Lucy Smith & Pauline Ranken Climbing Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh. 1908
photo: Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club

siblings maybe but not twins

So cute! The next Labubus?

Don’t worry. We’ve got the negotiating A Team, Schumer and Jeffries, on the case.

Right -- I'm in denial about Disney having gobbled up Hulu, which has had interesting and challenging series in the past.

Along those lines, the Marek Krajewski Breslau books may become better known elsewhere as a toned down and tidied up series based on them is now running on Netflix. The film series must have been made after the success of Babylon Berlin.

English is so much better at being a black hole than its international predecessor, French.

Wow. Lem is wonderful but just one for instance: Olga Tokarczuk.

Life's too short to pay attention to David Brooks.

What about that amazing SALT program that was established so recently? Is that being dismantled/cancelled too?

In San Francisco, lawyers are using habeus corpus claims to get some detainees out of prison after a court hearing -- but they have to act fast. Spread the word.

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Guess the WaPo still has some life in it.

The Right has been pushing for a new constitutional convention for years. How about waiting at least until there's not a Republican majority in both houses of Congress and Trump's popularity has cratered among independents?

What a clever way to eat watermelon: no messy drips on your clothes.