content: 2026-07-14 capture run — 20 finds across 9 productive sources

Dedup was the story: 56 candidates surfaced, 31 already captured (the daily
feeds largely re-served yesterday's items), 2 previously rejected on merit,
5 failed the bar today.

Shortlisted 10. Two items were demoted off the shortlist by the fact-check
step rather than before it — the Coleman stove's Snow Peak IGT compatibility
is not a claim Coleman makes (and it is backorder-only), and Shortverse is a
filmmaker hosting platform, not the viewer-facing short-film streamer it
looked like. Both stay as finds, honestly written.

5 Amazon links. Source maintenance: Kevin Kelly demoted weekly -> as-needed
(publishes, but the Technium is essays, never things); The Browser's free feed
now carries only 2 of 5 daily picks; two Reddit 429s recorded but not acted on
(same-domain subs succeeded, so it reads as throttling, not a block).

candidate-sources.md

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 - **MetaFilter** — https://www.metafilter.com/ — the original community link-aggregator; still one of the best low-noise sources of genuinely strange, delightful corners of the web. Surfaced this run as a repeated "via MeFi" credit inside Things Magazine's monthly link-dump (twice in one post). Things Magazine is effectively re-publishing MetaFilter's finds a step downstream — going to the source directly would get us there first and at a much better cadence (MeFi posts daily; Things posts monthly). Has a clean RSS feed (/rss.xml). Strong general-delight fit.
 - **Nomadico** — https://nomadicomail.com/ — Tim Leffel's short weekly travel newsletter (four items an issue: gear, destinations, travel logistics). Surfaced this run because Cool Tools *republishes it wholesale* as a roundup post — this run's LectroFan Alpha item was Nomadico content arriving secondhand. Same argument as MetaFilter: we're reading it a step downstream already. Would strengthen the travel axis, which is currently thin (Roadtrippers went dormant, The Outbound and Boutique Homes are undated dead ends — all three demoted/skipped this run).
 - **Andy Ihnatko** — https://ihnatko.com/ — long-time Mac/tech columnist's new personal blog (launched ~2026-06-02, announced via Six Colors). Referenced again this week as the referrer on a piece Six Colors picked up, which suggests he's actively curating outward links. Lesser priority than the two above — the blog is young and its cadence/shape isn't established yet. Flagged for the trail; worth re-checking in a month.
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+- **Colossal** — https://www.thisiscolossal.com/ — daily art/design/photography discovery blog, tightly curated and delight-forward. Surfaced this run as the explicit "via colossal" credit on Kottke's aerial-photography-contest post. Same downstream-reading pattern that put MetaFilter and Nomadico on this list: Kottke is republishing Colossal's finds a step late. Has an RSS feed (/feed). Strong design-and-art fit — and the visual axis is where our heroes come from, so a source whose whole beat is imagery is worth more than its find count suggests.
+- **Recurrence note (no new nominees, but the signal is compounding):** **Michael Tsai** (nominated 07-12) surfaced *again* this run as the "via" credit on Six Colors' WhatCable post — that is two independent runs and two independent existing sources crediting him. **Craig Mod / Ridgeline** (nominated 07-06) likewise re-surfaced, credited by both Cool Tools (Retro Recomendo trail shoes) and Kottke (NYC skaters) in the same window. Both are now the highest-conviction unvetted nominees on this list; they keep arriving secondhand.