Today I learned that it's not the first time that Amnesty International has caved to the British Establishment. They refused to publish reports of torture by colonial authorities in Aden in the 60s

It mildly bothers me that Atlanta isn't along the Atlantic ocean.

Do you know what story I would like told? What it's like to make friends in your thirties. Everyone you've grown up and gone to school with had a different life trajectory to you. Friendship by proximity no longer works; you have to be intentional about your friends. You do a wide range of activities with different people because nobody shares your exact set of interests. Crucially, there is no main character. The focus shifts between people, at how they interact and at how they are when alone

Me: I see they're selling banana plants!
My friend: Where?
Me, pointing to the small pineapple growing on a small pineapple plant in the shop that's clearly labelled 'ananas': Here
My friend: ... that's a pineapple.
Me: *something something all monocotyledonous tropical fruits are the same to me*

As I saw the bus I was supposed to get on drive away from me, I imagined what it would be like to teleport onto a moving bus. Then I imagined getting hit in the solar plexus by a seat at 60km/h, and I accepted my fate and waited for the next one.

Being able to see more than 3 colours makes sense when you realise my jersey is supposed to be purple

Just realised that the book of Genesis has at least four instances of brotherly strife: Cain vs Abel, Jacob vs Esau, Isaac vs Ishmael, Joseph vs everybody else. The writers of Genesis must have really hated their brothers