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Longreads<p>Our Top 5: </p><p>• Rediscovery without reckoning <br>• How an icon becomes a man <br>• The instant that takes its time <br>• Life lessons from the hive <br>• The wicked wit of Withnail </p><p><a href="https://longreads.com/2025/04/11/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-558/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/04/11/the-t</span><span class="invisible">op-5-longreads-of-the-week-558/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Profiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Profiles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Interviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Interviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a></p>
Ellen's Very Southern Voice<p>Good morning,</p><p>Last night, lying in bed, the title of an essay I've been working on for months came to me: Sowing Devil's Teeth. It's an American Southernism of sowing dragon's teeth. The essay is about the writings of my ancestral grandmother disbursing the Myth of the Lost Cause, thus laying the foundation for lynching. I kept wanting something that told the truth without being so judgey. I think this is it.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a></p>
Stefan Bohacek<p>"Most often, I tend to locate the web’s significance in something that feels concrete: in pirate libraries, censorship circumvention, collective knowledge projects, and open data. One thing I think the web does very well [...] is to collapse a lot of things — people, times, places, images, writing — into one place, together."</p><p><a href="https://www.are.na/editorial/what-can-an-image-do" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">are.na/editorial/what-can-an-i</span><span class="invisible">mage-do</span></a></p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheWeb</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/images" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>images</span></a></p>
Imperor 🎲🎮<p>Our Twitch community challenge to migrate to Linux is finished, I am now at home with Linux Mint! </p><p>Here's my video essay on the journey - help me spread the good word!</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/JoYW6HEVBCI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/JoYW6HEVBCI</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/twitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twitch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/streamer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>streamer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>youtube</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linuxmint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linuxmint</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/obs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obs</span></a></p>
Gereon Asmuth<p><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Umverteilung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Umverteilung</span></a> durch <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Rassimus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rassimus</span></a>. 
Von der kommenden schwarz-roten Koalition erwarte ich leider sehr wenig. Schlimmer noch: Weil sie Umverteilung von oben nach unten meidet, wird ihre Politik nur weiter der AfD nutzen. Mein <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> aus der <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/wochentaz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wochentaz</span></a> @tazgetroete <a href="https://taz.de/!6072909/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">taz.de/!6072909/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"When formula-using parents and breastfeeding parents are pitted against each other in the realm of the environment, I yearn to point to the hands that build the arena of our conflict to begin with."</p><p>Nina Li Coomes in The Margins: <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/04/01/breastfeeding-during-a-heatwave/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/04/01/breas</span><span class="invisible">tfeeding-during-a-heatwave/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Breastfeeding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Breastfeeding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Nursing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nursing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Mothers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mothers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Motherhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Motherhood</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Parenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parenting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a></p>
mokomokai<p>&gt;Dlf App | <a href="https://dju.social/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> und <a href="https://dju.social/tags/Diskurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diskurs</span></a> | <a href="https://dju.social/tags/Debattenkultur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debattenkultur</span></a> – Auswege aus der Polarisierungsfalle&lt;</p><p><a href="https://dju.social/tags/PolitischeKommunikation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolitischeKommunikation</span></a> <br><a href="https://dju.social/tags/Menschenbild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Menschenbild</span></a> <a href="https://dju.social/tags/Menschenrechte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Menschenrechte</span></a> <br><a href="https://dju.social/tags/Begegnungskultur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Begegnungskultur</span></a> </p><p>Der <a href="https://dju.social/tags/Autoritarismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autoritarismus</span></a> des <a href="https://dju.social/tags/Trumpism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpism</span></a> als zweite Zeitenwende ❓</p><p><a href="https://share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothek-audio-teilen.html?audio_id=dira_96B5DDFA041711F07A31B883034C2FA0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-</span><span class="invisible">audiothek-audio-teilen.html?audio_id=dira_96B5DDFA041711F07A31B883034C2FA0</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"The font becomes a sign of life on the verge."</p><p>Nicole Rudick for Broadcast (Pioneer Works): <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/31/barnabys-futura-fantasy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/31/barna</span><span class="invisible">bys-futura-fantasy/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Fonts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fonts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Typeface" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Typeface</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Typography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Comics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>In this new Longreads essay, Aaron Rabinowitz writes about survival, identity, and the inked and invisible scars that history leaves behind.</p><p><a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/27/tattoos-signs-history-antisemitism/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/27/tatto</span><span class="invisible">os-signs-history-antisemitism/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Survival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Survival</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Memory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Identity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Scars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scars</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Tattoos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tattoos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Signs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Signs</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"I have no doubt that Vincent and James both did their share of thinking, which will remain a solace for me. And, yet, no one undertakes suicide unthinkingly."</p><p>Yiyun Li for The New Yorker‬: <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/28/the-deaths-and-lives-of-two-sons/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/28/the-d</span><span class="invisible">eaths-and-lives-of-two-sons/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Grief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grief</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Loss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Loss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Death" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Death</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Suicide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Mothers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mothers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Parenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parenting</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"Dry-erase ink is not similar to tattoo ink, but it is almost identical to ink from a permanent marker. And if you leave it on a surface for long enough, especially a porous surface, it will remain. The brain is a porous surface. Memory is a porous surface."</p><p>A new essay by Aaron Rabinowitz: <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/27/tattoos-signs-history-antisemitism/?utm_source=bluesky&amp;utm_medium=social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/27/tatto</span><span class="invisible">os-signs-history-antisemitism/?utm_source=bluesky&amp;utm_medium=social</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Tattoos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tattoos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Identity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Memory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a></p>
Izaskun Gracia Quintana<p>Hace unos meses tuve la suerte y el honor de que me encargaran la corrección de este libro. Y ahora, que lo acabo de recoger del buzón, os lo enseño para que sepáis que es una belleza 🖤🖤</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/libros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libros</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ensayo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ensayo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/traduccion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>traduccion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>translation</span></a></p>
Alexander Preuße<p>Die nächste Lektüre: Friedrich Christian Delius. Interessanter Titel. Das Buch behinhaltet drei essayartige Abhandlungen, was bei Delius nichts heißen will. </p><p>Das dritte Buch meines Lesevorhabens 12für2025. 👇<br><a href="https://schreibgewitter.de/lesevorhaben-12-fuer-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">schreibgewitter.de/lesevorhabe</span><span class="invisible">n-12-fuer-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Lesen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lesen</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Buch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Buch</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/2025reads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2025reads</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Literatur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Literatur</span></a></p>
Cadi Gwiddon 🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈<p>The Tower &amp; The Star</p><p>One must accept death in order to truly live.</p><p>The concept of a relationship as having expectations, as having any rules, as bonds, must dissolve in order for your partner to have real agency.</p><p>Each partner must accept that the relationship is over before it can begin.</p><p>Each person is a solar system surrounding the brilliant star 🌟 of their divine spark, they can not be contained.</p><p>If you shine bright enough, you won't have to worry about your loved ones leaving.</p><p>In this essay I will...</p><p><a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/Musing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musing</span></a> <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/Relationships" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Relationships</span></a> <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/Poly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poly</span></a> <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/Polyamoury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Polyamoury</span></a> <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/RA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RA</span></a> <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/Agency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Agency</span></a> <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/EgoDeath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EgoDeath</span></a></p>
Lilischote 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Als Gesellschaft sind wir süchtig nach Transformationen und Vorher-Nachher Vergleichen. Auch ich habe immer wieder Transition Timelines gepostet.</p><p>Was steckt dahinter?<br>Wieso denke ich, dass gerade uns trans Personen diese ewig trendenden Vergleiche schaden?</p><p>Teilen wäre toll!<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZwzDRui5CU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=XZwzDRui5C</span><span class="invisible">U</span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transition</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/transformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transformation</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/lgbtqia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtqia</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a></p>
eptf<p>Programming Sucks</p><p>"Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. It’s a different file for every programmer. Sometimes they wrote it, sometimes they found it and knew they had to save it. They read over the lines, and weep at their beauty, then the tears turn bitter as they remember the rest of the files and the inevitable collapse of all that is good and true in the world."</p><p>source: <a href="https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">stilldrinking.org/programming-</span><span class="invisible">sucks</span></a><br><a href="https://f.cz/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://f.cz/tags/sucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sucks</span></a> <a href="https://f.cz/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://f.cz/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a></p>
Fictionable<p>'You can’t use magic or make magic; you can only swim with its currents, occasionally choosing which stream will take you.'</p><p>Tyson Yunkaporta goes on an elliptical journey in The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband:</p><p><a href="https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-time-travelers-wifes-husband" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">emergencemagazine.org/essay/th</span><span class="invisible">e-time-travelers-wifes-husband</span></a></p><p><a href="https://lor.sh/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>story</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Longreads<p>"The loss of this self was nothing to be mourned; I was glad to have arrived on the other side. But I was too freshly molted, my shell soft and nerve endings still tingling."</p><p>Sabrina Imbler for Orion: <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/20/key-changes/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/20/key-c</span><span class="invisible">hanges/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Crickets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crickets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Insects</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Voice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Voice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Singing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Singing</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"In our special brotherhood of that summer of ’72 in London, the absence of words – in Arabic, in Persian, in distant English – did not require our names."</p><p>Salar Abdoh for Coda Story and Stranger's Guide: <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/18/on-brotherhood-and-blindness/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/18/on-br</span><span class="invisible">otherhood-and-blindness/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Brotherhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brotherhood</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Friendship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Friendship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Strangers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Strangers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a></p>
forrest<p><strong>Something Tookish</strong></p> <p><a href="https://howdoyouspell.cool/forrest/something-tookish" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">howdoyouspell.cool/forrest/som</span><span class="invisible">ething-tookish</span></a></p>