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From @pghcitypaper.com: A contemporary clown revival? In Pittsburgh, clowning is serious business. www.pghcitypaper.com/arts-enterta...
Pittsburgh sends in the clowns
Pittsburgh adds to a growing national fascination with clowns that brings the performers back to their inventive, playful, often subversive roots.
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From @dezeen.com: After decades of generic design, builders of new sports stadiums are looking for more creativity and stronger statements. www.dezeen.com/2026/07/28/s...
Why stadium design is getting more outlandish
Stadiums are becoming more distinctive with clubs and countries using them to attract attention. As part of our Future Stadium series we look at why stadium design is becoming more icon-focused.
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It's Friday Tidings time! Catch up on some of the best stories shared by the Seabird community this week. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
TIDINGS: What the dickens!
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From @huckmag.com: Before Disney, "Floridian tourism was a ramshackle collection of weird roadside attractions, shot through with a deep and abiding faith that if something was sufficiently peculiar, somebody would pay 50 cents to see it." www.huckmag.com/article/real...
The real life mermaids of Florida’s Weeki Wachee Springs
Old Florida — A relic of pre-Disney tourism in the state, the show – which sees women perform athletic underwater tricks in a natural spring – has been…
huckmag.com
Lessons for AI execs from the invention of mechanical cotton-picking machines. asteriskmag.com/issues/15/ru...
Rust and Boll
Anthropic should learn from those cotton-picking socialists.
asteriskmag.com
From Jean Casella in @thenation.com: A visit to the Norwegian prison system, where the country treats its most-reviled mass murderer more humanely than the US treats many detainees accused of far more minor infractions. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
15 Years Ago, Anders Breivik Massacred 77 People. Norway Is Determined to Treat Him Humanely.
Our prisons, ourselves.
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Seabird@seabirdreader.bsky.social · 2w agoIt's Tidings time! Get your weekly batch of recommended reads from the community on Seabird. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
From @mattpolprof.bsky.social in @jacobinmag.bsky.social: "The glory of Homer’s story is, in part, how endlessly generative it has been of fresh interpretations by artists who know that honoring it means changing it to keep alive the tale’s eternal lessons." jacobin.com/2026/07/odys...
Christopher Nolan vs. the Chuds
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is a massive hit — and nearly everyone on the Right, from Elon Musk to the Daily Wire, is furious. Because what 21st-century conservatives really want is a profound cheapen...
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Seabird@seabirdreader.bsky.social · 2w agoIt's Tidings time! Get your weekly batch of recommended reads from the community on Seabird. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
It's Tidings time! Get your weekly batch of recommended reads from the community on Seabird. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
TIDINGS: On the fast track
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From @thewalrus.ca: On the quietly successful reinvention of BlackBerry. thewalrus.ca/how-blackber...
How BlackBerry Staged a Comeback by Winning Over Car Companies | The Walrus
After its near-death experience, the tech behemoth is profitable once more
thewalrus.ca
Seabird@seabirdreader.bsky.social · 3w agoThis week's Tidings is out now! Stories shared by the Seabird community about AI, VAR, lichen, and more. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
Just undo it: a brief history of the undo button. mercury.com/blog/undo-bu...
The undo button has redone who we are
How Undo, a supposedly simple, now ubiquitous keyboard function reshaped how we think about decision-making, permanence, and the nature of choice.
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Seabird@seabirdreader.bsky.social · 3w agoThis week's Tidings is out now! Stories shared by the Seabird community about AI, VAR, lichen, and more. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
As I’ve tried to back away from the full RSS firehose and have that show me personal blogs, Tidings has become my “longreads newsletter of choice”. Check it out. And Seabird is made in Portland!
Seabird@seabirdreader.bsky.social · 3w agoThis week's Tidings is out now! Stories shared by the Seabird community about AI, VAR, lichen, and more. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
From @nytimes.com, @kashhill.bsky.social discovers she is the subject of a sloppily AI-generated biography sold on Amazon and meets a prolific "author" of 445 books using AI to self-publish up to ten volumes a week. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
I Got Slopped (Gift Article)
Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?
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Seabird@seabirdreader.bsky.social · 3w agoThis week's Tidings is out now! Stories shared by the Seabird community about AI, VAR, lichen, and more. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
This week's Tidings is out now! Stories shared by the Seabird community about AI, VAR, lichen, and more. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
TIDINGS: Just undo it
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World Cup reading from @bernybelvedere.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net: "Trump was always going to put his stamp on—actually, his fist through—this tournament, harming the nation’s and team’s reputation." www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-us-tea...
The US Team’s Loss Hasn’t Shamed America in the World Cup, Trump’s Conduct Has
His brazen campaign to reinstate a player has elicited global disgust and rightly so
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Seabird@seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4w agoIt's Tidings time! Here's this week's sampling of stories shared by our community. Want to read more or share your own writing and recommendations? Sign up for Seabird! seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
On the oft-ignored history of Nya Sverige, Sweden's colonial outpost on the Atlantic coast of North America. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
New Sweden: The US's long-lost 'secret' colony
It was the smallest, least-populated and shortest-lived colony in the US. But despite being virtually unheard of today, it helped shape the nation's birth 250 years ago.
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Seabird@seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4w agoIt's Tidings time! Here's this week's sampling of stories shared by our community. Want to read more or share your own writing and recommendations? Sign up for Seabird! seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
This week's bird story in Tidings, from Robert Haas in @prisonjournalism.bsky.social: a tiny sparrow brings moments of sweetness to a prison block. prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/07/07/a...
An Unexpected Bird Brought Gentleness to This Prison Block
Freedom isn't just about flying — it's about the small connections that make the bars feel a little less solid.
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Seabird@seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4w agoIt's Tidings time! Here's this week's sampling of stories shared by our community. Want to read more or share your own writing and recommendations? Sign up for Seabird! seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
From @macleans.bsky.social: Excerpts from Lynne Rennie's "Drawn to Canada" project illustrating iconic Canadian objects. macleans.ca/culture/a-hi...
A History of Canada in 24 Objects - Macleans.ca
Bagged milk, Cheezies, crokinole, BlackBerry: inside one artist’s project to depict Canadian identity
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Seabird@seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4w agoIt's Tidings time! Here's this week's sampling of stories shared by our community. Want to read more or share your own writing and recommendations? Sign up for Seabird! seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
It's Tidings time! Here's this week's sampling of stories shared by our community. Want to read more or share your own writing and recommendations? Sign up for Seabird! seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
TIDINGS: Oh, Canada
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The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 4w agoAmericans were once members of a proudly literate society, but today, reading has declined across age groups, gender, and education levels. For The Atlantic’s August issue, @rosehorowitch.bsky.social explores the reading collapse—and its effects on civilization: theatln.tc/Q0QJpF8U
Apt day to share this very fun profile of Erling Haaland: www.newyorker.com/sports/world...
Erling Haaland Plays Like a Viking
Norway’s hulking striker brought his country back to the World Cup for the first time in almost thirty years. How far can they go?
newyorker.com
Seabird@seabirdreader.bsky.social · last mo.It's a long weekend, so here's an extra-packed edition of Tidings full of recommended reads from the Seabird community! seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
A thread of Independence Day recommendations from Seabird. First up, @jamellebouie.net in @nytimes.com: "It is this Declaration — the slaves’ Declaration, the abolitionists’ Declaration, Lincoln’s Declaration — that is the beating heart of the American project." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...
Opinion | Five Words That Changed America
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Happy World Seabird Day to all who observe! worldseabirdunion.org/about/world-...
World Seabird Day July 3rd
World Seabird Day Seabird researchers and enthusiasts observe this date to increase awareness of the continuous conservation risks to seabird populations. World Seabird Day will be celebrated on Ju…
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It's a long weekend, so here's an extra-packed edition of Tidings full of recommended reads from the Seabird community! seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
TIDINGS: Independence weekend edition
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From @brdemuth.bsky.social in @nplusonemag.com: On threats to seize Greenland as part of a long history of exerting sovereignty over indigenous Americans. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Strategic Amnesia | Bathsheba Demuth
Denying that history could have been otherwise or making conquest subject to some unwritten statute of limitations are both ways of cloaking not just the US’s imperial past but its continuation into t...
nplusonemag.com
Seabird@seabirdreader.bsky.social · last mo.It's Friday, it's Tidings time! seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
From @jkuznicki.bsky.social in @liberalism.org: lessons in trade, toleration, and forbearance from growing pineapples in Hawaiʻi. www.liberalism.org/p/against-fr...
Against Friends, Against Enemies
On the liberalism of productive ambiguity. And pineapples.
liberalism.org
Seabird@seabirdreader.bsky.social · last mo.It's Friday, it's Tidings time! seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
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TIDINGS: Today's menu of tasty reads
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From @dylanlscott.bsky.social at @vox.com: on the developing vaccines that could prevent the spread of tick-borne diseases. www.vox.com/good-medicin...
Ticks are spreading Lyme disease across America, but we can beat them. Here’s how.
What if we had a universal tick vaccine?
vox.com
Seabird@seabirdreader.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew Tidings out today rounding up Seabird links from the past week. Is it that sweet? I guess so. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
A link for the coffee lovers: a visit to the home of La Marzocco. www.totei.com/story/la-mar...
How La Marzocco Perfected the Espresso Machine
Beloved by coffee enthusiasts, the century-old brand has built a philosophy based on timeless design, reliability, and watching baristas at work.
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Seabird@seabirdreader.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew Tidings out today rounding up Seabird links from the past week. Is it that sweet? I guess so. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
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New Tidings out today rounding up Seabird links from the past week. Is it that sweet? I guess so. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...
TIDINGS: That's that me espresso
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