Afternoon Snack

There was a lot of super heavy stuff on the TL this week, so we’re starting off with something that has the power to make even the most heartless among smile…


Here’s a fun Throw Your Money at This Kickstarter: two super-thoughtful high fantasy tabletop RPGs called Venture & Dungeon!


Last week, we learned a whole more about apps, particularly how they are not maybe good or even necessary for running really important elections.


Meanwhile, Texans are getting sick from fecal dust, and the state is doing (pardon the pun) jack shit about it.


Media news brought us another surprise last week, and this time it’s a good one, for once: employees of Cards Against Humanity bought Clickhole, making it one of the very few online media platforms that is majority employee-owned. Congratulations to a beloved forerunner in the Websites for Weirdos landscape!


If you would like to dig a little deeper into the dark side of online media acquisition, peep this longread in the Columbia Journalism Review on the tragic and deeply unnecessary death of Deadspin.


We honestly were not expecting Oscar to make great choices this year, and we were wrong about that.

Instead of preparing for this historic victory, we were mostly wondering why heterosexuals love Adam Driver, and to be honest, we still aren’t really satisfied.


And last but not least: all of our dear Pomes can have little a flame-throwing trombone, as a treat.

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A collage featuring the top 10 crones of the year for 2023.

Crones of the Year 2023

As we spiral ever further towards certain catastrophe on this interminable mortal coil, there are some lights of hope that pass fleetingly by. Most often: the crones or otherwise eternal baddies found in all of our favorite escapist media. And so we present our top ten 2023 Crones of the Year.

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