Death by banana skin.
A Bite of the Forbidden Fruit - notes from shreyan
banana boi
Amusing Ourselves to Death comics reflections - Stuart McMillen blog
Why was the Amusing Ourselves to Death comic by Neil Postman removed from the internet by cartoonist Stuart McMillen? Reflective essay on this comic.
Bad shape
The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.
Fantastically Wrong: What Darwin Really Screwed Up About Evolution
It’s hard to overstate just how brilliant and huge an idea Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was and continues to be. It absolutely rocked Victorian England, to the extent that stuffy old Victorian England could be rocked past people just barely raising their voices in polite protest. But some folks, particularly highly \[…\]
The Edge of Fruitvale — Oakland Public Library
The Edge of Fruitvale — DaCosta, Rohan, — Poetry, prose, and photographs.
It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It.
The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.
DEATH OF THE TADI WEB
Man Cereal
Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and, perhaps permanently and irreparably, stole a small piece of his joy.
Colonial scars still shape Bangladesh tea workers’ struggle for rights
Bangladesh tea workers renew wage, union and land demands amid colonial-era labour legacies.
Appreciating Alan Wake’s Adverb Apocalypse
Alan Wake wears the veil of pulp horror with all the silliness it entails, hiding a valuable message about art under its surface.
People get “violently ill” from Soylent bars; company stumped
Online forums link bars to food poisoning, but maker suggests soy intolerance.
The Lemon Tree — SANDY TOLAN
In early 1998, I set out for Israel and the West Bank in search of a surprisingly elusive story. Despite the forests of newspaper stories and miles of videotape documenting the intractable conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, precious little light had fallen on the human side of the story, the common ground between enemies, and genuine hopes for co-existence.
George Tice, ‘Bard of New Jersey’ With a Camera, Dies at 86 (Published 2025)
He found beauty in the prosaic: bars, phone booths, hamburger joints, barber shops — first in a downtrodden Paterson, then throughout the state and beyond.
