Greetings, everyone! How are you all doing, given that some of you are still just as hard at work and dealing with a more surly population than usual, and some of you are dealing with the complexities of doing work while at home while schools have been shuttered, and still more of you are trying to figure out what to do at all, because you've been furloughed, laid off, or otherwise put out of work and your bills are still due. Whatever your situation, I hope that it improves and stabilizes in your favor soon.
A prayer for the Spring Equinox: Let the time of hoarding be done, and spread fairness and justice to all. And perhaps, when we are done healing ourselves, we will continue the work of healing the planet that our absence has started. Perhaps by starting with an address to the natural world, from those who wish to live in harmony with it. And then by realizing to defeat climate change, the underpinnings of what brought it into existence, many of which are prodoundly racist, also have to be addressed and rectified.
Some comedy - Intern Maureen's Guide To Not Being Murdered In A Quaint English Village, which mostly boils down to "Don't go to quaint English villages, but if you must, stick to the pub and hang out with people walking dogs".
Supposedly "Tibetan" singing bowls are not Tibetan at all, and have only acquired that moniker to make them appeal to white people who want the exotic and mystic mythos of Tibet.
Selected stories of women making history on the east coast of the United States and on the west coast of the United States.
More things have appeared online to help people learn and enjoy and stay connected to their communities. Authors doing book read-alouds and drawing sessions. A set of Haymarket Books e-books available for free.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rmc28 has a few other book giveaways from around the web. bladespark has a free book available, along with others from JMS publishing. (I have known bladespark over Internet from the "three exclamation points stand for quality" years of my life, for full disclosure purposes.)
Various platforms for the purpose of sharing videos between people, watching them together, and chatting about it. And a Twitter thread of musicals and shows that don't already have commercial releases and aren't, presumably, bootlegs of the same. Also, Til Further Notice, a streamed concert of performers, mostly from their living rooms, that would have taken place in Willie Nelson's backyard.
The Down Dog Yoga app and other fitness type apps made by the same company are free until April 1, because exercise. Similarly,
Headspace has done the same for many of their meditation courses, because mental health.
Milk Street online classes are fee until 30 April, since our kitchens are likely to get more use right now.
spindizzy has another list of free and reduced price things, and tozka has updated their list since last posting.
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covid_corvid is attempting to magpie together all of these links and offers into a single place, with category posts, so if you like organizing what you've found or been linked to, that's a place to do it!
covidcoffeecorner has appeared, with a daily talking prompt to bring the community together to talk anout anything but the virus raging around.
fandom_checkin can also be a daily discussion point, as well as a place to let people know how you are doing on a regular basis.
stayinside is for people to commiserate and have community because they're stuck inside and can't go out.
fansathome is a rec community (because one of the things we do when given lots of time is recommend ways of making our TBR piles longer).
A Twitter thread of animal cameras. Because wildlife is sometimes the best thing to put on your screen. And if that's not enough, even more wildlife and animal cameras to look at.
If you would like your entertainment on tape, The Internet Archive has a VHS Vault of all sorts of things that came out on VHS when that was the dominant platform.
a gigantic list of linguistics resources, just in case you wanted to learn and immerse yourself in material about the study of languages.
Audible has opened up a portion of their collection for use for free. Additionally, several streaming services are offering 30-day trials of their services, rather than the 7-day trials they usually offer, in case you have time and have a particular show you want to binge in a hurry.
Sir Patrick Stewart is reading Shakespeare sonnets, one a day. And sports and political commentator Keith Olbermann is introducing a bigger audience to the works of humorist and essayist James Thurber through readings. (Whatever you think of his politics, or his sportscasting, Olbermann is good at reading Thurber. And Thurber is funny and underrated. Although not, in any way, universally a good, as none of us are.)
A virtual performance of singers and instrumentalists of "Love, Sweet Love". Which is one option, and there's a nice Google doc making comparisons between platforms to see how good they are for music instruction or simultaneous playing.
And, if you are a fan of Good Eats, or the style in which Alton Brown does cooking, information, and preparation, then enjoy this video of his handwashing technique and why soap and water is remarkably effective against COVID-19 and other viruses of its type.
( Actual COVID-19-related things )
And now for some corvid-related things, like a story from some time ago about a crow adopting a kitten, corvids annoying and aggravating other animals, and several displays of corvid intelligence and thinking.
Last for tonight, you can watch and see what a sub-30 second run of an agility course looks like. It's done in a hurry. I'm not sure there are humans that can run a similar kind of steeplechase like that in that kind of time.
Also, some very delightful pictures of nature (and sometimes, the interactions we have with it, but mostly nature).
A prayer for the Spring Equinox: Let the time of hoarding be done, and spread fairness and justice to all. And perhaps, when we are done healing ourselves, we will continue the work of healing the planet that our absence has started. Perhaps by starting with an address to the natural world, from those who wish to live in harmony with it. And then by realizing to defeat climate change, the underpinnings of what brought it into existence, many of which are prodoundly racist, also have to be addressed and rectified.
Some comedy - Intern Maureen's Guide To Not Being Murdered In A Quaint English Village, which mostly boils down to "Don't go to quaint English villages, but if you must, stick to the pub and hang out with people walking dogs".
Supposedly "Tibetan" singing bowls are not Tibetan at all, and have only acquired that moniker to make them appeal to white people who want the exotic and mystic mythos of Tibet.
Selected stories of women making history on the east coast of the United States and on the west coast of the United States.
More things have appeared online to help people learn and enjoy and stay connected to their communities. Authors doing book read-alouds and drawing sessions. A set of Haymarket Books e-books available for free.
rmc28 has a few other book giveaways from around the web. bladespark has a free book available, along with others from JMS publishing. (I have known bladespark over Internet from the "three exclamation points stand for quality" years of my life, for full disclosure purposes.)Various platforms for the purpose of sharing videos between people, watching them together, and chatting about it. And a Twitter thread of musicals and shows that don't already have commercial releases and aren't, presumably, bootlegs of the same. Also, Til Further Notice, a streamed concert of performers, mostly from their living rooms, that would have taken place in Willie Nelson's backyard.
The Down Dog Yoga app and other fitness type apps made by the same company are free until April 1, because exercise. Similarly,
Headspace has done the same for many of their meditation courses, because mental health.
Milk Street online classes are fee until 30 April, since our kitchens are likely to get more use right now.
spindizzy has another list of free and reduced price things, and tozka has updated their list since last posting.covid_corvid is attempting to magpie together all of these links and offers into a single place, with category posts, so if you like organizing what you've found or been linked to, that's a place to do it!covidcoffeecorner has appeared, with a daily talking prompt to bring the community together to talk anout anything but the virus raging around.fandom_checkin can also be a daily discussion point, as well as a place to let people know how you are doing on a regular basis. stayinside is for people to commiserate and have community because they're stuck inside and can't go out.fansathome is a rec community (because one of the things we do when given lots of time is recommend ways of making our TBR piles longer). A Twitter thread of animal cameras. Because wildlife is sometimes the best thing to put on your screen. And if that's not enough, even more wildlife and animal cameras to look at.
If you would like your entertainment on tape, The Internet Archive has a VHS Vault of all sorts of things that came out on VHS when that was the dominant platform.
a gigantic list of linguistics resources, just in case you wanted to learn and immerse yourself in material about the study of languages.
Audible has opened up a portion of their collection for use for free. Additionally, several streaming services are offering 30-day trials of their services, rather than the 7-day trials they usually offer, in case you have time and have a particular show you want to binge in a hurry.
Sir Patrick Stewart is reading Shakespeare sonnets, one a day. And sports and political commentator Keith Olbermann is introducing a bigger audience to the works of humorist and essayist James Thurber through readings. (Whatever you think of his politics, or his sportscasting, Olbermann is good at reading Thurber. And Thurber is funny and underrated. Although not, in any way, universally a good, as none of us are.)
A virtual performance of singers and instrumentalists of "Love, Sweet Love". Which is one option, and there's a nice Google doc making comparisons between platforms to see how good they are for music instruction or simultaneous playing.
And, if you are a fan of Good Eats, or the style in which Alton Brown does cooking, information, and preparation, then enjoy this video of his handwashing technique and why soap and water is remarkably effective against COVID-19 and other viruses of its type.
( Actual COVID-19-related things )
And now for some corvid-related things, like a story from some time ago about a crow adopting a kitten, corvids annoying and aggravating other animals, and several displays of corvid intelligence and thinking.
Last for tonight, you can watch and see what a sub-30 second run of an agility course looks like. It's done in a hurry. I'm not sure there are humans that can run a similar kind of steeplechase like that in that kind of time.
Also, some very delightful pictures of nature (and sometimes, the interactions we have with it, but mostly nature).
