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Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green
https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-many-control-rooms-were-seafoam
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Part One: How L. Ron Hubbard Lied His Way to Godhood
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-how-l-ron-30040997/
Katherine Rundell · Consider the Greenland Shark
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n09/katherine-rundell/consider-the-greenland-shark
I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very...
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‘It wears away at the pay packet’: Grandmothers cut work hours to do free childcare
https://www.smh.com.au/national/it-wears-away-at-the-pay-packet-grandmothers-cut-work-hours-to-do-free-childcare-20260217-p5o33f.html
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Cringe Is Good, Earnestness Is Strength
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/cringe-is-good-earnestness-is-strength/
On irony poisoning and the importance of being earnest.
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Collections: Why Celebrimbor Fell but Boromir Conquered: the Moral Universe of Tolkien – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
https://acoup.blog/2025/04/18/collections-why-celebrimbor-fell-and-boromir-conquered-the-moral-universe-of-tolkien/
This week (and probably next) I want to talk a bit more Tolkien, but in a somewhat different vein from normal. Rather than discussing the historicity of Tolkien's world or adaptations of it, I want to take a moment to discuss some of the themes of Tolkien's work, which express themselves in the metaphysical architecture…
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Lindy West, Elizabeth Gilbert and the Nightmare of the Personal Essay Industrial Complex
https://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/lindy-west-elizabeth-gilbert-and-the-nightmare-of-the-personal-essay-industrial-complex.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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Cul de sac politics: Have the Australian Greens hit a strategic dead-end?
https://www.jonathansri.com/greensdeadend/
Why aren't the Greens offering a stronger challenge to the political establishment?
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