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This is the second and final part of a two-part series looking at the women’s tournament scene in Apex. It’s based off a feature slated to run in Fanbyte before they laid off most of their staff and killed freelance work. Earlier this week, I published the first half. The highlights from that: revisiting Esdesu’s Hammerpoint LAN clutch, excerpts from an interview with TSM’s young gun Isabella “Avuh” Keller, and Annie "

How hot is a 5, actually? We have the classic 4chan image: But is it true? Is this an accurate assessment of hotness? I decided to run a survey to find out. I collected ~240 images of women’s faces, most of them AI generated. I just default scraped a bunch of them, with the only stipulation being that they had to look reasonably above 18, and had to be plausibly fertile (with only a few exceptions).

Hello! I’m Jeremy. You’re reading the Wonder Tools newsletter. Spring is just a month away☃️. Welcome to new readers who saw the piece I wrote for Poynter this week with 50 links to various tools and resources. I often focus on sites, apps, etc. Today I’m sharing my experience with a new fitness tracker. I bought an Oura smart ring to learn more about my sleep patterns. I was curious about how diet, fitness and mindfulness might impact my sleep.

From Glen-L Marine Newsletter A frequent question we hear: “I can't get mahogany, white oak or spruce as recommended in your plans; can I use poplar?” Answer: Boats have successfully been built using all sorts of woods that are not recommended for boat building. But when we’re asked to recommend a wood or alternative wood, we pick from a standard list. In our plans, we don't generally list long-leaf yellow pine as an option, because it's not available here in our part of the country.

The inspiration for this post came from something wrote last week about a blank-fronted shop she discovered in her hometown of Miami. It wasn’t until she stepped inside that she learned that the business calls itself Veblen: Turns out the name, Veblen (which is only on the tags; the store has no signage indoors or out) comes from American economist Thorstein Veblen and refers to goods where demand increases with increased price, contradicting “demand theory.

You can have your holly-jolly Christmas and your Auld Lang Syne. For me, the highlight of the season is Festivus, “the holiday for the rest of us,” introduced by the character Frank Costanza in a “Seinfeld” episode that originally aired on December 18, 1997. Festivus has been described as “playful consumer resistance” and "the perfect secular theme for an all-inclusive December gathering." Festivus traditions invented for the show include the unadorned aluminum pole (Frank rejected tinsel as “distracting”), the meatloaf-shaped dinner meal, and the Feats of Strength.

When 10 giant, inflated koalas frolicked down Broadway this past Wednesday evening, they got a lot of stares—and a lot of questions. “All joking aside, what is this?” asked one gentleman who, hilariously, was visiting Saratoga for the first time and thus his first impression of the city was…that. (“Koalas are natives,” Carrie Zappone deadpanned.) Other passersby offered up guesses: Did someone lose a bet? Is it a sorority rush thing?

Words of Wisdom to the Beginning Collage Artist Lisa asks: “I am fairly new to collage and wondered if you have any words of wisdom.” Take two bits of paper and glue them together. Viala! You have made a collage. That simple act leads to an infinite number of possibilities. By extension, with the idea o… ncG1vNJzZmisn6qwqbvNopinZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9aoqZ2rXaSzbsPIrJuopV2pvG7Ax55km52Xnruvtc2g

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