Links: A Bit Retro
Got a bit of a retro flavour going on, from stamps to 1890s Mars crazes to the Commodore 64.
Here for all fanfiction discourse: Jenn's My Favourite Work of Fanfiction.
Always in support of people complaining about British winters: Michael's winter-cope. I'm counting down the days till the solstice, don't you worry.
These are amazing: Postage stamps for freaks from banana phone. I can't decide which is the most deranged.
Aeon's Are you Confusedocene? 'As a scientific concept the Anthropocene is dead. But it’s such a helpful idea to think with, should we use it anyway?' Mostly because I like the behind-the-scenes wrangling and imagining geologists getting exercised about this stuff, any stuff.
At the risk of sounding bougie and/or hipster, I really would like to do something like this: How chef Samin Nosrat keeps up a casual weekly dinner with friends. First step: get over it feeling bougie and/or hipster.
Bluebottles and Mirrored World have posts about their microhobbies. Also, Learn a new skill in 1 hour is very much what I'm talking about too.
In my quest to engage more I like Martin's Read, React, Recycle, about active engagement rather than passive consumption.
The Hinternet did a post about the sun I really enjoyed and wrote about, now it is the moon's turn with The Moon Makes Us Human.
Both science and religion have this in common — that they emerge largely out of our attention to the cycles of the moon.
More on the moon: Celebrating 5 years and 10,000 subscribers of Moon Monday with globally published poetry on space and 'Seven uni-verses is a pamphlet of poems dedicated to humanity’s exploration of the universe.'
Still in space, Aeon's Megastructures on Mars has some beautiful old maps of Mars and is more or less a history of our relationship with the planet from the 1870s to 1919, if not now.
few theories have stimulated as much thought, or been as enduring and productive for culture and science, as the canals of Mars.
People on Bearblog do not need this, I don't think, a reminder of how to follow the rabbit holes of the web away from The Algorithm and the same five websites. But I'm linking it anyway, How to use the internet again by Offline Crush.
Very much related is Manuel Moreale's Y’all are great:
I’m sitting here, screaming at my screen «That web you’re missing is still here, you dumbdumb, you just have to leave your stupid corporate, algodriven, social media jail to find it».
Monster of the Week Shows that Need a Comeback that aren't X-Files or Buffy, from the Cutprice Guignol.
Twelve Mile Circle is an appreciation of unusual places.
More retro: Galactic Journey is actual time travel to 1970 for science fact and fiction. The Universe of Commodore 64 - keeping the C64 spirit alive.
Should have gone in my Games Edition links but I missed it: Comparing Game Master / Dungeon Master books across TTRPGs.