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"Something happened earlier this year where [Bryan] got on a run making checkbox animations and just couldn’t stop." Frontend developer Bryan Braun writes 650 words with lots of pictures and animations and links.
posted by cgc373 at 4:02 PM PST - 11 comments

"A perfect egg is a slash of light on a gray day." "The War of Light and Shadow, in Five Dishes" by Siobhan Carroll is a bittersweet short fantasy story about cooking, grief, beauty in the midst of war, and teaching the next generation. (Previously.) "On the Feeding Habits of Humans: A Firsthand Account" by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali and Rachael K. Jones is a short and bittersweet, but mostly hopeful, science fiction story about foodways: Feeder TikTik approaches the [human] Feeder with their haustellums extended and extrudes the greeting-scent. Also available as a one-hour audio recording. [more inside]
posted by brainwane at 1:27 PM PST - 7 comments

Synodus Horrenda is a podcast about death, dying, and the dead. [CW] [more inside]
posted by TinyChicken at 12:07 PM PST - 9 comments

Aleksandra Goryachkina is the first woman to qualify and play for the Russian Chess Championship and she's playing well. She won her first game, drew her second and was briefly in first place. There is a common misconception that chess is separated by gender like other sports. However while there are events that are only open to women, there are no events that are only open to men. National Championships in Russia and the United States are restricted to a handful of top players who qualify based on their Elo Rating or performance in qualifying events.
posted by interogative mood at 11:42 AM PST - 12 comments

Failing companies are ditching vessels deemed too expensive to repair or too difficult to sell, stranding their former crews as cargo-ship castaways trapped in ports or offshore without their back pay, food, or a way home. (SLWSJ-amp)
posted by DirtyOldTown at 9:10 AM PST - 55 comments

Prisoners die from lack of precautions, Democratic administrations almost entirely ignore the issue. "I kept calling the jail to no avail. Then on March 29, when Nick started exhibiting symptoms, I also started calling Cermak, the hospital on the jail compound. I left voicemail after voicemail with my contact information. I explained how people were crammed in close quarters, how my husband was going hungry because the only food available was served by symptomatic people who were coughing on the trays, and how there was no medical treatment on his tier. " [more inside]
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 6:39 AM PST - 23 comments

KinoCult is the new website from Kino-Lorber -- offering free films to stream, including works from Mario Bava, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, and more. Horror, occult, exploitation, shorts, sci-fi, documentaries.... Who'll be the first to put How to Take a Bath on FanFare?
posted by dobbs at 6:23 AM PST - 21 comments