‘Wakefield Rooves’, 1965, photo by John Bulmer.

God I love this country. We're just so ridiculous.

Ah, Glasgow — the Philadelphia of Britain.

Today's side quest: making my own orthotics. In college, I drove a moped into a ravine and split my heel in two. Many surgeries later, it's nearly impossible to find insoles/orthotics that fit. So I've made my own!

More of this, please. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Dutch children are unusually happy and healthy. Is it because of the Avondvierdaagse?

Once a year, Dutch kids, parents and teachers take part in a walking festival, heading out for four nights in a single week to explore their neighbourhoods, exercise and make friends. It’s a tradition...

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Finally made it to St. Mary's, home to the 1647 Putney Debates

where do I sign up

KidzBoptotenlieder@theodramatist.com · 2mo ago

Let's goooooooo 📕

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

The most internet comment that ever was commented.

Just wrapped our third episode. So many all-star guests coming this summer!

Aaron Ross Powell@aaronrosspowell.com · 2mo ago

This new show, which I'm co-hosting with my dear friend @uncanonical.net, is the most excited I've ever been about a new intellectual project. I think Jason and I are onto something genuinely new and genuinely valuable, both to politics and to just leading better every day lives. Check it out.

Now we’re talking

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3mo ago

Andy Burnham says land in the UK is ‘undertaxed’ ft.trib.al/R1HGdSE

Well, if this random tripadvisor reviewer was impressed...

So excited about this new project with my friend Aaron, now in your favorite podcast app.

Aaron Ross Powell@aaronrosspowell.com · 3mo ago

Launching today: The Inner Life of Liberalism, a new podcast from me and @uncanonical.net. The thesis: liberalism doesn't just need better arguments. It needs better practices, the kind that reshape what you notice, feel, and become. Episode 1 is live. 🧵 on the project.

Ignorance is bris

Didn’t SCROTUS already grapple with this in a seminal case?

OMG the DOJ lawyer just said presidential power has never been "circumcised." He was trying to say "circumscribed."

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Should be fun oral arguments! Starts in 8 minutes here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNcw... It'll be a shellacking for the DOJ.

Inject this into my veins (and as much of the discipline as will consent to injections).

Andrew Sabl@andysabl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

By me, just out in the APSR. 🙂

Seems bad.

💯

caturday off to a fine start

Other countries have solved this! We can just fix things!

Alexander Chee@alexanderchee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Everyday my phone fills with scams from people wanting to loan me money and then requests for money, and I get so many I miss messages from actual friends, my doctor, family. Cumulatively, day in and day out for years now, it has become a kind of ambient alienation. Another kind of numbing.

Charmingly, the maintenance folks from Jesus College arrive on bike.

More good news... New Research Reveals That Your Morning Coffee Activates an Ancient Longevity Switch scitechdaily.com/new-research...

New Research Reveals That Your Morning Coffee Activates an Ancient Longevity Switch

New research suggests caffeine may reshape how cells handle energy, stress, and survival.

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PSA: the Kindle edition of Ed Hall's Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory is down to $2.99. www.amazon.com/Value-Confli...

Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory

Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory - Kindle edition by Hall, Edward. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory.

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Pluribus is just so good.

The metaphors are, yet again, getting a little heavy-handed.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo ago

The billionaire financier Ken Griffin made news in 2021 when he paid $43.2 million for a rare first printing of the Constitution. On Monday, Griffin revealed that he has acquired another copy, making him the owner of the only two known surviving copies to remain in private hands.

STAR WARS as a series has exactly one good (and not very original) bit: it's the future, but all the spaceships and droids are rickety pieces of junk that require constant maintainence like they're old beat-up cars. Pretty much every iteration rises and falls based on how much they include that bit

Living in England has radicalized me on this: pigeons are incredible animals. This sort of thing is the least we can do. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lasers, hawks and even guns haven’t solved the UK’s pigeon problem. There is a better way | Sydney Lobe

Councils spend heavily on grisly yet ineffective methods. Why won’t they consider a proven, low-cost and humane strategy, asks freelance writer Sydney Lobe

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Flawless victory.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I already dealt with this.

I love this intro to a philosophy paper, though I can't actually remember which paper it's from.