This is a very good and concise and important critique of Airbnb, Inc. But it’s also an old one! I’m reminded of a great line about Airbnb from Mike Bulajewski in 2018:

It’s difficult to recall a company that has failed quite so catastrophically at delivering on its socially conscious marketing.

Wild dog, untamable beast, living life on the edge

Fabric • The one pair of jeans I’ve had with me for the last 8 months. You don’t know how little you need until you see how little you need (ie, stubbornly underpacking for what will “only” be a 3-month trip)

Sunny Sunday stroll

Miso Oatmeal • Zero points for presentation, but finally got around to trying one of Audrey Waters’s “Whats for Breakfast?” recipes👌 🍳

📚 💬 Kay Ryan:

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Drinking dog on Drinking Horse • Jack Dog is not generally interested in drinking out of plastic bowls, his favorite usually being the algae-est pond water he can find, but for some reason he makes an exception for red ones (or yellowish brown I guess?) when we’re camping or on the trail

Please, Ted, there has to be another way. Anything but that. 🤓

Statue of Florence Martus, the Waving Girl, in Morrell Park, overlooking the Marsh Island Channel in Savannah, GA • It’s believed that for 44 years, up until 1931, she greeted every ship in the Savannah Harbor with a wave of her handkerchief or lantern without missing any, ~50,000 ships in total