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(and . . . all these I been saving up, too) https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/30/fran-lebowitz-interview-love-novels-hiking-leaf-blowers-labubu Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness | Street Roots https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506650-asteroid-bennu-carries-all-the-ingredients-for-life-as-we-know-it https://www.sciencealert.com/curiosity-cracked-open-a-rock-on-mars-and-revealed-a-big-surprise Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability : ScienceAlert Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France This Weirdly Smart, Creeping […]

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/17/wolf-tool-use-animals https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/business/last-penny-minted https://www.wired.com/story/a-disease-carrying-mosquito-has-landed-in-the-rocky-mountains-where-it-historically-couldnt-survive https://www.wired.com/story/can-a-hydroelectric-dam-really-make-the-days-longer Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists | Neanderthals | The Guardian https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2025/11/19/how-mark-wahlberg-became-the-king-of-streaming https://www.extremetech.com/science/scientists-successfully-extract-40000-year-old-rna-from-woolly-mammoth Superman edition found in mum’s attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12m ”Star Trek: The Next Generation” readies for last episode https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/graphics/see-how-egyptians-built-giza-pyramids They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Christianity

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https://matthewjacksonwrites.com/tag/tracing-the-shape The Story Behind the Photo of Anne Murray and the Hollywood Vampires Journalists exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules | AP News Leonardo DiCaprio on ‘One Battle After Another,’ Hollywood, and Playing an Atypical Hero in Conversation With Paul Thomas Anderson https://theconversation.com/and-then-there-were-none-australias-only-shrew-declared-extinct-265988 Woman arrested at Alabama ‘No Kings’ rally after refusing

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https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-settlement-books-copyright https://www.today.com/health/men-s-health/tooth-in-eye-surgery-restores-vision-rcna230395 ‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds | Wildlife | The Guardian https://slate.com/culture/2025/09/me-and-bobby-mcgee-janis-joplin-kris-kristofferson-lyrics.html Victor LaValle On Mental Illness, Monsters, Survival : NPR https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/health/hiv-treatment-shots-lenacapavir.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Aggressive squirrel attacks send San Francisco Bay Area residents to ER | AP News Poking around the excellent cauldron of new horror lit Scientists

Cinemuck lives!

Some of y’all may remember way, WAY back when, when I was thinking I was meant to write movie reviews. Welp . . . that never happened. But, there’s artifacts! Thanks to Clockpunk Studios, who dug these all up from a database and got them displaying. Back when this site was Cinemuck.com, I think I

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https://www.opb.org/article/2025/08/22/doerner-fir-tree-on-fire-saved https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/opinion/culture/ai-chatgpt-college-cheating-medieval.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action Wildlife photographer of the year 2025 – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian Neil Young quits Facebook and Instagram over Meta’s use of chatbots with children | CBC Music An incredible Denisovan skull is upending the story of human evolution | New Scientist Horror ‘It Girl’ Gretchen Felker Martin on DC

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All right, got all carried away with this one. Well: forgot to post, once they’d built up. And they just kept building . . . https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-dna-reveals-mysterious-new-group-of-humans-in-colombia-with-no-genetic-ties-to-people-today-180986819 Supreme Court just saved kids from reading about Trump | Opinion Infamous During The Civil War, This Seriously Old-School Survival Food Has Been Around Longer Than You Think America’s

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These are coming fast than usual, but that’s because I’ve been (thanks to the NBA finals) cleaning up my tabs, reading all the stuff I told myself I was saving to read someday. Welp: “someday” finally came . . . The Digital Dilemma: Why Writers Are Abandoning Modern Word Processing Software – Typebar Magazine Sex

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Second time round: reviving a rotary engine motorcycle | Bike EXIF Sydney Sweeney is selling soap infused with her ‘actual’ bathwater | CNN https://www.vulture.com/article/king-of-the-hill-reboot-revival-preview-interview-bobby-release-date.html Rare black iceberg spotted off Labrador coast could be 100,000 years old, prof says | CBC News https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/broken-watch The Unexpected Delights of Being a Jeopardy Clue ‹ CrimeReads Brokenhead Ojibway Nation

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Ryan Coogler says inspiration for the film felt ‘like a bolt of lightning’ : NPR Two Individuals Achieve First-Ever Communication Through Lucid Dreams While Sleeping At Separate Locations https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woodpecker-damages-vehicles-massachusetts-town-rcna202755 Don’t fear the fungi | Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine | University of Colorado Boulder EVERYONE I HAVE EVER KISSED THINKS ABOUT ME ALL OF THE

Best of April 2025

Man, this is LATE. And? probably not exactly starting 5/1, maybe not ending exactly at the end of the month either. “March” posted before I had everything in the staging area ready, and . . . things are all confusing. But, let’s see what I can get together, nearly three weeks late:

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I think I maybe stopped at “10” for once, like I always mean to? https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/game-of-thrones-dire-wolves-return-extinction-1236181901 Rowling Runs Her Mouth About Queer People, Again — Assigned https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/12/air-pollution-paris-health-cars https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/science/octopus-riding-shark-new-zealand.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=g&pvid=239D375E-70AD-4ADF-BEDF-06E028F28A2A ‘The Breakfast Club’ Stars Reunite for First Time in 40 Years Grave Expectations: FFC Interviews David Cronenberg – FILM FREAK CENTRAL https://wip.gatspress.com/issue/the-prehistoric-psychopath ‘We belong everywhere’: Lily Gladstone in

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https://www.startribune.com/law-enforcers-are-getting-around-the-transparency-of-body-worn-cameras/601233065 Psychedelic DMT Controls Near-Death Experiences, Scientists Say https://phys.org/news/2025-03-years-efforts-yellowstone-bison-population.amp https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/books/review/we-tell-ourselves-stories-alissa-wilkinson.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=g&pvid=20F1D650-3372-42BD-A82D-36FA9D9F43AE French MEP asks US to return the Statue of Liberty Heartthrob, Hero, Closet Intellectual: The Many Faces of Bruce Willis | Vanity Fair https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/05/the-buffalo-killers/482349 Snow White (2025) – FILM FREAK CENTRAL ‘King Kong’: The Unbelievable True Story of Hollywood’s Favorite Giant Ape Why Simon &

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