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Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. I put a fun little quip here, but it linked out to a Twitter image, a feature that Elon Musk managed to break in the 30 minutes between then and now. —Kate I was twelve years old when I first saw the 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. I would go on to watch it roughly every night for the next six years.

One of the things I enjoy most about 5AM StoryTalk’s artist-on-artist conversation series is pushing myself to explore the creative process in mediums I don’t work in or necessarily understand nearly as well as I do others. Comic book illustration is one of them - which is why I was so excited when my friend Rantz A. Hosely, VP of Editorial at Z2 Comics, offered to introduce me to Colleen Doran.

Quarters coverage is becoming more and more prevalent in the NFL as defenses attempt to combat the passing nature of the modern NFL offense. The Washington Commanders are one of the teams that have leaned heavily into the quarters coverage trend, so you’ll probably have heard lots of analysts talk about it since Ron Rivera took over in Washington. But what exactly is quarters coverage? Let’s take a closer look.

One of the storylines of Washington Commanders training camp so far has been the dominance of the defense, especially the defensive line. The starting unit of Jonathan Allen, Daron Payne, Chase Young and Montez Sweat have reportedly been giving the starting offensive line a lot of issues which has at times meant the starting offense has had to play the second team defense in order to get their work in. 

Nice read, Rob, and a subject close to my heart. My take on this (and the theme of my newsletter 🙂) is that we are all generalists in some way, shape or form. It’s what we do with that curiosity that propels us to the next levels…from simply curious and interested, to generalist, multi passionate/multipotentialite, polymath. There are some that take their learning to higher levels, satisfying their curiosity and being able to teach a class on the subject - the Polymaths.

Lonni, this made my whole day!!! Don’t worry, the newsletter isn’t going anywhere, it will continue with lots of free recipes on, I’m just pausing the paid portion of the newsletter. This is one of my favorite platforms to share my recipes on and I’m so grateful to have you here!!! Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmibkae8rbXNmp6epJWje7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZmxoXaK2r8HTnmScqpWWurp5wpqpmqWVoba7scNmnZ6mnpq5cK%2FOpqSepqSo

Happy belated Mother’s Day! Yesterday was my sixth - seventh if you include the period my surrogate was pregnant with my son. Ours was quiet, save for lunch when our groceries, an Amazon delivery and our takeout came at the same time! My son didn’t bring anything home from school this year (several moms on our chat group sort of complained. I get it’s a sensitive time for some, but it doesn’t stop kids from making crafts for a “special family member or friend,” which is what my son’s previous school did) but did make something cute at home.

Hi Rigel. My daughter doesn't use social media since, geez, probably four or five years ago? She reads blogs about photography and various physical challenges she deals with, does NYT games and downloads sci fi kindle books. She became disgusted with "people on the internet" quite a while ago. She's not traditional in her group thought, actually, but overwhelmed in life by how much is going on at all times.

See https://users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/immolation.pdf Dying Without Killing: Self-Immolations, 1963–2002 by sociologist Michael Biggs It seems likely that this act of self-immolation will have required some identification with a sense of guilt and even if Aaron might not have been personally guilty, in some way he internalised American complicity in the Israeli genocide on the way to transforming it into a hoped-for collective expiation. There must also have been an enormous amount of moral anger.