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Nonfiction enthusiast + runner, also trying to be a better cook. Writer of a running newsletter that isn’t (just) about running 👇 https://www.thehalfmarathoner.com
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People hanging out along the Seine 🇫🇷

@schnorkles.bsky.social Thought you'd find this interesting: "A 2024 report by the U.S. GAO found CBP failed to meet hiring goals in recent years. Between fiscal years 2018 and 2024, only 2.5% of CBP applicants completed the hiring process, the report said." www.ajc.com/politics/202...

If you need cheering up, here is my favorite feature of Frederick Douglass’ home in DC, which I visited today: his “growlery,” where he would escape to read, write or fume. What I wouldn’t give for my own growlery

Remember when HD television was brand new but there wasn’t much HD programming yet, except for shows like ‘Sunrise Earth’? This is the audio version of that, just the sounds + atmosphere of the Mississippi hill country 👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

i have a huge soft spot for steven spielberg's Lincoln for a hundred reasons and one of the biggest is that lincoln is constantly doing little bits. he's got voices, he's got stories he's told a thousand times, he's got jokes no one else gets, and he just can't stop himself. he was such a poster

Seen on my walk this morning 🪿

is it banana tell me it's banana

This is actually an interesting post beyond the headline, more nuanced and useful to think about

Something I genuinely wonder: could Trump name anyone who played for the NY Yankees (who wasn’t Mickey Mantle)? Scratch that — *any* MLB player from any team, any era?

The truth, Ruth

Be careful on that ledge! Also… wow.

Acceptable names for a dog: Biff Speedy Jennifer Acceptable names for a cat: Mork Potato Arturo Perez-Reverte Acceptable names for a horse: Pulchritude The Securities and Exchange Commission A Single Man in Possession of a Good Fortune

do you think old dan tucker and cotton eye joe ever explored each other’s bodies