Things are darker and sadder here in Minneapolis this week and because my heart is pretty heavy (but we are safe), this will be one of those whirlwind type linkities.

• Toad Words.
• Discworld meets Harry Potter.
• God playing celestial DnD, Good Omens style.
• A simple way to improve the first line of any story.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• A quote from Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut on the American poor.
• “You don’t always know who is high risk”. THIS. SO MUCH THIS.
• The first paragraph is GLORIOUS.
• BOOM.
• “The risks – know them – avoid them”.
• “How to safely travel on mass transit during coronavirus”.
• You can hardly tell this 102 years old. Or that this is 355 years old.
• This grocery store knows what’s up.
• …well, I guess!
• “The toxic intersection of racism and public space”.
• On gargoyles.
• Some cursed Tuatara facts.
• Some differences between birds with the same name on different continents.
• There’s something weirdly fascinating about these dresses made from butterfly-patterned fabrics.
• “Our cat is obsessed with blanket forts…” Another cat being cute and amusing.
• Minneapolis Sculpture Garden from above.
• Penguins in the forest.
• Some Australia humour.
• “…hand-knitted human-activated coral blanket”.
• NIGHTMARE GHOUL TREE.
• “Intensely chocolate” Black Forest cake.
• Spring linkity from bookwyrm-knits.
• COVID-19 (and more) linkity from kmkat. And more. Knitting linkity. Silly linkity.

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“Sun warm. Basket comfortable. Life good.” -Mayhem

Mayhem turned 14 on Wednesday! 😮

Bookity

• New releases: AAR (romance) and Gizmodo (sff)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And some cover snark, too.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict. And the Buy Stamps edition.
• Linkity for Poetry Month (the day after Poetry Month ended, d’oh) from bookwyrmknits.
• Mary Oliver reciting “Wild Geese”.
• Preservation Week with Hennepin County Library.
• The Good Omens title sequence won three golds in the 2020 International Indigo Awards. I never skip the title sequence when I watch the show!
• Discworld is coming to tv.
• “Asexuality and the Baggins bachelors”.

Do, Make, Learn, Think

• Things to do if you’re bored.
• On owning (or rather, not owning) your ebooks and music.
• Keep busy helping scientists with research projects.
• Other video conferencing apps besides Zoom have privacy issues. And also, Google Meet will be free soon.
• Download and build free papercraft models of classic computers.
• “Only in 2020 could UFOs be confirmed and we are all unfazed”.
• Don’t jump.
• Mola mola.

Life in These Pandemic Times

• You can preorder Disney face masks.
• Me, masked.
• “Don’t let cognitive biases cause you to engage in risky public health behavior”.
• If you don’t read anything else from my post today, read the article to which he links.
• Good to remember. As is this.
• “Podcasts and webinars by subject matter experts.”
• “What we can learn from coziness culture about the art of staying home”.
• “A message of hope from Neil Gaiman”.
• “How coronavirus has changed Americans’ daily lives”.
• Why time has no meaning and we’re all so very tired.
• We’re trying.
• A positive spin on things.
• A sweet story of Tom Hanks, a kid named Corona, and a Smith Corona typewriter.
• One Brooklyn doctor’s coping method.
• Fanfiction is keeping many people sane right now. (via Book Riot) The Organization for Transformational Works (OTW), which runs AO3, just completed their April fund drive and exceeded their $130k goal by around $328k in five days.
• Linkity from kmkat. And more. And more!

Cookity

• 75+ dinner ideas for when you don’t want to cook.
• 17 “extra easy” dessert recipes.
• Strawberry rhubarb pie.

Gluten Free

• Brazilian cheese bread.
• Cream biscuits.

Artsy Crafty

• Knit a Doctor Who “Weeping Angel” scarf.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• The cutest little bees you’ve ever seen.
• Centaur minifigs!
• Aspects of Barbie.

Cool or Wha…?

• Official Untitled Goose Game socks.

Wha…?

• Gerenuk.
• Online eye exams.
• The Flying Ford Pinto.

LOL

• NASA at home.
• “What’s something you can say during sex but also when you manage a brand Twitter account?” (NSFW)
• “A more accurate calendar for 2020 so far”.
• “Everyone’s an epidemiologist”. Hover cursor/long-press for caption.
• Flashback life hacks.
• “An advertisement for cats”.

Reading Update

• Rereading Good Omens fanfic. Reading too much news.

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*zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem