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July 7, 2017

Links Roundup: 07/07/17

"Towards the door we never opened" by Joshua Flint

“Towards the door we never opened” by Joshua Flint

I have to buy some bamboo stakes this weekend. The liatris spicata has gotten so leggy that it’s falling over onto other plants and I’m findig that to be suboptimal. I am not sure why it’s gotten so leggy, all I can think is that it’s possibly not getting enough sun even though it gets at least six hours a day, which should meet its sunlight requirements. Anyhow, stakes and some twine to get them off the echinacea and salvia. And next year, I’ll use tomato cages. I am generally pretty happy with the garden this year–for the first year, we’re getting a fair bit of color and we’re certainly attracting lots of pollinators, which was the goal.  Next year, I think I’m going to fill in some of the bare spaces with more coreopsis and introduce some dianthus and maybe some creeping phlox and perennial geraniums.

  • The Rise of the Thought Leader. There are few phrases which make me want to spit more than “thought leader.”
  • Why Don’t We Work Less? Because capitalism. Also bullshit jobs (that’s going to take you to a eye-searing splash page, but there’s a link on the page which will reveal the article in question; this also marks the third appearance of this link).
  • All the “wellness” products Americans love to buy are sold on both Infowars and Goop It’s like an ouroboros of gullibility. Or something.
  • The inimitable Kelly Robson: “My futures include disability.”
  • I found this column from Janet Mock really interesting: “Being Pretty Is a Privilege That Nobody Wants to Acknowledge”
  • Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub This is really, really, really awful.
  • ‘I was sold seven times’: Yazidi women welcomed back into the faith
  • Incredible essay from Dimas Ilaw: After a Revolution
  • So apparently Hobby Lobby has been buying illegal antiquities? The purchase of which put cash into the pockets of ISIS? All for their Bible museum.

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  1. Selki says

    July 11, 2017 at 9:24 pm

    Wow, “After A Revolution”.

    And horrible to think Crassus praises their murderous leader.

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