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Lagniappe Sunday

Fun! (h/t Kottke) “The Mystery of Medbeds” by Molly Olmstead. Quote: “One woman, whom we’ll call Anna, told me of an aunt who, like many medbed believers, carries on all the old QAnon ideas: a still-living John F. Kennedy, secret reptilians in the British royal family, Democrats who eat babies.” Dana sez, I read this,…

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Lagniappe Sunday

“Everybody was quiet, as if I knew what to do.” HCR for the history, in bite-sized pieces. “We are America.” Fun! Although what does it say about me that I didn’t recognize any of them until the Porg? (h/t Laughing Squid) This year’s iPhone Photography Award winners. As always, WOW. See them all here. (h/t…

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Lagniappe Sunday

Heh. (h/t Laughing Squid) I’m an optimist for the most part, not a doom-and-gloomer, but I also read history for fun. Hard to ignore the parallels between 1929 and 2026. (Heather Cox Richardson’s 250 to 250.) Quote: “Dishearteningly, but perhaps inevitably, [the priest] began to speak of the Great Replacement Theory. ‘There are places where…

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