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Dear Readers, Over the years, some of us (the past and present members of the collective that runs this blog) have been fortunate enough to meet some of you. We say fortunate, because such encounters …

Dear Captain, I (she/her) am thinking about moving in with my boyfriend (he/him) of 4 years. The problem is that I am afraid of losing my sense of self, and I don’t now if I …

From Prisoners of Class: A Historical Memoir of the Khmer Rouge Revolution, by Chan Samoeun, tr. by Matthew Madden (Mekong River Press, 2023), Kindle pp. 378-381: The Organization at the farm gives orders to stop …

A sketchbook page.

Folks — This is a topic that sometimes comes up and is indicative of our culture’s worst-first thinking: The idea that anytime anyone takes a picture in public that happens to include kids, the kids …

The Knees needed their daily. Curiosity looked at the map and suggested this. A thin strip of woodland, apparently a ridge between two suburban areas just north of Glasgow. It turned out to be as …

In trans children’s healthcare there is so much intentionally bad science, so much science that fundamentally misunderstands (or chooses to misrepresent) trans experiences. The quantity of bad science overwhelms – we challenge some, whilst other …

The traditional four elements have never worked for me, so when I began the work of making my own system, it had to go. Instead, I started by looking at the landscape and trying to …

Three treatments of the topic of solitude, from professional sources: Two essays from Psychology Today:1. “Why You Should Spend Quality Time With Yourself.” Byline: “The Surprising Ways Solitude Is an Antidote to Loneliness.”URL: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mindfulness-for-wellbeing/202406/why-you-should-spend-quality-time-with-yourself 2. …

We often ascribe personality and character traits to animals: courage to lions, wisdom to owls, cheerfulness to beavers, for example. Simon & Garfunkel’s popular 1967 song “At the Zoo” offers a clever rendering: “The monkeys …

After seeking to “enhance” the King’s Speech by voting for the scrapping of the controversial two child benefit cap, the MP for Poplar and Limehouse lost the Labour Whip. The last fourteen years of austerity …

No Wave legend James Chance passed away this week after a long illness. You can read up on his career in the many obits, such as this one from Pitchfork. Musically he was like a …

As the HudsonUP Basic Income Pilot completes year three of its five-year guaranteed income program, JFI today releases the third year’s report by Principal Investigator and Senior Fellow Leah Hamilton. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the …

Oh, god. We have so much to talk about this morning that I considered making this two separate posts, but the first thing really doesn't require a huge amount of discussion, so let's zoom right …

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❚ ANY FAN OF DURAN DURAN remembers the very first photographs of the band in 1980 as they finalised their line-up which was to win a recording contract by year’s end and secure their first …

Attentional humility opens us to sympathetic reading—a willingness to receive from the text on the author’s own terms.

UPDATE 8/1/22: Some confusion about the date for this one. Some are saying that it was the end of November, but one newspaper article (coming to this page soon!) published on Tuesday 10th December indicates …

We Hunted the Mammoth is BACK from its hiatus. Only we’re looking a bit different, because now we’re a misogyny-busting YouTube channel instead of a blog. Yep, WHTM has awoken from uneasy dreams to find …

Death Watch is a science fiction film released in 1980, directed by French director, screenwriter, actor and producer Bertrand Tavernier. It is based on the 1973 novel The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (aka The Unsleeping Eye, …