"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it."
NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:
So many! 😁
Shocking news today about a higher institution I once had my eye on as a potential student, and the calibre of applicant they now accept 🫣
This isn’t a real story, it was made by scientists in a lab specifically to make me angry.
From your plate to God’s ears
Everyone's outside but it feels like I've forgotten how to Spring 🌱
Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.
My main vent outlet for this problem, retired last week 😭
Unfortunately I can't go "Please take me off this mailing list" on the intermittent flame war of the last coupla weeks' duration... Hero in Their Own Mind #1 vs #2 need to take it down a notch.
TIL eggwhites have a lot less protein than protein powder for equivalent serving size :o/
Was asked where my country stands on the US-Iran war... Can't pretend to speak for others but we do have plenty of experience with idiocy and corruption.
A child sitting out in the open on a rock, holding a school book while looking over his back to three men dressed in tactical wear with machine guns, their faces covered, hovering over the child and its classsmates. Between them: barbed wire, preventing the children to visit their school and fulfill their right to education in their own town and on their land, being illegally occupied by the state of Israel (see ICJ Advisory Opinion July 2025).
Actress Meryl Streep in a long red cape with black gloves at the movie premiere. She's also wearing sunglasses
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Made it all of 4 hours without my 🤳 at hand 🙃
Now that they're open, pleased to see I guessed correctly for contrasting centres.
(I can believe they once set off a speculative bubble...)
No measuring.
Oats a third of the container,
milk until it's twice the height of the oats,
cap and fridge.
Turns out I am a convert. Pleasant if different consistency from cooked, not the wet sawdust I was afraid would happen.
I can see why places charge beaucoup bux for this.
You are all wrong I am Team Just Right To The Airport
Something calming & beautiful for your mind's eye - Frank Lloyd Wright's stunning
FALLINGWATER (1935)
Honestly if you're going to Flamboyantly Gay at me, imma be Flamboyantly Neutral back — those are the terms of engagement.
Going to have to carefully time my arrival to this thing so I'm not subjected to more small talk than I can stand but not end up with the worst seating partners
Bit early in the week to be talking at someone while thinking 这个人真的很没用 but that's just how it goes sometimes.
No I won't go in to a branch you can't make me
Threw an internal tantrum over a banking mobile app issue, but solved it with the web interface.
Taking the rest of the day off.... (I wish.)
Do I.
Want to.
Be up?
Al lyricism: José González co-wrote song with ChatGPT on new album In an interview with Far Out, González explained his approach to Al, and said that he is "curious about this new technology".
i’m now curious about never playing his music in the bookstore again
For this, I believe you can in good conscience blame the Mexicans.
Why did I check the quote tweets on this? I knew they were going to depress me, just wall to wall people who are going to be poorer than they should be in old age who think that “invest more in stocks and shares ISAs” is some kind of spiv’s charter and not, you know, important advice.
Remembering to my dismay the thing I want to do involves getting dressed to go outside
