Dirty Little Zine is awesome. Just made zines with my kids. One was a ghost story the other about summer. I made one about clouds. Super fun and easy to use. Augment with this video on folding zines if you’re a visual processor.
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Some links for your Friday: buttondown.com/things/ar…
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Haunted Words, Part 6
A collection of ghost words … 🆕 Ghost Farms: “The [fish] farm eventually shut down, but instead of removing it, the company just abandoned it. From above, these fish farms may look like they have little impact on their surroundings. But they’re actually huge …
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Sites I like: The Anti-Subscription Catalogue.
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Read: Obsession and Backrooms are moving the needle. “… they represent a desire from people to have original stories told in interesting ways, and if we get those, people will go to the theaters for them.”
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Look: The art of Up On Goblin Hill. My favorite:
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Read: The Threshold. “Life was shaped, from edge to edge, by scarcity and by natural limits. The shop shut. The night fell. The letter took three days. You were, for long stretches, simply out of reach.”
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Read: I believe in files. “Building things on clouds even sounds bad.”
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Want: The Light Flip.
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Read: Astronauts returning from six-month missions describe a persistent ‘observer’ sensation. “Others compare it to jet lag of the self.”
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Things I’ve liked this week: buttondown.com/things/ar…
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Yankee Candles Levels of Abstraction optional.is/required/…
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“Five years ago, people bragged about waking up at 5am, doing cold plunges, having inbox zero, and working while endlessly Peletoning. Now it’s all about having 17 agents, not opening email, and AI running your business. It’s the exact same performance, just with different props.” www.elenaverna.com/p/please-…
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“I’m not sure if it’s a New York thing or not, but I love that small business owners have artists paint the sides of their trucks with absolutely outlandish graffiti scenes. These panel trucks roam the city with just some hand applied vinyl lettering on the cab doors with the business name, address and phone number. (No website, never.)” blog.strengthofone.com/2026/06/2…
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“My mom taught us to always notice the sky. Appreciate the colors, see the shapes of the clouds, watch a plane fly through, let the sun hit your face. Not only is it a lesson to slow down, but it opens up your chest and shoulders. It’s a lovely thing, even when it’s raining.” cupofjo.com/2026/06/2…
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“I think it’s good to try and put stuff in the world, on these channels, that isn’t what the algorithm wants. That’s not optimised for griefmaxxing, or whatever. I’m not beautiful or angry or high performing. So me being here, sharing my stupid thoughts might be a good thing.” www.undermanager.com/i-posted-…
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“But every once in a while, you find a magical afternoon where you’re both free, and you find yourselves sitting at a bar, or across each other at a picnic table, or sharing a meal, or a pinball machine, and it all comes flooding back. The easy chats, the light-hearted arguments about which band sold out when, the rekindling of old memories, and more recently an “in memorium” of friends who’ve passed.” buttondown.com/monteiro/…
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Some things I liked this week: buttondown.com/things/ar…
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Film Sets — Brigitte Lacombe brigittelacombe.com
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