Probationary valetudinarian who delights in words, drama, science, history, nonsense. My nephew Les painted the birds above, and though the witty labels are mine, the©️ is his. Enjoy his art on a scale it deserves at https://lesliereynolds.africa.
Remember this incident earlier this month? In the light of this thread, you don’t suppose…? Nahh, surely not! Nobody could be that desperate. On the other hand, we do all have different breaking points… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Man nearly sucked out of window mid-air on Ryanair plane, passengers sayThe man's wife held onto his legs for around five minutes to stop him from being sucked out, officials say.www.bbc.co.uk
And Poe, Somerset Maugham, Faulkner, Tennyson, Anonymous—the list is endless. My own preference – for what it's worth – is the less-dashing, looser-fitting en dash. But my background is humble newspapers, not Proud Academe—and besides, whores are more fun than strait-laced patriarchs (so I'm told).
McSweeney's"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."
Have a story in @theguardian.com today, please read or share if you have a minute: Border wall threatens Quitobaquito Springs, home to an Indigenous cemetery and three extremely rare species — two of which live nowhere else on Earth www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Total chaos’: the biological wonderland threatened by Trump’s border wallEnvironmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham peoplewww.theguardian.com