'Overwhelmingly, the IOC decision is what female athletes want. The last time there was a large survey of female athletes was after the Atlanta Games in 1996. Out of a cohort of 928, 82% of women wanted to continue with sex screening ... the authorities then did the opposite.'
Excellent piece.
Slight tangent but was once told of a mix up at a wedding. Someone requested ‘the Robin Hood song’, wanting Everything I do, I do it for you and instead walked in to ‘Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Riding through the glen’
Nigel Farage being healed by Putin while Tice and Anderson look on.
Outrageous! Looks nothing like Richard or Lee.
Baking set to opera. Found this weirdly satisfying.
As it's the weekend, let's take a moment to enjoy and celebrate what for the entire country is an unalloyed good-news story!
It's the great Nick Hornby's birthday today, so no better time to trot out this classic list of his from his archives. And check out the sale on all his books in our store!
If BBC editorial staff were acting on their migration review conclusions, they would be trying to find ways to report a 33% fall, even though it is not as contested + controversial as a 33% rise, because meant to report social trends, not just chase the politics of the issue
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Elon musk biography inscribed to a child on their 9th birthday including "lots of positive lessons to be learned from Mr musk". Signed love mum and dad.
One of the bleakest charity shop specimens I have ever encountered from @mysuburbanhell.bsky.social
I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️
You could but experience from the 70's tells me that walking on a windy day can be difficult. They wrap round your legs and its all very undignified.
Hello World. Earth from Artemis 2. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Cut this picture out and keep it in your pocket. The next time someone says, "We should look after our own first - charity begins at home," take the photo out and say, "I agree. And to remind me, I carry a picture of home with me at all times."
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Beautiful
An old Gore Vidal joke that I repurposed for modern times
Is it still leadership if no one follows you ?
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so if i have this correctly:
we've substantially increased the value of Iran's primary export
we've made it legal to buy that export for the first time in 30 years
and we've made it such that only safe way through the strait is to make a deal with iran
masterful gambit
The Hercules beetle is one of the largest flying insects in the world.
Relative to their size, they are among the strongest creatures on Earth.
Guadeloupe Island, Caribbean
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Happy #Caturday, video of the week.
A vicious attack kitten and the most patient dog ever.
"400 years ago it would never have occured to anyone to be introspective" is perhaps the dumbest thing I've ever heard someone say while try to sound smart.
Hamlet was written over 400 years ago.
mom can you pick me up at the strait of hormuz, my friends are laughing at me and wont help
Just stumbling around trying to figure out how the world works.
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This will go down in history with My Lai, Kent State, and Czechoslovakia 1968.
Killing little girls at a school in our name. What a dirty and war criminal government we have. They must face consequences. We must work to make them face consequences.
the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...
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