During an idle online search, I've stumbled upon what might be the greatest job title of all time. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

for the love of god it’s a billion degrees and people won’t stop saying “lolly” as if it’s a real word

Paris is covered in trash after the all night solstice rave, but there’s also a man scattering lavender buds on the street to perfume the heatwave

This is utterly joyous please take a second to focus and enjoy

a fun activity is to ask your friends in New York who are the Nixon Five

if i had a nickel for every time a reality tv star whose last name is a mildly rude word to british people entered politics, i’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot of nickels but it’s weird that it’s happened twice

🚨 We have just launched a new podcast! 🚨 Introducing Theory of Change, a new series featuring long-form conversations with the people wrestling with the future of global development. Subscribe on your preferred podcasting platform: www.devex.com/focus/theory...

spencer pratt winning a lot of mayoral votes in LA is gonna awaken a horror in millennial women we didn’t even know was there

The Bundibugyo species of the Ebola virus rapidly spreading around the DRC has no licensed vaccines or therapeutics. But the global health community is weighing its options of which candidates it could start in clinical trials. Here are the options: www.devex.com/news/the-ebo...

piled into a bus full of journalists attending a Very Important Business Summit but being piled into a bus of any kind will never not feel like we’re on the way to summer camp

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

New York Times: If you're gonna crib our headline, you could at least credit Nick Judin and the Mississippi Free Press for first reporting it 2 days earlier. I'm glad this story is getting national attention. But Nick puts a lot of himself in these stories, and deserves credit (just as we'd do).

My latest Paris dispatch on how 300 streets outside of schools became some of the coolest places in the city. But even more importantly, these family-centric improvements provide ubiquitous reminders that this society prioritizes children

may you live in interesting times, they said

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Best money I spend every month

Emily is so smart

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

what if french people in the 90s just thought marky mark was our way of referring to marcel marceau

next time you think “not everything is better in french,” please consider you could have chatbots OR you could have

years and years ago i interviewed Tom Stoppard and he told me writing is like playing table tennis with himself and i just loved that

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