7.14.2025

july 2025

now that pocket is gone, i'm slowly switching over to instapaper, which is a similar read later app. i don't find it as easy to use, but i'm sure i'll eventually get used to it.

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the atlantic - My Super-Special 79th Was Not Super Special
the atlantic - That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose.
the guardian - ‘Do you have a family?’: midlife with no kids, ageing parents – and no crisis 

6.01.2025

June 2025

Reality [2024], miranda's victim [2023], next exit [2022], all i see is you [2016]

Geraldine brooks - nine parts of desire: the hidden world of Islamic women, felicity Lawrence - not on the label: what really goes into the food on your plate

5.04.2025

May 2025

trying to read more books recently! i really like one of the bookstores in town: big island bookbuyers. plus we also got a few books in other places, which i don't want to take back home so i'm trying to finish them before we go. plus, i know i'll stop wanting to read about hawaiian history when i leave hawaii, lol. history is just not my favorite subject: so many names and dates and places, etc. ugh. also, it (obviously) makes more sense to read about hawaii while i'm here since we can possibly visit the places i'm learning about!

also, way more movies this month. the semester finished so i spent a few nights organizing photos, etc. which means movies playing in the background. 

Sarah Vowell - unfamiliar fishes,Sarah Vowell - unfamiliar fishes, mark kurlansky - codmark kurlansky - cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world, James l Haley - captive paradise: a history of hawaii

austenland [2013], the last tourist [2021], the drop [2023], winner [2024], Brooklyn [2015], carol [2015], firebrand [2023], tropic thunder [2008], sharp stick [2022]

 

lastly, i'm so incredibly sad that mozilla's pocket is going away. it's how i started reading so many articles! i saved interesting things to my pocket, and read them in my downtime, especially when i didn't have access to the internet because the articles automatically saved to my phone :( it's the end of an era.

4.07.2025

april 2025

so many books this month!! (and no movies, tho i have started streaming felicity on hulu) I finally finished the book i'd been reading on and mostly off over a couple years. and i picked up the tripod trilogy from john christopher!!! these were my favorite books from back in elementary school (5th grade maybe?) and i've not read them since. i'm not sure i actually ever read the 3rd book? as i was reading, the first two were familiar, but not the third. in any case, not counting for a few days off, i finished all three books in 5 days :) i managed so much ready cause j's family was here, then my parents, so we haven't been watching tv at nights.

amir d aczel - the jesuit and the skull: teilhard de chardin, evolution, and the search for the peking man
john christopher - the white mountains. john christopher - the city of gold and lead, john christopher - the pool of fire

the atlantic - be a patriot
the atlantic - The Great Grocery Squeeze
the hustle - Corporate swag will never die
eater - No One Asked for Coca-Cola Oreos
atlas obscura - Why Do Canadians Say ‘Eh’?
new republic - Why Recycling Is Mostly Garbage
the atlantic - The World Can’t Keep Up With Its Garbage
mental floss - Why Did Ronald McDonald Disappear?
the atlantic - A Trade War With China Is a Very Bad Idea
mel megazine - Inside the World of Guide Dog Dropouts
the atlantic - The End of the ‘Generic’ Grocery-Store Brand
bbc - Sit-to-stand: The simple test that reveals how you're ageing
vox - The world’s biggest animal cruelty problem, explained in one chart
npr - Doggles and dog booties: Anchorage residents prep pets for volcanic explosion
huff post - This Viral Detergent Hack Has People Questioning If They're Doing Laundry Wrong

atmos - By the Numbers: How Much Trash You’re Really Throwing Away Each Year
i definitely believe that some of these stats are misleading as hell. "61% of food waste is generated by households, while 26% comes from food service establishments and 13% comes from retail." i mean, okay, those may be correct but the GROWING and TRANSPORT and STORING BEFORE TRANSPORT also creates a fuck ton of waste. and that they don't even mention that part really puts the guilt onto the consumers since we may be able to affect some change at food service establishments or retail. altho, i will say that either way, pretty much EVERYONE needs to do more work to make less waste. but corporations and industry especially.

the atlantic - The Last Place on Earth Any Tourist Should Go 
this one makes me sad because i would totally want to go to antarctica. tho, to be honest, i wouldn't really wan to go purely as a tourist, i would want to winter over. because it sounds like an incredible experience. and, also, maybe i'm crazy lol.

3.11.2025

march 2025

flight from lax to kona, so movie time! also j and i are sharing a single car again and he's working 10 hour day shifts so I've been staying in more and researching soooo many trips (i have movies playing in the background)

conclave [2024], gladiator II [2024], spencer [2021], mickey 17, interstellar [2014], i used to be funny [2024], an affair to remember [1957], on the basis of sex [2018], unbearable weight of massive talent [2022], barbie [2023]

the dial - Can a Comma Solve a Crime?
nautilus - Your Data’s Strange Undersea Voyage
the cut - Why Do These Women Inspire Such Rage?
vox - The right’s new embrace of an old idea about race
popular science - How prescription drugs get their names
popular science - How do cars get their names? Art, science, and a legal process.
sf gate - 'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos
nyt - Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge’s Order
parents - Today's Kids Are Ordering Uber Eats to School—And Most Teachers Hate It
hetchinger report - inside the Christian Legal Campaign to Return Prayer to Public Schools
stylist - Why are some people so bad at replying to messages? The reality of navigating life as an awful replier
smithsonian magazine - The Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon’s Worth of Microplastics, New Research Suggests

2.08.2025

February 2025

not much reading of articles this month since i focused on books. we also moved from stockton back home, and were there for 10 days. tried to get thru a few atlantic articles on my laptop since i've only signed into my account on that device.

the best American food writing 2022

the age of adaline [2015], Shiva baby [2020], joy: the birth of ivf [2024], kind of pregnant 

the atlantic - the other fear of the founders
the atlantic - the coming democratic baby bust
the atlantic - how the woke right replaced the woke left
the atlantic - how covid pushed a generation of young people to the right
the atlantic - what will happen if the trump administration defies a court order
the guardian - why parents are getting angrier: children are bored out of their skulls with real life