1. Again, I don’t want to go on a watch list, but I thought this take on the online popularity of our boy was right on:
People don’t cheer for chaos when they feel like justice is possible. But right now, what options do they have? The Supreme Court is corrupt, for many people voting feels useless, and the people in power are funded by the very corporations they’re supposed to regulate.
Of course, Mangione gets turned into a meme hero—it’s not him they love; it’s the idea of someone finally fighting back.
Also this meme in that newsletter was pretty great:
Anyway! Just doing intellectual exercises over here, not condoning anything, nope, no siree.
2. This combines Dad Lore and 80s Nostalgia and is just fun to look through–someone posted their dad’s collection of hand-drawn VHS labels on Reddit. The recreation of the “Festival of Claymation” font!
3. “City of Bend to vandal: Stop putting googly eyes on statues” (click for pictures, amazing).
4. Subtle foreshadowing had me wheezing.
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