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links, etc Grand Marais in Minnesota Is America’s Best Small Lake Town of 2023 travel and leisure picks up on the beauty that is grand marais. ‘bout time.

links, etc Florida’s War With Invasive Pythons Has a New Twist | WIRED between reading this and watching “killing it” (highly, highly recommended by the way) i’m really beginning to think that there is a legit python problem in florida. David Brooks: The New Old Age - The Atlantic i dug this a lot more than i thought i would - clearly i’m getting older.

links, etc How Americans Are Reacting To The Maui Wildfires yeah, maybe the wildfires in maui aren’t the ones that we should be gauging things off of. but still - this has been the summer of apocalypto. Russia’s Ghost Ships and the Evolution of a Grain Smuggling Operation - bellingcat ship-to-ship grain smuggling. da fuq? Did a Journalist Violate Hacking Law to Leak Fox News Clips? The Government Thinks He Did....

links, etc You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency nails it.