7 November 2024

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🍄 Shift-Drag to Snap to Grid — Kinopio

Hold Shift while dragging or resizing cards and boxes snaps them a grid. Helpful when you want to line things up perfectly — or make your own calendar

Last link for the night comes from the wonderful @kinopio, which now has the capabilities to snap cards and boxes to a grid in an easy and delightful way. Excited to dive into this more with my spaces.

7 November 2024

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💣 Are We Just Ignoring How Russia Openly Helped Trump on Election Night? /// The New Republic

The FBI released a statement Tuesday saying that it was aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains.” While the FBI underscored that none of the threats had been found to be credible, their purpose was undoubtedly to sow chaos and fear as Americans attempted to cast their ballots.

The sheer number of threats received is actually pretty astounding. It’d be interesting if someone could analyze the average difference in the number over votes between 2020 and 2024 at polling stations that received a bomb threat vs those that didn’t. We already know voting was down overall, but how much can we estimate was contributed to these threats vs the sheer laziness of the American voter.

7 November 2024

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🏙️ Dem governor issues stark warning to President-elect Trump /// Fox News

Never thought I’d link to Fox News. And still don’t recommend clicking through because why let ad money go to them… but I saw this on Mastodon and loved JBs attitude (as I always have).

7 November 2024

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💱 Kagi Translate

Still giving Kagi Search a go since I (unsuccessfully) interviewed there and have been enjoying it. Cool to see them come out with a translation product, and one that’s free to boot.

7 November 2024

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🥊 Elizabeth Warren: The Plan to Fight Back After 2024 Election /// TIME

But good economic policies do not erase painful underlying truths about our country. For my entire career, I’ve studied how the system is rigged against working-class families. On paper, the U.S. economy is the strongest in the world. But working families are struggling with big expenses like the cost of housing, health care, and childcare. Giant corporations get tax breaks and favorable rules while workers are gouged by higher prices. Billionaires pay paltry taxes on their wealth while families can’t afford to buy their first homes.

Scream it from the roof top Lizzy!

7 November 2024

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📝 Trump Bans Amazon Reporter Tara Palmeri From Mar-a-Lago Election Party Despite Jeff Bezos Kissing the Ring /// Daily Beast

Obviously not surprised by this, but I expect to see a lot more of this moving forward. Palmeri is solid for Puck too.

7 November 2024

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🎖️ There Is No Constitutional Mandate for Fascism /// The Atlantic

The Democrats’ reward for steering the economy out of the post-pandemic economic crisis will be watching their opponent claim credit for the prosperity that their work created—an economy unencumbered by inflation and the high interest rates once needed to tame it. If Trump seems popular now, he will likely be much more popular in a year.

I’m not going to say it’s always helpful to read Adam Sewer after things like this, but he’s always good and thoughtfully saying how things are, why they are, and what comes next.

7 November 2024

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💰 David Zaslav: Trump May Bring Opportunity for Consolidation”/// THR

It’s wild to me that we have so many so-called experts” and the only strategy” they can come up with to succeed” or innovate” is buying their competitors. Is it a great customer experience to pay for a bunch of streaming services and hop around apps? No. But buying competitors and then, inevitably, cutting productions and charging more isn’t a solution” or strategy” either.

6 November 2024

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📑 What We’ll Be Covering in a Second Trump Administration /// ProPublica

Our job is to give readers an independent, verifiable account of what’s happening, even if the president is calling us enemies of the people or bloodsuckers.

6 November 2024

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📱 Today (Beta) /// Semantical

Did not see this beta invite landing in my inbox this morning. Don’t remember how I came across Semantical, but it was a few years ago. I believe some of the people spent time at Cultured Code—and just as I gave up Things for Reminders.

6 November 2024

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Scratch that… I have a better idea. Not that I’ll shy away from politics here though…

6 November 2024

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Thinking this site might be getting more political… part of me wants it to be a respite, but the other half of me wants to create a record of how things actually go down over the next four years. Foofaraw is still here to be a respite.

6 November 2024

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🎭 Today’s New Comics /// Challengers Comics and Conversations

So much going on here. With Foofaraw temporarily paused, if you want to know the best comics coming out, watch this. If you have no interest in comics, but want to commiserate with the folks at the best comics shop in Chicago, watch this. The books this week are truly too on the nose.

6 November 2024

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😶‍🌫️ Collective Amnesia and Nightmares /// A Humdrum Life

Not sure how active I’ll be here or on foofaraw as I allow myself to wallow in despair for a bit.

4 November 2024

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🔡 Pearl by Nondescript /// Future Fonts

Here I was thinking I had settled on Swear by OHno to accompany Kyrios on this site. Pearl seems absolutely perfect though.

31 October 2024

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📝 Forever ✱ Notes — A free framework for Apple Notes

I don’t personally want a complicated system to use within Apple Notes (seems antithetical to me), but if you do, this is a great little system in a box.

31 October 2024

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🗳️ Pro-Trump Election Interference Has Begun in Key Swing Districts /// The New Republic

This is fucked.

31 October 2024

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🍒 When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? /// 404

I’m not sure I have much to say about this, but it’s a fascinating experiment. I have always felt it a bit odd that a body part some people can walk around with out in the open is censored on others. Also, I’m curious what TERFs and right-wingers think of this… since, in their minds, they trans women aren’t women at all (which, I obviously, and wholeheartedly disagree with).

27 October 2024

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🦸The Comics Courier, A New Comics Criticism Journal by Tiffany Babb /// Kickstarter

Four days left to back this incredibly cool comics criticism journal. Need more of this stuff, and in print!

27 October 2024

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🎃 Trick or Treat or Trump /// The New Yorker

Scary, indeed.

27 October 2024

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💽 Subvert — The Collectively Owned Music Marketplace

Surprisingly, I don’t think this is the first Bandcamp alternative + collective, I’ve seen, but something about this one gives me hope it might actually have a shot.

27 October 2024

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🎭 It’s now the Washington Post humor writer’s job to endorse Harris for president /// WaPo

The case for Donald Trump is I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.”

The whole situation with these papers is idiotic. The cracks in capitalism, and more importantly, a major issue with one of the candidates, becomes incredibly clear if you have the mental capacity to read between the lines. Related: Karin Klein does a great job explaining why she resigned over the decision not to endorse at the LA Times for THR.

24 October 2024

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🗂️ The Index

Even better than News Minimalist, is The Index, 100% News. 0% clickbait,” curated by Joan Westenberg. This is basically exactly what I wanted this site to be, but actually executed well by someone who can write.

24 October 2024

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🐢 News Minimalist — All news ranked by significance

While I’m a pretty big skeptic of AI, I think this is a decent way to utilize it. It reads a ton of articles and gives it a significance score based on a variety of criteria.

17 October 2024

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🏀 One minute video summary of Lonzo Ball’s preseason debut /// Noh’s Notebook

I’m so freakin’ excited for Lonzo Ball getting back on the court in a Bulls uniform. I don’t have any lofty expectations, of course, just seeing him on the court again and hopefully make it through a season (even on a minutes restriction) would be a success. Like Noh mentioned, Ball’s feel for the game on both ends of the floor is excellent so I can’t wait to see that on display again. And honestly, just being on the floor after the long away is a victory, both mentally and physically.


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