Okay, fellow fediversians 🐘

It's time for "the opposite of doomscrolling" 🌞

My latest "Linkfest" newsletter has dropped 📬

Free to read/subscribe here, you can also support if you want: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-19-flop-rock-contranyms-and-the-weirdly/

Hours of reading/viewing -- the finest material I could uncover during my *alphabetic read of the entire internet* 🌌

Includes:

📖 "contranyms"
🧊 drinking icebergs
💾 "flop rock"
⚔️ the weirdly violent history of the Michelin Man
🌕 a climate model of "Dune"

AND SO MUCH MORE

“San Franciscans know a scam when we see it,” EFF’s https://nitter.oksocial.net/NaSh12 said. “Unchecked surveillance is not the solution to our city’s challenges, and we can’t sit silently while opportunists turn our streets into a surveillance state testing lab.” https://nitter.oksocial.net/search?q=%23NOPEonE https://www.davisvanguard.org/2024/02/billionaires-super-rich-named-as-surveillance-state-17-contributors-fueling-prop-e-plan-to-turn-sf-residents-into-guinea-pigs-for-police-spying/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/EFF/status/1761077717838246340#m

[2024/02/23 17:17]

**CALLING ALL FRIENDS, ADVOCATES, AND ACTIVISTS** A leaked e-mail from a Texas Department of Protective Safety trooper documents the remarkably cruel measures Governor Greg Abbott has instituted at the border to deter crossings. These include hidden razor wire traps, the withholding of water even in extreme heat, and orders to push migrants—including children and infants—back into the Rio Grande where they might drown. The sight of razor wire to corral innocent human beings has echoes for me personally, when similar wire surrounded the Japanese American internment camps of my youth. We cannot let Governor Greg Abbott get away with this. I'm calling on you, my friends, advocates and activists, to help put a stop to this by signing the petition demanding the Biden Administration puts an end to these inhumane practices against migrants in Texas.

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/806/513/820/?TAP=2430&source_id=TexasMigrants

I knew streaming residuals were a mess, but holy shit, y'all, streaming residuals are a Fucking Disgusting MESS.

#WGAstrike #sagaftrastrike

Monarch

I've been incorporating a lot of these into my work lately.

Sumi ink, gouache, a touch of black pencil on 4x5" hotpress

#insects #butterflies #art #TraditionalArt #illustration