This. I do not eat there because I am turned off buddy ridiculous size. No way could I eat that thing
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Writer & sometime Flight Attendant. Technically an anthropologist. I commute across the Atlantic (I know, right?!) Nerd for all things ancient history, literature, linguistics. What’s your Roman Empire? #pile
This. I do not eat there because I am turned off buddy ridiculous size. No way could I eat that thing
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
THE SHINING is a horror movie because it depicts a writer having to get a part-time job.
And yes, the food matt needs a clean it’s Friday please pretend you don’t see that
Finally got my diva cat on video doing His Thing (where he meows at me demandingly until I follow him to his food bowl so that I can basically give him a massage while he eats 🤣)
So happy my job is to fly around in airplanes rn and the head of anti-terrorism is 24 years old
Yes. And it struck a warm note of nostalgia in my chest.
She looks the vibe I believe you completely
"why did you become a writer" because no one gave a shit about my special interests growing up. now i make them everyone else's problem. next question
Legendborn YESSSSSS (was coming to say that)
Jameela is the most “I want to like this person but ugh what the fuck” person I’ve ever heard of.
Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.
Me too 💪
one thing i feel ppl have forgotten is that democracy isn’t just having elections, it’s also an *ethic* that you distribute power across society. different authorities over different spheres. wealth concentration isn’t solely abt unfairness, as a power imbalance it’s an affront to democratic values.
Really sad
Busy sending form letters full of platitudes about how amazing Trump is to his constituents (ask me how I know)
Whaaaaat is going on over there holy smokes
I’m now having a fun series of fantasies where I think about all the branding nicknames different political figures that would have had on their ballot.
They should replace Polymarket with a predictive betting site that only covers fun stuff like this.
I either saw this comb (the original, not the chocolate one) or one like it in the Yorvik Center in York just a couple weeks ago.
By the by, it would have cost something like £600-700 in today’s money.
Gods this is wonderful
I’m glad I haven’t seen any of those because I wouldn’t be able to roll my eyes hard enough
He went through a company like a lamplighter – see the dull minds, one after another, begin to glow, to shed a beneficent light. He went through a company like a knifegrinder – see the dull minds scattering sparks of themselves, becoming razory, becoming useful. He went through a company as himself. But now he’s one of the multitudinous company of the dead where are no individuals. The beneficent lights dim but don’t vanish. The razory edges dull, but still cut. He’s gone: but you can see his tracks still, in the snow of the world. Norman MacCaig, "Praise of a Man"
No AI will ever match the extravagent profundity and beauty of Norman MacCaig's elegaic "Praise of a Man," because no AI will ever understand what these words *mean*:
Back in the 80s, we all really wanted to be living in the future. Little did we know:
A) when we got to the future, we'd want to go back, and
B) we were already living in the future.
Secret cheat code
Timeline cleanse
Activate: core memories of my
Grandparents’ decades-worth
Catalogue of Reader’s Digest (which I read all the way through multiple times)
Oh, and Highlights magazine. I loved that shit
Thank you for the heads up