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Hi, I’m Edith, and this is a newsletter with comics and links. I’d love to know what you think; please feel free to reply to this email!

Link: Reddit thread: “Self-defense weapon while running?”

Links:

• Runners World: “How to Run Alone Safely During Coronavirus.” For instance, if you’re being chased by an “aggressive, unleashed dog … stop running” and instead try “speaking to the dog, not turning your back, and avoiding direct eye contact, as the dog may view direct eye contact as a threat or challenge. If the dog continues to charge … dropping a piece of gear such as a jacket or a bottle between you and the dog [may] distract the animal and lure it to bite the item instead of you.”

• Road Runners Club of America: General running safety tips.

• Reddit thread (again): “Self-defense weapon while running?”

Elsewhere:

• “It’s always the beginning of the world.” I love Rob Brezsny’s weekly Free Will Astrology newsletter. Here’s an especially good installment. This week’s is also good.

• “Loneliness is a problem of decision-making.” I liked this Less Wrong post about the “paradox of choice.”   

• “6 Fictional Homes Reimagined as Polly Pockets.” The Shining one is pretty great, but they all are. [Toy Zone]

• I made this Jacques Pepin apple galette (using frozen Alison Roman pie dough from a few weeks ago), and it was great.

• It was fun to be quoted in this NYT story about Substack and journalists/writers switching to newsletters from major media outlets: “Journalists Are Leaving the Noisy Internet for Your Email Inbox.”