There’s something so utterly moving about the London Marathon. Watching elites break records in the same race as people dressed as bees. Showcasing the best of my wonderful city. It’s just the best of us.

Sawe and Kejelcha ran the 10K from 30km to 40km in the London marathon today in 27:36. If you've ever run a 10K, you'll know just how insanely fast that is for a 10K mid-marathon.

As Sebastian Sawe was running 1:59:30 in the London marathon, I was thinking about @edcaesar.bsky.social and his wonderful book Two Hours

Imagine running the London marathon in less than two hours and coming *second*

u never see this on a tradlife mood board

I think this is misleadingly presented. It is legal for a 16-year-old girl and a 30-year-old man to have sex in the UK. He is using this to sell his 'redemption' arc to US conservatives, it is not something he is on trial for; he's on trial for rape and assault of several adult women.

In Schloss Kammer on the Attersee IV (1910), we see a familiar motif, but Klimt remixes it. By swapping yellow stone for cooler, aquatic light, he turns the solid castle into a shimmering ghost of its former structural self—making the view feel newly invented.

From the perspective of both a researcher and a research participant, we really need to curtail what's contained in participant information sheets so that they are actually read...

Arm of the Seine, near Giverny, rising sun - 1897 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110421

This is a lie used to push liberals away from the only fighting politician institutions on the left in the US. More unionists voted for Harris than Biden. The modal active union member (as opposed to retiree) is a woman in a school or hospital, not a cartoon polish guy in a hard hat.

It is impossible to understate how weird these guys are.

Here's a mini quiz for you. Can you tell us where these libraries are located? 📷Andreas von Einsiedel; Dennis Gilbert; Chris Lacey; James Dobson

Biopic sur Michael Jackson : le film sur le roi de la pop est une hagiographie ridicule d’un artiste dépeint en génie immature, expurgée de toutes les accusations de pédocriminalité. Lire : bit.ly/42gIVr8

Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

Would immediately buy the mid-century novel that began with this sentence.

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this is one of the most offensive things I've seen in years

Giles was so generous with his time and so helpful when it came to explaining to journalists very clearly and with quotable precision exactly how a wrong un landlord was being a wrong un. But mostly I just remember thinking he was a really, really kind human who cared about the state of others.

Senate House Passage, Cambridge

Europe’s last coal – a photo essay

Oh I absolutely would

the please stop referring to homegrown christofascism as American Sharia law challenge

Literally this morning. This isn't some random transphobic account, it's a prominent figure in UK anti-trans politics, with 160k followers, routinely promoted and RTd by Rowling, "Sex Matters", etc. Just openly calling to completely ban being trans. What are trans folks supposed to do with that?

“‘Even though people often say there’s no such thing as privacy in public, the truth is a lot more complicated,’ said [Woodrow] Hartzog, who works in privacy and technology law.”

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Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.

Grimly frequent www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Mamdani not rich enough for the NY Times

It's International Dark Sky Week 💫🌠🌃 In the Yorkshire Dales National Park Dark Sky Reserve our dark nights enhance habitats for wildlife, improve health and wellbeing and brings economic benefit to our local tourist industry. More 👇 https://idsw.darksky.org/ 📸 Pete Collins | #IDSW #DarkSkyReserve

Last month in The Onion:

Lyse Doucet, you poet

Sensational PhD opportunity here

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

one thing that got memory-holed is trump has a civil conviction for rape by normal journalistic standards, its totally acceptable to refer to him as a rapist in coverage & commentary, without added 'alleged'

"Someone tried to strangle Sneako", "Clavicular just had a drug overdose", I refuse to believe that understanding any of these headlines is better for me than chain-smoking

It never misses

September 1, 2003

the fact that he’s using it for propaganda makes me regret ever painting this

"How would you help advance the President’s Executive Orders and policy priorities?" has been a standard question for new federal job applicants since Trump changed federal hiring policies. Hope that makes you feel better about air travel. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-politi...

'On any given day, roughly three million tractor-trailers ferry goods along American highways, and it is only because of some perverse collective disavowal that any of us, in our dinky cars, agree to share the road with them.' Looking forward to reading this piece by Patrick Radden Keefe

JD Vance, Matt Goodwin, Assorted “Post-Liberal” pricks whose names I’ve forgotten, your boy took a hell of a beating!

“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

Since we’re all making fun of Rod Dreher, I think about this at least once a week

Will everyone please accordingly update their class takes, which will take effect from 5pm today