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My Dog Tintin’s Trans-Atlantic Voyage on the Queen Mary 2

When your dog is too scared to fly but needs to cross the Atlantic, a luxury cruise is one alternative. An illustrated guide to taking a nervous canine aboard the QM2.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/t...

TIDINGS: Happy as a clam

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TIDINGS: Happy as a clam

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Album Review: Naive Melodies by Various Artists (BBE Music) Talking Heads covers filtered through Afrobeat, gospel, samba, and dub—a tribute that reroutes the band’s rhythms back to the Black musical lineages they borrowed from.

From @thestandards.bsky.social: A new compilation explores the African, Latin, and gospel influences on Talking Heads through reimagined covers from contemporary artists. www.shatterthestandards.com/p/album-revi...

Fast, Affordable, Illegal | Sightline Institute Homes on wheels are a lifeline for families, but zoning codes are still trying to keep them out.

From @citizen-cate.bsky.social at @sightline.org: What other jurisdictions can learn from Portland, Oregon's embrace of tiny homes on wheels, a flexible housing option that appeals with or without legality.
www.sightline.org/2026/01/26/f...

Tariff Turmoil: Why America's Trade Policy Rocked the Global Cheese Industry | culture: the word on cheese For the specialty cheese industry, “Liberation Day” was anything but liberating. On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order implementing a broad set of new tariffs, or taxes on...

As a year of chaotic tariffs impacts the cheese industry, you may need a Swiss bank account to afford a wheel of Emmental.
culturecheesemag.com/stories/amer...

TIDINGS: Say cheese

Recommended reading for the weekend: tariffed cheeses, swift bricks, erotic typewriters, and more.
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TIDINGS: Super feathers and extra inches

New Tidings is out today! Check it for your recommended weekend reads.
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TIDINGS: Super feathers and extra inches

New Tidings is out today! Check it for your recommended weekend reads.
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The Soul of the Grateful Dead The late Bob Weir was crucial to shaping the sound of the world’s greatest jam band.

From @dgraham.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com: An appreciation of Bob Weir, the late, underappreciated guitarist for the Grateful Dead.
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Double Take - Orion Magazine Are people crying Bigfoot when it’s really a bear?

Recommended weekend read: @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social in @orionmagazine.bsky.social on Bigfoot. Who needs cryptids when you have the wonder of real bears? orionmagazine.org/article/bigf...

TIDINGS: Bigfoots and small canaries

New Tidings out today! Check out the highlights of what our community shared on Seabird this week.
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Bar chart of most shared publications New York Times (bar is at least three times as big as the next biggest bar) The Atlantic Guardian Slate BBC Liberal Currents New Yorker Wall Street Journal Oregonian Washington Post

Liberal Currents is the sixth biggest publication!....to be shared on @seabirdreader.bsky.social in 2025

New year, new Seabird, and our community's top sources

The most-shared sites last year among Seabird users:
1. @nytimes.com
2. @theatlantic.com
3. @theguardian.com
4. @slate.com
5. BBC
6. @liberalcurrents.com
7. @newyorker.com
8. @wsj.com
9. @oregonian.com
10. @washingtonpost.com

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New year, new Seabird, and our community's top sources

Looking back on 2025, our community shared links to more than 650 unique publications, with more than 400 linked just a single time. Check out our brief year in review here and try out our new web version in beta!
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The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.

From @jim.londoncentric.media: Vengeful tax avoidance leads to a proliferation of urban snail farms and a story that gives new meaning to the term "shell company."
www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 After the year we’ve had, there’s no predicting anything about the year that’s to come. But whatever else might be fated to happen (to us) in 2026, there will definitely be books,…

Because much of the best reading happens offline: more than 300 books to look forward to in 2026, including at least one about seabirds. lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It - Bolts In a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. They live in a limbo, created by colonial expansion, that now confuses even public official...

From @burness.bsky.social in @boltsmag.org: A little-known provision barring automatic citizenship for American Samoans leads to arrests, prosecution, and the threat of imprisonment for voting and running for a local school board.
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I Dreamed of Building a Holzhausen. It Was Worth It. Constructing the Scandinavian-style woodpile became my quest.

Recommended this week: @lauramille.bsky.social on the satisfaction of building an artful woodpile. slate.com/life/2026/01...

TIDINGS: Wood you read this newsletter?

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The Burgerfication of the American Restaurant Menu In just over 125 years, the hamburger went from being an unknown oddity to a ubiquitous fixture of the American restaurant menu. Here's how (and why) it happened.

How the humble hamburger ascended from struggle food to haute cuisine, claiming a place at every style of restaurant.
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Apparently today is National Bird Day. May we recommend celebrating by creating an account on Seabird and checking out our link-sharing platform? Use code "WaitIsOver" on web or mobile!
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How Willie Nelson Sees America On the road with the musician, his band, and his family.

From @newyorker.com: On the road with Willie Nelson, now ninety-two and still touring, playing the same Martin guitar since 1969 and representing the best of Texas.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Sweden Wants To Pay Refugees $37,000 Each To Go Home The offer reflects the radical transformation in the Scandinavian country’s once open attitude to newcomers

From @newlinesmag.bsky.social: Recently admired for its welcoming stance toward refugees, Sweden has made a sharp pivot toward hostility to immigration.
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Miami Is Cuba Backwards — The Dial “In Miami, Trumpism is just as overwhelming, and as fundamentalist, as Castroism is in Cuba.”

From @thedialmag.bsky.social: A journalist exiled from Cuba to Barcelona reflects on a visit to Miami, where he finds that "Trumpism is just as overwhelming, and as fundamentalist, as Castroism is in Cuba."
www.thedial.world/articles/new...

TIDINGS: On the road again

New year, new Tidings. Now coming out on Fridays to set you up for a weekend of worthwhile reads. Check our latest roundup of links shared on Seabird:
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Puppies at work: Inside Canada’s avalanche rescue dog training program At a remote mountain camp in B.C., Canada’s avalanche rescue dogs learn the skills and form the bonds that might mean the difference between life and death

"Some people go to the mountains to find themselves; I wanted to be found by a puppy." -- @saraheverts.bsky.social
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Budget Cuts Threaten Oregon Program for Helping People Get Jobs After Prison - Bolts The state had recently expanded the novel program for providing one-on-one career coaching, job fairs behind bars, and support for people after release.

An Oregon story from @boltsmag.org: an effective jobs program for the incarcerated currently threatened by budget cuts.
boltsmag.org/oregon-priso...