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For this, too:
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https://www.awphooey.com/wkrp?fbclid=IwAR0iPkYtf-_KIs4ScZbwHai2C9I2_dEV_YyjSICHx3665vphHzYkNFZU0zA Ancient Indigenous lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy goes back 18,000 years to last ice age, DNA reveals | Live Science https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68739586 https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2024/03/28/guy-gun-and-dangerous-blonde-and-why-we-them The Life and Death of Hollywood, by Daniel Bessner South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem Is Now Banished From 10 Percent of Her Own State For the first time in one billion years, two
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Literacy crisis in college students: Essay from a professor on students who don’t read. Adrian Tchaikovsky, science fiction and fantasy author https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/thursday-february-22nd-scam-reaper https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/23/americas/worlds-biggest-snake-amazon-intl-scli-scn/index.html https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162008/stunt-double Football Players Put Nuts in Allergic Teammate’s Locker Watch: Man spots wolverine running through field Meet the newest ‘walking’ fish—a bright red creature of the deep Colorado could bring back wolverines
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(trying to do these more regularly, so they don’t get so loooong) A Brief Visual History of On-Screen Text Messages in Movies and TV https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/mexican-drug-cartel-targets-six-native-american-reservations-in-montana-203999301848 (hard to call this “best,” yeah. but: good to read/know) Report: 84% Of Super Bowl Ads Specifically Intended To Distract From Human Rights Violation https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/15/world/vittrup-man-bog-body-denmark-scn?cid=ios_app https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/
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Best of 2018
wow, THIS in Drafts as well. looks like it’s what I meant to by my Best of 2018, but then forgot I’d started it, so did it all over. Novel: The Outsider NF: Atlas of a Lost World, Close Encounters with Humankind, The Neanderthals Rediscovered Non-Horror Movie: The Rider Slasher: The Strangers: Prey at Night,
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Excerpts from AI-Written Rom-Coms That Prove Human Writers Are Obsolete – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.science.org/content/article/modern-humans-and-neanderthals-may-have-overlapped-shared-culture-western-europe https://rapozacomics.carbonmade.com/projects/5313679 https://willchristopherbaer.substack.com/p/move-37 300,000-year-old snapshot: Oldest human footprints from Germany found Network of ancient Maya cities reveals well-organized civilization – The Washington Post Image Comics ditches Diamond for Lunar to get its comics into comic shops after a 25+ year relationship
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Best of my February 2023
(was on tour for a couple weeks this short-short month, so was imbibing media at a much slower rate . . . )
Five horror movies
This probably won’t embed—it’s Instagram—but hopefully it’ll link, anyway. And, I seem to have screen capped this during the one second in the recording I’m holding Reaper up:
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