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“The Trump administration’s vision for the United States is one of a...

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A roundup of the words/phrases of the year for 2025, including “rage...

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Born Poor

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America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People. “We’ll tolerate this...

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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens....

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Alan Sepinwall wrote a lovely remembrance of Rob Reiner and his career....

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The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life by Ian...

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How does lake ice do this? Incredible! (Mirror Lake, New Hampshire)...

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“Eating the right foods in the proper quantities, 16th-century Britons believed, balanced...

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This Is Why Everyone Is a DJ Now

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The Flow State podcast recently celebrated their 300th episode with a 2h41m...

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X-Ray Visions

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Oilwell is a (fake) wellness app “to help you embrace climate chaos”...

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I just updated the 2025 Kottke Gift Guide with some new suggestions,...

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The US Downgraded in Civic Freedoms Rating

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Post-Japan Depression. “People feel it after coming home from a trip that...

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What is happening? Orcas started wearing dead salmon as hats again and...

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How Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Are Made

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MacKenzie Scott announces that she’s donated almost $7.2 billion of her personal...

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Shop Around Globally for Better Deals on Streaming Services

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Eight Million Ways to Happiness: Wisdom for Inspiration and Healing from the...

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Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary. In the narration, he calls the...

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Photographing the Andromeda Galaxy for 10 Seconds vs 10 Hours

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Funniest McSweeney’s piece I’ve read in awhile: The Mastermind Box Cover: What...

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90 Minutes of Knitting ASMR

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Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend...

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Thread: What was typography like in the Soviet Union? “They did not...

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New evidence suggests that Neanderthals were making fire in the UK 400,000...

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Victorian-Era Mourning Objects From the V&A’s Collection

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The trailer for It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, a documentary film about...

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Timothy Snyder: “What comes next? For the Nazis, the deportation and the...

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Size of Life, a visual comparison of living things from DNA to...

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I hate how good this is: Radiohead sings Santa Claus Is Coming...

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2000 Words for Japanese Rain

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The loose flap of skin around the elbow is called the what...

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A Charlie Brown Christmas, Live

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We Asked Critics From Authoritarian Regimes What They Wish They’d Known Sooner....

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A “particularly inventive” Rube Goldberg marble run maze. Lots of elements doing...

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The 2025 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide

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Colin Furze built a full-suspension bike using powerful magnets instead of shocks...

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Looks Like the Supreme Court Will Continue to Overturn the 20th Century....

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Jiggle Cat

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A guide on how (and why) to quit Spotify. “I am extremely...

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Huge Collection of Laptop Sticker Art

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Why We Have Two Nostrils Instead of One Big Hole. (Great title!)...

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I’m working on the 2025 gift guide right now, but I wanted...

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A video featuring Magnus Carlsen trying to beat a very novice player...

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From Nature, a list of 10 people who helped shape science in...

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The all-out AI race. “They are tearing towards a technology that could,...

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Beautiful Drone Videos of Iceland’s Black Sand Beaches

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