October 2022

Generation wealth (2018), border (2018), spiderhead

lot less reading this month. j has been working fewer nights, i've been more stressed with work, and we're leaving for italy soon so i've been prepping for that.

Kaiser - What you need to know about GMOs
Vox - You’re going back to the office. Your boss isn’t.
KTLA - New law allows Californians to legally jaywalk
the Hustle - The family that built a ballpark nachos monopoly
NYT - The $25,000 Rookie Dinner Has N.F.L. Players Divided
Today - You have to see this family’s hilarious baby tooth tradition to believe it
MIT Technology Review - What happens when you donate your body to science
Refinery29 - I’m A Black Woman Who Wears Hair Extensions — But Is It Ever Ethical?
ABC - Qatar's airport strip-searching incident shocked Australia. Here's what we know
NPR - John Cena sets a new Guinness World record by granting 650 Make-A-Wish wishes
Vulture - The Mixed Metaphor Why does the half-Asian, half-white protagonist make us so anxious?
GQ - Inside British newsrooms on the day Queen Elizabeth II died: secret codes, chaos and black ties
City & State - Manhattan congressional candidate publishes a porn video to highlight his sex positive platform

september 2022

rumor has it (2005), straight up (2020), disobedience (2017), the two popes (2019), private life 2018), 

eater - the "jiro" filter
NYT - ‘The Golden Age of Thrifting Is Over’
mornings - The Most Common Dream in Every Country
taste - Putting the Chips Back in Chocolate Chip Cookies
wired - The Most Powerful Story The Onion Ever Wrote
taste - Bonne Maman Is Every Jam, Everywhere, All at Once
bbc - Prestatyn girl makes homeless blankets from crisp packets
sf gate - Bay Area squirrels are splooting amid recent heat wave
gastro obscura - Remembering When America Banned Sliced Bread
wired - These Trees Are Spreading North in Alaska. That’s Not Good
scoop - Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need
new atlas - Genetically modified purple tomato approved by US regulators
popular science - We Finally Know Why We Grow Wisdom Teeth as Adults
teen vogue - Australia Has Mandatory Voting, and Election Days Are a Party
wired - 130-Year-Old Menus Show How Climate Change Affects What We Eat
dmarge - Cruise Ship Graveyards: Where The World’s Biggest Boats Go To Die
vice - Chick-fil-A Is Asking for 'Volunteers' to Work for 5 Chicken Sandwiches Per Hour
the guardian - Beat the Clock: The Surprising Psychology Behind Being Perpetually Late
the tribune - California will allow human composting as alternative to cremation or burial
mother jones - The Curry Trap: How a Continent’s Worth of Food Got Mashed Into One Word
quartz - Nearly 400 Years Later, the Fork Remains at the Center of American Dining Controversy
vanity fair - Trump Wanted to Trade Puerto Rico for Greenland, and Yes, He Was Completely Serious
phys.org - The expansion of capitalism led to a deterioration in human welfare, according to new study
insider - The taste of kale made unborn babies grimace, but they smiled at carrots, a new imaging study found

august 2022

marcel the shell with shoes on, the little hours (2017), thor: love and thunder

both a little more and a little less time for reading this month, but for a while i sorted my pocket so that the shortest articles were up top since i wanted to make a dent in my list. i don't know how many articles i have saved in here, but probably thousands? :( in playing with the sorting function tho, i saw that i apparently starting using pocket in 2016. and sorting it from oldest saved to newest meant that there were a lot of articles that i could delete since i was no longer interested in them, actually. 

fivethirtyeight - The Gender Orgasm Gap
cnn - Sprite will no longer be sold in green bottles
nyt - Online Reviews? Researchers Give Them a Low Rating
the hustle - The people making millions off Listerine royalties
the telegraph - How Generation Z became obsessed with subtitles
lifehacker - Your Credit Score Is Linked to Your Chance of Divorce
axios - California's crack-of-dawn school ban could set a national trend
BBC news - The country where having a pet could soon land you in jail
good - Men are paid more than women - even when they're on parental leave
wapo - Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war, again. Guess who’s winning?
quartz - Reusable plastic shopping bags are actually making the problem worse, not better
metro - Twins who married twins share how their sons are genetically brothers as well as cousins
nbc los angeles - Los Angeles Gives Savings Accounts with $50 to All LAUSD First Grade Students
nbc news - Many Gen Zers don’t use Google. Here’s why they prefer to search on TikTok and Instagram.
popular science - People With Extreme Political Views Have Trouble Thinking About Their Own Thinking
god - Texas Law Requires ‘In God We Trust’ Displays In Schools So Atheist Sends Arabic Version

july 2022

less reading this month. db stuff, prepping to make a quilt that I'm hand dying with avocado pits, reorganizing the apartment after we sold a few things, j mostly working days.

Westworld (1973), vanilla sky (2001), The Talented Mr Ripley (1999), American Girl (2021), persuasion, who we are: a chronicle of racism in america

NYT - Anatomy of a Product Placement
The Atlantic - It’s All So … Premiocre
NYT - How I Became a Pathological Liar
Kron - California has $600M in unclaimed cans and bottles
CNN - Nobody likes self-checkout. Here's why it's everywhere
Vice - Christian Nationalism Drove These People Out of Their Churches
The New Yorker - The Weird, Analog Delights of Foley Sound Effects
Mel - Inside the World of Investigators Who Know You've Faked Your Death
Life Hacker - The Science Behind Why You Feel Sick When You Try to Read in the Car
Jacobin - The Military Feeds on the Student Debt Crisis With False Promises to Recruits
The Guardian - Eat the rich! Why millennials and generation Z have turned their backs on capitalism
19th News - Sex ed was in trouble before Roe v. Wade’s reversal. Now the curriculum matters even more.
My Modern Met - The Story Behind the Original Cover of ‘The Great Gatsby’ and the Artist Who Created It

Bustle - When Is History Ever Too "Female Focused"?
The Guardian - Why do women talk so much? You asked Google – here’s the answer

june 2022

downton abbey: a new era, roadrunner: a film about Anthony bourdain (2021), scanners (1981), seven years in tibet (1997), old (2021)

a book, a book, I've finished a book!
Kurt Kohlstedt and Roman Mars - The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design  

Vox - The college dorm shopping industrial complex is real
Bon Appetit - We Need to Stop Talking About Tipping Fatigue
Axios - Abortions have been increasing since 2017, new data shows
CNN Business - How we got addicted to using Q-tips the wrong way
Nature - The urine revolution: how recycling pee could help to save the world
Retail Brew - Smell that? Scents are a key part of a store’s identity, even in Covid
NPR - A California police department offered gas money for unwanted guns. It ran out
Independent - I’m Swedish – it’s true that we don’t serve food to guests. What’s the problem?
The Guardian - It’s not beige, it’s not grey: it’s greige – and it’s why all our houses look the same
HuffPost - Ashley Del Valle, Transgender Woman, Was Jailed As A Man After Allegedly Exposing Breasts
Yahoo News - The end of Korean BBQ in L.A.? What the gas stove ban means for your fave restaurants
Jalopnik - Naked Florida Couple Crashes into FedEx Truck While Doing Things We Can't Explicitly Describe in a Headline

The Guardian - Experience: my face became a meme
The Guardian - ‘The worst person you know’: the man who unwittingly became a meme

ProPublica - Why 18-Year-Olds in Texas Can Buy AR-15s but Not Handguns
Vanity Fair - A Disturbing Percentage of Republicans Think Mass Shootings are Just Something We Have to Accept

The Verge - File Not Found

may 2022

Dear Ex (誰先愛上他的), ben hur (1959), a sun (2019)

The Atlantic - What Alito Got Right
Culture Study - The Age of Houseplants

BBC - The animals that detect disasters
The Atlantic - How Fake Spies Ruin Real Intelligence
Taste - The Tenacious Quest to Find the World’s Best Rice

BuzzFeed News - He Was 5'7". After Surgery, He’ll Be 5'10".
WaPo - Censorship battles’ new frontier: Your public library

NYT - Are You Successful? If So, You’ve Already Won the Lottery
NYT - In Sweden, an Experiment Turns Shorter Workdays Into Bigger Gains

USA Today - A Reno man donated his kidney. He received a $13,064 bill in return

The Atlantic - Our Highways Are an Ever-Expanding Museum of America’s Wars

NYT - A Landlord ‘Underestimated’ His Tenants. Now They Could Own the Building.

LA Times - Why do so many L.A. apartments come without fridges? Inside the chilling mystery

National Review - China Censors Its Own National Anthem as Lockdown-Enforcement Measure
CTV News - Woman with disabilities nears medically assisted death after futile bid for affordable housing

Calgary Herald - Canadian astronauts no longer free to rob and kill with abandon in space or on the moon
SF Gate - 'Buy now, pay later' is sending the TikTok generation spiraling into debt, popularized by San Francisco tech firms
San Fransisco Chronical - She sold her home for nearly half its $1 million value. The ‘pay it forward’ deal is a new tactic in the Bay Area’s housing crisis
FiveThirtyEight - Prisons, Water Infrastructure And Broadband: Where States Are Spending Their Pandemic Relief Funding

Vox - Gen Z does not dream of labor

Galaxy Brain - What If People Don’t Want 'A Career?'

Atlas Obscura - The Surprising, Overlooked Artistry of Fruit Stickers

Fast Company - The delightful history of fruit stickers, the world’s tiniest canvases for graphic design