I really love this painting by Scott Naismith–the yellow and the pinks juxtaposed with the blues and grays, and the texture of the paint. I think it’s gorgeous.

Primary Sky, Scott Naismith

Links this week are an unordered grab bag, I’m writing this as I am attempting to get everything together for Readercon so didn’t really have time to arrange them.

• Coworker With Two Computer Screens Not Fucking Around
• Cassandra Khaw: Vexed About Voice
• Whatever Happened to Freddie Prinze Jr.?
• Why the Humble Notebook Is Flourishing in the iPhone Era
• The Dark Side of Longform Journalism
• Think Gender Is Performance? You Have Judith Butler to Thank for That.
• This new site gets me: Maximum Middle Age; In Defense of Stuff: Marie Kondo Can Bite Me
• ‘Badass Librarians’ Foil al Qaeda, Save Ancient Manuscripts
• How Apple Made The Watch Work For Wheelchair Users This is really, really cool! I have an Apple Watch and it has really helped me to become a lot more active.
• I Lost $6,500 on My Last Book Launch: Details, final tally, lessons learned Oooof.
• Mississippi State Representative offers jaw-dropping response to diabetic child’s mother
• Ancient History: Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon’s The Black Gryphon
• This Magical J-Pop Cover of the ‘Ghostbusters’ Theme Puts Fall Out Boy’s to Shame
• Technical writers and “Subject-Matter Experts”
• Scientists Avoid Studying Women’s Bodies Because They Get Periods Girls are icky, y’all.
• Ridiculous Vines of hip-hop beats dropped behind fast-talking auctioneers
• Elie Wiesel Visits Disneyland
• Mom’s Invisible Hand
• Pounded by the pound: Brexit inspires its first erotic novel
• Dear 14-Year-Old Boy, You Are Not Entitled to Sex
• Venus Williams Makes a Call for Equality on the Wimbledon Courts
• A Family-Friendly Policy That’s Friendliest to Male Professors
• What media companies don’t want you to know about ad blockers
• My best employee quit on the spot because I wouldn’t let her go to her college graduation WOW.
• An Interview with the Guy Who Has Fred Durst’s Old Phone Number
• I have found a new way to watch TV, and it changes everything Or maybe you could be choosier about what you choose to watch? You don’t actually have to watch everything.
• This 10 Little Monkeys Parody Is The Best Thing You’ll Read, Maybe Ever
• Mapping the United Swears of America
• Machine Bias: There’s Software Used Across the Country to Predict Future Criminals. And it’s Biased Against Blacks. Gosh. Who could have guessed?
• After Attacks on Muslims, Many Ask: Where Is the Outpouring?
• How Samantha Bee Crashed the Late-Night Boys’ Club
• Navigating Negativity: How to Learn From and Love Your Critics

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