How Israel Turned Gaza Into an “Annihilation Zone” — The Caterpillars have been here for a long time. In August 1950 the area that came to be known as the Gaza Strip was cut off from the rest of Palestine by a ditch carved into the soil by a single-b…
Inside the Rise of America’s Oligarch Class—And What It Means For All of Us — In early 2014, a pair of political scientists published a striking study on the health, or lack thereof, of American democracy. Authored by Princeton University’s Martin Gilens and Northwestern Uni…
Pandoc - Pandoc Lua Filters — A universal document converter
F1 Reviews China Boy Band’s Logo for Similarities: Global Times — The Formula One group is reviewing and investigating information about a logo used in a concert tour by Chinese boy group Teens in Times, after fans alleged it resembled F1’s trademark, the Global Times reported…
Sorry Euphoria, but this 2000s Hulu cult classic did teen drama better — This 2000s British drama changed how teens were depicted long before HBO aired their hit returning drama.
Home - Snap Judgment — Snap Judgment. with Glynn Washington. Mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, and dramatic radio. Hosted by Glynn Washington.
“The Thing About You” — When they were little, Netty and G spent their prayers asking God why he made them cousins instead of sisters. Why had he made them suffer the cruelty of returning to their separate homes alone aft…
TheTopTens — Community-voted lists.
Turn voice notes and rough ideas into a finished book for $49 — For the book idea sitting in your notes app.
Etymology - Etymology, Origin & Meaning — "facts of the origin and development of a word," from Old French etimologie, ethimologie… See origin and meaning of etymology.
Explore America’s Other Coast — With colorful shorelines and dazzling waterfalls, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula makes for a world-class nature escape
Lit Hub Daily: June 16, 2026 — Sophie Lewis examines the phenomenon of heterofatalism. | Lit Hub Politics If you want a job as an astronaut, you need to nail the interview. | Lit Hub Memoir Erin Maglaque contextualizes her own e…
Common Language Index — UK vs US English.
Online Writing Jobs & Freelance Content Writing Opportunities | The Official Online Writing Jobs Website — Join our community of freelance writers or hire a specialized content writer to complete website content for some of the most recognizable brands in the world.
Considering the Many Forms a Family Can Take in Japanese Literature — Growing up, my mother and I often joked that I was a thirty-year-old in a ten-year-old’s skin. That happens when you’re an only child with a tendency toward bookishness—you spend all your time arou…
watched a guy spend 20 minutes explaining to his therapist why he can't stop watching videos of people organizing their fridges, gg
Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do it — Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when…
5 things n8n can automate that Home Assistant can't do alone — Automations that can do n8n you want.
Close race as Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU — Turbulent international affairs have brought the vote forward, but the campaign has focused more on Iceland's vital fishing industry.
GitHub - AminBlg/SimpleEnglish: Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — no AI slop — Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — no AI slop - AminBlg/SimpleEnglish
Gutenberg Top Books — The most popular free classics.
Watch the chic, menacing trailer for Bret Easton Ellis’s new FX series. — Oh, Bret Easton Ellis. You old lightning rod. The Gen X nihilist known for anchoring the literary Brat Pack and depicting depraved superficial youth is shifting his talents to television. With the …
A Tiny E Reader — I like books. You’d probably know that if you’ve seen my bookshelf page. But, I don’t like physical books. Yeah they do look good on a physical shelf, and I do like that part of them. I just don’t like reading them. The main issue for me, is that not every book
AI chatbots may be better than search engines in guarding against foreign propaganda — In a test, popular AI chatbots mostly debunked falsehoods spread by other countries and avoided uncritically spreading falsehoods better than search engines. AI summaries above search results…
Verbix verb conjugator — Conjugate verbs in 100+ languages.
Obsidian and the Birds: An Odyssey of Wonder from the Aztecs to the Quantum World — A recent visit to Teotihuacán — the ancient Mesoamerican city in present-day Mexico, built by earlier cultures around 600 BCE and later rediscovered by the Aztecs — left me wonder-smitt…
Deb Olin Unferth on Our Apocalypse Now World — Writer Deb Olin Unferth joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and Christian Barter to discuss the enduring power of apocalyptic narratives and her new novel Earth 7. The novel follows the life of Dylan, t…
The Cell Phone Novel Craze of Early 2000s Japan Did Not, in Fact, Destroy Literature — Once upon a Y2K, technology still felt like it could fulfill some human need: our drive for connection, perhaps, or just external recognition of our internal monologue. In the early aughts,…
Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gift — “Our neurons must be used … not only to know but also to transform knowledge; not only to experience but also to…
Backtrack-free cursive — Making English more enjoyable to write.
Babbel Magazine — Stories about language.
Top US general says no plans to send troops to polls for November elections — Remarks come in response to concerns from Democrats that military could be used to interfere in elections.
LingQ — Learning Languages Online
this guy wrote a whole book about why we're all terrible at reading books & honestly?? the self-roast hit different 💀📚
Eunoia — Eunoia: Words that don
Word of the Day | Dictionary.com — A new word daily.
Lit Hub Daily: June 11, 2026 — Round two of our Best of the Best Books Reading Challengebegins today with 50 of the greatest summer novels of all time!| Lit Hub Thomas Levenson pushes back against anti-vaxxer arguments: “…
The Write Practice — Become a better creative writer with The Write Practice. Find the best lessons, get timed exercises, and then share your writing in our community to get feedback.
Lauri Design Studio renovates "calm, connected" Michigan lake house — <p>This waterfront residence overlooking Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay has been reimagined to include a "mosh pit" lounge by California-based Lauri Design Studio. Willow Point was originally built in 2005 in…
AerialDancing.com — Aerial Dancing, Aerial Rope, Aerial Fabric
How I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Book Production Pipeline — How a software developer bypassed proprietary publishing silos using LibreOffice, Standard Ebooks, and LaTeX to build a sustainable, Git-tracked book production pipeline.
IDEA: International Dialects of English Archive — Welcome to IDEA, the internet's best source for primary-source recordings of English-language dialects and accents as heard around the world.
Reddit - Please wait for verification — Surprising shower epiphanies.
The Losses that Carry Us: A Tribute to Marjane Satrapi — On Thursday morning, June 4, I woke to the tragic and shocking news of Marjane Satrapi’s death. It was not the first time I had learned of a loved one’s loss in exile in the most mundane, alienatin…
Em dashes are fucking amazing — An ode to a punctuation mark
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Anjet Daanje’s The Song of Stork and Dromedary, Joby Warrick’s The Jackal, and Dorthe Nors’ Range all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home…
Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak — “Who is good if he knows not who he is? and who knows what he is, if he forgets that things which have been made are perishable, and that it is not possible for one human being to be with ano…
Robotaxis are real now — so is the pushback — The battle over the terms of the robotaxi expansion is heating up.
The datacenter fight could permanently transform US politics. Which party will seize advantage? — The movement against datacenters are uniting Americans because they perfectly illustrate how a few individuals hold all the power to control decisions that impact our lives
Lit Hub Weekly: June 29 – July 3, 2026 — Get ready for part two! These are the 258 books we’re most anticipating in the second half of 2026. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Did you know that Ancient Roman romance novels went hard? | Lit Hub Histo…
Gloria Steinem, trailblazing journalist and activist, dies at 92 — At a time when women were largely limited to domestic roles, Steinem challenged gender stereotypes and championed feminist ideals like equality, sisterhood and reproductive freedom.
To Think the Unthinkable: On the Work of Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska — “Don’t bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words / then labor heavily so that they may seem light,” Wisława Szymborska writes in “Under One Small Star.” Szymborska kept her litera…
Lit Hub Daily: July 2, 2026 — Why the Frederick Douglass speech we should revisit this July 4th isn’t the obvious one. | Lit Hub History These 10 great children’s books out in July include new work from Jaque Jours, Celes…
chrismckenzie.com — Chris McKenzie
Inter complete £30m deal for Liverpool's Jones — Inter Milan sign midfielder Curtis Jones from Liverpool in a deal worth £30m.
Israel, Turkiye and the new regional reordering — In Syria, Israel is not only at odds with Turkiye but also with the regional and international consensus.
this guy spent 3 years interviewing people about their worst job interviews && the patterns are absolutely unhinged 😭😭 tell me you're a hiring manager without telling me
Hungary Cuts Interest Rate Again With Inflation at Decade-Low — Hungary’s central bank delivered its third consecutive interest rate cut after the inflation rate fell to the lowest level in a decade.
Ambani’s Streaming Site Eyes Millions of Indian Diaspora — India’s largest video streaming platform JioHotstar is expanding overseas for the first time, launching in the UK, Canada and Singapore as it seeks to tap millions of potential viewers in the growing South Asian diaspora.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman at Freedom 250 Grand Prix - NASA — NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman is seen in the two-seat IndyCar as he prepares for driver Conor Daly to take him on a lap ahead of the