It's amazing how many posts and stories like this you see. E-bikes are revolutionizing transportation, enabling people to go more places without cars, and there's an all-out assault to kill them.
Gravel Influencer
Democrats should be the party of the Statue of Liberty. Open the golden door. If Americans want to vote for xenophobia there’s already a party for that. Xenophobia lite has no constituency.
My partner and kid spent the day riding trains (M to 7 to G to L to Q), stopping at various bakeries and farmers’ markets and so forth between each, and the result is that I am currently enjoying an exceptional scallion croissant warmed up with sesame oil, and I am going to fucking miss New York
“In electing Fryhofer, the AMA’s leaders—speaking on behalf of more than 320,000 physician members across the country — showed they increasingly see pocketbook issues as secondary concerns at a time when Kennedy is moving to downsize the vaccine schedule and the GOP is slicing spending on Medicaid.”
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
Oliver Willis
Don Moynihan
My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Josh Halliday
(I haven‘t read Intimacies, which people I respect say is amazing. Will I give it a third go??)
I’ve read very few of the other books in the thread, mostly some of the Jhumpa Lahiri books way back in my 20s and the thread definitely inspires a reread. What’s everyone else reading these days?
My own public speaking disasters are far less dramatic, but I did once realize, in the middle of a speech, that an entire section of the audience was mocking my hand gestures.
The Ask a Manager story round-ups are always fun; here is one posted today, for the uninitiated.
I particularly enjoyed the knock-out, the mime, and the filter.
A great cartoon from a great thread about books.
(I have to confess that I keep trying to like Katie Kitamura and keep failing, although I liked Audition a lot, lot more than A Separation)
