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"what fools we are"

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

Rory Gilmore would never

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

I love Veronika the cow

The right to life comprises a right not to be unlawfully killed and a right to have any killing properly investigated.

Proud of my city ❤️

I'm going to need a Book of Dust Volumes I and II recap before Thursday...

Perry Como - Kol Nidre YouTube video by Jewish World

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeIY...

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I once got back to a table in a beer garden and the whole vibe had changed and people were muttering to strangers, and it turned out to be because a northerner had been rude about Sadiq Khan and the entire place had instinctively rounded on him.

Anyway that's how I feel tonight.

and the putting the books away

Reader, I ran a 5k in under 30 minutes

I did it 🏃🏻‍♀️

New Zealand launches campaign to find love for rare and lonely left-spiralling snail Ned Nearly all common garden snails have shells that coil to the right but Ned the snail’s left-spiralling shell results in reversed reproductive organs – a barrier to mating If you thought your dating pool was limited, spare a thought for Ned, a very rare snail unearthed in New Zealand. Due to a left-spiralling shell, Ned has a vanishingly small chance of finding a mate – a predicament that has sparked a nationwide campaign. Nearly all common garden snails have shells that coil to the right but Ned’s left-spiralling shell is like a mirror image, resulting in a flipped shell and reversed reproductive organs – a configuration that affects roughly 1 in 40,000 snails. Continue reading...

New Zealand launches campaign to find love for rare and lonely left-spiralling snail Ned

Simone Weil, and would that more might read her

A blazing orange billowing smoke-filled sky blowing over Vesuvius. Pompeii’s Porta Nocera in the foreground.

Dramatic end to the day. Fire on the slopes of Vesuvius lit by the setting sun. #Pompeii

Regret to inform that I enjoyed two dates from the fridge as a little treat this evening

Well I impulse bought a ticket to London and I do blame the stormy weather but I have no regrets

Peaches from the farmer’s market and chamomile tea from Crete and Mary McCarthy

vague magazine

(I'm two episodes behind, no spoilers please)

I feel like we're not talking enough about Ovid's Heroides

the substack algorithm is super weird and/or every single person on that platform is currently reading east of eden

One for @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social

Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"

hot mayor summer

"what fools we are"