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pop music Shut in sounds: Crowded House perform "Don't Dream It's Over" from isolation Gareth Branwyn

trump Trump calls mail-in ballots "corrupt" but reiterates that it's fine when he does it Thom Dunn

oligarchy What the late, great James Connolly got right about socialism and oligarchies Thom Dunn

music Interview with musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge Sarina Sinclair and Case Esparros with Kane Lafia

gaming February is "Snag-a-Normie" month in tabletop gaming Gareth Branwyn

cover songs Enjoy 101 different versions of "Fairytale of New York" Thom Dunn

Gadgets 14 gift deals to jump on before Green Monday arrives Boing Boing's Shop

books Boing Boing's 28 favorite books in 2019 Rob Beschizza

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World Mental Health Day It’s World Mental Health Day: A primer on depression for the public-at-large Maureen Herman

Copyfight Fan-made "rideable" Haunted Mansion poster Cory Doctorow

cephalopods Octopus changes color while asleep, possibly dreaming Clive Thompson

happy mutants The lost audiobooks of Roger Zelazny reading the Chronicles of Amber Cory Doctorow

law Heirs' property: how southern states allow white land developers to steal reconstruction-era land from Black families Cory Doctorow

racism Catherynne Valente schools her racist neighbors about the asylum seekers in their midst Catherynne Valente

usausausa Americans are too poor to survive whether or not they're working Cory Doctorow

cable company fuckery Why is there so much antitrust energy for Big Tech but not for Big Telco? Cory Doctorow

happy mutants SO LATE SO SOON: fun, genre-celebrating SF for young readers (of all ages!) Harry Tynan AKA Moose Malloy

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