[BLOG] Some Thursday links

• Bad Astronomy examines asteroid 2014 OL339, a quasi-moon on Earth.
• blogTO notes an ongoing satirical campaign targeting the mayoral campaign of Doug Ford.
• Centauri Dreams notes the mysterious orbit in Titan’s Ligeia Mare.
• The Dragon’s Gaze notes 3:1 and 2:1 orbital resonances of multi-planet systems discovered by Kepler.
• The Dragon’s Tales notes the continuing Ukrainian war.
• Joe. My. God. notes that New York City is promoting PrEP on Grindr.
• Languages of the World’s Asya Perelstvaig examines the word “cucumber” used in European languages.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that ocean acidification produced by greenhouse gas emissions will end oysters in their natural habitat.
• Marginal Revolution wonders if Catalonia’s referendum on independence will take place.
• Registan doesn’t like how Russian experts see the spectre of the Islamic State throughout central Asia and miss real issues there.
• Spacing Toronto notes the import of indigenous soundscapes.
• Window on Eurasia notes who Russian sympathizers are abroad, notes that Muscovites live on average six years longer than people elsewhere in Russia, and observes Russian interest in Russophone minorities in the Baltic States.
• The Yorkshire Ranter shares a variety of charts, including some showing the Eurozone’s lagging recovery from the 2008-2009 recession and the concentration of English identity in rural areas and in the east.