This is dreadful news

Oh this looks so good

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The idea of inheriting tremendous wealth

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Transcend your enslavement to the passions and live according to the dictate of reason alone with this one simple trick

Wikipedia is what the internet was meant to be and one of the few online places that hasn’t got worse. It’s a miracle

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich."

A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

Morning coffee

Watering my parents’ greenhouse while they’re on holiday, and it’s just disproportionately nice that their tomato plant has grown a sleeping cat

Slightly diminish a book: Warm and Peace

Someone read one of my books and said to me, "Fucking hell, how did you manage to keep ALL THAT in your head?" I told them it's actually extremely simple and anyone can do it. You just need to forget everything else important in your life and totally stop functioning as a human for a year or so.

O to meet a nice man in a jumper eating a teacake in a National Trust cafe

I hate this so much

I also get why holding ministers to higher standards than the previous government is a good look but it would help if the hair-shirtist approach was matched with an ambitious political project because otherwise it just looks like another version of “the beatings will continue until morale improves”.

Honey, weve all been there.

Ought to have mentally prepared myself that I’d be unlocking the cathedral to this

When I was at Anglia TV about 25 yrs ago, a girl in our office sent out a team email that said, “It’s been a crap Monday, who wants to come to my flat for a smoke?” Sadly she sent it to everyone in ITV. Melvyn was one of the first to reply with “That sounds lovely but sadly I’m filming in Newcastle”

Not to brag but I can double that

Architect seems confident that nave and transept will hold up with repairs — let’s hope!

I was there with the cathedral architect, so am not lacking for roof advice

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