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Stacked em too high last time. So, pulling the trigger early, this Saturday: Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ | Harvard University | The Guardian We can’t keep making videogame stories for players who aren’t paying attention to […]

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These are coming fast than usual, but that’s because I’ve been (thanks to the NBA finals) cleaning up my tabs, reading all the stuff I told myself I was saving to read someday. Welp: “someday” finally came . . . The Digital Dilemma: Why Writers Are Abandoning Modern Word Processing Software – Typebar Magazine Sex

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https://www.awphooey.com/wkrp?fbclid=IwAR0iPkYtf-_KIs4ScZbwHai2C9I2_dEV_YyjSICHx3665vphHzYkNFZU0zA Ancient Indigenous lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy goes back 18,000 years to last ice age, DNA reveals | Live Science https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68739586 https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2024/03/28/guy-gun-and-dangerous-blonde-and-why-we-them The Life and Death of Hollywood, by Daniel Bessner South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem Is Now Banished From 10 Percent of Her Own State For the first time in one billion years, two

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https://aftershockcomics.com/2020/05/how-a-former-daily-show-writer-crafted-a-slasher-comic/ https://www.archaeology.org/issues/60-1301/trenches/314-chajul-guatemala-dance-conquest https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/maus Leatherface is Canceled in New TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Trailer – Fangoria East And West Coast Butter Is Different, And We’ve All Been Living A Lie | HuffPost Life https://www.boredpanda.com/sarcastic-quotes/ ‘Near Dark’ Is A Uniquely American Masterpiece Of An Unheralded Cinematic Subgenre: The Vampire Neo-Western | Decider Unknown space object beams out radio

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Just gonna start stashing all my favorite ones here:

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https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/22/neanderthal-mans-recreated-face-takes-internet- The Many Saints Of Newark Ending Explained: Who Made Tony Soprano? https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1502-Spring-2015/Shot-to-Remember-The-Sopranos.aspx https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joro-spiders-invasive-georgia_n_615871e0e4b0487c855f6263 https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/hiker-peak-of-desperation/ https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/octopus-farming-is-immoral-given-everything-we-know-about-this-highly-intelligent-and-solitary-animal-philip-lymbery-3412887 Minnetonka CEO apologizes for appropriating Native American culture : NPR https://variety.com/2021/film/columns/yes-halloween-knockoff-the-texas-chain-saw-massacre-1235090664/ 3,500-Year-Old Babylonian Tablet May Contain Earliest Known Depiction of a Ghost | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/werewolf-movies-1981-howling-american-london-wolfen-full-moon-high-anniversary S. Qiouyi Lu and Silvia Moreno-Garcia Talk Neo-Pronouns and Genre-Hopping

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50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know – Uncanny Magazine Carpenter, Jennifer (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) The unique problems facing Native American youths in the criminal justice system. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/05/archaeologists-uncover-oldest-human-burial-in-africa https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct https://www.npr.org/2021/05/09/995214254/an-extraordinary-discovery-archeologists-find-neanderthal-remains-in-cave-near-r http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring21/page39.html  Humans Are the Scariest Predator – The Atlantic https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/when-will-klay-thompson-return-injury-we-analyze-impact-golden-state-warriors-star-s-absence-team https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/26/frightening-history-halloween-haunted-houses/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-studies-and-the-possibility-of-alien-origin/ https://www.alanbaxteronline.com/it-takes-a-lot-of-manure-to-grow-a-few-good-roses/ https://time.com/6047779/colson-whitehead-margaret-atwood/ https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/george-saunderss-humor https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-03-02/texas-horned-lizard-animal-conservation-oklahoma https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/fossil-find-california-ebmud-mastodon-bones-16192070.php https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2019/07/26/the-story-behind-that-photo-of-the-pinto-in-front-of-the-mt-st-helens-eruption https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/20/william-shatner-interview-love-loss-and-leonard-nimoy

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Thought maybe six or seven weirdos like me would get a chuckle from this. Turns out, there’s a whole lot of weirdos out there—I’m less alone than I thought: And, didn’t think to cite the article, but John Vaillant searched it up — I really should have linked it, as this isn’t my joke, but

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The Only Good Indians, in Jacksonville: Night of the Mannequins, at Scifi and Scary: “Attack of the 50 Foot Indian,” at Protean Depravity: And, finally, my old story “Father, Son, Holy Rabbit,” at Thresholds:

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