I really do like wallace_the_brave_feed

[conuly]

and today's comic tackles exactly the subject we hardly ever see on Mother's Day or Father's Day: Some people's fathers suck.

So that's worth a read.]

Or, if you're more interested in Juneteenth than Father's Day, here's this link about Juneteenth as (maybe) a baby name: https://www.nancy.cc/2022/06/17/baby-name-juneteenth/

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The New York Public Library is giving away 500,000 books this summer

I mentioned an academic paper which used eye-tracking to show how autistic and NT people literally see different things on the screen when they're watching movies

Scientists Found Superworms That Love Eating Styrofoam, And It Could Be a Good Thing

Just across the border, this Mexican community also celebrates Juneteenth

How a WWII Famine Helped Solve a 2,000 Year Old Major Medical Mystery (I know I've posted another article about this before, but it's so fascinating it's worth posting again in case it's new to somebody else.)

Why the US military is listening to shrimp

A Lost Trove of Civil War Gold, an FBI Excavation, and Some Very Angry Treasure Hunters

The Unintended Consequence of Trying to Give Black Marijuana Entrepreneurs a Head Start

3 Black women couldn’t find a place their families felt safe. So they bought a town.

A real estate boom transforms a community with a polygamist past

Changing Moral Climates

Juneteenth merchandise turns off some shoppers

In Louisiana, Native Americans struggle to recover from Ida

A Texas Teen’s Abortion Odyssey

I Joined the Parole Board to Make a Difference. Now I Call It ‘Conveyor Belt Justice.’

China’s bank run victims planned to protest. Then their Covid health codes turned red

Long COVID Could Be a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’

Texas Republicans declare Biden election illegitimate, despite evidence

Germany to redeploy troops to Bosnia over ‘stability’ concerns

In Yemen, child soldiering continues despite Houthi promise

Comments

[wpadmirer]

Thanks for the link to Wallace.

[conuly]

It's easily one of the favorite things to pop up on my DW reading page every day.

[mtbc]

I was actually on a DARPA-funded AI sonar project many years ago on using the sounds from snapping shrimp.

[austin_dern]

Oh, Wallace the Brave is the second-best newspaper comic strip to debut this century. (Cul de Sac is best.) Always glad when people spread the good word.