Buying 3 books for every 1 I read until my apartment explodes

As the latest on Olympic boxer Imane Khelif is reported, a diagnosis of 5ARD is almost certain. I and others first raised the likelihood of this DSD a few months ago. Understanding how the developmental biology of DSDs interacts with sports categorisation is crucial.

🥖 Boulanger dans le Tarn-et-Garonne, il a instauré la semaine de 4 jours pour les salariés, 10 semaines de congés payés, un salaire minimum de 2 000 euros net… Jean-Pierre défend le BIB, le « Bonheur Intérieur Brut ».

Touched by this poem this morning, having just reread Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida. (What a play!)

Protecting my unreadable sentence from editors

Ooh, let me guess. Emotive longform pieces from Owen Jones complaining that American taxi drivers aren't reading enough Judith Butler?

Good to see my neighbour getting into the Christmas spirit early this year.

I love research because it combines my two favorite things: sitting and anxiety

Dans une petite #ville française, un libraire vient de céder place. Avant de partir il a laissé un mot. Comme pour mieux indiquer aux passants les fantômes qui furent jadis et qui permettaient au cœur de la commune de battre encore et toujours. 💔

As is traditional in Ireland during big storms, we all await a news story from a windswept reporter that has been tied to a lamppost in Salthill while some gobshite in the background flies a small dog like a kite as the waves smash over a poorly parked Ford Focus #StormDarragh

Saul Leiter. Waiter. Paris. 1959.

🥁Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse pdimagearchive.org Public Domain Image Archive

Ken Van Sickle. Paris 1955. After his tour in the Korean War he picked up a Leica camera with only 60 rolls of 35mm film and, with the money from the G.I. Bill, moved to Paris. The zeitgeist of 50s Paris are captured beautifully.

It's the saxophones

We heard the sea sound sing, we saw the salt sheet tell. Lie still, sleep becalmed, hide the mouth in the throat, Or we shall obey, and ride with you through the drowned. Dylan Thomas. Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed.

UNADFI press release // February 11th 2025 TRIBUTE FOR MIKE RINDER AND HIS FIGHT

James Nachtwey. Bosnia, 1993. Mourning a soldier killed by Serbs and buried in what was once a football field. Afghanistan, 1996. Mourning a brother killed by a Taliban rocket. What we see cant be unseen….we are now part of the story.