the only way to end its ongoing scandals is to abolish the university of cambridge, I take no pleasure in reporting this
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so i got some cool wide-leg trousers from a charity shop and dyed them at home (a nice toffee colour) but unfortunately when i put my raincoat on over the top i look like a north korean general in dress uniform
don’t really want to do jason arday discourse, but it’s tangentially interesting how much the case brings up the strand of scholarly output that now gets archived through recorded talks, transcripts of zoom q&as, and institutions holding and shaping those digital objects
liechtenstein is the last country in europe which retains a law that makes it illegal to give information about how to seek an abortion www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Liechtenstein’s archaic abortion laws need to be modernised. But a prince is standing in the way | Gabriella Alvarez-Hummel
Substantial hurdles are faced by women who have to travel abroad to access abortion, but Hereditary Prince Alois says he will veto any changes, says writer and campaigner from Liechtenstein Gabriella ...
theguardian.com
You wouldnt know her she’s the salt of a different earth
enjoying entries from the RA young artists’ summer show (a thread of some selected favourites from the under 10s) youngartists.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/...
Exhibitions : Young Artists' Summer Show | Royal Academy
The Young Artists' Summer Show is an open submission exhibition, taking place both online and on-site at the Royal Academy, that recognises talented young artists at primary and secondary school level...
youngartists.royalacademy.org.uk
might fuck around and get the horrible manicure from solenoid
Re the Emily Wilson discourse - her Dad (A N Wilson) was the king of literary feuds. A good family tradition. Best one was his feud with Bevis Hillier who hoaxed him into including a fake letter in his biography of Bejteman where the first letter of each sentence spelt "AN Wilson is a shit".
rachel cusk and jonathan safran foer should get a group chat
But come on, what we're really here for is the vegetable animals, and this year was a fine crop. Pick your favourite:
if you’re interested in vicariously going brambly hedge mode, norwegian national broadcaster nrk has a whole section of the website that’s dedicated to berrypicking updates www.nrk.no/emne/frukt-o...
Frukt og bær
Saker og artikler om Frukt og bær på NRK.no
nrk.no
King Arthur when his court wizard snubs Guinevere
the moomin valley police wear british policemen’s helmets, implying that moominland was colonised by britain and is potentially part of the commonwealth
my hobby: looking up the owners of the ugly luxury yachts in town and sending bad vibes to them specifically
me at 10am, scoffing at the warnings about getting sunburn from reflections off the water even if you wear a hat me at 7pm after spending the day on a boat: well, isn’t my face red
can someone interview the people in the three lions fursuits and ask them if they’ve been washing them between games thank you
me: pants is pants, trousers is trousers americans: trousers is pants norwegians: pants is truser
update your norway hot takes from “they’re good at football because of nordic social democracy” to “they’re good at football because they never experienced feudalism”
Brad Bolman@brad.bolman.com · 4w agoLove this bit from the Guardian live chat about how most of the Norwegian player names are about farming
in my #boardgame COMRADE ORCA you and your friends play a pod of vengeful killer #whales taking out billionaires' yachts. It's kind of like coop Battleship, but you can only use whale sounds to communicate! And yes, you get to wear a salmon on your head. it's in dev now, crowdfunding next year!
new eurosnack, this time from north macedonia (delicious, the absolute minimum amount of wafer to maximum amount of filling possible while still maintaining structural integrity)
too hot? need some good luck? have a look for a four-leaf clover in the 5000 of them i photographed on my hike today for some reason
went to the big out-of-town diy shop and someone had printed out pictures of nyland surrounded by hearts and stuck them up on the cash registers