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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Things I’ve liked recently: buttondown.com/things/ar…
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Craig Mod on Saturday Night Live:
And you feel like this is the last of an era, the final scraps of what used to be (the norm?) for network TV. Goodbye whatever this was. Glad I got to see you once.
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Mechanical Pencil, an illustrated celebration of the engineering around us.
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“Bar-tabacs are part café, part shop. You can buy cigarettes, lottery tickets, or newspapers, and sit down for a coffee or a glass of wine. They’re not particularly glamorous, but they serve as everyday meeting points, especially in rural areas … when a new bar-tabac opens, the far-right vote share will decline over time.” europeancorrespondent.com
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“Years ago in Brooklyn, a wine-fueled Friendsgiving led to discovering a mysterious secret cavern underneath a Brooklyn Heights historic mansion.” metafilter.com
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Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears (not a sci-fi story). popsci.com/environment/japan-robot-wolf-army/
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A memorial gallery of useless websites that once lived on The Useless Web and have since gone offline, been squatted, or otherwise vanished. theuselessweb.com/sites-we-lost
