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# 📖 Read some banned books! (Newsletter #101)
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/newsletter-101/
- Published: 2022-02-03T10:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-03T10:00:00.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

Hello and happy…Thursday? Listen, it's a busy week over here are Birchtree headquarters, and I got time to make this so it's going out early. I hope you'll forgive me 🙂

## The Links

- What better way to respond to banned books than to read them? Here's [14 to choose from](https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/02/banned-books-list-to-kill-a-mockingbird-maus/621428/?utm%5Fsource=feed).
- This is a [great theme](https://styles.ulysses.app/themes/moviestars-Y5Dm?ref=birchtree.me) for Ulysses, and is what I'm now using on all devices.
- [All your favorite cartoon characters are black](https://www.vice.com/en/article/bme7bq/all-your-favourite-cartoon-characters-are-black?ref=birchtree.me).
- [clay.css](https://codeadrian.github.io/clay.css/?ref=birchtree.me) is a super-fun CSS library!
- "Endemic" has become a buzzword recently, but if I may, you keep using that word…[I do not think you know what it means](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00155-x?ref=birchtree.me).
- There are tons of Wordle clones and variants and that's [a good thing, actually](https://kotaku.com/wordle-games-like-clones-twitter-word-absurdle-lewdle-d-1848414806?ref=birchtree.me).
- [Spotify has a podcast problem](https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/01/spotify-has-a-podcast-problem/?ref=birchtree.me) (and it's not about Joe).

## The Tweets

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/31/25312b2a-2d5b-4d01-ba92-e6755efc202c/content/images/2022/02/CleanShot-2022-02-02-at-20.25.23@2x.png)](https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1486823938218987528?ref=birchtree.me)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/31/25312b2a-2d5b-4d01-ba92-e6755efc202c/content/images/2022/02/CleanShot-2022-02-02-at-20.25.47@2x.png)](https://twitter.com/iamkory/status/1487833621884899329?ref=birchtree.me)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/31/25312b2a-2d5b-4d01-ba92-e6755efc202c/content/images/2022/02/CleanShot-2022-02-02-at-20.26.16@2x.png)](https://twitter.com/jnadeau/status/1488296222754361344?ref=birchtree.me)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/31/25312b2a-2d5b-4d01-ba92-e6755efc202c/content/images/2022/02/CleanShot-2022-02-02-at-20.26.38@2x.png)](https://twitter.com/hemjhaveri/status/1488294422357884936?ref=birchtree.me)

## The Videos

First up is how Resident Evil 4 transformed horror games (and became my favorite game of all time???).

I had no idea this was a thing, but I love the story and love the level-headed (ahem…Joe Rogan, take notes) coverage of it.

Storytelling isn't just for filmmakers, this is good advice for literally anyone.

Mrwhostheboss is just awesome.