From Litter Box To Liberation Anthem

 

I was told @stephenking.bsky.social wanted to promote Cujo like this MagnaCata.com

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— Brittlestar (@brittlestar.com) June 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM

Australian Lightening

Nature by JJ captures the magnificent skies of Northern Australia. Hang in, he saves the best for last.

Via Memo Of The Air

HAQQIM BOR

“Children carry strange backpacks shaped like buildings — a kindergarten, a school, a home. Inside each one, something is hidden — the things adults choose not to see. But every night, lights flicker on inside those tiny structures. And what was buried begins to crawl out.”

HAQQIM BOR [ SHORT FILM ] from Lado Kvataniya on Vimeo.

Time Out For Trouble

This bizarre film about a mother-in-law's gift of an evil mantle clock was made by the Oklahoma State Department of Health and the University of Oklahoma.

Via Weird Universe

AI Restores Paintings

AI restores classic paintings with reversible techniques: a new MIT technique applies reversible repairs to the physical painting itself, in the form of a removable mask.

Via Memo Of The Air

Village Of The Bomb - Grievous Angels

 This is eleven years old but it seems timely.

Artwork Of The Day

 

'Waterloo Row—Fredericton' (1972) by Mary Pratt

How to Do a Brush Pass Like a Cold War Spy

This technique, perfected during the Cold War, allowed spies to exchange documents, money, or other small items without ever appearing to interact.

Illustration by Ted Slampyak

The Art of Manliness

Rainn Wilson As You’ve Never Seen Him Before

This popped up in my Facebook memories today. I appreciated some levity in these anxious times. Hope you do too.

Sunday Links

Salem Chapel, British Methodist Episcopal church. Photograph: Adria Walker

The Salem Chapel in St. Catharines, Ontario (where I live now) is considered a sacred site and tourist destination because of its importance for people who participated in the Underground Railroad and for their descendants. The church’s pulpit is the original – the same one that Harriet Tubman, who lived in St Catharines for about a decade, Frederick Douglass and John Brown would have sat before as parishioners or would have spoken behind as lecturers. It is the first international listing in the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program.

Dacora is a $500,000, all-electric, entirely hand built, customizable car. It’s pretty snazzy looking too (at that price it should be).

Can I park here? No duh

The Man Who Unsolved a Murder If you’re accused of a crime, will someone investigate your side of the story? In California, there’s no guarantee. Via Miss Cellania 

Housewives Does this term even exist in the real world any more? There are no June Cleavers in my universe.  (Via Memo Of The Air)

Find swan. Address swan: "all right, swan." Watching nothing but swan rescues

The short, dramatic history of alien abduction in the US In the 1980s, thousands of Americans began to suspect they may have been abducted by aliens. What happened?

This is one cold-blooded toddler.

The Renaissance of Creole Cream Cheese This historic cheese looks like it would be  easy and versatile to make.

How light tricks our eyes.

A Great Dane named Juliana was awarded a medal during WWII for urinating Via Miss Cellania

This is fun. Type out whatever is on your mind and Music Is My Therapist will find a song based on what you're going through. Via Web Curios

Would you drink this? Liquid Death Is Selling Ten Collectable Cans of Their Iced Tea With Ozzy Osbourne's DNA and Signature

Saving Time: Some ways mazes are generated.

They Travel the World and Cheat Death for License Plates

“I feel neither younger nor older than 94, but 94 now feels younger than I’d expected.” Author Judith Viorst Replies To The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire (Via Metafilter)

Caught in the act: Sit and Run

Paving Paradise for the Ultra Rich The Wilderness Society has identified over 250 million acres of public land that Republicans are preparing to sell under new legislation. If the SENR Bill passes, then you can expect to spend a lot more time indoors.

We Are Witch Pilgrimage remembers women condemned as witches.

A day in the life of a bottle collector Each year individuals from marginalized communities, primarily from Romania and West Africa, travel north to collect empty beer bottles, cups, and cans discarded by thousands of Roskilde festival-goers, exchanging them for cash through the Danish refund system. Via TMN

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised But It Will Be Optimized (Presented in Beta)

Good vibes and great cocktails at these hidden speakeasies around the world. NYT gift link

A place of rugged and simple beauty. Robert Finch recalls the challenging yet rewarding days spent on Canada’s rugged Atlantic coast.