CHALLENGERS (2024)

I too was thrilled by this... but now everybody acting like they forgot about CHE :((

I have finally made my picks from TTPD, and it's wound up at 1hr and 15 songs – just like the good lord intended open.spotify.com/playlist/2XI3P…

What's this, yet another 'flawed account' by Johann Hari! theguardian.com/books/2024/may…

'I was left feeling like the mistake wasn’t getting divorced, but marrying in the first place. Nearly 70% of divorces are initiated by women' amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

'Mediocrity can be the most interesting thing of all, so long as you let ‘interesting’ be cognate with ‘irritant’' vg essay, this (I think your rec Hera Lindsay Bird?) sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/baxter-…

I don't hold with the term 'toxic masculinity' because it has extraordinary power to destroy and eat men up from the inside, telling us we're all in some way doomed to be it. I am sure the current tone of the conversation about masculinity contributes to this awful statistic.

'It can be maddening when some polyamorists insist that a day job making surveillance technology does not preclude them from considering themselves politically radical, as long as they spend their weekends having orgies' yalereview.org/article/brandy…

I went on US public radio to talk about my journey to home ownership and my simultaneous backslide into The Sims marketplace.org/2024/04/29/hom…

The personals section in the latest London Review of Books has got something for everyone

Wrote about sex... and the city... for Guardian Opinion theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'Baby Reindeer shows how vital it is to enlist the expertise of external consultants to shape storylines and character arcs to accurately reflect real-life experience' Jeffrey Ingold theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I have been sent an email or two I'd like to workshop like this

Disappointed that the 'Business Zone' at Norwich International Airport has been changed, since Ryanair started offering cheap flights to the continent, into a 'Game Zone' with arcade games. A kick in the teeth for us productivity-focused regional flyers

Love to laugh aloud having recalled something funny. Like good work brain keep that good stuff coming

Truly had not occurred to me to do so

'Among the deceased were allegedly older people, women and wounded, including some bound and stripped of their clothes.'

I do not understand why more people are not talking about this. I do not understand any of this at all.

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weird how Charlie's being very wishy-washy and vague about this part of australia's WWI history i'm keen to learn more about

Imagining the editor of BBC News screaming these questions wildly in the newsroom