none of the personal emails Louise Gluck sent me paint me in a particularly positive light so I will not be sharing them

When I was a waitress, Kiefer Sutherland would come in to dine and ask “what’s your rent?” and then write that amount on the tip line of the check.

low-key this book prevented racism & xenophobia for an entire generation

I’m still Hannah Jane Parkinson. See you there!

when you’re pissed and you see someone you vaguely know in the chippy

This is one of the graphs Number 10 just released in support of its climate policy shift:

▪️no unit of measurement
▪️no timeframe
▪️several comparator countries not included
▪️no rationale for countries that are included - why Argentina and not India?
▪️the source is ‘internal’

A French journalist, Ariane Lavrilleux, has been detained by French police for her reporting on France's alleged complicity in extrajudicial killings of civilians in Egypt's Western Desert from 2016 to 2018
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Unbelievable that a Haruki Murakami bot is going to end up bringing down all of Twitter. Give the man his Nobel Prize.

15-year-old me doing work experience at a barristers’ chambers

Cannot get over the stupidity of TfL renaming Bond St “Burberry St” for the sake of ad partnership. Some poor elderly man just asked me in a panic if he’d missed Bond St (3 stops past Bond St). This must happen hundreds of times a day

to those of us who are upset we are hosting noami klein for her book about how she gets conflated with naomi wolf because they think we are hosting naomi wolf ....... boy have we got a book for you

“There’s little appetite in Brussels for more Brexit psychodrama.”

Aside from that, there’s only so much Starmer can achieve while refusing to rejoin the single market or customs union. Hopefully at least some progress in culture / science spheres. on.ft.com/46e26BZ

Oh, my god!?!?!!

You’ve probably heard that Coca-Cola once contained cocaine but did you know another popular soda once contained the mood stabilizer lithium?

Originally called “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda,” the name was later shortened to 7-Up because the atomic mass of lithium is ~7.

The stairway of the Art Nouveau Pēkšēns House from 1903 in Riga, Latvia. The building was designed by architects Konstantīns Pēkšēns and Eižens Laube.

in context the thick of it