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411, Finally

How had I not read all these before? So amazing. I couldn’t stop. Wanted more. I’m a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I have some stories to tell : r/nosleep I’m a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I have some stories to tell (Part 2!) : r/nosleep […]

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(and . . . all these I been saving up, too) https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/30/fran-lebowitz-interview-love-novels-hiking-leaf-blowers-labubu Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness | Street Roots https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506650-asteroid-bennu-carries-all-the-ingredients-for-life-as-we-know-it https://www.sciencealert.com/curiosity-cracked-open-a-rock-on-mars-and-revealed-a-big-surprise Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability : ScienceAlert Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France This Weirdly Smart, Creeping

Blue Butterfly Land

(let these stack up whilst we were getting the new site ready, so . . . feels like a double triple dose . . . )

Hadn’t thought of it like this

I mean, in spite of wondering and wondering and not being able to figure out why all the intolerance we’re seeing, experiencing, trying to live through, are going to have to live down somehow:

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/17/wolf-tool-use-animals https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/business/last-penny-minted https://www.wired.com/story/a-disease-carrying-mosquito-has-landed-in-the-rocky-mountains-where-it-historically-couldnt-survive https://www.wired.com/story/can-a-hydroelectric-dam-really-make-the-days-longer Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists | Neanderthals | The Guardian https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2025/11/19/how-mark-wahlberg-became-the-king-of-streaming https://www.extremetech.com/science/scientists-successfully-extract-40000-year-old-rna-from-woolly-mammoth Superman edition found in mum’s attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12m ”Star Trek: The Next Generation” readies for last episode https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/graphics/see-how-egyptians-built-giza-pyramids They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Christianity

Time’s 100 Books, and much more:

Cool list for a vampire novel to be on: And, while I’m at it, here’s just a whole stack of BHH lists and reviews (which I hope to put on the BHH page soon, here): The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones – love the title and liked the book – Trending Books https://dj-screenwriter.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-buffalo-hunter-hunter-by-stephen.html

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20170314-the-town-that-built-a-mirror-to-catch-the-sun https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-10-15/banned-books-iowa-city-high-school-student-club Sealed for 5.5 Million Years, Movile Cave Hints at the Nature of Extraterrestrial Life Inside one American’s year-long attempt to date alt-right men https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/world/ireland-lion-dog-mouse.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation – High Country News For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to Ojibwe Nation https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-we-all-still-carrying-around-car-keys https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/features/thomas-pynchon-shadow-ticket-review-b2840031.html

Proof of Concept

Previously in the print Conjunctions, now on-line for the spooky season:

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https://matthewjacksonwrites.com/tag/tracing-the-shape The Story Behind the Photo of Anne Murray and the Hollywood Vampires Journalists exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules | AP News Leonardo DiCaprio on ‘One Battle After Another,’ Hollywood, and Playing an Atypical Hero in Conversation With Paul Thomas Anderson https://theconversation.com/and-then-there-were-none-australias-only-shrew-declared-extinct-265988 Woman arrested at Alabama ‘No Kings’ rally after refusing

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https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-settlement-books-copyright https://www.today.com/health/men-s-health/tooth-in-eye-surgery-restores-vision-rcna230395 ‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds | Wildlife | The Guardian https://slate.com/culture/2025/09/me-and-bobby-mcgee-janis-joplin-kris-kristofferson-lyrics.html Victor LaValle On Mental Illness, Monsters, Survival : NPR https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/health/hiv-treatment-shots-lenacapavir.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Aggressive squirrel attacks send San Francisco Bay Area residents to ER | AP News Poking around the excellent cauldron of new horror lit Scientists

Knife Stories

I got plenty. Proud to be in this debut issue:

NYT Book Club!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/books/review/buffalo-hunter-hunter-stephen-graham-jones-book-club.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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https://www.opb.org/article/2025/08/22/doerner-fir-tree-on-fire-saved https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/opinion/culture/ai-chatgpt-college-cheating-medieval.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action Wildlife photographer of the year 2025 – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian Neil Young quits Facebook and Instagram over Meta’s use of chatbots with children | CBC Music An incredible Denisovan skull is upending the story of human evolution | New Scientist Horror ‘It Girl’ Gretchen Felker Martin on DC

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