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Fruits and veges all day

First up: turns out each of the cicadas that makes up Brood X (making their first public appearance this year after a 17-year hiatus) has its own Lil Brood X. Cool! Gross!

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Like the rest of the world, I have given up on narratives and am now just about the vibes. Kyle Chaka at the New Yorker reports in a sort of thoughtful, Tik Tok-positive, “hey look how great the internet can be” kind of vibe

The True Size Of is bringing a post-Mercator-projection realness vibe. This kinda blew my mind a bit:

New Zealand, USA

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mmm.page is the most interesting web page builder I’ve seen in a while (caveat: I don’t actively search for these or anything). Via Laura Olin.

Seven pretty different jobs that are called designer. If your parents don’t know what you do, this will help! Or it will make things worse!

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Just a couple of (absolutely fried) dudes talkin’ health foods, you know?

(Shared in Why Is This Interesting?, a very good newsletter I recommend for you.)

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New reading strategy for you:
Last year I was reading The City We Became by NK Jemisin — also very good — during the early days of lockdown/working from home etc, and I hit on a fun reading strategy. Set in New York, the book is based on the idea that cities (and boroughs) possess consciousness, and they’re having having battles with beings on other planes of existence and stuff. It’s cool.

While I was reading, whenever the text mentioned a place, I’d pull up the Google Street View of the area mentioned, and just kind of... walk around. A few times I did this I completely forgot about the book and spent half an hour lost in my stroll around Queens or Brooklyn. I’ve never been to NYC, so this added a new dimension (a third?) to reading, which I recommend.

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Finally, today’s song, which occupies a spot close to my heart: