#weekend links

[cleolinda]

Weekend Links are collected but not written up and probably can be posted tomorrow, because today is Mother's Day, and yesterday was Angry AT&T Tech Day, and I have been beleaguered.

[escapekit]

Weekend Links

10+ Of The Best Signs From Women’s Marches Around The World

600-Year-Old Buddha Emerges From The Lake In China

People Share Their Powerful Reasons for Joining the Women’s March

You can now point your phone at Japanese text and get an instant translation

Women’s March in Washington Captured by Simon Bonneau

T-Rex bride is on point

Japanese Train Station Protectively Built Around a 700-Year-Old Tree

Close Views Show Saturn's Rings in Unprecedented Detail

Split View of the Milky Way as If Photographed from Beneath a Frigid German River

[cleolinda]

Weekend links, July 5, 2026

My posts

I am currently sitting at my actual desk for the first time in six months. The back of a legal pad is serving as a mousepad. It feels like it has been both two weeks and ten thousand years.

Reblogs of interest

Organizations you can donate to who can help Venezuela after the earthquake last week

"The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries"

Happy Disability Pride Month, as I stand here on my fifteen-minute Don't Fuck Up Your Back Any Further break

Happy July 1st with Franz Kafka; a reminder to hydrate from Kermit

Jorge Luis Borges' "Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf"

I mean, yes, money can buy a significant amount of happiness

Beneficent chain post apparently sourced from Twitter: "Retweet in 30 seconds and you will hear the best news of your life." I enjoy reblogging this kind of thing because--you have to understand, I'm from a time where you'd actually get a chain LETTER on PAPER in your MAILBOX, possibly from someone you barely knew, if at all, and the letter would tell you that you'd experience horrible misfortune and possibly die, not necessarily in that order, if you didn't copy the letter and send it to 15 other people. HANDWRITTEN LETTERS, y'all. So yeah, I can hit reblog on a cockatiel wishing me a very happy money.

"…Join star fleet they said…It’ll be an adventure they said…"

The "you can't be a fan if you just watch Let's Plays" argument is dear to my heart because I watched streamers for 2-3 years before picking up any video games myself, and I am here to tell you, there is really not a whole lot of difference in terms of knowledge or enthusiasm. I still watch videos of games I have played myself.

Speaking of games (chess is actually mentioned in that post), grandmaster Mikhail Tal figures out how to drag a hippopotamus out of the marsh

The Simulacra and Simulation of it all 

"The best part of getting older is aging out of the demographic that gets killed in horror movies. I am now the age of the kooky local at the gas station who warns the band of college kids not to go to Camp Murderblood." Tag yourself in the notes of that post, I'm the neighbor lady who tells you who was murdered in your new house

What "kill your darlings" actually means; "WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing."

"all you new fandom members need to QUIET DOWN oh my god you’re going to get us KILLED. we’re happy to have you but if you keep talking about BULLSHIT like PUBLISHING fanfic for MONEY, Anne Rice is going to come back from the dead to KILL US."

The concept of a book being "sticky" or "slippery"

The Romantic Auntie meets the Combat Auntie

Truly, no one else is doing it like me

Dove-Shaped Perfume Vessels from Ancient Rome, c.50 CE that you had to break in order to use the perfumes or powders inside

No, no, I think a T-Rex eating people is a perfectly good use of "girl dinner"

Two stories best read together: Disney's Michael Eisner might have understood movies if he'd actually watched them; Mel Brooks got past studio notes by simply saying, "Sure, I'll change that," and then just not changing anything.

"Do you ever wonder how many stories have been told about you?"

How to Tell If Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses (2026 Guide)

Bunnie Xo confirms divorce from Jelly Roll; K-Smog and Batboy caught flipping a grunt 

Boba Fett

Art

"Women Fishing," Getahun Assefa Balcha

"The Fairy Procession," Errol Le Cain

A gorgeous lighthouse sunset by atrusovaartist

More from the #color tag: twinkling gems by homunculus-argument

"And this is why we were asked to leave"

Video

Black menswear modeled by (extremely dapper) Black men

More fashion: "Outfits I'd wear if I were a dark-gym type leader"

A spice wizard tries the world's hottest hot sauce

"Trying to play fetch with your golden but you have a lab"

Small kitten, big purr

"Me trying to do things at 40 that I used to do when I was 18"

tiktoks with vine energy pt. 22

The sacred texts

You wanna fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid

Personal tags of the week

We have a two nickels situation with werewolves this week. 

[cleolinda]

Weekend links, June 21, 2026

My posts

I need to write y'all a post about all the stuff I've found and subsequently thrown away (or taken to be recycled), because basically that has been my life for at least a couple of weeks. Like I said before, this isn't about rampant materialism; I'm throwing away a lot of writing, as well as boxes upon boxes of magazine clippings. "Don't throw away your writing!" Trust me, I'm keeping 10%, and 10% is still taking up too much room; I was 15, and no one should be forced to keep their bad teenager writing around to shame them before posterity. Anyway, my back also hurts. 

Reblogs of interest

Juneteenth: "Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality. Today, stand with us." 

Daveigh Chase, Disney’s Lilo Voice Actor and ‘The Ring’ Villain, Dies at 35

Remembering Richard Hunt, the beloved muppeteer who passed away from AIDS complications. Meanwhile, here's Elizabeth Taylor in 1992 talking about her AIDS research charity/advocacy work.

Happy Sinkhole Forest to all who celebrate

Yes, you have an accent. Yes, even you.

"There’s this weird tendency among fandom types where they’ll take a character, and insist that they are fans of them, before changing their design, age, pronouns, backstory, blood type, species, hometown, favorite color, zodiac sign, medical history, and every other facet of their being." I have recently witnessed one of the worst cases of this I've ever seen, except that these fans also rage at you for not buying into their inventions. No, I know that doesn't narrow it down. 

A bit of dashboard synchronicity: "If you were frog prey....... hoooo boy"

"reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and it’s the only thing i care about right now"

A helpful post on flexibility exercises: "I made the post and even I’m still doing the thing where I read the post about maintaining range of motion in my delicate meatsuit and I nod and hmm and think yeah that’s a good idea and then don't move from where I’m curled up shrimp style staring at the nightmare rectangle."

Re: Executive dysfunction: "I always think of the description I saw years ago: Self-imposed deadlines don’t help me, because I know the person who set them, and they’re full of shit."

Related: Forgetting to eat lunch "is inadvisable. 4pm lunch is not the ideal. 4pm lunch makes the mind demons real."

Also related: are you 1) thriving, 2) surviving, 3) struggling, or 4) in crisis?

Struck down by glitter from the Baltimore Rock Opera Society's American Vamp show

Re: these fishbowl earrings: I still need to take pictures for y'all of some of my more whimsical jewelry. 

"the sewing machine is like if a horse and an inkjet printer had a child"

Where's that post that's like, every kitten is either "hates everything" or "no thoughts, tummy hurts"? Ah, here it is. Anyway, we is brothers.

No, Bill Watterson has always known what was up with selling out: "Calvin and Hobbes was designed to be a comic strip and that's all I want it to be."

"in this essay, i will redefine the nuclear family and explain the seductive and inflammatory nature of the 1993 'Got Milk?' commercials." How this ties into National Milk Day is an unanswered question.

"Hear me out" just does not work on Tumblr

Can confirm: "As a middle aged woman, you can either go beige or go large"

Can also confirm, Jacques Tourneur's Cat People is a good watch. 

Let it snake

Art

The Wanderer, from Ulla Thynell's 2027 calendar (confession: I've tossed a lot of stuff, but I never throw away art calendars)

Study Art For Prestige Or Spite

"Hello friend are you still in the Torment Maze?"

"some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they’re so normalized. Like I’ll look at a van Gogh and I’m like wait this really is amazing you guys don’t get it"

The intricate work of Julien Delval

"Can we keep her?," Jenifer Prince

Be a freak :3

Video

Chocolate Guy makes writeable, eraseable chocolate pencils

"Taking my cat to a safari/zoo to see animals she never thought existed"

Your friend is the main character in a romantasy book ("all right Facetime me and show me his dungeon right now")

The sacred texts

Noooo they be stealin' my Bucket

Personal tags of the week

I like cats for this week. Also, I reblogged a House of Worth gown, and you may want to see more of Worth's work. 

[cleolinda]

Weekend links will go up tomorrow (hopefully), because I've spent the weekend unpacking boxes to clear a path for the guy coming tomorrow to put up blinds (to replace the ones Remediation Company lost) for four windows. My back hurts, I'm exhausted, I'm still not even finished, and morale is low. I keep muttering "this is a nightmare." I found one box labeled #178, and inside was 5000 feet of packing paper and my sister's childhood piggy bank. That was all. Anyway, the linkspam is half done and it'll go up tomorrow.

[cleolinda]

Weekend links, July 6, 2025

My posts

Guess what? I'm going to be having a chat with my spinal clinic about some side effects from that epidural pain block a couple weeks ago. Thus, we didn't have a linkspam last Sunday, and I'm working from a larger pool of posts this week. Also, I am behind on everything. Enjoy. 

Side note, Ian's Silent Hill 2 stream of Toluca Prison (and an hour's discussion of storytelling with Vic Frederick) went up two Wednesdays ago. (He's now taking a month off while I pick up the [my] slack.) I made it to chat, despite shaking off anesthesia. And I'm glad I did because the first major fight was... something I've never seen before, I'll put it that way. I now have a new goal for when my videos get there. 

Meanwhile, remember how I posted about horror as comfort media? These people get it.

Reblogs of interest

Pride parade, Budapest, 100k+ people marching: "the perfect example of 'they can’t arrest all of us'" 

Niagara Falls lit up in rainbow; a lovely bisexual moon.

Important food recalls and news sources for the United States

How to Disable and Remove All AI Features in Mozilla Firefox. Et tu, Mozilla?

After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad. No, I actually expected that from y'all. With links/recs for Libre Office. 

By the way, Shel Silverstein foresaw gen AI

"i think all quiet on the western front and the lord of the rings are in direct conversation with each other," with bonus Narnia shell craters. That sounds flippant, but I really think everybody here is onto something. 

Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the Indiana Jones Franchise, and Bluesky has some ideas

"To be TRULY fluent in English you must know your SHITS"

"i am not immune to the bit. i’m gonna have to go full mingo aren’t i."

I remember these MTV Video Music Awards Posters from 1999. Yes, the late '90s were exactly Like That.

Putting the CERN back in "concerned," Molly Bair wearing Iris van Herpen inside the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Listen, you know shit ain't been the same since that weasel. You get out of there right now.

"a redditor has mushrooms growing out of his home's electrical sockets" and it's not good. It's Not Good!

"True Gym Bros while flexing their jaws: Come Bro, join us in the Gainshalla"

Prosper, feather beast

"Call me Cismale"

Go in the wet. The wet will love you. The wet doesn't have capitalism. Just go in the wet.

"IT WAS NOT THE FUCKING COLONIALISM THAT INVENTED THE FUCKING POTATO."

"Dude’s out here trying to solve House of Leaves. I give it to page 120 before the actual minotaur gets him." No one has read this book so purely in its own spirit as this one beleaguered guy reading it in French with graph paper and a middle finger.

I am pretty sure I will grab Date Everything if there's a good discount on Steam

"spn Fandom perfec t fun for put new fan in to e\njoy show! inside very Nice and Comfort new fan enjoy fun put new fan in Spn Fandom." (I never get my "mouth perfect size for meme" tag right on the first try)

Tag yourself, I'm the Taylor Swift lyric "some guy said my aura's moonstone, just 'cause he was high"

Art: "The important questions of what if bird were fruit"

"Girl help the pessimists are mistaking an inherently meaningless universe for an inhumane and joyless one rather than recognizing the opportunity to make one’s own meaning and joy and to spread those things to others"

"girl help they’re decoding my cat"

He's all in

A brooch of a fabulous creature

HONSE

Video

"Someday Amaury Guichon is going to release a video where creates a life sized statue of a human being, but as he adds detail, it becomes increasingly clear that the chocolate model is becoming more and more akin to a perfect replica of the viewer"

The painstaking restoration of a wedding dress from 1950

This is not how I expected you'd make magnolia blossom ice cream

"they removed capybara walking (1887) from letterboxd so i’m letting it live on my blog forever"

Knitted sheep, animated

One of the deans at Beijing Dance Academy shows you how it's done

Pre-Colonial Filipino clothing revivalists out on the town

The sacred texts

Children’s Hospital Colour Theory

Dogs in Elk

Personal tags of the week

I'm going to say food, but it was actually a good bit of #chocolate. Also, Pride Month, since it wrapped up while I was still recovering. 

[cleolinda]

Weekend links, May 24, 2026

My posts

I have family visiting and I've been having health issues the whole week. We persevere.

Reblogs of interest

US politics/ICE awareness: they're now in Memphis, and it's getting much less coverage.

Disability activist Alice Wong, who passed late last year: "I am so tired of trying to bargain with the universe for some kind of cure. The price is simply too high to live chasing cures, because in doing so, I’m missing living my life. I know only that in chasing to achieve the person I once was, I will miss the person I have become."

"The Feed Is Fake": "tl;dr: all 'algorithmically' pushed stuff on a newsfeed is mostly ads. nothing that’s really surprising form this vulture article, but it is dismal and makes me grateful for one website where you only see things from people you follow WITHOUT horrible short-form video content."  

Speaking of fake, Austin Walker writes, "[Gen AI is] like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball."

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users’ machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking." Includes procedures for disabling it. Y'all, come on. I'm so tired. 

At the same time, not everything is AI, especially if it was published in 2019. "Please go learn how time works."

Soft toys go to the beach, thrive despite the seagull of it all

An improved beanbag kitten sewing pattern ("His name is Tofu. Thank you for sharing the pattern I will love him forever")

"i think there's something in here with me. i think it's getting closer"

"Mozart (Currently shredding Violin Concerto No. 1 on the guitar, having figured it out within 30 seconds): What other music can be made from harnessed lightning?"

"Every once in a while you’ll be like 'Oh, I wish I hadn’t wasted all that time writing bullshit,' but that’s dumb. That’s exactly the same as an Olympic runner being like 'Oh, I wish I hadn’t wasted all that time running all those practice laps.'"

"nearly had a medical emergency today because - and i cannot stress enough how little i am making this up - a helicopter landed in front of an open grain silo while i was getting off my ship and i am deathly allergic to the wheat that said helicopters rotor blades proceeded to blast in my face at full force"

At the eye doctor: NOT THE AIR PUFF JUMPSCARE

Nervous marriage proposals ("then our toddler pantsed me")

"it’s so wild to me that you absolutely cannot force a hyperfixation to happen. like you’ll watch the most perfectly tailor-made-for-you content that everyone says you’ll love and feel absolutely nothing, and then the thing you watch on a whim to fill time will reach through the screen and put its damn fingers in your brain and start rearranging the neurons right in front of you and every single time you’re like THIS??? THIS???????" or, I am up to my ears in Resident Evil lore right now and I'm very upset about it. 

"'are you gonna take those pills the rest of your life?' you mean my molecules? why surely you wouldn’t deprive me of my molecules. they are shaped exactly just so, you see. my molecules"

An elephant parent and child having the best time wading through flowers

As much as I love this image of a leaping pallas cat, I must apologize that there is no actual kitten.

"okay huge shoutout to our not jewish belovèd who was messaging someone jewish and wrote 'RIP me' but then changed it to 'may my memory be a blessing'"

Art

The Ulla Thynell cover reveal for Dolmenwood Book of Lairs

Light Catcher, oil on linen, 2012 by Hélène Béland, featuring exactly the kind of glass doorknob(s) I had in the haunted house I grew up in

coyote doodle 2026, parsleydraws

Video

"Every time he opens his mouth, it’s a loud movie trailer": Annabelle Dinda's song "The Hand"

Giving Ethel's bed a makeover: "I think I can confidently speak for all of us when I say we were all expecting a cat."

The sacred texts

A high holy text: eef freef.

Another, even longer High Holy: The "Are fedoras really that bad?" Hat Post that started in 2014. 

Personal tags of the week

Honestly, I don't really have one this week; we're doing good just to be here. Maybe browse that sewing tag from the beanbag kitten post if you feel intrepid.

[cleolinda]

Weekend links, March 29, 2026

My posts

Tiny Fire, Day 80something: an astonishing number of things have been accomplished. We really might finish the actual renovation this week, I don't know. But then: the Boxes. 

I have been watching playthroughs of Resident Evil: Requiem, and I am violently uncertain as to whether I would ever want to try playing this. I don't like running and hiding, and I DON'T like zombies, but parts of the game look like so much fun and people love RE so much? I can't even play games with the state my living space is in right now, so it's moot, really. 

There was a question of the differences between parody, satire, and deconstruction, and I really think I have a working answer, as someone who used to write movie parodies. 

Look at that fucking flower: I added a violet.

Reblogs of interest

An update on the Hawai'i floods, with a list of aid organizations (the last time I saw the OP was 5 days ago, so I wanted to add to it). 

The Nationwide [U.S.] [LGBTQIA] Book Ban Bill Moves to the House: How to Take Action Now. To be clear, this is regarding schools. "During markup, one representative said if schools don’t want to follow the law, they don’t have to – they’d just lose their federal funding. That summed up everything intellectual freedom and educational freedom advocates have been warning about for five years: all of this adds up to the goal of defunding public schools." 

OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform; Disney Drops Plans for $1 Billion Investment, and a couple Bad Week for Meta stories as well. Check the notes for some discussion/disagreement about the third story; I can't really tell you what's going on because I ended up muting the notifications. 

It HAS been 30 years since the release of Romeo + Juliet! If you missed it, I read the tiny moist hand anecdote (which happened during this movie) aloud last year.  

"the torments are unending but you can always make some little sounds about it."

"Star can have a little helium as a treat" (meanwhile, I'm like KATIE MACK FROM THE HOZIER SONG??)

William Shatner bemoans 'Starfleet Academy' end, mocks 'woke' backlash ("Shatner figured it out?")

Orb? Fantasy. Cube? Sci-fi. More sides than that? "I dont know. I dont know man." "one of the underrated lessons from lotr’s Aragorn is to avoid responsibility for as long as humanly possible, possibly in the woods, possibly without showering, until the small folk need you or whatever"

Sometimes it is a four hobbit problem

"montage of a spectacled owl meeting my barn owl shawl at the ren faire today"

For all our many faults, we Americans really do mean all those compliments we hand out: "we aren’t lying we are making a small but fleeting connection with you because our lives are shitty but the human condition is enduring. oh god i’m clutching my chest" 

1800s personal ads: when the velocipede occupies all your time

Normally the kind of post that happens to batmanisagatewaydrug: one must imagine capnsoapy happy

The Mightpuppy and Weakpuppy

"It brings me comfort that, for a brief moment, Jared Leto genuinely believed Christian Bale was going to kill him with an axe"

The thing about Jonestown is that a cult can have any political leaning

"This is great. I’m going to get a good grade in post-accident cognition."

"rating the ways my family members have referred to me to other people since coming out as nonbinary"

"wearing sky-colored shoes to hide from the devil. earth colored hat to hide from god." "Iron breastplate to ward off fairies, Fishnet leggings to ward off cod."

"One thing not enough model kit enthusiasts talk about is how often you can save money by shopping for your hobby tools…in the makeup department."

Polar bear cannonball

jentol... totche...

Art

I'm putting in a new section!

"Dial down the feminism," a performance piece

"In the Year of the Horse, let us all truly appreciate what this mythical creature has done for surrealist memes"

Two lovely bird-themed pieces

Yes, this does remind a lot of us of C.S. Lewis' Wood Between the Worlds

Stylized animal portraits with many lines: Torti the stray tortoiseshell and Zero the Blue Heeler

A tea set of celestial creatures

Video

Chocolate Guy strikes again, this time as Sugar Guy. My mom had left the TV on the Food Network, and I turned around the other morning to discover Amaury Guichon telling a contestant of some kind that their red velvet cake was only a flawless red velvet cake, and I thought, yeah, he's probably upset that it wasn't a red velvet ganache hidden inside a facsimile of a red velvet cake in a gift box made of red velvet (the velvet would secretly be chocolate) (the chocolate would secretly be a different kind of chocolate).  

Seth Meyers was not ready for Chris Fleming (but who is, really?)

Mr. Rogers' final recording: "A few months before he passed away in 2003, a 74 year old children’s television host sat down in the same studio where he had filmed 895 episodes over 33 years and recorded one last message. It wasn’t for children. It was for the adults who had grown up watching him." 

Pterrible Dinosaur Drawings: "hey can you do me a favour?? Can you go get that nice pristine sketchbook or journal you’ve been hoarding and put some kind of mark on the first page?" And people did.

I don't know what's happening here, but I support it

The sacred texts

Links in two words: 

Doctor Yiff

Nyan Cat

Eeby Deeby

Personal tags of the week

It was an interesting week for Interview with the Vampire (book fandom).