Sorry I've been not responding to very many people these past few days

[conuly]

I've just been blah for no reason, and also the news, and also my period, so I guess for two reasons.

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Thirsty? Oh Yeah!

A Guide for Working Breeds (Short story, sci-fi)

Thirty Going on 13: The Adult Actors Who Play Movie Teens, by the Numbers

I'd wreak mayhem for a really good scifi where sight was considered as exotic and numinous as telepathy by the protag species

Watch an Unusual Ensemble of Insects Take Flight in Extreme Slow Motion (Video)

The Inside Story of the $8 Million Heist From the Carnegie Library

The 6-foot social-distancing rule is based on nearly 80-year-old science.

Blood thinners reduce deaths among coronavirus patients, study finds

Black Homeowners Face Discrimination in Appraisals

Can Planting Trees Make a City More Equitable?

Racism has shaped public transit, and it’s riddled with inequities

Pedestrian deaths aren’t random, and they disproportionately impact marginalized people who can’t demand reform.

U.S. Flood Strategy Shifts to ‘Unavoidable’ Relocation of Entire Neighborhoods

A Massive Earthquake Is Coming to Cascadia That Can't Be Stopped

“The Slaves Were Happy”: High School Latin and the Horrors of Classical Studies

Clinton Melton: A Man Who Was Killed In Mississippi Just 3 Months After Emmett Till

How the domestic aesthetics of Instagram repackage QAnon for the masses

Who gets asylum? Even before Trump, system was riddled with bias and disparities

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Alternate Asylum Coverage

[ioplokon]

Heads up on that if people want to avoid using their LATimes free articles, the "Who Gets Asylum" series is also available through the San Diego Union-Tribune, who I think were actually the reporting team that accessed and analyzed the data in the first place. And it seems to have been made freely available (or, if not, I imagine people are less likely to blow through the allowed number of free U-T articles in a month vs the Times)