(A Weird Sort Of) Web Curios 10/11/23

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HELLO! HELLO EVERYONE!

This week we’re doing things slightly differently (or at least I am – I presume that the vast majority of you will just ignore this newsletterblogtypething as you ordinarily do) – HOW EXCITING!

I mean, look, it’s probably not VERY exciting, but I’ve been forced into a slight change of format this week due to Circumstances Beyond My Control which meant that I had to spend all of yesterday in hospital (not for me) and had to ask for a copy deadline extension for Actual Paying Work, which meant that I spent three hours this morning writing that instead of Curios, which meant that, honestly, I simply haven’t got the energy to sit here and spaff out 10,000 words of HIGH-QUALITY (ahem) links’n’prose.

BUT! I feel a completely-unwarranted sense of responsibility towards YOU, my unknown-and-in-all-likelihood-vanishingly-small readership, to provide LINKS and DISTRACTION, and as such this week we are doing an EXPERIMENT!

Below you will find Curios in its RAW, UNFILTERED STATE – this is what lives in my GDoc and what every Friday morning at 6am I sit and stare at and then attempt to turn into a newsletter. ALL OF THE LINKS, NONE OF THE DREADFUL PROSE!

*ahem*

Obviously there’s a bit more of a ‘lucky dip’ vibe doing it this way – my notes aren’t exactly fulsome, it’s fair to say – but, on the plus side, you don’t have the unasked for side-order of MattWords ruining all the interesting stuff.

SO! Without further ado, here are A LOAD OF LINKS with literally FCUK ALL CONTEXT! ARE YOU HAPPY NOW? ARE YOU?

Normal service will be resumed next week – thanks for your patience, and sincere apologies to any of you who are wrong-headed enough to be somehow disappointed by the lack of overwrought prose in this week’s edition.

I am still Matt, this is (sort of) still Web Curios, and if you prefer it this way I’d really prefer it if you kept that to yourself if that’s ok.

By Shardcore

THIS WEEK I WILL LIMIT MYSELF TO SUGGESTING THE NEW SOLO ALBUM BY KEVIN ABSTRACT WHICH I AM VERY MUCH ENJOYING AT THE MOMENT!

MISCELLANEOUS LINKS

LONGREADS

VIDEOS

THANKS EVERYONE I LOVE YOU BYE!