like Contenders — Ringer

Some positive news in the world of basketball! I haven’t been watching much, but Zion being Zion means sometimes good things can happen.

13 March 2024

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😅 Amazon Tells Warehouse Workers to Close Their Eyes and Think Happy Thoughts — 404

Look at that, they’ve solved the worlds problems. Just close your eyes and it’ll be all better.

13 March 2024

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🔭 Space Camp and The X-Men-ification of Trans People — TPA

Stop treating us like mutants, especially if you can’t bring yourself to understand that the mutants in X-Men were the ones being persecuted.

This shit is so depressing to read about. The vitriol from some people over others merely existing is just so sad.

13 March 2024

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🍋 After Testy Interview With Elon Musk, Don Lemon Says His Deal With X Is Canceled NY Times

Lemon:

His commitment to a global town square where all questions can be asked and all ideas can be shared seems not to include questions of him from people like me.

I mean, yeah, we all knew that was the case. But good for Don in (likely) grabbing another paycheck while not having to do any work along with his CNN payout.

12 March 2024

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👮 Ari Aster’s Next Film at A24 Eddington’ to Star Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal, and Austin Butler — IndieWire

This is too good to hold for the newsletter! Beau is Afraid was my #1 movie last year and to have Joaquin back alongside Stone and Pascal in the next one is mind-blowing to me.

12 March 2024

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🛝 App Demo — Muddy

SharePoint + Slack + Arc = Muddy..? I don’t know. This app is definitely not for me, especially since I’m not looking for collaborative tools, but there’s some interesting stuff in there. The group surveillance aspect is pretty off-putting though.

11 March 2024

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I got foofaraw listed on The Submission Grinder. I’m hoping this will help bring in some fiction contributions to the newsletter, and expanding what we can do with it.

10 March 2024

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📺 President Biden’s reaction to seeing MTG before the speech is all of us. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Chris D. Jackson on Twitter

Meant to drop this in with the other SotU posts yesterday…

10 March 2024

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😰 My Anxiety — New Yorker

My work suffers, of course. How could it not? I’m sadly not a perfectionist but, rather, an avoider and a regretter. There are periods when I will respond to e-mails at a reasonable pace, and then there’s the e-mail about a potentially lucrative project that I ignored for months. I haven’t even opened it; I don’t know what it says.

Boy, do I feel seen. Don’t even get me started on the getting out of bed” section…

9 March 2024

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👽 Spawn, Scorched, and More — Humble Bundle

Second humble bundle I’ve linked to this week. I’ve always wanted to go back and read old Spawn. $20 for 43 volumes of Spawn and Spawn related books. Now I can.

9 March 2024

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🎵 What Makes an Album the Greatest of All Time? — Pudding

Really great stuff as always. I definitely think the biggest factor was the change/addition of panelists. I still think Sgt. Peppers deserves the 1 spot though.

8 March 2024

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📣 So Much for Sleepy Joe”: On Biden’s Rowdy, Shouty State of the Union — New Yorker

Biden wasn’t exactly a happy warrior on Thursday night, but he was a forceful one. He seemed unfazed by the occasional word salad that he made of his script. He was definitely not soporific. The speech kept one part of the evening’s traditions intact–it was terribly long, more than an hour–but the general vibe was different than most State of the Union addresses I can recall–sharply confrontational, intensely divided.

8 March 2024

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🥊 Joe Biden comes out fighting against Donald Trump — Economist

Mr Biden not only attacked his opponent but goaded Republicans in the chamber and scolded the justices of the Supreme Court, who sat before him, for their decision to overturn Roe v Wade. Coming from this president, an institutionalist who reveres such traditions, that in itself was a signal that he recognises Mr Trump has shifted American politics onto new terrain, and that Mr Biden intends to take the fight to him there.

8 March 2024

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🐺 Anthony Edwards Did Not Expect To Jump That High — Defector

At some point in the near future he’ll almost certainly be the best two-guard in the NBA, but right now he’s still just 22, and not yet the sort of player that can be entrusted to steer the offense every possession without stress.

I didn’t catch this one, but I think it’s safe to say this was a career defining game for him. Regular season-wise.

8 March 2024

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I’ve listened to three new albums so far today and they’ve all disappointed me…

8 March 2024

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🛸 US once considered program to reverse-engineer alien spacecraft, Pentagon report revealsPOLITICO

The effort was eventually rejected by DHS leaders for lacking merit,” and never actually recovered any other-worldly craft.

In a world where people only read headlines, we need to quit this shoddy shit. They’re doing exactly what they said happened in the first paragraph.

8 March 2024

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🛌 Floored — Jen Sorensen

Super thoughtful look at one of the things we take for granted with an empathetic POV.

8 March 2024

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While I like to keep foofaraw positive, I think Monday’s newsletter might have a mini anti-Bleachers rant…

6 March 2024

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📚 Cory Doctorow Novel Collection — Humble Bundle

18 of his books for $18 in support of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

6 March 2024

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🕴️ Corporate Fetish is the response to Girlhood — Feed Me

Paywall unfortunately, but Emily’s essay at the end does a great job going into the fashion trend. What’s missing is the corporate world desire to entice people back to the office, which I think is a major element.

5 March 2024

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🎰 Did Apple Just Make a Gambling App? — Atlantic

The following year, it became the exclusive broadcaster of Major League Soccer, and now it may be readying an up to $2 billion bid for the rights to Formula 1 racing.

Nothing super enlightening in the article, but I completely missed that Apple was bidding for F1.

5 March 2024

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🇷🇺 Moscow After Navalny — Puck

What we saw this weekend was the end of that hopeful arc. First, the protest movement had been killed, and now so too had its leader. And though over 10,000 people in Moscow came out to bid Alexey farewell, what did it change, really? Putin would still be re-elected overwhelmingly for another six-year term, Russian missiles would keep killing Ukrainian children for no discernible reason, and dissent would land hundreds and thousands more Russians behind bars. If we thought the repression of Russian society was bad 15 years ago, it has become Stalinesque now.


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