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Mid-May link roundup

The Boring Internet, by Terry Godier, via Jeremy. Good essay, but I really hate how the text is only revealed as you scroll. Fortunately, you can quickly scroll the whole way to the bottom, then back up to the top, and then read normally.

Web Feeds in 2026: A Survey, by Mark.

Wonders of Web Weaving, a new podcast from James. See his announcement post for more.

Specs are made of feedback. — Florian, Hangzhou, April 2026.

The IndieWeb is Wonderfully Dionysian, by Brennan Kenneth Brown, via Fran Crossley.

, by Derek Sivers, via Eric Bailey.

Also via Eric: Close a bar, gain a far-right voter, by Nathan Domon. The death of third spaces has consequences.

The fiduciary class, by Steve Randy Waldman, expanding upon a 2019 tweet of his:

alignments and outcomes:
working class+professional class⇒social democracy
professional class+plutocrats⇒liberal plutocracy (“neoliberalism”)
working class+plutocrats⇒fascism

Xi Warned of the ‘Thucydides Trap.’ What Is It?, by Leo Sands.
Coincidentally, “Θουκυδίδης (Thoukudídēs) & His Eponymous Trap” was .1

On Superpower Suicide, by Dr. Timothy Snyder.

The long-rumored new Swatch collab dropped: the Audemars Piguet × Swatch Bioceramic Royal Pop Collection of pocket watches is a fusion of AP’s OG Royal Oak pocket watch from 1981 with the iconic POP Swatch line from later that same decade. See also Hodinkee’s post covering the launch.

I’m pretty tempted by the OTG ROZ (left) and the Huit Blanc (right), myself:
A pink pocket watch hangs on a pink leather strap. It has a bright yellow, octagonal bezel and a texured teal dial. The dial has a pink subdial at 6 o’clock. A white pocket watch hangs on a white leather strap. It has an octagonal bezel and a texured dial. The hour markers are different colors of the rainbow.

The good folk at Delugs are already looking to create a wrist-worn holder for them.

Bree Fram Ends Run For Congress After Virginia’s Redistricting, by Margaret Hetherman.

How Tennessee is creating a public database of trans people, by Jane Migliara Brigham.

Canada is fast-tracking citizenship certificates for trans Americans [with Canadian ancestry], by Derek Shank, via Eryn.

The results from The Trevor Project’s 2025 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People are up, including the depressing but unsurprising fact that Trans Youth Who Want Hormone Therapy But Can’t Get It Face Twice [The] Suicide Risk (Erin Reed).

Federal Judge Rules Trump Government Has Animus Towards Trans People, Blocks Org Subpoenas, also by Erin.

NYU Langone First Known Hospital to Face Federal Criminal Subpoena Over Trans Youth Care, by s. baum.

Maar het is die goddelijke nacht
onder de druppelende Sterrenwacht
waar ik zo naar verlang
mijn kille monddruk op je natte wang
allebei zo weerloos naakt
nu al zeventig jaar later
heeft mij nooit een druppel water
meer zo gul en geil gemaakt

— Leo Vroman (at Sonnenborgh Observatory)
A Neapolitan pizza has pepperoni on it. In the center of the pie is a big glob of burrata cheese.
Pizza, Amsterdam, May 2026

Reid, Wendy. Reimagining Search Interfaces by Optimizing for the Needs of People with Different Information Foraging Types. MRP for M.Des. (Inclusive Design), OCAD University. 2026. https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/5149/.

Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago, by Kiona N. Smith, via Eric Bailey.

Also via Eric: The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism, by Mat Duggan, which builds on:

Winner, Langdon. Cyberlibertarian Myths And The Prospects For Community. CEPE’97, SIGCAS Comput. Soc. 27, 3 (Sept. 1997), 14–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/270858.270864.

It’s 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick, by Ana Rodrigues.

Notes

  1. Yes, this is the pun you think it is. ↩