Less aloneHearthlands
🦕 Dinos and Comics
A delightful series of comics dealing with friendship, loneliness and self-esteem — drop it into your rotation for an easy pick-me-up. The author has also bravely created a 'message for my haters' page.
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Surprise meWild Margin
🏠 The Housing Theory of Everything
A well-researched article that places housing affordability at the root of a vast range of other social issues — poor health, financial instability, economic inequality, falling fertility, even climate change. You don't have to agree with every conclusion to admire the argument.
Make senseSoma Isles
🗣️ Why We Say Um
A well-produced short talk on the social function of discourse markers, filled pauses and other hesitation phenomena in language. They're not necessarily just filler, or a kind of mistake — they do real work in conversation.
Make senseEntangled Vale
📝 Language, Please
One to bookmark: a free, living resource for writers seeking to thoughtfully cover evolving social, cultural and identity-related topics, including a style guide and a find-an-expert directory. Their entry on 'neurodivergent' is a good example of the care they bring.
Surprise meEntangled Vale
🤬 Explicit Content
A brief, entertaining adventure into how swear words gain and lose their offensive qualities over time. Many words we consider crude today were once part of everyday conversation, and what counts as obscene has morphed over the centuries from the blasphemous to the scatological.
ImagineMaker's Forge
🐀 The Music of Ratatouille
Charles Cornell is the very embodiment of 'lighting up' when you talk about the thing you love. Here he breaks down what's going on thematically in Michael Giacchino's score for Ratatouille — a masterclass in how music tells a story underneath the story.
Schole Supplement #9
✍🏼 Reform, revolution and reimagining 🎙 Living life out of sequence, with engagement and experience leader Grace Liaw 🪧 Community Notices 🍬 Snackables - assorted awesome links
GroundedMaker's Forge
🪵 Omozoc
Omozoc makes soothing stop-motion videos of beautiful hand-crafted creations. One 72-second woodworking video is stitched together from 791 undoctored photos — hypnotic and lovingly made.
WonderEntangled Vale
🤏 Half as Interesting
If you enjoy short, well-researched and sometimes witty explanations of obscure facts and trivia, Half as Interesting is a YouTube channel worth adding to your rotation — obsessive deep dives into things you'd never thought to wonder about.
Make senseUnfolding Realm
🎭 Yes! And…
Tom Critchlow's top-notch five-part series on the theatre of office work, and what improv acting can teach us about 'performing' modern knowledge work. An absolute must-read for indie consultants in particular.
ImagineHearthlands
🏚️ Spite Buildings
When human grudges get architectural: feuding brothers, thwarted lovers and a lot of deliberately spoiled views. An entertaining assortment of our smallest human pettiness made manifest in bricks and mortar.
Scholé Supplement #8
✍🏼 What is a grokkist? 🎙 Curiosity and chronic disadvantage with youth work researcher Kat Daley 🪧 Notice Board - events and announcements 🍬 Snackables - assorted awesome links