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Pioneering wind-powered cargo ship sets sail.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 9:43 PM PST - 31 comments

Coffee City, Texas has 250 residents, and 50 police officers. More than half of the have been suspended, demoted or dishonorably discharged from their previous jobs.
posted by Artw at 8:11 PM PST - 42 comments

We know our bodies are paralyzed during REM sleep, and we know they twitch. We thought our muscles were somehow reacting to our dreams. But what if the twitch comes first? What if, in fact, the paralysis of REM sleep is a way to learn what it means to have a body--to test the boundaries and movements of the dreaming self, one muscle at a time? What Are Dreams For?, by Amanda Gefter for the New Yorker, explores this intriguing view and the research behind it.
posted by mittens at 4:27 PM PST - 35 comments

US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network [Grauniad; ungated]
posted by chavenet at 3:59 PM PST - 31 comments

“I vividly remember being violently hungover on a cold winter morning in New England, passionate kisses playing loudly in the background as someone’s grandma slowly searched her purse for coupons, fluorescent lights inescapable as I prayed for a swift end to my existence. Hell is real and I’ve lived it.” Passionate Kisses: The Soundtrack at CVS, by Mitch Therieau (The Paris Review). [more inside]
posted by MonkeyToes at 2:46 PM PST - 21 comments

"I propose it has consequences to democracy how available to the public are their laws, their policies, their judicial decisions, their holy texts, and even their academic papers about literature. The W3C spent decades insisting in utter folly that they were right in their conception of how ordered lists work, in the face of the whole world, and in doing so they frustrated the transparency on which democracy rests." [more inside]
posted by mhoye at 2:08 PM PST - 51 comments

It seems like nearly every week I am having arguments about how bike infrastructure is ableist. It’s not.
posted by aniola at 1:21 PM PST - 53 comments

Burger King must defend its Whopper size in court. Other fast food chains may follow [CBC] Includes a quote by "the Vanilla Vigilante" lawyer Spencer Sheehan.
posted by readinghippo at 10:41 AM PST - 80 comments

"He’d had enough of being at the animal shelter, so Scout the dog climbed over one tall fence and then another, crossed a busy highway in the darkness, entered the automatic doors of a nursing home down the road, walked unnoticed into the lobby, hopped onto a couch, curled into a ball and quietly went to sleep for the night."
CW - sympathetic mention of animal abuse at the start (non-graphic).
posted by urbanwhaleshark at 10:16 AM PST - 36 comments

From just a few weeks ago, Maria Bamford – 28th Annual OCD Conference Keynote [44m] has Maria Bamford, um, giving the keynote address to the 28th Annual OCD Conference. She speaks at length about her intrusive voices and OCD, which sounds horrible but she makes funny.
posted by hippybear at 8:50 AM PST - 13 comments

For men awaiting execution in Texas, illicit games of Dungeons & Dragons became a lifeline. CW: Discussion of violent crime and execution
posted by Etrigan at 7:08 AM PST - 11 comments

Apparently the "infectious" choreography for Jungle's "Back on 74" has been going viral on TikTok, with everyone from the international touring cast of West Side Story to Emily Ratajkowski getting in on the trend, but I learned about it from this LA Times interview with Shay Latukolan, the choreographer, who has previously lent his talents to videos for Rosalía's "SAOKO" and Stormzy's "Vossi Bop". [more inside]
posted by sigmagalator at 12:30 AM PST - 11 comments