School pickup times are difficult for a congenitally neurotic person like myself when you see things like people parking on top of the little circle in the roundabout

Academia is when you keep going back and forth apologising for not replying to each other’s emails, until someday you retire

Deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean under what legal authority? The White House never stated one, but it leaked.

Apparently the answer is a lawyer wrote down something that amounts to drugs are weapons so the president can kill whoever he says is moving drugs, without evidence or review.

I had a big birthday. My daughter (8) got me this specially made hat and said (affectionately) ‘it’ll help to hide your receding hairline’

Being subject to attempted censorship is, semi/sub-consciously, the narcissistic fantasy of the conservative-liberal intellectual

When literally nobody is trying to censor you:

I was gifted a bottle of this Icelandic spirit and I looked up how to drink it and the results are… candid

Only three fairly mainstream candidates having secured nominations for election as (largely ceremonial) Irish president bucks the general trend of the contest having becoming progressively fruitier and wackier each time

The pushy one , d’uh

Entertainment technology peaked with the iPod shuffle (unironically it was the optimal balance between convenience and being Offline)

Handmade ‘peace and quiet vouchers’😍😍😍

I’m turning 40 soon and when family members ask what present I would like, I find myself saying the most ‘turning 40’ things imaginable - like ‘a good clear-out of the attic’ or ‘a bit of peace and quiet’

Again I share much of the sentiment but I think we haven’t really taken stock of what it probably means to do genuinely horizontal or bottom-up organising, or however we put it: it’s gonna come with an awful lot of unconstructive mess and conflict too. It comes with a cost

Jeez I thought after Brexit the Horny for The Constitution thing would die out

I get it but I also think a genuinely new democratic politics would also involve forms of chaos and ‘mess’ we’re simply not used to from our diet of hyper professionalised and mediated party-politics

The liberal-legalists arguing the problem behind the UK’s authoritarian lurch is the lack of a written constitution: have they paused to wonder what’s going on in America?

unsolicited take on the ‘your party’ situation: fine, it’s bad but we’re all a bit too pundit-brained about politics and accustomed to commenting on and evaluating it as a kind of technical performance in a way that loses sight of stakes.
I mean if wow, look they did a slick politics! Who cares?

Absolute scenes on the parents’ WhatsApp as it’s pointed out the answer to someone’s query is in fact in an email from the school

Tasmania produces WINE ffs *glares in windswept Atlantic microclimate*

A few weeks ago a man was arrested for wearing a morph t shirt bc police misread "plasticine" as "Palestine"

Oh I just buy it from Aldi 😅. No hope of apricots in this cursed climate

Ideally with crème fraiche! What makes it is the apricot jam glaze

This looks nice but I’ll never match my late grandmother’s proficiency with apple tarts. At family gatherings she used to present one to a selected male relative, a son in law or grandson. ‘What do we get’, asked a female relative once. ‘The recipe’, she replied 🤣

Very sad to hear of the untimely death of Conor Gearty, a lovely individual, one of our finest legal academics, and a central figure in promoting human rights worldwide.