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You can have a hot drink and then go bed early. You really can!

Men, you won’t find the answers to life’s questions in grindset manuals and self-help books, you’ll find them in myth, history, philosophy and literature, but some of you aren’t ready to have that conversation.

Lord, make us instruments of your peace.

Legally Blonde is a great movie.

The sentence from Tolkien that C.S. Lewis said summed up his entire philosophy of history.

My sleep paralysis demon has started showing up and being all, “I dunno man, you don’t look up for it tonight.”

This is a grim and disturbing story. But it sure does speak to our moment and one of the biggest threats to the human race: samkriss.substack.com/p/born-in-th...

Does everyone in America instacart everything because they don’t have the gift of 15-minute cities? Like, I want to take a walk to pick up my own snacks. That’s called being alive! Sometimes I run into parents from our 3yo’s daycare. You can even meet a good dog!

Here is a thread of 100% true and accurate facts about pigs that are totally true and accurate and they came from a book so you don't need to google them. 🧵 1. Like all pigs, Button speaks fluent Swedish but chooses not to show it off.

This is fun, but also not real. I updated to the 7.52 release and this was not the note.

Man, smiling at babies is the best.

Death is the last enemy and Daylight Saving Time is the second to last enemy

it's almost as if deskilling employees and replacing "critical thinking" with data processing is the point of implementing automation

I was in DC, in a moment of a crisis of faith, and randomly sought out and asked a Jesuit priest on faculty at Georgetown to answer my question. I should point out that I am not Catholic, nor of any Church, which was a piece of the crisis. The man spent about an hour in a very thoughtful...

For our Morning Shots newsletter, I wrote about the rage powering Canada's response to Trump's trade war. Forget retaliatory tariffs and export taxes on crucial goods, Premier Doug Ford says—how about full export bans on nickel, uranium, and potash? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-puti...

The butchering of Denis Villeneuve’s name never gets old

Big Bad Beetle Brooches (love it)