My partner has been a subscriber for years. It's great. Stewart Lee's music reviews have been a highlight, but there's great long form content in most editions.
From Wikipedia, a quote that seems relevant to this forum with its anti-grind-culture ethic:
On the practice of idling, [founder] Tom Hodgkinson writes:
A characteristic of the idler's work is that it looks suspiciously like play. This, again, makes the non-idler feel uncomfortable. Victims of the Protestant work ethic would like all work to be unpleasant. They feel that work is a curse, that we must suffer on this earth to earn our place in the next. The idler, on the other hand, sees no reason not to use his brain to organise a life for himself where his play is his work, and so attempt to create his own little paradise in the here and now.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 26.1 ms ] threadOn the practice of idling, [founder] Tom Hodgkinson writes:
A characteristic of the idler's work is that it looks suspiciously like play. This, again, makes the non-idler feel uncomfortable. Victims of the Protestant work ethic would like all work to be unpleasant. They feel that work is a curse, that we must suffer on this earth to earn our place in the next. The idler, on the other hand, sees no reason not to use his brain to organise a life for himself where his play is his work, and so attempt to create his own little paradise in the here and now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idler_(1993)
I cancelled my subscription because I am too lazy to go on their website to read their articles.
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Here’s some propaganda for the prospective idlers among us:
https://www.inspiracy.com/black/abolition/abolitionofwork.ht...
https://libcom.org/article/praise-idleness-bertrand-russell
Also one of the few places that has published a letter from me :)
For tech people its had some interesting articles promoting retro-computing and FOSS as more "idle" alternatives.