Link day Wednesday: all the summer long reads you can handle, and a few you might not

25 December 2024

Summer reading lists abound, but some of us are more into long form journalism that Colleen Hoover. There's nothing wrong with enjoying Ms Hoover's oeuvre - I hear her latest tome, a kaleidoscopic exploration of gender identity and shifting ethical boundaries between guards and detainees at CIA black sites, is really something. 

But say you're a joyless dweeb with no imagination or capacity for love like me - I got you, with more quality long reads than you can shake a stick at, shaking a stick being an excellent way to ward off people disturbing you when you're trying to read. 

Go on, spoil yourself this Christmas. You deserve it.

22 December 2024




With the end of year (Christmas/New Year/Summer/I know Aunt Bronwyn will start in again about my weight and childlessness and every year I tell myself I won't put up with her nonsense and every year I don a rictus smile, walk away and take a swig of Bundy) holidays upon us, the lucky of us are on holidays from work, which means a chance to catch up with relatives like Aunt Bronwyn; vow to fix that thing about the house and get as far as the Bunnings car park before seeing it's so crowded the laws of civilised parking have broken down and going home; or cursing that once again, you neglected to make plans to get out of the city.


Link Day Wednesday - Enshitiffication is conditioning us to expect everything will be terrible (but Babe Paley was lovely)

18 December 2024


 This terrible long read by Ed Zitron on the enshittification of the internet, apps, and everything we deal with all day, got my day off to a depressing start. 


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