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“Chrysalis is a literary magazine by trans youth, for trans youth (created with a little help from trans adults).”

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The world’s political and economic systems can all unite over one central tenet: your mum does the washing. “Libertarianism: Your mum does the washing. You believe *you* did the washing.”

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“This debate is entirely obsolete. To what extent is the constitutional order still in effect? If we must ask, we are fully in a crisis situation; once we don’t have to ask anymore, the constitutional order will have already been overthrown.”

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Great Heather Cox Richardson speech about the “very little thing” of lighting lanterns in the Old North Church in Boston 250 years ago. “Most of us will be lost to history, but we will, nonetheless, move the story forward, even if just a little bit.”

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Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf. “We need to talk to the other side — even if it has invaded and annexed other countries and committed unspeakable crimes against humanity.”

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Anxiety by Doechii (Official Video). “While I prefer the charming homemade quality of the original that she made in her small NYC apartment at age 21, this version is pretty great too.”

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A collection of movie mistakes, including a recently solved one from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. “Movies are handmade, and just like any other art form, sometimes the seams that hold movies together become visible to the audience.”

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A depth comparison of shipwrecks around the world, from the Mary Rose (~40 feet deep) to the WWII warship USS Johnston (~21,200 feet) and everything in-between (Andrea Doria, German u-boats, Lusitania, Titanic (12.5K ft)).

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While not nearly as popular as his amazing rendition of NIN’s Hurt, Johnny Cash’s stripped-down cover of Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus is fantastic.

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In the wake of Alex Ovechkin surpassing Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record, here are a selection of other seemingly unbreakable sports records, from LeBron’s career points to Flo-Jo’s 100 meters mark.

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Wonderful photos of Broadway legends reprising their most memorable roles, including Idina Menzel (Rent), Matthew Broderick (Brighton Beach Memoirs), Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl), and Dick Van Dyke (Bye Bye Birdie).

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Sam Bartram is a goalkeeper who was accidentally left on the field when a game was called off due to heavy fog. “I paced up and down my goal-line, happy in the knowledge that Chelsea were being pinned in their own half.” 😂

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Stephen King used to “grant permission to students and aspiring filmmakers to adapt one of his short stories for $1”. He called them his Dollar Babies. Frank Darabont made one of these $1 films and later directed The Shawshank Redemption.

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This is a lovely cover of Bush’s Glycerine by Allison Lorenzen and Midwife, set to a poignant series of very short videos of everyday life. Give this 20 seconds of your complete attention and you’ll watch the whole thing, I promise.

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300 people in a small Michigan town formed a book brigade to move books to a local bookstore’s new location from its old one. The move took ~2 hours and “the brigade even put the books back on the shelves in alphabetical order.”

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‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers. “I have had some truly wild conversations about AI in a professional context that make me want to walk into the sea”.

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Spanish artist Sebas Velasco does these cool oil paintings that seem more like snapshots than conventional portraiture, still life, or landscape.