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This is bonkers. A one-day literary festival where you can buy tickets to individual talks (fine) or to all the talks in one of the three rooms (a bit odd but sure) but not a ticket to talks in all three rooms. Which might make sense if the talks in each room shared a theme... but they don't.

There's a fantastic essay about Gen X and AI and modern life and quicksand. But it's on fucking Substack so I'm not linking to it.

Went to Ikea for a new Kallax, stumbled into a wardrobe, and ...

Why does coffee not indicate its caffeine content, the way that beer and wine bottles indicate their alcohol content?

What the holy fuck is the Zack Polanski interview on BBC Newsnight? Would a BBC interviewer talk to the leader of any other UK party, particularly Nigel Farage, in this hectoring and nit-picking tone?

Stilton. The one and only dominator.

I know that one day soon I will walk into a cafe or bar and it will have three doors for the toilets: Men, Women, and J K Rowling and obviously they haven't built a toilet just for J K Rowling, it's actually a closet.

Make America Gastrointestinal Again

The Player's Hand Shandy Book

Things a game designer gets to hear, no. 23: "We showed your game to one of the world's top chess players and they had a couple of comments..."

I had a job growing herbs and vegetables. The celery was awful but I could take a lot of thyme off.