Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Wildfire: too close and personal (Alta Journal)
* Running from demons (The Economist)
* Experiments in microdosing (5280 Magazine)
* Reading is hard (Vox)
* "Jackass" as a love language (Bright Wall/Dark Room)

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Tracking greed (n+1 Magazine)
* Teaching through terminal illness (Stanford Magazine)
* Pivoting as a pastor (The New York Times)
* Reading poetry, closely (Slate)
* Breaking bad loading habits (The Atlantic)

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Long COVID camaraderie (Men's Health)
* Breeding terrorists on Telegram @ProPublica / Frontline
* 737 Max coverup (Wired)
* Petrusich profiles Dacus (The New Yorker)
* The Irish pub as export (Smithsonian Magazine)

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* Propagate language, preserve culture (Noēma)
* Hip-hop hooch hustles (Taste)
* Grieving a landscape lost (Salvation South)
* A gutsy take on indigestion (VQR)
* All the feels for the forums (The Fence)

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"This wasn’t a huge cause for concern on its own. Plenty of teenagers smoke weed, after all, and turn out just fine. Anne and I just hoped it wouldn’t lead to anything else." —Scott Oake for The Walrus

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"The wind gusts reached 100 miles per hour and the smoke was thick and rancid. Sarvis watched electric cars explode and garbage bins tip over, fill with flames, and blow down the streets like missiles." @jbienkahn for @RollingStone

https://longreads.com/2025/01/24/the-private-firefighters-on-call-for-the-californians-who-can-afford-them/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Dying to seek asylum in Canada (The Local)
* The rise of UFC @RollingStone
* Hoarding at the British Museum (The Guardian)
* A mystery at Lake Tahoe (Bay Nature)
* Dog dialogue (NYT Mag)

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"In the shallows of south Lake Tahoe, diver Brandon Berry is slurping up clouds of algae with an underwater vacuum cleaner. . . The filamentous, cotton-candy-like algae is a persistent affliction here, where it intermittently grows, dies, washes up on the shoreline, and rots in unsightly, smelly piles." —Sonya Bennett-Brandt for Bay Nature magazine

https://longreads.com/2025/01/17/what-lies-beneath-2/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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"I had long understood crosswords as an art form, but I began to appreciate them as serious records of culture and current affairs." —Abigail Popple for Maisonneuve

https://longreads.com/2025/01/15/puzzle-politics/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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"Her Little Free Art Library on Queen Anne was designed like a museum, with lighting and white walls, a tiny bench for viewing (with minifigures observing the display), and a tiny easel and shelf displaying drawings and paintings with dimensions of just a few inches." —Rebekah Denn for @civileats

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