Factual thoughts: Scott Pelley and Henry Schuster were embedded with my Marine infantry unit in 2009—it was incredibly violent in Helmand. They told our story well. Years later, my unit suffered multiple suicides, they came back to cover that too.
The innovation we need: Malaysian style bak kut teh x Japanese ramen
The oil derivatives supply chain is wild. www.channelnewsasia.com/business/cal...
Snacks giant Calbee, crunched by Iran-related ink shortage, switches to monotone packaging
Calbee's Potato Chips are instantly recognisable for their multi-hued designs but printing ink requires naphtha, an oil derivative for which Japan relies on imports from the Middle East for about 40 p...
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Why I’m never moving back to az part 68568124621222. tucson.com/news/state-r...
Arizona House OKs asking voters to approve firing squads
PHOENIX — Arizona voters are a step closer to being asked to decide if inmates sentenced to death are executed by the current lethal injection method or will instead face
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We just came across an old Chinese man walking the canal playing an ocarina, and I’m just tickled with the idea that this old guy just plays a ton of Zelda
Recent evidence suggests that my strategic mind and decades of experience make me a far superior nerf battle general than the average 7 year old.
StarHub hold music has real “70s love scene soundtrack” vibes
I love @changiairport.bsky.social airport. Off the plane and into a taxi in 17 minutes. WITH KIDS.
My favorite thing about Singapore right now - the chickens. Not the chicken rice, the actual feral chickens. In a place so clean and efficient the chickens are a wonderful glitch in the matrix and i love them
there was a self-coup in south Korea? Paging @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
What’s the best book you read in 2024? (Not written in 2024) Mine Fiction: creation lake, recommended: silver bone, hurricane season, Pachinko Non-fiction: empires of the indus. recommended: end times, technofeudalism. Exact thinking in demented times. The badass librarians of Timbuktu
Mark@markenglehartevans.bsky.social · 3y agoWhat’s the best book you read this year? For me Fiction: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin, close second is The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng Non-fiction: how the world really works by Vaclav Smil, close second is Kingdom of Characters by Jing Tsu
this phrase “best efforts basis” has come into business jargon and somehow it means “not really trying” and I am confused
It had never occurred to me that modern still-life’s would capture modern things. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/s...
Junk Food, High Art
Noah Verrier’s oil painting of an Uncrustables sandwich sold for $4,999. It looks delicious.
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I’ve come back to blue sky agai. Tell me who to follow - I picked up most of my followers from @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social and now my feed is all about missiles and navy vessels.
Ben Evans’ annual presentation is out - it is a must read, as always. Ben’s presentations follow the same narrative, “what are we talking about when we talk about X?” with clever insights about the different use cases and examples that define the edges of X. www.ben-evans.com/presentations