The 32 (actually 37) words for field in Manchán Mangan's "Thirty-Two Words for Field" (2020).

Literally can’t sleep tonight knowing I get to be in this fast-paced entrepreneurial environment tomorrow

this is what big oil is taking from you

if you want a horror magazine that doesn't publish any horror, have I got a website for you

watching toddlers gain knowledge of qualities: a toddler realizes their food is too hot. they know “hotness”. but they have no idea that heat slowly dissipates. the food simply “is hot”. so they just keep shoving the hot food into their mouth, determined to overcome. fascinating.

The expectation that children will be part of public life is incredibly important to the experience is being a parent, and the decline in this default expectation is troubling and ominous

'We've had reports that you've drunk two glasses of normal coke today'

This is giving me the really strong impression that when Amazon actually starts releasing new James Bond films, the living will envy the dead

You could waste weeks reading these self-help books or you could learn psychology from George Eliot, social relations from Jane Austen, morality from Dostoevsky, redemption from Dumas, the nature of good and evil from folklore & myth.

Oh thank god you brought your JBL speaker on the subway. I was worried we’d all have to listen to our own music today

why do british people worship the NHS despite the fact that it is clearly objectively terrible

Casablanca by Henry Kondracki, 1953

What's the point? Bond's Walther PPK is as much an intrinsic part of his character as the tuxedo and vodka Martinis. You gonna edit out the smoking, drinking and gambling next?

The story of the decline of the humanities is that the humanities ate Biblical hermeneutics, then sociology ate the humanities. Literature tried to save itself by becoming creative writing and that, too, was eaten by sociology. History went digital and was eaten by sociology

Another vignette from the post-literate society. Reading books used to be something a lot people did for fun - now it is a specialist skill that has to be taught by universities

Apparently universities are having to teach English literature students how to concentrate for long enough to read lengthy novels. I have to ask, what makes a person who's incapable of reading long novels decide that studying literature at degree level is for them?

Sobbed in front of this statue for 15 minutes and gave my gf the ick

Most likely, true health and longevity involves periodic attempts at poisoning yourself at low dosages with lindy substances

A girl loudly meowed in greeting to her friend at a table next to us. It’s so over

White Boy Summer is a state of being, not a season