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These are interesting excerpts I've clipped from articles online. I also have a directory of links (not necessarily articles) that are worth returning to.

Archiving in an emergency nationalarchives.gov.uk
#archives#libraries#fascism#web 4 Feb 2025
This is not the apocalypse you were looking for wired.com
#covid-19#media#money#capitalism#race 8 Jan 2021
The prison inside prison texasobserver.org
#justice#race#usa 8 Jan 2021
Local power and the social order patrickwyman.substack.com
#money#usa#capitalism#class 30 Dec 2020
This candle doesn't smell of anything kottke.org
#covid-19 3 Dec 2020
Ellen More en.wikipedia.org
#history#scotland#race#africa 3 Dec 2020
The New York Public Library archives villagevoice.com
#books#history#nyc 19 Nov 2020
Why is there a cluster of tall buildings in the City of London? diamondgeezer.blogspot.com
#cities#london#architecture#history 12 Nov 2020
The daily paper in e-ink alexanderklopping.medium.com
#tech#hacks#media 12 Nov 2020
How I became a drag king in the Scottish folk scene popula.com
#music#gender#scotland 12 Nov 2020
The demographics of early UNIX users theody.net
#tech#code#unix 12 Nov 2020
Signs your story is classist mythcreants.com
#writing#literature#class#justice 12 Oct 2020
Grapefruits are weird atlasobscura.com
#food#nature#history 12 Oct 2020
Mask misinformation theatlantic.com
#covid-19#disinformation#web#internet 12 Oct 2020
Evicted in the pandemic buzzfeednews.com
#homelessness#eviction#housing#cities#justice#covid-19#usa#america 6 Oct 2020
Artemisia Gentileschi newyorker.com
#art#sex#gender 5 Oct 2020
The Internet Is For End Users rfc-editor.org
#internet#web#capitalism#indie#indieweb 5 Oct 2020
Chinese women's writing languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
#linguistics#language#justice#sex#gender#china#asia 3 Oct 2020
V. Krishna and the making of an English-Kannada dictionary zerodha.tech
#india#language#linguistics 29 Sept 2020
Judith Butler on JK Rowling and the trans culture war newstatesman.com
#justice#gender#trans#philosophy#theory 24 Sept 2020
The New York Accent literaryreview.co.uk
#language#linguistics#nyc 24 Sept 2020
A man's losses in the Oregon wildfires oregonlive.com
#climate#news 24 Sept 2020
The data scientist who didn't have time to stop all the coups buzzfeednews.com
#politics#social media#facebook 15 Sept 2020
Ann Syrdal, Who Helped Give Computers a Female Voice nytimes.com
#obituary#computers#tech#gender 24 Aug 2020
It's very hard to tear down a bridge gothamist.com
#cities#justice#race#nyc 21 Aug 2020
The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make nautil.us
#space#science 21 Aug 2020
Historical Cookbook Database atlasobscura.com
#history#food#cooking 18 Aug 2020
How the Pandemic Revealed Britain’s National Illness theatlantic.com
#covid-19#uk#politics 12 Aug 2020
Rich writers showing themselves up about COVID-19 prospect.org
#covid-19#class#media#capitalism 12 Aug 2020
How South Asian corner shop culture helped the UK survive Covid-19 gal-dem.com
11 Aug 2020
The Pandemic's Biggest Mystery Is Our Own Immune System theatlantic.com
9 Aug 2020
Why the Pandemic Is So Bad in America theatlantic.com
4 Aug 2020
Bread Farmers acoup.blog
#history#farming#countryside 4 Aug 2020
Noname Book Club nytimes.com
4 Aug 2020
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free currentaffairs.org
4 Aug 2020
Remote Works Sucks seanblanda.com
#covid-19#work 4 Aug 2020
Notebooks blog.yoshuawuyts.com
27 Jul 2020
British Slave Businesses theguardian.com
#race#justice#history#uk 15 Jul 2020
Demonise Spotify nplusonemag.com
#music#media 15 Jul 2020
Falling Fertility Rates bbc.co.uk
#tag 15 Jul 2020
Igbo Orthography and The Ndebe Script popula.com
#literature#language#linguistics#africa#design 15 Jul 2020
The London floor plan bloomberg.com
#uk#housing#cities#history#architecture 15 Jul 2020
Murakami's Translationese theparisreview.org
#books#literature#japan 15 Jul 2020
Pay discrimination at Pinterest article.url
#justice#race#tech 15 Jul 2020
You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument nytimes.com
#race#justice#politics#history#usa 15 Jul 2020
UK Domestic abuse victims rising under Coronavirus lockdown nytimes.com
#domesticabuse#women#uk#covid-19 15 Jul 2020
Michaela The Destroyer vulture.com
8 Jul 2020
Thandie Newton Profile vulture.com
8 Jul 2020
A Case for Turning Empty Malls Into Housing bloomberg.com
#cities#covid-19#housing 1 Jul 2020
In Praise of the Walking Coffee grubstreet.com
22 Jun 2020
The Bosses Are In Their Country Houses nytimes.com
22 Jun 2020
What If Working From Home Goes on forever? nytimes.com
15 Jun 2020
Minneapolis Will Dismantle Its Police Force nytimes.com
8 Jun 2020
What a World Without Cops Would Look Like motherjones.com
4 Jun 2020
Mouse-feeder welfare check cffrky.wordpress.com
#nature 31 May 2020
Is It Safe to Keep Employing a Cleaner? Wrong Question, Lady nytimes.com
30 May 2020
American Police Departments nytimes.com
29 May 2020
Reading in the dark cassie.codes
29 May 2020
How Phoebe Bridgers Made 'Punisher' rollingstone.com
28 May 2020
All the history I learned in my youth came from the American Girl doll books lithub.com
28 May 2020
Larry Kramer, Public Nuisance newyorker.com
28 May 2020
Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? lareviewofbooks.org
28 May 2020
Off-Road Land Trains thedrive.com
28 May 2020
No Apocalypse proteanmag.com
27 May 2020
On Skye, Nursing Home Deaths Expose a Covid-19 Scandal nytimes.com
27 May 2020
My Ten Games of the Decade domford.me
25 May 2020
The Coronavirus Quieted City Noise nytimes.com
24 May 2020
Coronavirus is not fuel for urbanist fantasies curbed.com
24 May 2020
How La Haine lit a fire under French society theguardian.com
24 May 2020
The COVID-19 Recession May Change The Way Americans Spend Forever buzzfeednews.com
24 May 2020
Alison Roman, Bon Appetit, and the Global Pantry Problem
#food 21 May 2020
Why the Cessna Is Such a Badass Plane
#aviation#design 21 May 2020
Inside King Arthur Flour
#covid-19#food 21 May 2020
Mother Earth Mother Board
#web#engineering 21 May 2020
Who Eats On TV
#food 21 May 2020
The American Room
#web 21 May 2020
Is Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True?
#metoo#news 18 May 2020
Espionage or Journalism? After the Snowden NSA Leaks
#snowden#news 18 May 2020
Streetspace for London
#cities#covid-19 18 May 2020
Inside Trump's coronavirus meltdown
#covid-19 18 May 2020
If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs
#indieweb 16 May 2020
Cities Are Meant to Stop Traffic
#cities 16 May 2020
Large areas of London to be made car-free as lockdown eased
#covid-19#cities 16 May 2020
How to Talk to Strangers During Quarantine
#covid-19 14 May 2020
When Manhattan Was Mannahatta: A Stroll Through the Centuries
#cities#history 14 May 2020
How Five Friends Saved a Tulip Farm From Covid-19
#covid-19 14 May 2020
Names, Legal Names, and Fractally Deferred Responsibility
#dev#feminism 14 May 2020
Robert Pattinson in Isolation
#magazine 13 May 2020
Second-guessing the modern web
#dev 11 May 2020
The real Lord of the Flies theguardian.com
#magazine#covid-19 10 May 2020
Profile of a killer: COVID-19 nature.com
#covid-19#science 8 May 2020
Negroni Season theawl.com
#love#funny 8 May 2020
PTSD: Pandemic Superpower vox.com
#covid-19#mental health 8 May 2020
That time Grimes thought she was Huckleberry Finn
#funny 6 May 2020
The Distrust of LBJ-Era Filmmaking theringer.com
#films#movies 6 May 2020
When Oil Derricks Ruled the L.A. Landscape kcet.org
#cities#history 6 May 2020
The Battle of Helm's Deep, Part I
#films 1 May 2020
Virtual rate cut forces Nintendo gamers into riskier assets ft.com
#games 28 Apr 2020
The Pandemic Shows What Cities Have Surrendered to Cars
#covid-19#cities 28 Apr 2020
Animal Crossing Isn't Escapist; It's Political theatlantic.com
#games 26 Apr 2020
How We Use Our Bodies to Navigate a Pandemic nytimes.com
#covid-19 18 Apr 2020
Inside the Public Hospitals Trying to Save New York nytimes.com
#covid-19#news 18 Apr 2020
Didn't I Write This Story Already? clarkesworldmagazine.com
#fiction#covid-19 16 Apr 2020
Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020, CEO Tells Staff bloomberg.com
#covid-19 16 Apr 2020
Here's How Those Hot Jigsaw Puzzles Are Made nytimes.com
#magazine 15 Apr 2020
There Is No Outside nplusonemag.com
#covid-19 15 Apr 2020
Haruki Murakami Challenged On Women lithub.com
#literature#book 7 Apr 2020
How a French Midwife Solved a Public Health Crisis daily.jstor.org
#literature#history 2 Apr 2020
God be with you till we meet again lettersofnote.com
#letter#covid-19 27 Mar 2020
Get Static meyerweb.com
#covid-19 23 Mar 2020
The Crisis Could Last 18 Months. Be Prepared theatlantic.com
#covid-19 22 Mar 2020
The Markup Launches themarkup.org
26 Feb 2020
Sailors On Wikipedia swiso.org
25 Feb 2020
Kanye, Out West nytimes.com
24 Feb 2020
The Runners vimeo.com
#running 24 Feb 2020
Places and Non-Places strongtowns.org
#urbanism 12 Feb 2020
Dawn or Dusk? eclecticlight.co
10 Feb 2020
Computer Files Are Going Extinct onezero.medium.com
#tech 10 Feb 2020
James Joyce’s grandson and the death of the stubborn literary executor theoutline.com
#literature#book 10 Feb 2020
What Joe Biden Can't Bring Himself To Say theatlantic.com
#politics 10 Feb 2020
Greta Gerwig and the Politics of Women's Genres lareviewofbooks.org
#literature#film 10 Feb 2020
There Is No Swing Voter politico.com
#politics 10 Feb 2020
Emma Willard's Maps of Time publicdomainreview.org
#history 7 Feb 2020
Stuck in Central China on Coronavirus Lockdown nybooks.com
#news#covid-19 4 Feb 2020
The Only Safe Election Is a Low-Tech Election nytimes.com
#news#politics#tech 4 Feb 2020
The mystery of the lost Roman herb bbc.com
#history#food 4 Feb 2020
Google Maps Hacks simonweckert.com
3 Feb 2020
How to Make Writing a Lot Easier forge.medium.com
28 Jan 2020
Digital Tools I Wish Existed jborichevskiy.com
#tech#web 28 Jan 2020
Harry and Meghan's Big Funding Source Is Private. Sort of nytimes.com
27 Jan 2020
Rise of the Blur nplusonemag.com
#politics#photography 27 Jan 2020
How Iran Covered Up the Downing of an Airliner nytimes.com
#news#politics 27 Jan 2020
This Is Not the Senate the Framers Imagined theatlantic.com
#history#politics 21 Jan 2020
What I Learned in Avalanche School nytimes.com
17 Jan 2020
Exploring the World of Paradise Lost publicdomainreview.org
#literature 15 Jan 2020
Why Scientists Fall for Precariously Balanced Rocks atlasobscura.com
#science 15 Jan 2020
A New Nuclear Era Is Coming theatlantic.com
13 Jan 2020
Contrecoup Injury en.m.wikipedia.org
11 Jan 2020
Il Formaggio e i Virmi en.m.wikipedia.org
11 Jan 2020
Reading Difficult Books bradford-delong.com
11 Jan 2020
Untranslatable Words lithub.com
8 Jan 2020
Work Ethic theatlantic.com
7 Jan 2020
Calm Technology calmtech.com
4 Jan 2020
Adam Driver On Marriage Story nytimes.com
#films#movies#love 1 Jan 2020
What We Don't Know About Sylvia Plath lithub.com
29 Dec 2019
The Great Regression tastecooking.com
29 Dec 2019
Finland's Media Literacy edition.cnn.com
18 Dec 2019
Screen Protectors theverge.com
18 Dec 2019
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