🔖 Bookmarked: Online trolls are harassing a scientist who helped take the first picture of a black hole

“Black holes don’t suck, but sometimes the internet does”

🔖 Bookmarked: Why Garfield phones have littered French beaches for 35 years — Engadget

“There’s no better symbol of plastic ocean pollution and ’80s consumerism gone wild than the Garfield phones of Brittany. The handsets, in the form of the aggressively unfunny cat, have been washing up on French beaches for decades.However, the novelty has long since worn off for residents who have been picking them up since the ’80s.”

🔖 Bookmarked: Too poor to play: children in social housing blocked from communal playground

“In a move reminiscent of the ‘poor doors’ scandal, a London developer has segregated play areas for richer and poorer residents”

🔖 Bookmarked: The strange death of British satire by an author

“Satire today is dominated by a narrow elite. No longer a threat to authority, it is a means for the establishment to protect itself.”