In Poço Dantas, a Canadian mining company’s lithium project has transformed daily life — just as COP30 debates how to make the energy transition “just.”

the problem is i love The Traitors and i cannot stand the phrase “played a blinder” and these two things are in constant opposition

Opinion: U.K. parliamentarian Noah Law argues that money going to debt servicing is keeping low-income countries from taking care of their citizens.

blue prince is such a good game it’s ruining my life

In light of international aid cuts and ideological reform, there are concerns that people at high risk of contracting HIV will be forced into overcrowded public health systems and may face stigma. www.devex.com/news/why-int...

these scientists never hung out with old tom and it shows en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tom...

NOT NOW BEES

are you wearing the… the chanel boots? yeah, I am.

If M.R. James wrote safety signage

why are they all saying “the new pontiff is from Chicago” when it could be: Pope. Six. Squish. Uh-uh.

The annual election for the UN Gen Assembly presidency is generally a sleeper. But Palestine's bid for the top U.N. post in 2026-27 has set the stage for a clash with Washington that could risk US funding to wider UN. Now Cyprus is mounting a challenge. Scoop. www.devex.com/news/scoop-c...

you sea anemone; i sea a friend

Europe is restructuring its development aid, shifting from traditional grants to investment-driven funding while cutting budgets and prioritizing defense, raising concerns about the future of global development.

Over 5,300 USAID contracts were abruptly canceled this year. A Devex analysis reveals the 20 contractors that lost the most — with billions in planned funds left on the table. We take a look at how deeply the U.S. foreign aid freeze disrupted the global development industry. #USAID #foreignaid

what is the portmanteau for when someone sends a performatively enigmatic text to make you respond? this is when I miss Olde Twitter; I know there was a “who called it ___ and not ____” tweet about this

a true foundational online text, brings me to the verge of a panic attack every time I read it

💥SCOOP💥Remaining USAID staff members were instructed to help shred and destroy the agency’s classified and personnel documents at headquarters in Washington, D.C. However, there are concerns that this doesn’t follow protocol for disposal of sensitive documents. #scoop #USAID #documents

the correct way to organize your books is with a new arcane system every six months at 2 am when you have a deadline to do something else

last night i went to the bakery for a last pain tradition of the day and was in line behind a little boy with a soft little pet rabbit in a cage. “Be careful,” he told me very solemnly, “She may attack.”

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't live your dreams

If you thought that State Department waiver on emergency food delivery would enable the World Food Program to deliver food you were wrong: 500,00O metric tons of food produced in the U.S. are stranded in warehouses and ports. www.devex.com/news/us-grow...

the latest this morning for global dev (spoiler: it’s bad) www.devex.com/news/exclusi...

If you want to understand what the aid freeze actually means, you gotta read @elissamio.bsky.social www.devex.com/news/i-don-t...

Scoop: UN migration agency freezes support for U.S. resettlement program,potentially putting thousands of jobs at risk. Rubio's humanitarian waiver doesn't apply www.devex.com/admin/news_l...

okay but why is there no Muppets National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

so much of the french libretto to Les Miserables is more interesting, nuanced, and political than the English version, but there’s something about the supertitles to One Day More reading “The big day!” that gave me the giggles

Barnier? We hardly knew ya

Ceci n'est pas une peep.

we took the baby to the oval reading room of the most beautiful public library i’ve ever seen and not only was she welcome but the librarian showed us to the kids books because the library is beautiful and historic and for everyone including Clementine

i wish the dune movies did their titles like fast and the furious franchise Dune Dune 2: Twomothee Dune 3: Timothree Dune: 4 Is the Mind Killer

people ask me what the baby is like and the answer is this gif

have been looking into getting some thing repaired — vintage copper pots, le creuset — and man, the internet really loves to tell you to just throw things away

people say the bear season 1 is ted lasso for adults but actually it’s you’ve got mail for millennials

we are gonna get home to paris long after grocery stores are shut tonight so had bought an english cheese feast for dinner and just realized we came to the train station without it

of all the nobody warned me abouts of having a baby by far the worst is how much fucking stuff we now have to carry when traveling

just feeling very grateful today that we settled in france while we still could. can’t imagine (or rather can, but must refuse to for my own survival) how i would feel right now if the UK government had the power to separate me from joe and clementine over a few thousand pounds

one of the contestants on the Squid Game reality show is a red haired twin named Hallie so good to know what happened to one of the girls from The Parent Trap

wishing only happiness on the woman who saw i had gotten myself and the stroller trapped inside the metro turnstile and stopped to talk me through escaping with the baby not only unruffled but literally still asleep the whole time

everyone talks about tab bankruptcy but my favorite one is coat bankruptcy (where you take all your coats off the entrance hooks and put them away and have a lovely clear coatrack in the entranceway)

before i had a baby i thought people who insisted their infants preferred arcade fire and studio ghibli to normie kid stuff were being self-conscious weirdos and now i realize it’s because if you convince yourself the baby hates frozen you never have to watch it yourself

does any animal look as worried as sharks?? no seriously show your work

not to undermine the seriousness of the excellent Maintenance Phase episode on Ozempic but every time @yrfatfriend.bsky.social says the drug is “in shortage” i hear “in shoreditch” and it makes Ozempic sound like a bourgeois fella visiting London

extremely pleased with this week's newsletter! it's got a long essay on how singlehood shapes you, some great recs and an unhinged list about caps, AND it's free to read: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/on-imperfe...

Pere Lachaise has some perfect tiny baby royalty this fall

having a baby is a constant stream of strangers offering you weird advice but the best one so far was the woman who told me we as her parents need to drink wine out of baby bottles so the baby learns proper technique

couldn’t be more obsessed with the wikipedia page for the inventor of the saxophone

if you wanted to get a small repair made to a cooking pot where would you take it? is that a thing that still exists?

across the way a man in his underwear is leaning out his window picking through a flower bed to remove every last pigeon feather and singing celine dion

has anyone done any studies on how listening to the eleven-minute All Too Well on repeat affects a newborn brain? because if not I am a groundbreaking researcher.