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Looking to inject some controversy into your 4th of July BBQ? Introducing the grilling innovation that pretty much no one asked for... The round dog.
posted by merriment at 5:21 PM PST - 137 comments

A lovely New York Times Magazine interview with LeVar Burton, now a contender to be the next full-time host of "Jeopardy": "There are times when I experience my life as having been for a specific purpose. I look at Kunta. I look at Geordi. I’ve been able to express humanity as enslaved in the past and as free in the future and do it as a completely liberated Black man. It’s kind of mind-blowing."
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 4:27 PM PST - 32 comments

"According to Navajo tradition, you’re not supposed to give a name to anything that is not good for the reservation . . . . The virus was like a monster. Traditionally, the more you talk about something like that, the more you’re inviting it into your home." Radio stations KTNN and KYAT working to serve as important information sources in pandemic times.
posted by JanetLand at 9:44 AM PST - 18 comments

"They’re beautiful, these dresses. But they’re also an echo of an echo of a song so familiar we’ve ceased to hear its sadness." Anne Helen Petersen does a deep dive into Laura Ashley, Ashley Dawn, and post-pandemic mommy-and-me fashion.
posted by orange swan at 9:09 AM PST - 119 comments

Will the real IRC please stand up? Freenode’s forest fire leaves ashes – and fresh growth. There then followed gag orders, staff changes and overnight coups, culminating in mass resignations of the volunteers, a forced take-over of control of 700-odd channels by the new management, and the wholesale migration of the user base to a new system, Libera Chat, run by the old staff. [more inside]
posted by Alex404 at 7:12 AM PST - 61 comments

The BBC spoke to five members of the LGBT community from different countries about what Pride means to them where they are.
posted by hippybear at 5:27 AM PST - 1 comments