people, people 😄

it's your lucky day 🍀

time for "the opposite of doomscrolling" 🌈

my new "Linkfest" newsletter just dropped -- free to read/subscribe here 📬 : https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-48-the-mouthpad-volitional-reconsumption/

this issue includes:

🌞 European Heatwave Simulator
📼 "volitional reconsumption"
🐦 top 10 shittiest birds
🎃 giant pumpkin genetics
🐀 automated rat-killing turret
💻 Commodore 77
👩‍🚀 first study of menstruation in microgravity
🔫 supersonic trebuchet
🧭 maps of the journeys inside classic novels

and much more!