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Squardle screenshot via setsideb.com

Daily puzzles in art, geography, and more (also, see this Ask Metafilter question)

Torn & Cut One Dollar Note Floating Away in Small $ Pieces by photosteve101 (cc by)

headspace on the affluence / class privilege connection among editors and writers in the publishing world

Boarding by G.A.I.N (cc by)

In Ask Metafilter, some very interesting answers to Why do so many Japanese ferries still exist?

Office Play by jasoneppink (cc by)

How Do I Accommodate This Person? Ask JAN! brainwane on the Job Accommodation Network.

In Ask Metafilter, If anybody and everybody can report any kind of supposed vaccine side effects to VAERS, what good is it?

Histories by Aldaron (cc by)

In Ask Metafilter, ordinary_magnet says, "I'm looking for popular songs that relate events or profile people from history in a straightforward, informative way. Can you help me add to this weird playlist?"

Game Box by M.G.N. - Marcel ON OF (cc by-nc-nd)

everything happens so much! what can I play? "What are some good recent video games that don't suffer if you are frequently interrupted?"

Aztec Imaginary God of Death

"Using these codices, I tried to identify them all, like a Pokemon chaser..." dhruva posted A Visual Guide to the Aztec Pantheon

Itsy frog will make you feel positively competent: moonmilk offers a post that asks Why Is This Tiny Frog So Awful At Jumping?, an interesting discussion ensues, and the primroses were over observes, who among us has not been so bad at something that our sheer incompetence has become a matter of scientific inquiry? Excellent point.

Final boss Majora from Legend of Zelda

ordinary_magnet has an unexpected and rather brilliant answer for a certain type of "boss problem."

cenoxo links to full text transcripts of the House Jan. 6 Committee Hearings

Two Years Ago by esotericsean (cc by-nc-nd)

Some fascinating advice from grumblebee on how to read a script

Youtube

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsSpAOD6K8 (2)
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnQ89jZvZD0 (2)
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mrr3UNALww (2)
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVcsDDABEkM (2)
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes (2)

Wikipedia

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave (2)

Twitter

1. https://twitter.com/jordanonrecord/status/1346931938955812866 (2)

Any External Site

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsSpAOD6K8 (2)
2. https://hazlitt.net/longreads/paper-faces-parade (2)
3. https://www.c-span.org/video/?520282-1/open-testimony-january-6-committee (2)
4. https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/home-otc-covid-19-diagnostic-tests#list (2)
5. https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/burnsauce (2)
6. https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/ (2)
7. https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini (2)
8. https://icueyewear.com/ (2)
9. https://www.edcgov.us/Government/HumanServices/Protective%20Services/
   APS/pages/Adult_Protective_Services.aspx (2)
10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mrr3UNALww (2)

stacking chairs abstract by Muffet (cc by)

A self-proving premise appears!