So you get disorganized speed linkity! Well, I did make ONE section. You’ll see…

• New romance releases (Smart Bitches).
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Instead of The Giving Tree, how about The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries?
• Patrick Stewart continues to read sonnets to us in these troubled times.
• “The Susan B Anthony Museum rejected [45’s] unwanted pardon”.
• “Watch a reporter finally ask [45] if he ever regrets all the lying”.
• Ha!
• “Barack Obama’s DNC speech reminds us what a real president looks like”. And here’s Michelle Obama’s speech.
• :facepalm:
• Where is the lie?
• Best surrealist!
• I did not know there were flying lemurs.
• Cursed giraffe fact.
• Brace yourselves – two-player mode is coming to Untitled Goose Game.
• “Me cruising through 2020 be like”.
• 2020 be like.
• Linkity from kmkat. Knitting linkity from kmkat.
• Zucchini butter.
• Pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting.
• Edible cookie dough (3 flavors).
• bungywungy goes a little nuts at Target.
• Longest elevator ride EVER.
• The intersection of Star Wars and the USPS.
• So true.
• COVID risk comfort zone. Hover cursor/long-press for caption.
• Ha!
• Cutest Darth Vader ever.

Wha…?

• Cargo shorts hat.
• Robotic tongue.

“Don’t make me come over there and smack you!” -Chaos

Bookity

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Book Riot.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube.”
• “Tingle just cranked out 50k words for a spite story for JKR and I am LIVING for it!”
• Some Terry Pratchett quotes on policing from Discworld.
• 2015 comics anthology called APB: Artists against Police Brutality.
• The Hate U Give may be available to watch for free on your favorite streaming service.
• Read the next book (a collection of essays) for the One Book, One Minnesota bookclub – A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• On imagination.
• Lake Baikal is kind of terrifying. Also, it apparently contains 22-23% of the world’s fresh surface water.
• Hannah Gadsby with a message for anti-vaxxers.
• Street art in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
• Sir Patrick Stewart on Sesame Street.
• “How to help your memory when stress is taking its toll”.
• “Learn the history of Juneteenth in two minutes”.
• “Why Juneteenth should be a national holiday”.
• Good quote about bigotry.
• A note to white allies.
• Zoom is adding end-to-end encryption to its free service.
• How to block political ads on Facebook and Instagram.

Life in These Pandemic Times

• That 2020 mood. Oh, yes.
• Humor?
• Disaster fatigue… yeah.
• That’s one way to keep your glasses from fogging over when wearing a mask…
• “Study: 100% face mask use could crush second, third COVID-19 wave”.
• Track your state’s R naught.
• “Enroll in a free online course on contact tracing through Johns Hopkins”.
• “Connie Willis’ Doomsday Book: Classic SF about pandemics explores faith in both science and spirituality”.
• Linkity from kmkat. And more.

Cookity

• Sausage-stuffed spaghetti squash.
• Broccoli and cheese spaghetti squash casserole.
• Spaghetti squash chicken parmesan skillet dinner. Huh, must be spaghetti squash week at The Kitchn… but is spaghetti squash even in season?!

Gluten Free

• Brownie ice cream sandwiches.
• Pretzel rolls.

Artsy Crafty

• Getting started with gel plate printing.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• A black cat demonstrates how to assemble a shipping box.
• Yes, please.
• A “favorite whimsical trait of humanity’s”.

Cool or Wha…?

• Edible notebooks and coffee-flavored pens.

Wha…?

• Well, it’s good to know Facebook has a limit – I was starting to wonder. My ???? is that the ads even exist. UGH.
• “The Segway’s inventor wants to mass-produce human organs”.

LOL

• “King Arthur was supposed to rise when the world’s need was greatest…”

Reading Update
Mostly doomsurfing, but I’ve read some fanfic – and even some new fanfic (vs rereading, which I have been doing A LOT).

“If I don’t make eye contact, Mom won’t remove me from this kitty perch she claims is a ‘paper trimmer’!” -Mayhem, incorrectly

A few lighter things at the beginning and end, but the middle is fierce.

• Linkity from Smart Bitches. Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• JK Rowling FAIL. Thank you, Dan Rad, for being a Very Good Human.
• “David Tennant as Thermos flasks”.
• “Chronicles of Narnia if Lucy had a sword”.
• Historically themed tracksuits.
• Neural network paint colors.
• “Ongoing community aid efforts in the Twin Cities”. A digital album you can buy, “with proceeds going to benefit black-owned businesses and Native youth in Minneapolis”.
• “Why this started in Minneapolis”.
• “The cities taking up calls to defund the police”.
• “A timeline of US police protests”.
• Protest murals in Minneapolis.
• “The voices behind the clash at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette“.
• Spoken-word poem about white privilege. (via Book Riot)
• Quick little zine summarizing what white fragility is.
• Resource post for white people interested in becoming antiracist.
• Free syllabus “that addresses institutionalized racism in the US”.
• “Just a small reminder. Black art does not exist solely to educate non-Black people. Always be expanding your horizons.”
• Protest art on tRUMP’s White House wall.
• Beware of activism burnout.
• “Looting is the ultimate strike against a system that deems mass-produced objects to be far more precious than life itself.”
• “The FBI has quietly investigated white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement”. Help for you to evaluate the Intercept as a source.
• BOOM. And BOOM.
• About Bruce Springsteen’s song “American Skin”. Listen to the song.
• The movie THE HATE U GIVE is streaming free most places.
• Linkity from Bookwyrm Knits.
• Linkity from kmkat. And more. And more. And more.
• Make a mask that filters more than an N95. (via alexwhitehall)
• And that was just January…
• I mean, really.

Cats on my purple cat sheets, right underneath the ceiling fan!

It’s going to be a rollicking ride here, folks. Hold on to yer hats. Which you’re probably already doing, because this has been A Week. Heavier stuff down toward the end.

• New releases: Tor.com (YA SFF, fantasy, SF) (plus info about Tor’s virtual books convention), Smart Bitches (romance), AAR (romance)
• Good Omens won a Nebula! 90+ people cosplaying Good Omens.
• Expounding on a “throwaway line” from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Expounding on the concept of the Goblet of Fire.
• On owning a mini-sphinx.
• Pockets and Star Trek.
• That would be a pretty cool film.
• “10 DIY bookstand ideas”.
• “Criterion Channel lifts paywall on films by black filmmakers in support of Black Lives Matter”.
• “How to make this moment the turning point for real change” by President Barack Obama.
• “The myth of ‘official’: Autism and self-diagnosis skeptics”.
• Golden moles.
• “What happens to our brains when we read?”
• Rotary dial cellphone.
• Agreed – you put that back NOW.
• So cute! Also very cute!
• GF potstickers.
• One pot 20-minute coconut chickpea curry.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat. More linkity from kmkat.
• Carcinization. Hover your cursor or long-press for caption.
• SERIOUSLY.
• Oh, yeah.
• It’s true.
• Goodbye, Uncle Hugo’s and Uncle Edgar’s. From Science Times. From Locus.
• Some pictures of my neighborhood Sunday. The list of buildings damaged, looted, or destroyed in the Twin Cities.
• “Engage, educate, donate, and support: Ways you can help” from Smart Bitches.
• The Sesame Street and CNN Town Hall on Racism.
• Ben & Jerry are NOT f*cking around.
• “How cities offload the cost of police brutality”.
• “The racial injustice of American highways”.
• “America’s cities were designed to oppress”.
• “Turns out the only person attempting voter fraud is Donald tRUMP”.
• Visual confirming that yes, masks DO make a difference.
• “What to expect as you return to auto shops”.
• “What it feels like to be working in customer service right now” (dark humor).

“I’m not sure why you say this is a ‘paper trimmer’, Mom, when it’s obviously a cat perch!” -Mayhem