not since i was cruelly passed over for white claw's marketing lead have i been so confident my skillset aligns with a new career opportunity

I’ve just eaten a copy of the Sermon on the Mount. I contain Beatitudes.

NUMBERS!

Death and devils! men, it is Moby Dick ye have seen—Moby Dick—Moby Dick!

A useful distinction to draw is “usual” but not “normal”

Big “maybe even better than the gods” energy

The U.S. and Russia have lost four wars over the past 60 years, despite their nuclear arsenals. What do nuclear weapons buy besides the important function of strategic deterrence? Nothing. Maybe we need to rediscover this truth. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

every single dish you think of as new england cuisine was more or less propaganda by a bunch of white ladies called the boston cooking school who wanted to minimize immigrant changes; baked beans were not v sweet and fairly rare. basically they super hated the irish and italians

Armenia and Turkey are feuding all the way down.

one thing about writing an entire book about sandwiches is my brain is just full of random facts now. coffee plants were forcibly introduced to java by the dutch. tuna fishes have extraordinarily high lung capacity. barbecue was a status symbol denoting slave ownership in the antebellum south

sometimes I think about that Warner brothers cartoon where the coyote and the sheepdog punch in at 9 am (speaking of things no one remembers now) "morning Jim" "morning Bob," spend the day literally at each other's throats, then punch out just as cordially.

When you read the phrase “peculiar to Scotland” you have to wonder how peculiar that must be… or how much the English were to blame… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crofting

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with zhivago, *i'm* in charge, not my ibs

1. There are LOTS of blatantly anti-Catholic Chick tracts - I remember seeing these as a kid in Georgia in the mid-90s, and my parents were atheists/agnostics. 2. If you don’t know what a Chick tract is, you may be very sheltered from the reality of how insane most American evangelicals are.

“….and I had told him previously not to bring his ass ‘round here again”

Day of the Dealt Hand

Oral rehydration therapy was invented by public health heroes from Bangladesh (with support from my PhD advisor Richard Cash) during a cholera epidemic in the 1970s, saving millions. We don't think much about dying from diarrhea in the US, but here we are. Cyclospora often needs antibiotics. 6/

*blowing cigarette smoke right in the face of everyone who just woke up to the news* "We already did all the jokes"

I find UFC horrific. Why would you want to watch a man being beaten to a paste, unless it’s Conor McGregor? It’s barbarism, pure and simple. If this is your idea of fun, laughing and cheering while a fellow human being is terrorised and humiliated, I feel sorry for you, unless it’s Conor McGregor.

Today is a great reminder that we can never be too ready.

By the way, have got the last remaining Unbound stock of the Incomplete Framley Examiner collection, and it’s being distributed again - by Wilton Square. Buy a new copy of that book now, we WILL get the money. That’s the last time this book will exist, I reckon, sadly. But get it while you can.

he actually did the meme

VADER VOICE: PULISIC HIM

There are very few podcasts worth watching as opposed to just listening to. The Interview from The New York Times is one of the ones worth watching.

Pro Tip: If you’re an old man who looks like Miss Jane on “The Beverly Hillbillies,” avoid mocking better looking young men for their appearance.

This is a great article, and these issues are so frustrating... Why is it that even in the 2020s we still have the same-old story in academia & medicine where people need to be slowly, sluggishly awakened to the fact that an entire demographic "just so happens" to not show up in their research?

Reporters, always confused between what is news and what makes sense. —A. J. Liebling, The Earl of Louisiana

Norway pay their female international players the same amount as their male players and have done since 2017.

‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...

Every time this goes around I’m stunned that there are still people who’ve never seen it, this performance is to drag what the Mona Lisa is to paintings, but maybe you’ve never seen the Mona Lisa, so today is the day you shall behold it

Apparently, Amnesty International pulled their list of anti-trans hate groups, so I should probably re-post this. ashley-nein.notion.site/19101d3e04aa...

Trans people. Our human rights are under attack from organised hate in the UK. General Public. Stop overreacting. Amnesty International. Over 50 anti-human rights organistions are now operating in the UK.

you love to see it

It’s not more dangerous than *I* think

for the record when I talk about brunchlords it doesn't really have anything to do with brunch I personally love bloody marys

I don't get star struck being out here in LA but I do love a good dude find and Toby Huss and Titus Welliver were two of the most dude dudes ever. They're not the same kind of dude though, one calls you "dude" the other calls you "brother" but they both genuinely mean it. I thought that was cool

A girl I knew in Rathfarnham told me that Packy Bonner was her first big crush and she wrote detailed poetry about what she wanted him to do to her. I have been unable to hear his name since without thinking of this, although I suppose that's not his fault.

Sam Altman always looks like he’s explaining how the world of The Matrix isn’t really as bad as it sounds.

I took my sister in law & nibling to Center 360 today and it is STUNNING. a856-centre360.nyc.gov - They've opened up the top of the Dinkins Municipal Building to anyone who signs up. It's free and the views are absolutely stunning. Highly recommend.

fucking cringes

I think one fix for the specialized system would be more specialized schools- including for the humanities. Math and science kids shouldnt be the only ones getting these resources. Also they need more interview admissions to address high priced test prep.

Never choose Haidt.

My absolute favorite post. Had to transform it into this:

Binned.

it was nice to get a break from "dry spell" and "situation" while i was in ireland. i have reached my lifetime limit on both those songs (and i do not ever want to hear "your body's hotter than a brothel in guam" ever again tbh). con: noah kahan is on overdrive there, as is stella lefty. 🙄

Living Well Is The Best Revenge, live in Dublin.

Pretty sure this plays every New Order song before Technique

this is the thing about The Odyssey - might be a historically-accurate epic but it's a MYTH it's RIDICULOUS it should be WEIRD AS ALL HELL with insane costumes and people chewing the scenery because they're GODS and MONSTERS. A Knight's Tale was THE modern translation of a classic work. i want that