"what fools we are"
"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. womenβs hockey team on a celebratory call with the menβs team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging womenβs 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 β€οΈ
I'm going to need a Book of Dust Volumes I and II recap before Thursday...
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Forsitan audieris aliquam certamine cursus
veloces superasse viros. Non fabula rumor
ille fuit:
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 ππ»ββοΈ
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. Pompeiiβs 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 farmerβs 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 mayorβwhat could be more NYC than that?"
hot mayor summer
"what fools we are"