i fully understand why gefilte fish is such a divisive food (I adore it), but one of my favorite bits of concrete applied food history is the Gefilte Fish Line, which maps the sweet vs salt gefilte fish divide precisely via the historical sugar beet trade www.npr.org/sections/the...
VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?
ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]
Meet the CALs: childfree, airline loyal
The ideal is not to stop walking between the underground and the boarding queue. Often I chicken out of cutting it that fine but when I do, delight
I’m really sorry - that must be so stressful. You’ll know the right thing to do much better than me, but I’d be tempted to go to my local MP’s surgery with something like that.
Nicolas Feuillatte something and a nice Rioja 👍
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Easter Sunday in Harlem, New York, 1947
The “woman!!” to performing a miracle pivot is so good
Ahahaha that’s brilliant
Ordering champagne sale or return at Majestic: “I am following the example of the Lord”
An underrated Bible verse is when John makes a point of recording that, at the wedding at Cana, Jesus turned the water not just into wine but GOOD wine… even though the guests were too drunk to tell
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I don't want to be an activist.
But then my synagogue — the place where I have personally thrown teenage temper tantrums, where my mom volunteers and my dad was chairman (the man can’t read Hebrew but likes to be involved) — was attacked.
We read Finnegans Wake! I was doing my PhD at the time
Best reading group ever
Best April Fools ever
So many female journalists I know has at least one me too story they couldn’t get over the line because it’s so hard. You need so many victims to go on the record. And for so many good and understandable reasons - like fear of being sued - victims are scared.
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Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news
I both thought it was a mandatory field nobody would read, and don’t see the problem
Remembering the time my Will got sent back by the solicitors because the online form settings forced me to add a note to the entry leaving my friend my bikes, and they wouldn’t accept “neooow”
Photo of a notice on a box that says PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE MOON
Some sensible advice for the crew of the Artemis II
can't say I usually enjoy a whimsical shop sign but credit where credit's due, this made me laugh when I walked past earlier:
I imagine the homily will mainly focus on this
Look,
Feeling smug because every year Conor gets me the bigger Easter egg, to shame me,* but this year he invited me to select mine in the supermarket… while unaware there was an absolute leviathan lying in wait for him. I am the winner of Big Egg
*I presume
Not sure I’ve ever said that specifically in Mass but there is lots of discussion on the ambivalent nature of technology and when it harms vs aids, for sure
Interesting piece. I would say the Holy See is doing more than paying close attention to AI… theconversation.com/19th-century...
Gregory Sievers, American (1951- ), The Theater, oil, 36 x 24 in, private collection
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA