Ride Cher
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Once again it's Sunday morning, so it's time to open up Kyle's Junk Drawer!
🗞️ Reading Recs
How Gmail Became Our Diary
Rebecca Makkai, Paul Murray, and other authors dig through their email archives on the 20th anniversary of Google’s other flagship product.
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The endless quest to replace alcohol
From kava to “sleepy girl mocktails,” can anything ever take the place of booze?
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We Need To Rewild The Internet | NOEMA
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
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📺 Weekend Watches
🦣 Fediverse Finds
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Jesse Baer 🔥 (@misc@mastodon.social)
Renaming your plex server “amazon crime”
Ben! (@famousblueben@mas.to)
The only thing I ever want to learn how to program is a Big Mouth Billy Bass so I can make it sing all 11 minutes of Desolation Row by #BobDylan #music #90s
Joe Smith (Not A Threat) (@Thomas@laserdisc.party)
You never learned to line dance in elementary school PE class and it really shows
Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 (@woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social)
If they don’t call the HOV, the “Ride Cher” lane, what’s the point?
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” (@pixelatedboat.bsky.social)
Probably the worst social harm caused by facebook is that it deprived us of local businesses having a website created by someone’s nephew
🙃 TikTok Treasures
@proficey ♬ original sound - Proficey
@delaneysayshello #stitch with @Chris Hahn FOUND HER 🤪
♬ original sound - Delaney Rowe
@houseofkyle TruMoo Star Wars Blue Milk #starwars #starwarsbluemilk #trumoo #maythe4th #maythe4thbewithyou
♬ original sound - Kyle Ford
🤖 ARTificial Antics
![Prompt: Wilford Brimley punching a shark in the mouth](https://newsletter.houseofkyle.com/content/images/2024/05/brimley.png)