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Longreads<p>"Look in any direction along the political spectrum and sperm are in danger, or endangering someone else." —Rosecrans Baldwin for GQ</p><p><a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/14/are-men-in-a-spermpocalypse/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/14/are-m</span><span class="invisible">en-in-a-spermpocalypse/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/sperm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sperm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IVF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IVF</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"During that last tortuous summer at West Chapple, he found her one day standing in the rain in just a light summer dress repeating the words, 'We should die here. We were born on the farm and we should die here.'"</p><p><a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/06/madness-melancholy-or-murder-an-ancient-english-farms-50-year-old-mystery/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/06/madne</span><span class="invisible">ss-melancholy-or-murder-an-ancient-english-farms-50-year-old-mystery/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/murder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>murder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/truecrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>truecrime</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Devon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Devon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/countryside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>countryside</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"Both groups were surprised that they had so much in common. The condemned women were astonished that the nuns had chosen to live a life nearly as confined as their own, in rooms that they, too, called 'cells.'"</p><p>Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker: <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-nuns-trying-to-save-the-women-on-texass-death-row" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-n</span><span class="invisible">uns-trying-to-save-the-women-on-texass-death-row</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Nuns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nuns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DeathRow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeathRow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Faith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Faith</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Redemption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Redemption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CapitalPunishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CapitalPunishment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Jail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jail</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prison</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Women</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Incarceration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Incarceration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>When the world shifts, so must our words. </p><p>In an excerpt of her new book MY OCEANS: ESSAYS OF WATER, WHALES, AND WOMEN, Christina Rivera explores the sea of language, nature, intelligence, and the power of naming the ineffable. </p><p>(Publisher: Northwestern University Press)</p><p><a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/language-words-climate-crisis/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/13/langu</span><span class="invisible">age-words-climate-crisis/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Sea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ocean</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Whales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Whales</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Words</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Loss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Loss</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"Each season brings its own chance of furthering that dream, rendering devastation, or usually, delivering a dose of both." —Lindsey Liles for Garden &amp; Gun</p><p><a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/inside-the-fight-to-save-theworlds-most-endangered-wolf/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/13/insid</span><span class="invisible">e-the-fight-to-save-theworlds-most-endangered-wolf/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"Call it vigilante justice or guerrilla tactics, but there’s a sense of stalwart duty as the lab attempts to dismantle generative AI."</p><p>Kelley Engelbrecht for Chicago Magazine: <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-great-ai-art-heist/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-g</span><span class="invisible">reat-ai-art-heist/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Artists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Artists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Copyright</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Theft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Theft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a></p>
nf-core<p>Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v1.2.3 - v1.2.3 - Bouncy Basenji Patch!</p><p>Please see the changelog: <a href="https://github.com/nf-core/taxprofiler/releases/tag/1.2.3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/nf-core/taxprofiler</span><span class="invisible">/releases/tag/1.2.3</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/classification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classification</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/illumina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illumina</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/metagenomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metagenomics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/microbiome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microbiome</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/nanopore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nanopore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/pathogen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pathogen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/profiling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>profiling</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/shotgun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shotgun</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/taxonomicclassification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taxonomicclassification</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/taxonomicprofiling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taxonomicprofiling</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/nfcore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nfcore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/openscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openscience</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/nextflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nextflow</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/bioinformatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bioinformatics</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"Poring over social media isn’t so different than idly wondering what happened to young people in a well-loved yearbook."</p><p>Jordan P. Hickey for D Magazine: <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/12/plano-senior-high-alums-instagram-quest-to-find-1122-former-classmates/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/12/plano</span><span class="invisible">-senior-high-alums-instagram-quest-to-find-1122-former-classmates/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Connection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Connection</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Strangers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Strangers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Plano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plano</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"How Sheridan creates these worlds complements the theme of one brave man — occasionally, a woman — taking on the malignant forces hell-bent on destroying this country." —Stephen Rodrick for Rolling Stone </p><p><a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/11/its-taylor-sheridans-world-were-just-watching-it/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/11/its-t</span><span class="invisible">aylor-sheridans-world-were-just-watching-it/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/yellowstone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yellowstone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/taylorsheridan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taylorsheridan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"If it could be proven that the church was built on the foundation of holy fungi, not only would figures like Allegro be vindicated — psychedelics, too, could no longer be considered so taboo."</p><p>John Last for The Long Now Foundation: <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/11/is-god-a-mushroom/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/11/is-go</span><span class="invisible">d-a-mushroom/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Drugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Drugs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Psychedelics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Psychedelics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mushrooms</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Spirituality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spirituality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Psilocybin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Psilocybin</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"One hour later, on the second stretch and fold, I felt the fairy dust of fermentation, a continuous cycle of death and resurrection; out of crumble and shreds came elasticity. The dough was in dialogue with me, teeming with vivacity." </p><p><a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/07/life-death-and-sourdough/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/07/life-</span><span class="invisible">death-and-sourdough/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/grief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grief</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/mourning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mourning</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"I will never know if my grandfather and his father realized the magnitude of their complicity in Italy’s colonial dreams."</p><p>Stefania D’Ignoti for New Lines Magazine: <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/07/my-grandpa-the-fascist/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/07/my-gr</span><span class="invisible">andpa-the-fascist/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Italy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Libya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Libya</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Family" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Family</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>Our <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> Top 5:</p><p>- Harm and hope in West Virginia (The Delacorte Review)</p><p>- The fast-food fight Ali lost (Defector)</p><p>- The day doubt took over (Aeon)</p><p>- When fear slithers in (The Bitter Southerner)</p><p>- Kitzbühel’s wild side (Outside)</p><p><a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/07/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-553/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/07/the-t</span><span class="invisible">op-5-longreads-of-the-week-553/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nonfiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Storytelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Storytelling</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"That night, after wading through a street party unlike anything I’d seen, I talked my way into the Londoner through a side door. The scene looked like something from the 1978 comedy Animal House." —Devon 0"Neil for Outside </p><p><a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/06/a-middle-aged-dad-visits-downhill-skiings-rowdiest-party-what-could-go-wrong/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/06/a-mid</span><span class="invisible">dle-aged-dad-visits-downhill-skiings-rowdiest-party-what-could-go-wrong/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/skiing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skiing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/drinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drinking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"Nothing had really happened, but my anxiety aroused in me wild imaginings, and neither my knowledge nor my clinical experience could dispel them." </p><p>Ronald W. Dworkin for Aeon Magazine: <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/05/when-i-lost-my-intuition/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/05/when-</span><span class="invisible">i-lost-my-intuition/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Intuition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intuition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Psychology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Cognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cognition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Work</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"Five decades later, I remain terrified of walking across a moonlit lawn or even strolling along the sidewalk after dusk. Every fallen twig looks like a baby rattler." </p><p>Rebecca Burns for The Bitter Southerner: <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/05/here-be-serpents/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/05/here-</span><span class="invisible">be-serpents/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Snakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Snakes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Serpents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Serpents</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Fear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fear</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Phobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Anxiety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anxiety</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georgia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a></p>
Brandon Keim<p>There's been lots of stories about H5N1, but I've yet to see a deep dive into where it came from—which is also the story of how industrial poultry production methods turn harmless influenzas into monsters.</p><p>My latest, for Nautilus:</p><p><a href="https://nautil.us/the-unnatural-history-of-bird-flu-1189930/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nautil.us/the-unnatural-histor</span><span class="invisible">y-of-bird-flu-1189930/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/h5n1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>h5n1</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longreads</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"It’s wooed executives from Google and Amazon. And last year, Walmart’s shares rose by an astonishing 72%, outpacing those of Costco, Kroger and Target."</p><p>Jaewon Kang and Devin Leonard for Bloomberg Businessweek: <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/05/walmart-wants-to-be-something-for-everyone-in-a-divided-america/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/05/walma</span><span class="invisible">rt-wants-to-be-something-for-everyone-in-a-divided-america/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Walmart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Walmart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Business</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Shopping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shopping</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ECommerce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ECommerce</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Bentonville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bentonville</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Arkansas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arkansas</span></a></p>
Andy Dehnart<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmazingRace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmazingRace</span></a> starts its 37th trip around the world tomorrow on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CBS</span></a>. To celebrate—and maybe avoid other news tonight!—read (or revisit) my oral history of the first season, a super-deep dive into how it was created. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longreads</span></a> <a href="https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2021/09/amazing-race-season-one-oral-history/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">realityblurred.com/realitytv/2</span><span class="invisible">021/09/amazing-race-season-one-oral-history/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=mastodon</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"Pennell left a trove of letters and diaries behind, but they sat largely unconsulted for a century. The romance hidden inside them was a gift waiting for the right moment to be discovered."</p><p>An excerpt from the new Atavist Magazine issue by Allegra Rosenberg:<br><a href="https://longreads.com/2025/03/04/antarctica-south-pole-expedition-love/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/03/04/antar</span><span class="invisible">ctica-south-pole-expedition-love/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Antarctica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antarctica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SouthPole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthPole</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Love" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Love</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Romance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a></p>