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Survey shows how companies are adapting their property portfolios to changed working patterns
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"Pompei never ceases to dazzle," Italian culture minister says. [Italian] Looking back 2000 years through discoveries such as these, it's possible to see traces of a life we might recognize today. BBC link [English] [more inside]
posted by fruitslinger at 2:36 PM PST - 27 comments

A digital archive of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives This collection is compiled and curated by Valery Marier. It is a labour of love ran in her free time.
posted by chavenet at 12:17 PM PST - 13 comments

Supreme Court rejects independent state legislature theory (NYT, WaPo, CNN, Vanity Fair) [more inside]
posted by box at 8:52 AM PST - 75 comments

Only Up! [Game Trailer] If you’re a gamer in any capacity, your cup likely runneth over with great games to play right now. There are hits like Diablo 4, Final Fantasy 16, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, to name a few. But many people, from big influencers to humble players, are choosing to spend their time on an unlikely candidate: Only Up! Only Up! is similar to Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy, a surreal platformer that put the player in the role of a shirtless man crouched in a cauldron, using his mighty sledgehammer to climb a magnificent and surreal peak. Only Up!, which was developed by SC-KR games, is a 3D platformer with a similar premise. The player has to climb past giant disembodied feet, Shiba Inu balloons, and massive networks of oil tankers and scaffolding. The game took off in China and was eventually streamed by Ludwig Ahgren, which led to it exploding in popularity on Twitch and TikTok. [via: Polygon]
posted by Fizz at 8:32 AM PST - 43 comments

Queerness makes room within it for these relationships, or rather: queerness spirals outward. [more inside]
posted by Kitteh at 8:00 AM PST - 20 comments

whats your family secret? America's Family Secret More than 100 U.S. leaders – lawmakers, presidents, governors and justices – have slaveholding ancestors, a Reuters examination found. Few are willing to talk about their ties to America's “original sin”
posted by robbyrobs at 7:03 AM PST - 52 comments

After two (and a fraction) terms of the inane, waffling, conservative bootlicking John Tory (who resigned after it was discovered he was schtupping a staffer), preceeded by a term of the odious and idiotic Rob Ford resulting in over 13 years of ponderously ineffective governance, Toronto has finally elected a progressive, visionary mayor: Olivia Chow -- immigrant, Chinese, a master of grass-roots organizing, and the widow of much lamented Jack Layton. I'mma editorialize further: we're giddy up here. [more inside]
posted by seanmpuckett at 7:00 AM PST - 58 comments

"Together, they might be the two worst college golfers in America, but that’s only if you can’t look beyond the score." With the viability of their D-III college golf team and their conference's automatic qualifying bid to nationals on the line, two women--neither who ever played a full round of golf before--chose to help. They shot a combined 434 in a single round, and that was only the start of their journey.
posted by mixedmetaphors at 6:30 AM PST - 34 comments

Happy Pride Month! The 1984 documentary Before Stonewall [1h26m] came out 15 years after the Stonewall Rebellion, and documents the social/cultural life of queer life in the US before the landmark event in 1969. The struggle for equality is shown across the decades of the 20th Century as history evolves. The documentary received a modern restoration in 2019 and the same year was named to the Library Of Congress National Film Registry. Wikipedia [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 5:54 AM PST - 2 comments

Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) is an under-diagnosed health condition that can lead to odd symptoms. "Mast cells are a part of your immune system that are present in connective tissue (which is why the disorder is very often comorbid with Ehlers-Danlos...). They store histamine and heparin, and release them when encountering certain environmental conditions and allergens... MCAS happens when your mast cells are very bad at identifying environmental conditions and allergens they should freak out at, and instead they freak out ('degranulate') at literally [effing] everything..." Writer synecdochic discusses do-it-yourself ways to diagnose and treat MCAS, and recommends Mast Attack for more details.
posted by brainwane at 4:50 AM PST - 4 comments