Care & Share - Longform Magazine Articles

[WOM]

Since Longform stopped updating their recos, I have nowhere to learn about great long reads. So...

NYTimes - Vanished In The Pacific - two men go missing in the South Pacific after trying to leave behind COVID, vaccines and other right-wing internet boogymen.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...et-adrift.html

[via vicaria]

Missed this thread on my last spin through Books. Have you tried longreads.com? Sounds like it's in the same ballpark

[WOM]

I've just taken the plunge. Thanks so much.

[diggedy derek]

I found this Maclean’s piece on so called Pretendians, written by an Indigenous writer, mindblowing https://macleans.ca/longforms/the-cu...stigation/amp/

[WOM]

Ah, I'll definitely read that. We're (Canadians generally) seeing a big shakeout in people with really tenuous connects - if at all - to first nations heritage. Back in the day, claiming 'One sixteenth Cherokee on my grandmother's side' was enough. Now we have educator and Judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond being outed as having far less than substantiable connections despite a lifetime of making heritage claims.

[danielmak]

Selling condoms is like selling napalm is a creative tagline. An interesting longform guardian piece about the challenges that come with selling condoms around the globe.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...oms-sexy-durex

[via vicaria]

Not sure where else to put this, except that it falls under the category of longform reads. A search-and-rescue specialist's account of his search for the Death Valley Germans, over a decade after their disappearance.

https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/...alley-germans/

Fairly sobering but very engrossing.

[WOM]

Fairly sobering but very engrossing.

This was not helpful, VV. I have things to do at work this morning!

[Sunderporinostesta]

Not sure where else to put this, except that it falls under the category of longform reads. A search-and-rescue specialist's account of his search for the Death Valley Germans, over a decade after their disappearance.

https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/...alley-germans/

Fairly sobering but very engrossing.

Enjoyed that. If enjoyed is the right word. I’ll read the spy plane search tale later

[WOM]

I'm neither a runner nor a climber, but I always find the 'obsessive runner / climber' stories from Outside to be very good indeed.

This is a nerve wracking free-solo climber story.

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoo...allen-soloist/

[Hot Pepsi]

I found this Maclean’s piece on so called Pretendians, written by an Indigenous writer, mindblowing https://macleans.ca/longforms/the-cu...stigation/amp/

Apropos of nothing, my 23andMe report says I have 0.1% indigenous and 0.1% Korean genetics.

[Hot Pepsi]

I found this Maclean’s piece on so called Pretendians, written by an Indigenous writer, mindblowing https://macleans.ca/longforms/the-cu...stigation/amp/

It's not really my place to judge, but I think in the end, what matters in these questions is the individual's experience, not their genetics. But of course, it's a lot easier to lie about the former than the latter.

[Sunderporinostesta]

Apropos of nothing, my 23andMe report says I have 0.1% indigenous and 0.1% Korean genetics.

Similarly I’ve had email from the dna mob that we used for Xmas presents during C19 last week. It mentions interesting developments concerning Asian and east European ancestry in its intro but I’ve forgotten my password. Hopefully I’ll get another country to cheer for on the WC stage. I’m hoping they’re not classing Saudi Arabia as Asian as I want as little to do with Newcastle as possible.

[Hot Pepsi]

My ancestry report came out exactly as expected, I suppose. Nearly 70% "German and French" with the most links being in Baden-Wurttemberg. We still have family there. There were also some links to Switzerland, which I'm less sure of. It showed about 20% "Britain and Ireland" with the most concentration likely in England (but nothing more specific than that) as well as Scotland, Northern Ireland and maybe a bit in Ireland and or Wales. That checks out. My mom's side is from England but most came in the early colonial period.*

My dad's side is German and came here in the early 20th century, so I'm not sure why it's 70/20 instead of closer to 50/50.

The rest of my me is maybe Scandinavian and a little bit from Eastern Europe and the aforementioned tiny bit of Indigenous American and Korean.

I'm dubious of the Korean bit. There aren't many places in any of my ancestors' lives where they could have met a Korean prior to about 1950, I think.

I'm also about 2% Neanderthal.


*As I understand it, migration from England to the now-US was mostly in the 17th century and not so much after that. The English Civil war pushed a lot of people to come here. The "Scots-Irish" and Germans came later.