Hello, reader. I’ve not been doing great this past week, both mentally and physically, and wanted to send out the newsletter but simply do not have the energy for the usual curated list. So I leave you with ten things to read but without any commentary from me. I think the fact that this is issue #250 was also getting to me–I want to simply move on without letting some sort of “pressure” get to me. I remember something funny, though. When I started writing Kat’s Kable, I thought that the coolest thing possible would be to get to issue #1000. And well, I’m a fourth of the way there. It already feels quite cool.

If you got this from a friend and want to subscribe, here’s the link. Also, if any of the links are paywalled and if you don’t want to pay for a subscription, try opening the link in incognito mode in your browser. This works if the website has a “soft” paywall. If that doesn’t work, you can access the website using a different browser on the same device, or use a different device altogether. Another, slightly involved, method is to try to disable JavaScript and reload the page. This works on some websites for me.

1. How Watches Work: Automatic Watches And Their Winding Weights (Fratello Watches)

2. ‘Is this justice?’: why Sudan is facing a multibillion-dollar bill for 9/11 (The Guardian)

3. Kim Stanley Robinson: a climate plan for a world in flames (Financial Times, paywalled, sorry!)

4. The Art of the Romanian Haystack (Kuriositas)

5. Letting go: my battle to help my parents die a good death (The Guardian)

6. The Problem With Books (Arthur Kibert Basler’s blog)

7. Queer Time: The Alternative to “Adulting” (JSTOR Daily)

8. The Coming Technological Singularity (interesting 1993 talk by scifi author Vernor Vinge)

9. The politics of everyday life: leisure (The New Statesman)

10. World Test Championship final : the story of New Zealand’s climb to the top (The Cricket Monthly)

Cya next week.-Kat.