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!