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Things we found elsewhere and pass on: a film, a tool, an essay, a corner of the old internet. A few lines on why, then off you go. New ones join the shelf as we find them, newest first.
18 May 2025
Zhou Liqi was a poor rural kid who became an internet folk hero after stealing scooters and declaring, mid-arrest, 'It is impossible to work in this life!' — a line that struck a chord with overworked young people quietly 'lying flat.' He became a slacker icon, then tried to turn his accid
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Most personal-knowledge-management tools feel like digital filing cabinets — efficient but uninspiring, and the workflows end up feeling like a second job. Sublime, created by Sari Azout, is less a filing cabinet than a playground-library-cosmos for your curiosities — somewhere between a p
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Dietmar Voorwold creates temporary outdoor mandalas and sculptural patterns using only what the land offers — stones, sticks, leaves, shells. Nothing added, nothing taken away, just what's already there rearranged with care. Made along the Scottish coastline and elsewhere, his land art is
Read the note ↗18 May 2025
Justin Davies is a woodworker 'here to talk about trees and make stuff out of trees.' Here he steeps shagbark hickory in cream to make ice cream — 'I know cinnamon gets all the attention, but that's the inner bark' — and serves it in a bowl carved from the same tree. The result is a desser
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It turns out the wild doesn't always stay wild on its own. From Colorado's alpine trails to Arches National Park, public lands are carefully curated by rangers and researchers balancing access with impact. This piece explores the science of recreation management — designing better systems
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Atefeh Khademolreza's Meteor is a dreamlike, non-linear tribute to grief, friendship and resistance within Iran's 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement. Told through a collage of surreal visuals, intimate narration, archival footage and glowing animation, it channels personal mourning into a pol
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Audrey Wollen reimagines human evolution through the humble act of carrying. What if the first tool wasn't a weapon but a bag — to hold babies, berries and the beginnings of culture? Drawing on Elizabeth Fisher's 'Carrier Bag Theory of Evolution' and Ursula Le Guin's echo of it, Wollen sti
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'You've been caught feeding your fears and starving yourself of joy. I'm issuing you with a citation for chronic self-doubt.' Endangerhood patrols the streets on roller skates in a pink suit and disco-ball helmet, pulling doomscrollers over for crimes against their own wellbeing. It's absu
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Mozu Studios, the Japanese miniature-art studio run by Kiyotaka Mizukoshi, crafts tiny rooms packed with absurdly meticulous detail. You need only thirty seconds to be transported into their pocket-sized laundromat — glowing filament bulb, rotating machines, delicate signage, baskets of te
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Emily Polk traces the ancient practice of 'telling the bees' when someone dies — a ritual some 600 years old, born of the belief that bees carry messages between the living and the dead (when Elizabeth II died, the royal beekeeper informed the palace hives). She weaves her own grief into a
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Dissect is a music podcast for people who like to listen with their whole brain on. Each season, host Cole Cuchna takes apart a single album, song by song, line by line, with forensic care — a masterclass in music appreciation as critical reflection. This episode on Kendrick Lamar's 'Die H
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As more founders and funders seek alternatives to extractive growth, a new financial vocabulary is emerging — one that prioritises sustainability, shared prosperity and long-term impact over rapid exits. This is the world of patient capital and 'zebra companies' (profitable and purpose-dri
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