Never read Dracula before? Would you like to read it.... over RSS? Dracula is entirely made up of letters, telegrams, newspaper articles. Each has a date, between May 3rd and November 10th, Last year, and now this year, Dracula Daily has offered people the ability to read the classic novel "in real time". It just started, so if you add https://draculadaily.substack.com/feed to your newsreader, you can follow along this year. #rss
I really appreciate content warnings for politics — so thanks, @beckett for posts like this https://social.coop/@beckett/108241378650907547 — that may be my only personal need for CWs, but a significant one.
As I (re)start my IndieWeb journey, a major itch is deciding I should stick with WordPress or not as my home platform. I’ve tried to list some pros/cons in my Itches (https://indieweb.org/User:Chrislott.org#Itches), and I’ve been reading around the IndieWeb wiki, but would love any thoughts. Note that I am OK with, in fact I plan to, start from scratch building this up.
I feel uneasy about this, but I’m not sure if it’s about the events as described or that I’m not sure I see the problem, exactly. → https://hyp.is/m3iVlMscEey4FX8GGJRoug/www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/30/rochester-teacher-slavery-lesson-cotton-investigation
The dissents aren’t going to make the decision any better when it’s finally official. It’s too bad there’s no possibility of time travel to abort Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh and Barrett as a demonstration of just what a good the right to do so is → https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473
Likely the best and most useful blogroll page I've ever seen, and it's made by styling OPML:
Sad news about Keith Jarrett. He gave us more than a lifetime’s music already, but I’m greedy (and he could probably create new wonders with just one hand)! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/arts/music/keith-jarrett-piano.html
This would only be a surprise to the people who need to read it but never will. https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/521875-democrat-run-cities-fuel-the-economy-keep-many-red-states-afloat
If I thought reason had a place at the table today, I’d say this tremendous visualization, running at high speed, should be everywhere: Covid Cases by State Partisanship https://www.inoreader.com/article/3a9c6e7bac28f68a-visualizing-covid-19-cases-by-state-partisanship
Making a few things; waving, not drowning (most of the time); he/him.
Some things I like: crosswords, tea, pencils, marginalia, etymology, chess, typewriters, concise writing, snail mail correspondence, micro-essays, watermarks
Professional/education/open education/etc.: https://scholar.social/@fncll