BlogFlock"It is inconvenient to be a person, floating through the grand and impossible world, significant in your own resplendent garden of hours but insignificant as a fleck of dust in the greater arc of the universe." —Hanif Abdurraqib for The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/our-longing-for-inconvenience
"Mavis’s singing suggests a more horizontal mode of musical creation, even when she’s at the front of the stage herself." —Sophie Abramowitz for The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/16/she-knows-a-place-mavis-staples/?src=longreads #music #singers #voice #civilrights #listening #longreads
One of the best movies of the 1970s is free to stream this month
Trump folks take over the American art selection process with incompetent amateur results
A jazz combo played in real time by every active NYC subway train.
...a playful tool for creating grooves using math concepts like shapes, angles, and patterns. Start working with one of the special pizza…
Happy 28th anniversary ResearchBuzz.
NEW RESOURCES
Lawfare: Tracking Government Non-Compliance in Habeas Corpus Cases. “This page includes a continually updated, interactive tracker to document what is known—and what still remains unclear—about instances in which the Trump administration has failed to comply with federal court orders in immigration habeas corpus…
A British television play that had an explicit theme of gay love
a blog doesn't need to look like a blog. even as a blogger and a reader of blogs, i don't know if i can pinpoint what a blog even is? i mean, sure, there is a definition:
a blog (a truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete,…
NEW RESOURCES
American Psychological Association: APA Labs launches resource to guide clinicians, health systems and the public to evidence-based digital mental health tools. “To help health care providers and users searching for digital mental health products they can trust, APA Labs has launched the Digital Badge Solutions Library, a…
A list focused on people who curate third party posts and those who do a good job linking out.
The net is healthier when people link out to other sites. Adding a few related links to a post sets up a vast linked network to explore and discover.
Topic Links Around the Web in the 32-Bit Cafe Forum
Fix The News is the world's leading solutions journalism newsletter. We find hidden stories of progress and share them with more than 67,000 subscribers from 195 countries. Steven Pinker calls us "the best source for positive news on the internet."
All things progress and growth from the Abundance and Growth Fund team at Coefficient Giving.
A collaborative blog writing about Bearblog, the indie web, and more!
Welcome to Web Curios, a regular(-ish) newsletterblogtypething all about stuff on the internet that its author finds interesting and thinks you might too.
from JSTOR, nonprofit library for the intellectually curious
I think good curation is important, so I frequently recommend #links to other blogs, have carefully selected a list of bookmarks and maintain a postroll.
Welcome to omb!: a blog showcasing other blogs. Curated by kmrowe.
A collection of interesting links, a few a day.
UK based, Daily Link Blog. This is Lima Mike Golf. Shall we blog?
The latest The Sunday Papers articles from Rock Paper Shotgun.
An awards-based anthology designed to grant a platform to a diverse and growing collection of writers and publishers who are building an online literary landscape that seeks to break free of traditional publishing.
News and resources covering social media, search engines, databases, archives, and other such information collections. Since 1998. (There is a firehose feed is you want each link as a single post. It crowded out other feeds so I use this one.)
Every Sunday, you get a collection of the best sentences I've come across all week. That's pretty much the whole idea. Pay what you want, if you can.
The opposite of doomscrolling: Every two weeks (roughly) I send you a collection of the best Internet reading I've found -- links to culture, technology, art and science that fascinated me.
Rediscover the joy of online exploration! Web Wandering shares a hand-picked selection of unique and captivating websites you won't find anywhere else.