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Friday, 10 April 2026

Wayne?s World

quote [ Amid Apple?s 50th anniversary, we got a chance to talk to its forgotten third founder: Ronald G. Wayne. Apple is honestly a footnote in his long career. ]

Apple shit, criss cross you (Criss cross)
[SFW] [people] [+1 Informative]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:01amGMT] [0 comments]

Tuesday, 7 April 2026

The hypercurious mind

quote [ ADHD isn?t merely a dysfunction. It?s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information ]

Before I go you got ADHD and one more thing
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[by ScoobySnacks@2:02pmGMT] [0 comments]

Sunday, 5 April 2026

The Camps Promising to Turn You?or Your Son?Into an Alpha Male

quote [ At the Men of War Crucible, you bear-crawl through rivers. At Warrior Week, you dig your own grave. At the Squire Program, your teen-ager can take part, too. ]

From every alpha male behind me
[SFW] [people] [+3 WTF]
[by ScoobySnacks@3:11pmGMT] [2 comments]

Saturday, 4 April 2026

Fernando Pessoa: The Poet With 72 Alter Egos

quote [ Few writers have multiplied themselves as radically, or as deliberately, as Fernando Pessoa. The Portuguese poet did not merely use pen names. He invented entire authors, complete with biographies, temperaments, philosophies, and distinctive literary styles. ]

And Fernando Pessoa smiles at us
[SFW] [people] [+1 Insightful]
[by ScoobySnacks@9:56amGMT] [0 comments]

Friday, 27 March 2026

Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother

quote [ The long read: Once violently defended from extinction, Welsh is still a part of daily life. By learning my family?s language, I hoped to join their conversation ]

Make 'em sing another language, I'm like Duolingo
[SFW] [people] [+2 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT] [2 comments]

Saturday, 21 March 2026

American Diner Gothic

quote [ Mallgoth aesthetics become Walmart defaults ]

The article reads a bit disrespectful in my opinion. The democratization of what-was-once-a-subculture is well described though.

[Edit:] has a second part here that you can ? well you can circumvent the paywall in reader mode, as usual.
[SFW] [people] [+1 Informative]
[by Paracetamol@2:56pmGMT] [0 comments]

Thursday, 19 March 2026

Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What?s behind ?alpine divorce??

quote [ As stories of men leaving their dates in ?sketchy situations? go viral, experts say these incidents could stem from big egos and poor communication ]

Above alpine peaks
[SFW] [people] [+2 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT] [1 comment]

Thursday, 12 March 2026

My dad made the biggest jewelled egg in the world. The obsession would destroy his marriage, family and fortune

quote [ The mad venture ? which my mother nicknamed ?your father?s ego? ? would swallow my childhood. Years later I went on a quest to understand what really happened to his glittering folly ]

All on the search for a Faberge Egg
[SFW] [people] [+2 Insightful]
[by ScoobySnacks@12:39pmGMT] [0 comments]

Tuesday, 10 March 2026

The Ballad of Ollie Jackson

quote [ How the Baddest Man in the St. Louis Underworld Failed to Become a Folk Hero ]

Like some kind of crazy folk hero
[SFW] [people] [+1 Informative]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:05amGMT] [0 comments]

Wednesday, 4 March 2026

A Complimentary Profile Of Jason Lee That Was Surprisingly Difficult To Publish

quote [ If you walked down Colorado Boulevard in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles at some point in the past three years, you might have noticed a modest, pueblo-style beige building with ?PHOTO? painted above its door. And if you had decided to go in, there was a decent chance you?d know the person working? ]

Im gonna keep it funny like Jason Lee
[SFW] [people] [+4 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:30amGMT] [2 comments]

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