turnspit: eccentric, utilitarian canine breeds that have passed out of fashion but could be revived—via Nag on the Lake’s Sunday Links (lots more to see there)
ball-and-chain: this leashless ankle weight system to control one’s toddler will only make baby invincible—via Super Punch
miss spirit world 1960: a pageant sourced in spectral photography of the departedsomething—that if true, you couldn’t handle it: a close reading of the recently indicted QANon Shaman’s manifesto
on รฉcrit aussi ielle: the authoritative French language Petit Robert adds a third, gender-neutral personal pronoun—a concatenation of the masculine and feminine forms (see also)
the midnight special: eight hours of footage from David Bowie’s television programme the “The 1980 Floor Show,” an episode guest-curated by the artist
hocus-pocus: the hidden overhauls happening the faรงades of Russian construction sites (see also)
yes, this is dog: a video phone that allows apartment-bound dogs to call their humans