the archivist September 25, 2025

Ivan Bunin hated everyone… well, almost everyone. Tap Water Sommelier compiles a list.

Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service.  The company claims to have not considered before launch whether their new protest and strike surveillance tool could be misused.

screenshot of Feedly website offering to monitor protests and strikesMolly White | Citation Needed

 Text copied from image X.com Margaret E Atwood @MargaretAtwood Here's a piece of literature by me, suitable for seventeen-year-olds in Alberta schools, unlike kids; your Minister of Education thinks you are stupid babies.) John and Mary were both very, very good children. They never picked their noses or had bowel movements or zits. They grew up and married each other, and produced five perfect children without ever having sex. Although they claimed to be Christian, they paid no attention to what Jesus actually said about the poor and the Good Samaritan and forgiving your enemies and such; instead, they practised selfish rapacious capitalism, because they worshipped Ayn Rand. (Though they ignored the scene in The Fountainhead where "welcomed rape" is advocated, because who wants to dwell, and also that would have involved sex and would de facto be pornographic. Well, it kind of is, eh?) Oh, and they never died, because who wants to dwell on, you know, death and corpses and yuk? So they lived happily ever after. But while they were doing that The Handmaid's Tale came true and Danielle Smith found herself with a nice new blue dress but no job. The end. 12:22 - 2025-08-31 • 75K Views
Margaret Atwood: Handmaid’s Tale Banned in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Schools And everyone and their pet canary wants me to “comment.”

Neatorama: Obscure But Badass Folks You Should Know About. I already knew 5 of them.
a photo mosaic of obscure people from history: Michael I of Romania, Miyamoto Musahi, Bertha Benz

Marianne Knight's dancing slippersSmall things can be almost sacred, as is Fanny Price’s “nest of comforts,” assembled out of bits and pieces in the old schoolroom at Mansfield Park—a faded footstool, a collection of family silhouettes, a sketch of her brother’s ship; objects none of which is considered good enough for display elsewhere. Or they can be slippery, unnoticed clues—in Emma, the spectacles whose loose rivet Frank Churchill is discovered mending with such fixed concentration in Miss Bates’s sitting room.  What Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal About Her Literary Ethos

a pile of reddit logo stickers
The Website at the End of the Internet. Reddit is one of the last thriving islands of the old web. Can it survive AI?

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